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Apr 17Fri
  1. 线性资本50

    In Conversation with Manycore's Huang Xiaohuang: A 15-Year Startup Retrospective from Kujiale to Spatial Intelligence

    Linear Capital founder Wang Huai and Manycore Technology co-founder and chairman Huang Xiaohuang recorded the first episode of the video podcast "Between the Lines," reviewing 15 years of entrepreneurship and publishing a text excerpt on the day Manycore listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (00068.HK). Huang Xiaohuang discussed how Manycore is entering spatial intelligence based on its accumulated indoor 3D data, positioning it as a bridge between large language models and the physical world, and introduced SpatialLM, open-sourced last March, which converts point clouds and 3D Gaussians into scripts that large language models can understand.

Apr 16Thu
  1. OFweek Robotics50

    Youlu Robotics' AI130 Patrol Sweeping Robot Tops China's Outdoor Sweeping Robot Shipments in One Year

    Youlu Robotics, with its AI130 patrol sweeping robot, rose to the top of China's 2025 outdoor sweeping robot shipments within one year. Its core product is the Master2000 embodied brain with 254 TOPS of computing power, which uses a "one brain, multiple forms" model to adapt to different robot forms such as patrol sweeping and security patrols, and it has developed its own end-to-end general-purpose LPLM multimodal model. The company's "three gates" strategy progressively moves from public residential-community scenarios into unit doors and homes, feeding real-world scenario data back into the brain to achieve "deployment-free, out-of-the-box" delivery.

Apr 15Wed
  1. Skild AI67

    Skild AI Acquires Zebra Technologies' Robotics Division to Advance Warehouse Deployments

    Skild AI announced the acquisition of Zebra Technologies' robotics division (formerly Fetch Robotics), and plans to deploy Skild Brain in warehouse settings to automate end-to-end fulfillment processes. Zebra's Symmetry Fulfillment scheduling platform has been validated in logistics environments, where it can coordinate tasks among robots and frontline workers; the company says the acquisition will accelerate its data flywheel and expand into more verticals and robot form factors.

    Why it matters: The acquirer itself explained the integration direction, so readers can judge how its platform and general-purpose models will be combined to enter warehouse settings.

Apr 14Tue
Apr 9Thu
  1. EngineAI20

    EngineAI URKL Humanoid Robot Freestyle Combat League Launches Global Partner Recruitment

    URKL, a humanoid robot freestyle combat event IP jointly created by EngineAI and Miyueguang Culture, has launched global partner recruitment targeting industry partners, brands, investment institutions, and ecosystem collaborators. The contact email is URKL@engineai.com.cn. The event is described as the world's first commercial freestyle combat event IP focused on the humanoid robot field. With the vision of "building a heart for machines," it features a 10-kilogram pure gold champion belt and a substantial prize pool. A complete annual schedule for the 2026 events has been planned, and the event has strategic support from the Longgang Human-Machine Agency, Longgang Data Company, and others.

  2. Zerith Robotics/零次方62

    Zero Power Robot completes over 100 million yuan funding round led by Runze Group

    Zero Power Robot announced the completion of a new funding round of over 100 million yuan, led by Runze Group, with Ningbo Dongli, Jieli Angel, and Pinghu Zexin participating. The company said its order count has exceeded 100 million yuan and revenue is in the tens of millions, with stable monthly mass production of 100 units, and validation completed in more than 20 landmark scenarios nationwide; the article also introduced its technological progress including the 4D augmented model ZERITH-SDA and the brain-inspired dual-stream asynchronous execution architecture ZERITH-V2.

    Why it matters: The company self-reports its funding details and order scale, and explains its scenario deployment path and data augmentation method, offering insight into its commercial and technological layout.

Apr 8Wed
Apr 6Mon
  1. 云启资本55

    Yunqi x Tsinghua: Five Embodied AI Practitioners Discuss Physical AI Deployment in Roundtable

    At the Physical AI Frontier Exploration and Industrial Innovation Symposium hosted by Tsinghua University's Department of Electronic Engineering and others on March 28, Wang Yu moderated a roundtable forum where five alumni—Chen Yilun, Yao Maoqing, Wang Qian, Ding Wenbo, and Li Ziyi—discussed the technical bottlenecks and deployment of embodied intelligence.

Apr 3Fri
  1. Neo · X17

    Neo publishes March portfolio monthly review

    Genetic optimization reaches new markets 🌍, robotic learning accelerates, and more | Neo & Noteworthy See our March monthly review covering the latest updates and announcements from Neo portfolio companies and community members. https://open.substack.com/pub/neo/p/genetic-optimization-reaches-new?r=6xf9ka&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Apr 2Thu
  1. Prime Movers Lab · X26

    Humanoid robot hardware costs fell 40% in one year

    Humanoid robot hardware costs fell 40% in just one year. In the physical AI race, the moat is not who can build the best robot, but who puts it into use first. Real operating records and actuarial data will determine the winners. 🤖🏭 Read our latest white paper: https://bit.ly/4s9VJKr

Apr 1Wed
Mar 29Sun
  1. 线性资本62

    Manycore Tech Passes HKEX Listing Hearing; Linear Capital Was Earliest Angel Investor

    Manycore Tech Inc. has passed the Hong Kong Stock Exchange listing hearing, disclosing its post-hearing information package on March 29. JPMorgan and CCB International are joint sponsors. It will become the first tech company among the "Hangzhou Six Little Dragons" to complete an IPO.

    Why it matters: It reviews Manycore Tech's path from spatial design software to a spatial intelligence service provider, and the place of its synthetic 3D data and spatial models in embodied intelligence training.

Mar 25Wed
  1. Hexagon · X22

    Hexagon Global Robot Trust Study

    Global views on robots are not uniform, and this is shaping adoption. 🌎 Where is trust highest? 🤖 What is holding people back? ⚙️ Who is ready, and who remains cautious? Attitudes are determining who acts first. Explore the data from our study: https://hxgn.biz/4rOBrpD

Mar 24Tue
  1. Hcfa/禾川科技26

    Hechuan Technology 2026 National Distributor Conference Successfully Held

    Hechuan Technology's 2026 National Distributor Conference was held at its Longyou headquarters, where it released its 2026 strategic plan and channel policies and showcased a product matrix including servo systems, inverters, control products, industrial robots, and core components for humanoid robots. New products included the new-generation SV730 AC servo family, three series of inverters, the T1 series multi-joint robots, and the first version of an AI-assisted programming and intelligent Q&A agent. Several core distributors signed a new round of strategic cooperation agreements on site.

Mar 23Mon
  1. 线性资本66

    Amazon acquires Swiss wheel-legged robotics company RIVR, with Linear Capital as lead investor in its first round

    Amazon has completed its acquisition of Swiss robotics startup RIVR, and the RIVR team will join Amazon. RIVR was founded in April 2023 and is headquartered in Zurich; formerly known as Swiss-Mile, it completed its first funding round in November 2023, led by Linear Capital with Agile Robots participating, and in August 2024 received joint investment from Amazon, Bezos Expeditions, Sequoia China, and others.

    Why it matters: It lays out RIVR's full path from fundraising to acquisition, helping readers understand the practical progress of wheel-legged last-mile delivery robots in Europe.

Mar 19Thu
  1. Wandercraft50

    Wandercraft warns of industrial data risks as foreign robots enter European factories, advocates European autonomous industry path via French-Japanese alliance

    Wandercraft published an article stating that when non-European-made humanoid robots are deployed in European factories and hospitals, they collect industrial and medical data that flows out via servers not controlled by Europe, while integrators cannot access the source code. The article cites data including China accounting for over 80% of the global humanoid robot market, Unitree announcing 5,500 units, and AgiBot having delivered 5,168 units, and draws analogies to the industry precedents of electric vehicles, photovoltaics, and batteries, arguing that Europe should pursue a path built on three pillars: software sovereignty, reciprocal industrial alliances, and a local market in strategic sectors.

Mar 18Wed
Mar 11Wed
Feb 27Fri
  1. New Scientist Robots39

    Inside Ukraine's drone factories and pilot schools

    In the four years since Russia's full-scale invasion, Ukraine has built an entire industry and ecosystem from scratch that can design, manufacture and operate all types of drones. New Scientist was granted on-site access to its pilot school, laboratories and factories. Kyiv hopes to make this industry profitable after the war by selling related expertise and drone equipment to Western countries.

Feb 25Wed
  1. RealMan/睿尔曼62

    Realman provides real-world data for Ant Lingbo's open-source embodied model LingBot-VLA

    Ant Lingbo has released and open-sourced LingBot-VLA, an embodied intelligence foundation model. Its pretraining used about 20,000 hours of real-world data covering 9 dual-arm robot configurations, and it outperformed Pi0.5 overall in real-robot evaluations across more than 100 tasks. Realman's wholly owned subsidiary Ruiyuan Robotics provides high-precision multimodal real-world data for the RS-01 and RS-02 robots. The technical report shows that model success rates continued to improve without saturating as pretraining data expanded from 3,000 hours to 20,000 hours.

    Why it matters: From a partner's perspective, it explains how real-world data was specifically supplied for LingBot-VLA training and the capability for large-scale data collection, helping readers understand how the data infrastructure actually operates.

  2. New Strategy Robotics23

    China Forklift Network/AGV Network 2026 Eurasia Forklift and Mobile Robot Long-Distance Journey Officially Begins

    Hu Yangbo, founder of China Forklift Network/AGV Network, began the annual research expedition on the eighth day of the first lunar month of the Bingwu Horse Year, leading a team for the first time along Silk Road countries and regions to conduct the Eurasia Forklift and Mobile Robot Long-Distance Journey research survey, with support from multiple industry sponsors. The event aims to go deep into core Eurasian markets and gain insight into new industry trends, with official promotion beginning at Logimat 2026 (March 24).

Feb 20Fri
Feb 14Sat
  1. 卡倍亿12

    Kabaiyi President's 2026 Chinese New Year Message: Targets Over 10 Billion Yuan in Core Business Revenue by 2028, Entry into Robotics and Commercial Space

    In a 2026 Chinese New Year message, the president of Kabaiyi announced the company's three-year strategic development plan for 2026-2028, setting a goal of achieving over 10 billion yuan in revenue from core business products by 2028. The company will stabilize core business products such as automotive cables and high-speed copper cables, accelerate expansion into overseas markets including the Americas and Southeast Asia, and leverage the advantages of its Shanghai operations center to strengthen talent management. The company also announced it will quickly enter the two new tracks of robotics and commercial space and break through core technologies. These are all company planning goals that have yet to be realized.

Feb 13Fri
  1. Dobot/越疆机器人38

    Dobot humanoid robot featured in People's Daily: a portrait of Shenzhen's sprint to become the 'first city of humanoid robots'

    People's Daily reported that Dobot Technology's humanoid robot sold popcorn at a cinema in Shenzhen K11 mall, working 14 consecutive hours in a single day, completing over 1,000 cups per day on average with zero errors throughout. The robot carries a self-developed end-to-end model that integrates visual perception, language understanding and motion generation, and can autonomously diagnose deviations and replan its actions. Dobot says the self-development rate of its robot's key components exceeds 90%, and that it has achieved mass-production delivery in multiple complex industrial scenarios.

Feb 10Tue
  1. 云启资本48

    Yunqi Research Report | Embodied Intelligence in Industrial Scenarios: An In-Depth Analysis of Capabilities and Applications

    Yunqi Capital released a research report analyzing the capability gains and deployment boundaries of embodied intelligence in manufacturing and logistics scenarios relative to traditional industrial robots. Traditional industrial robots can reach 80–150 cycles per minute, while current VLA end-to-end execution remains at the 10–15 cycles per minute level, making it difficult to meet sub-millimeter precision requirements. Among deployment directions, inspection is one of the most practically feasible, material handling has the greatest potential for scale, and precision assembly has the highest barrier; the viable form is Agent architecture scheduling plus vertical-domain operation model execution.

Feb 7Sat
  1. Dobot/越疆机器人26

    Dobot's multi-form products showcased at APEC science and technology innovation exhibition

    From February 2 to 4, 2026, at the invitation of the Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Bureau, Dobot (DOBOT) appeared at the APEC PPSTI visit and exhibition event at Haixinsha in Guangzhou. On site, it showcased the DOBOT Atom humanoid robot autonomously selling popcorn, the Rover X1 quadruped robot dog, MagicianE6 AI automatic painting, and the CRA collaborative robot safety skin solution. Its robot products have covered more than 100 countries and regions worldwide, with shipments exceeding 100,000 units.

Feb 6Fri
  1. FieldAI51

    FieldAI and Boston Dynamics deploy autonomous robot inspections on construction sites

    FieldAI describes the autonomous deployment of its Field Foundation Models (FFMs) with Boston Dynamics' quadruped robot Spot on construction sites, requiring no GPS, cloud connection, prior maps, or pre-planned routes, and able to carry out inspection, mapping, and monitoring tasks around the clock. The article states that over the past two years this has covered construction sites in Asia, Europe, and North America, cutting customers' inspection and documentation time by more than 90%, with data able to flow into BIM and digital twin systems, and several pilots having expanded into fleet-level deployments.

Feb 5Thu
  1. Wandercraft43

    Wandercraft CEO's view: How human-like should a humanoid robot be?

    Wandercraft co-founder and CEO Matthieu Masselin argues in an article that humanoid robots should aim for "human-machine compatibility" rather than "looking like humans." The company's robots kept a headless design when deployed at the Renault factory, with cameras initially located on the lower abdomen and now moved between the shoulders; the company is developing end effectors and manipulation capabilities for its next-generation product. He believes de-anthropomorphizing can reduce psychological friction and speed up deployment.

Feb 4Wed
  1. 线性资本34

    Linear Capital Linear Quarterly: Portfolio Quarterly Progress Review

    Linear Capital released Linear Quarterly, reviewing the progress of portfolio companies over the past quarter in financing, products, partnerships, and industry recognition. On financing, Wujie Dynamics completed a 300 million yuan angel round, Digu Robotics completed a B round of several hundred million US dollars, and White Rhino's cumulative financing for the full year of 2025 exceeded 100 million US dollars.

Jan 29Thu
  1. Minerva Humanoids38

    MBZUAI and Minerva Humanoids reach strategic partnership to develop humanoid robots for the energy sector

    MBZUAI and Minerva Humanoids announced a two-year strategic research partnership framework to develop next-generation humanoid robots for safety-critical scenarios in the energy sector, with the goal of reducing the need for personnel to enter high-risk areas such as refineries. Research directions include multimodal perception foundation models, computer vision and reinforcement learning, and digital twin simulation for pre-deployment validation; robot autonomy spans from teleoperation to fully autonomous execution. MBZUAI students will join the joint project team to take part in R&D and testing.

  2. RobCo66

    RobCo closes $100 million Series C to advance Physical AI roadmap and expand in the US market

    RobCo announced the close of a $100 million Series C round, co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Exor's Lingotto Innovation, with participation from Sequoia Capital and others.

    Why it matters: The original article provides the use of funds, business model, and background on key customers, giving readers a basis to understand this industrial robotics company's expansion path.

Jan 22Thu
  1. Blinx Technology/比邻星科技22

    Proxima Technology Selected for Hunan SME Digital Transformation Typical Cases (2025)

    Proxima Technology was selected for the Hunan SME Digital Transformation Typical Cases (2025) list announced by the Hunan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, with its "'Dual Middle Platform - Multi-Application' Empowering Advanced Computing Enterprises' Digital Transformation Project," appearing as a representative enterprise in the electronic information industry. The company says the architecture connects data links and integrates security capabilities into operational processes, improving the efficiency of robot product R&D and production and protecting key data; it will explore the application of agent technology in multiple areas in the future.

Jan 20Tue
  1. 普华资本55

    Uniubi completes RMB 513 million Pre-IPO+ round

    Uniubi announced the completion of a Pre-IPO+ funding round equivalent to RMB 513 million, jointly invested by Wenzhou Cangnan County Shanhai Industrial Group and Malaysia's Crewstone International (CSI), with Bojiang Capital increasing its investment and Puhua Capital having invested in its Series A in 2018.

Jan 16Fri
  1. Addverb Technologies11

    13 Major Advantages of Warehouse Automation in 2026

    The article lists 13 benefits of warehouse automation, covering the use of technologies such as autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), automated guided vehicles (AGVs), automated storage and retrieval systems, pick-to-light picking, RFID tags, and computer vision in material handling, sorting, picking, and inventory management.

Jan 13Tue
  1. 线性资本49

    After CES, what is the answer for AI moving into the physical world? — Linear Capital's AI consumer hardware discussion

    Linear Capital partner Yang Jun spoke with Ling Universe's Gu Jiawei, Ludens AI's Xue Lijun, and Bangtang Technology's Lou Xiaodu about AI consumer hardware, focusing on education, companionship, and health. Ling Universe's Xiaofang device shipped more than 20,000 units early on, validating the payment logic of parents buying an "entry ticket" to the AI era for their children; Bangtang Technology cut the customer acquisition cost of its "AI pastor" software from $1.5–2 to $0.3–0.5 and raised its renewal rate from 70% to 80%–90%, and on that basis decided to make a smart ring to enter mental health and religious scenarios.

Jan 9Fri
  1. RealMan/睿尔曼21

    Zheng Suibing Publishes Article in People's Daily: Innovation Makes Technology More Inclusive and Development Outcomes More Shared

    On January 9, People's Daily published a signed article by Zheng Suibing, founder of RealMan Intelligent, on the innovative development of the humanoid robot industry. RealMan's self-developed integrated joint modules have an annual production capacity of more than 100,000 units, and its "remote labor network" enables real-time remote operation, helping people in central and western China find work and increase their incomes from home. RealMan also co-founded the GPR open-source alliance in February 2023 and jointly released a mobile composite robot development platform in 2024.

Jan 6Tue
  1. Dobot/越疆机器人50

    Premier Li Qiang visits Guangdong, Dobot founder Liu Peichao presents embodied robotics innovations

    From January 3 to 5, Premier Li Qiang conducted a research visit in Guangdong. At the Shenzhen Robotics Valley, he viewed Dobot's collaborative robots and embodied humanoid robot innovations, with founder Liu Peichao reporting on site. Dobot robots have shipped more than 100,000 units globally. The humanoid robot Atom, based on the self-developed Dobot-VLA model, autonomously completed the full "popcorn vending" task and achieved end-to-end task closed-loop capability in commercial scenarios.