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Jan 2Fri
  1. Addverb Technologies18

    Is 2026 the Right Time to Automate Warehouses?

    Addverb Technologies proposes five core indicators—order volume and speed, return on investment, technological progress, competitive landscape, and seasonal fluctuations—to help companies judge the right timing for warehouse automation investment. The article notes that rising labor costs, surging e-commerce orders, and the need for 24/7 operations are pushing companies to adopt automation, and that AI can support real-time data analysis and predictive maintenance. It mentions that DHL's collaboration with Addverb is transforming warehouse operations by improving speed, accuracy, and scalability.

Dec 31Wed
  1. 线性资本38

    Linear Capital's Wang Huai: The future of AI has only two doors, one in the US and one in China | Linear View

    In a keynote article for the AGM conference, Linear Capital founder and CEO Wang Huai argues that before AI's superpower there are only two doors: the US's 0-to-1 innovation and China's 1-to-100 scaling capability. Linear requires its team to subscribe to and use the best AI models from both the US and China (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Kimi, and others), with the company fully reimbursing the cost.

Dec 30Tue
  1. 线性资本15

    2025 in Linear's WeChat Moments | Linear Voice

    Linear Capital invited portfolio founders and their teams to submit a WeChat Moments post or a private photo from 2025, presenting a group portrait of the invested companies as they are. The content includes White Rhino's six-year evolution from its first-generation unmanned delivery vehicle in 2019 to its 2025 L4 autonomous unmanned delivery vehicle, Tars Intelligent Robotics' robot embroidering its first work, RIVR's robot dog delivering packages in the United States, and real moments such as the Yiru Biology team climbing a mountain after six months without pay.

Dec 25Thu
  1. 线性资本30

    Original Aspiration, Patience, and Confidence: Lessons from 10 Years of Smart Glasses Ups and Downs | Linear Voice

    In a "Linear Tech π" sharing session, Zhao Weiqi, head of Rokid's global open ecosystem, broke down the underlying thinking behind Rokid's journey through a ten-year cycle from three dimensions: original aspiration, patience, and confidence. Over ten years, Rokid has accumulated more than 1,000 intellectual property items and 547 domestic and international patents, concentrated in human-computer interaction, optics, acoustics, spatial computing, and OS capabilities; the company uses a "211" work model, with two rounds of iteration per month, once every two weeks, one week for validation and one week for review.

Dec 24Wed
  1. FieldAI21

    FieldAI: Delivering packages with robots to add joy to the holidays

    FieldAI looks back on 2025 with a holiday-themed video: its Field Foundation Models (FFM), safety-first robot foundation models, have achieved long-term production deployments in dirty, dull, and dangerous environments across Asia, Europe, and North America, with major customers signing expansion contracts. FFM requires no prior maps, GPS, pre-planned routes, or external communication, runs entirely at the edge, and a single "brain" can drive multiple robots, tasks, and environments.

Dec 23Tue
  1. RealMan/睿尔曼27

    Realman Founder Zheng Suibing Proposes Building a Remote Workforce Network at Corporate Social Responsibility Forum to Create a Sustainable "Real-Machine Data Engine"

    Zheng Suibing, founder and CEO of Realman, said on December 19 at the 2025 Corporate Social Responsibility Forum that the company is using a "remote workforce network" to let operators direct robots in real time to perform real tasks such as folding towels, utility tunnel inspections, and power control, while accumulating scenario data to feed embodied intelligence. Realman's integrated joint modules have annual production capacity exceeding 100,000 units, its robotic arms have passed CR L3 certification, and their mean time between failures has reached 50,000 hours. The company also co-founded the GPR open-source alliance in February 2023 and released a mobile composite robot development platform in 2024.

Dec 4Thu
  2. Dobot/越疆机器人36

    Dobot appears at IROS 2025, launches embodied intelligence robot platform combining humanoid, robotic arm, multi-legged, and wheeled forms

    At IROS 2025, Dobot exhibited the world's first embodied intelligence robot platform integrating humanoid, robotic arm, multi-legged, and wheeled forms, using a brain-cerebellum dual-system architecture. Its humanoid robot passed high-temperature and heavy-load aging tests, with precision reaching ±0.05mm; the X-Trainer dual-arm teleoperation AI training platform shortens the training cycle for new tasks by 70%, to about 2 hours. Dobot also cooperated with Tencent's Tairos platform, and the multi-legged robot Hexplorer achieved fully autonomous operation with high-precision 3D mapping and dynamic obstacle-avoidance guided tours.

Nov 27Thu
  1. 线性资本65

    Founder of Swiss wheeled-legged robot dog company RIVR discusses last-mile delivery commercialization

    Entrepreneurship Weekly interviewed Marko Bjelonic, founder of Swiss wheeled-legged robotics company RIVR, and Gus Leung, head of supply chain for China, about the progress of its robot dogs in last-mile delivery. In August this year, RIVR signed Just Eat Takeaway, Europe's largest food delivery platform; in the same period, it added Swiss Post and online supermarket Migros as customers, extending its business into fresh grocery delivery. It currently operates in Zurich, Leeds, Austin, and Boston, partnering with Evri, Veho, and others for door-to-door delivery.

    Why it matters: Through a founder interview, it presents the commercialization path and key operational data of wheeled-legged robot dogs in last-mile delivery, offering a reference for assessing the pace of deployment.

Nov 26Wed
  1. 达纳灵动 · X10

    Dyna Robotics Hosts NeurIPS After-Hours Event

    Preparing for #NeurIPS2025? 🌊 We are hosting an after-hours event to bring together the best researchers and practitioners across LLM/VLM and robotics to push the boundaries of what's possible. 400+ applications already. We maintain high standards. Invitation to apply 👇 https://luma.com/9ktfbooo

Nov 22Sat
  1. SOSV · X20

    SOSV Robotics Investor Matchmaking Event

    What do 200+ venture capital firms and 140+ robotics 🤖 founders have in common? They have signed up for the SOSV VC-Founder Matchup on December 1-5. Free and held online. Details in The Robot Report. https://www.therobotreport.com/sosv-virtual-matchmaking-robotics-startups-investors/

Nov 20Thu
  1. Intrinsic61

    Foxconn and Intrinsic Form Joint Venture to Build Smart Factories for Electronics Assembly

    Foxconn and Intrinsic announced at Hon Hai Tech Day 2025 the formation of a US-headquartered joint venture aimed at moving electronics assembly from product-specific automation to more general-purpose intelligent robotics, with the goal of gradually achieving full-factory automation.

    Why it matters: The source is an official release from both partners, explaining the joint venture's goals, deployment scenarios, and the platform used, so readers can understand the specific path by which AI robotics is entering electronics assembly.

Nov 19Wed
Nov 12Wed
  1. Wandercraft53

    Wandercraft and Italy's SAPA Reach Calvin-40 Industrial Deployment Partnership Agreement

    Wandercraft and Italian automotive Tier 1 supplier SAPA announced a deployment partnership agreement to implement and scale its autonomous heavy-duty humanoid robot Calvin-40 in SAPA's industrial operations. The first phase focuses on high-precision, repetitive handling of large heavy components; Wandercraft previously reached a strategic partnership with Renault Group, and this collaboration extends its humanoid robot footprint to both OEM and Tier 1 levels, with plans to deploy in two countries.

Oct 30Thu
  1. Zeroth/元点智能15

    Zeroth appears at Bridge Summit 2025, with consumer robot W1 in the spotlight

    Zeroth showcased its core products at Bridge Summit 2025 in Abu Dhabi, where its consumer robot W1 drew large crowds to its booth to try it out. Founder Renjie Guo took part as a speaker in a key roundtable discussion, saying the robotics industry should not focus only on iterating technical specifications but should also address real social needs such as emotional companionship and daily-life assistance. Brand updates and partnership information will continue to be posted on the official website.

Oct 29Wed
Oct 20Mon
  1. 线性资本31

    Kevin Kelly: In Smart Glasses, I'd Bet on a Chinese Company to Win Over Apple | Linear Portfolio

    At a roundtable dialogue with Rokid founder and CEO Misa Zhu at the Hangzhou Future Life Festival, Kevin Kelly mentioned Rokid twice and said he is bullish on the smart glasses form factor. Rokid glasses raised $3.61 million on Kickstarter, breaking the XR industry crowdfunding record. Linear Capital was Rokid's earliest investor and has increased its stake across multiple rounds.

Sep 18Thu
  1. 线性资本72

    Bot Auto completes first fully driverless truck real-world road test

    Linear Capital portfolio company Bot Auto announced it has completed its first real-world road test in which the truck truly performed all operations on its own, with no one in the driver's seat, the back seat, or at a remote-control terminal, and no escort vehicle. During the test, the truck on a Texas highway handled scenarios including avoidance, detouring, merging, and responding to the appearance of a fire truck. The vehicle is equipped with 15 cameras, 8 lidars, and 3 millimeter-wave radars, with redundancy in perception, computing, actuation, and power supply; after the primary server is shut down it can switch to a backup server, and if the backup is also shut down, the vehicle control unit takes over to pull over and stop.

    Why it matters: The article sorts out the differences between Bot Auto's truly driverless road test and earlier modes with safety drivers, escort vehicles, and remote control, helping readers understand the differences in its technical approach.

Sep 17Wed
  1. Figure AI69

    Figure AI and Brookfield Announce Strategic Partnership to Build Humanoid Robot Pretraining Dataset

    Figure AI announced a strategic partnership with Brookfield. Brookfield, which manages over 1 trillion USD in assets and owns more than 100,000 residential units, will help Figure build a real-world humanoid robot pretraining dataset, build the AI infrastructure needed to scale Helix (Figure's in-house vision-language-action model), and explore commercial deployment of humanoid robots.

    Why it matters: The official partnership announcement covers three areas: data scale, infrastructure, and deployment, letting readers understand how the data sources support scaling Helix.

Sep 15Mon
  1. 线性资本34

    Linear Capital marks 11th anniversary: Wang Huai reviews investment journey, future decade to focus on three major areas of strong AI

    Linear Capital founder and CEO Wang Huai published an article on the firm's 11th anniversary, reviewing its investment journey over the past eleven years and announcing that its core strategy for the next three to five years and even the coming decade will center on "strong AI." It will focus on three major areas: AI plus software/applications, AI plus hardware/robotics (including consumer electronics and embodied intelligence), and AI plus science (AI4S). The article reviews cases such as investments in Horizon Robotics' Yu Kai, Manycore's Huang Xiaohuang, and Agile Robots' Chen Zhaopeng, and also acknowledges the lesson that its investments in the SaaS sector were "almost a complete wipeout."

Sep 11Thu
  1. Estun Coolbot/埃斯顿酷卓16

    Estun Cubot Selected as a 2025 "Sci-Tech Future Star"

    At the 2025 Jiangsu Industry-University-Research Cooperation Matchmaking Conference, which opened on September 11, Estun Cubot was selected for the national list of 80 "Sci-Tech Future Stars" enterprises. Since its founding in 2022, the company has focused on embodied intelligence and within three years completed R&D on two generations of humanoid robots, 17 high-end collaborative robots, 4 composite mobile robots, and multiple workstations for welding, palletizing, and other tasks. It has also participated in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's humanoid robot "open competition" project and the first batch of national humanoid robot standards projects.

  2. MirrorMe Technology/镜识科技30

    Zhejiang Provincial Party Secretary Wang Hao visits ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center; MirrorMe Technology showcases Black Panther II, BAOBAO, and Apollo

    Zhejiang Provincial Party Secretary Wang Hao visited the Zhejiang University-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, where MirrorMe Technology demonstrated three robots on site: Black Panther II, BAOBAO, and Apollo.

Sep 6Sat
  1. TeknTrash30

    TeknTrash Featured in Google Cloud Customer Success Story

    TeknTrash Robotics has been included in Google Cloud's official customer success stories. Its humanoid robot sorting system is built on Compute Engine, Cloud Data Fusion, and Cloud Storage, and can automatically sort waste in hazardous and unsanitary environments, with a data collection rate exceeding 6MB per second.

Sep 2Tue
Aug 25Mon
  1. 线性资本64

    RIVR partners with Just Eat Takeaway to bring fully autonomous delivery robots to the European market

    Swiss embodied intelligence company RIVR (formerly Swiss-Mile) announced a partnership with Just Eat Takeaway.com, Europe's largest food delivery platform, to bring fully autonomous delivery robots to the European market, starting in Zurich, Switzerland, where local restaurants have already begun delivering real orders.

    Why it matters: The original article discloses the wheel-legged design, cargo compartment specifications, and rollout timeline, allowing readers to assess the deployment path for this type of delivery robot in real urban environments.

Aug 23Sat
  1. Zhejiang University Robotics32

    8th China University Intelligent Robot Creative Competition Finals Held in Yuyao, Students' "Answers" Match Enterprises' "Questions"

    The finals of the 8th China University Intelligent Robot Creative Competition were held in Yuyao from August 21 to 22, with 10,880 teams and nearly 47,000 university students from 752 universities nationwide participating. The competition featured three main tracks—creative, competitive, and combat—and four special events: ROS, legged robots, VEX U, and Sunny Optical's "Future Vision." Unitree Robotics and DEEP Robotics respectively supported the legged robot 2v2 soccer match and the quadruped robot dog inspection, rescue, and grasping events. Yuyao is using the event to promote industry-education integration and attract talent through competitions, aiming to build a robotics industry hub.

  2. Zhejiang University Robotics27

    8th China University Intelligent Robot Creative Competition opens in Yuyao | Yongpai reports on the competition

    On the morning of August 21, the 8th China University Intelligent Robot Creative Competition opened at the China Plastics International Convention and Exhibition Center in Yuyao, Ningbo. The two-day event is hosted by the Yuyao Municipal People's Government and the Robotics Institute of Zhejiang University. The competition features 3 themed events, 3 special events, and 1 industry-education integration creative event, among which the industry-education integration Sunny Optical "Future Vision" creative event was added for the first time. This edition attracted 752 universities, 10,880 teams, and more than 47,000 students from across the country to participate in the preliminaries, with more than 4,000 students traveling to Yuyao for the finals.

Aug 7Thu
  1. 线性资本38

    Linear Capital Portfolio Quarterly Review: Funding, Product, and Partnership Updates

    Linear Capital released quarterly progress updates from its portfolio companies, covering four categories: funding, products, partnerships, and industry recognition. On funding: D-Robotics completed a $100 million Series A, Tashi Zhihang completed a $122 million angel+ round, White Rhino completed a 200 million yuan Series B led by SF Express, and Weiwo completed over $60 million in C1/C2 funding.

Jul 31Thu
  1. 线性资本28

    Linear Capital's Yang Jun: Young People All Want to Retire Early—I Tried It, and It's Not as Great as You'd Imagine | Linear View

    Yang Jun, a partner at Linear Capital, held a nearly 2-hour live Q&A with nearly 30 students from the University of Pennsylvania, sharing his experience from pursuing a PhD to founding a startup to investing, as well as his views on "early retirement," career choices, judging startup teams, and opportunities in mature markets. He advises that career choices follow passion and growth, and believes early retirement can be boring; Linear Capital focuses on seed to Series A, pays attention to technology-matching issues, judges teams by capability, willingness, and resilience, and cites Agile Robots as an example showing that technology that solves pain points can bring opportunities.

Jul 29Tue
  1. 线性资本38

    Linear Capital at WAIC 2025: Highlights from Portfolio Companies Including Rokid Glasses and Manycore Tech's InteriorGS

    More than ten Linear Capital portfolio companies exhibited at WAIC 2025. Rokid Glasses reached sales of 300,000 units, and Manycore Tech released the InteriorGS dataset containing 1,000 3D Gaussian semantic scenes. D-Robotics' RDK S100x and the Qinglong robot demonstrated voice-controlled grasping on site, and White Rhino's R3 unmanned vehicle has been approved for a road testing permit in Pudong New Area. Ling Universe's AI learning companion Xiaofangji went on sale on JD.com at the end of May, and Lingshu Intelligence's ship material management case was selected as a 2024 AI innovation practice case by China State Shipbuilding Corporation.

Jun 30Mon
  1. Estun Coolbot/埃斯顿酷卓33

    Jiangsu Governor Inspects Estun Cobot's Humanoid Robot Codroid 02; Company Elected First Vice-Chair Unit of Provincial Embodied Intelligent Robot Industry Alliance

    The Jiangsu Embodied Intelligent Robot Industry Alliance was established in Nanjing, and Estun Cobot was elected as its first vice-chair unit. During a tour of the exhibition, Governor Xu Kunlin and other officials interacted with the humanoid robot Codroid 02. Codroid 02 stands 170 cm tall, is equipped with self-developed integrated joint modules, has 31 degrees of freedom (excluding dexterous hands), and a single-arm payload of 5 kg. It uses a dual-system architecture combining a vision-language large model with a flow matching strategy, and demonstrated dynamic walking and fine manipulation on site. It is planned for future use in automotive final assembly, electronics assembly, logistics, and other industries.

Jun 24Tue
  1. 线性资本36

    Linear Capital's Zheng Can: AI application investment focuses on vertical agents, coding, and voice models; starting ticket size for early-stage projects rises to $3–5 million

    Zheng Can, Managing Director at Linear Capital, said at the WAVES New Wave 2025 roundtable and in an interview that AI application opportunities belong to teams with both obsession and execution capability. Linear is bullish on agents that solve specific vertical problems, coding tools, voice models, and AI plus the silver economy.

Jun 7Sat
  1. Figure AI75

    Figure AI reports three-month Helix logistics deployment progress: 4.05 seconds per item, about 95% barcode success rate

    Figure AI released progress on Helix's capabilities after three months of deployment in a logistics environment: per-item processing time fell from about 5.0 seconds to 4.05 seconds, barcode scanning success rate rose from about 70% to about 95%, and the system gained the ability to handle flexible packages such as poly bags and flat envelopes.

    Why it matters: The original article provides the data scale and ablation experiment details for each architecture module, allowing readers to understand the specific sources of the logistics performance improvement.

May 27Tue
  1. 线性资本22

    Linear Capital and multiple portfolio companies appear at BEYOND EXPO 2025

    Linear Capital founder and CEO Wang Huai appeared with multiple portfolio companies at BEYOND EXPO 2025, sharing AI investment experience at two forums, the International Investment and Financing Summit and the Artificial Intelligence Summit. Products from its portfolio companies Rokid, Wance Technologies, and Bool Vector were selected for the BEYOND BEST CHOICE Awards and the BEYOND Innovation Awards.

May 26Mon
  1. 线性资本33

    Linear Capital portfolio companies Manycore Tech and Rokid appear at J.P. Morgan Global China Summit

    Linear Capital portfolio companies Manycore Tech and Rokid appeared at the 21st J.P. Morgan Global China Summit. Manycore Tech co-founder and chairman Huang Xiaohuang took part in the roundtable discussion "AI: The Power of Innovation," and Rokid founder and CEO Zhu Mingming gave a keynote titled "AI+AR, Exploring Human-Computer Interaction Products."

May 22Thu
  1. New Strategy Robotics27

    LET 2025 logistics expo opens today: AGV and robotics zone under the theme of digital intelligent factories × smart logistics

    On May 21, 2025, the China (Guangzhou) International Logistics Equipment and Technology Exhibition (LET 2025) opened in Area D of the China Import and Export Fair Complex in Guangzhou. The exhibition covers more than 50,000 square meters, brings together nearly 600 exhibitors of smart logistics equipment and robotics brands, and features nearly 25 forums. Under the theme "Digital Intelligent Factories · Smart Logistics," the expo has a dedicated AGV and logistics robotics zone covering AGV navigation technology, drive systems, intelligent scheduling, warehouse automation, and new energy forklifts, among other equipment. Companies such as Hikrobot, Hai Robotics, and Jaten Robot are exhibiting.

Jul 29Mon
Jun 3Mon
  1. Deep Robotics/云深处科技53

    DEEP Robotics and Fluke China sign strategic cooperation agreement to advance autonomous acoustic imaging inspection with quadruped robots

    On May 27, DEEP Robotics and Fluke China signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Hangzhou to jointly explore autonomous inspection solutions using quadruped robots equipped with online acoustic imagers, namely the DEEP Robotics X30 quadruped robot carrying the Fluke SV600 online acoustic imager, which can replace inspection personnel in entering confined spaces or hazardous environments for inspection, with applications in power partial discharge inspection, gas leak detection at industrial sites, and other fields. The two parties have carried out in-depth integrated technology cooperation since 2023 and have already won orders from internationally renowned enterprises.

Mar 5Tue
  1. OFweek Robotics55

    Xiashi Technology completes Pre-A+ funding round, commercial cleaning robots push toward overseas markets

    ZTE-backed Xiashi Technology has announced the completion of a Pre-A+ funding round invested by Ivy Capital; combined with its Pre-A round in the second half of 2023, the total amount is nearly 100 million yuan. The funds will be used for R&D of commercial cleaning robots, channel deployment, and overseas expansion. The article notes that domestic penetration of cleaning robots is below 5% and competition is intense, while overseas demand is more urgent; by the end of 2022, Chinese-made robot vacuums already held more than 50% of overseas market share, but going overseas still faces localization challenges such as differing scenario standards, language and culture, and infrastructure.

Jan 5Fri
  1. OFweek Robotics62

    DJI announces discontinuation of Tello edu and other education robot products, suspends youth education business

    In December 2023, DJI announced on its STEAM education official website that, effective December 31, it would stop selling Tello edu, RoboMaster EP, the AI artificial intelligence kit, the DJI Education platform, and AI scenario-based education solutions, and that starting in 2024 it would suspend the youth education segment of its business. The article states that the education business accounts for less than 2% of revenue, that the RoboMaster competition will continue, and analyzes the difficulties facing education robots: high product pricing, a high barrier to use, and high investment.