Embodied AI industry raises over 203.2 billion RMB in first 9 months of 2026

Statistics from Gaogong Humanoid Robot show that in the first 9 months of 2026, the embodied AI industry saw 437 financing events, raising a cumulative total of approximately 203.2 billion RMB, with the number of events up 146.07% year on year and the amount up 317.39% year on year. In September alone, there were 52 financing events totaling approximately 13.4 billion RMB: 48 domestic deals worth about 11 billion RMB, and 4 overseas deals worth about 352.6 million USD. In September, Diguo Robotics completed a 400 million USD Series C round to strengthen the product layout of its Sunrise chips across all compute tiers and to build a full-link software platform.