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普华资本 ·
Puhua Capital Joins Over $100 Million Angel Round in Qiuzhi Technology, Setting Single-Deal Record in Consumer-Grade Embodied Robotics
Qiuzhi Technology (DISCOVER Robotics) announced the completion of an angel round exceeding $100 million, setting the record for the largest single angel round in the consumer-grade embodied robotics sector. Puhua Capital participated in the investment, alongside other investors including Legend Capital, Xinchang Investment, Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group, Yunbo Capital, Lingang Science and Technology Innovation Investment, Amber Capital, and Gengxin Capital. The funds will mainly be used to accelerate the launch and mass production of consumer-grade embodied robotics products.
Figure AI ·
Figure 03 arrives at BMW Spartanburg plant for sequencing sorting tasks
Figure AI announced that the Figure 03 humanoid robot has entered Hall 52 at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, shifting from the sheet metal loading and unloading work previously done by Figure 02 to a sequencing sorting use case; Figure 02 took part in assembling 30,000 vehicles last year.
线性资本 ·
Simple AI completes Pre-A round of hundreds of millions of yuan led by Didi and lands hotel-scenario POC validation
General-purpose embodied AI robotics company Simple AI announced it has completed a Pre-A funding round of hundreds of millions of yuan, led by Didi, with participation from Plum Ventures and Keli Sensing, and continued backing from existing shareholders Genesis Partners, Linear Capital, and Puhua Capital; the company has completed four consecutive funding rounds within one year.
Deep Robotics/云深处科技 ·
DEEP Robotics Lynx S10 prototype completes Arctic Ocean ice-surface and ice-water tests aboard research vessel
DEEP Robotics' small wheeled-legged robot, the Lynx S10 prototype, completed a 76-day, 11,852-nautical-mile Arctic Ocean research test aboard Sun Yat-sen University's Polar Research Vessel Zhongshan, marking the first time a quadruped robot has set foot on Arctic Ocean ice. The unit, weighing under 20 kg including its battery, was fitted with anti-slip bionic feet mimicking polar bear paws in collaboration with Sun Yat-sen University, Westlake University, and Hangzhou Dianzi University, and completed crawling and motion-control tests with crampons; the body uses an IP67 integrated sealed design, and after increasing the surface area of its limbs for paddling, it completed swimming tests in ice water.
1X Technologies ·
1X Establishes World Model Lab, Sam Sinha Appointed Head of World Models
1X announced the formal establishment of the 1X World Model Lab, focused on large-scale pretraining of embodied world models, with the goal of accelerating the realization of fully autonomous humanoid robots. Sam Sinha, formerly a founding research scientist at Luma AI, has joined as Founding AI Researcher and Head of World Models.
Figure AI ·
Figure AI Signs Agreement with Catalyst Brands to Deploy Humanoid Robots Across Its Logistics Network
Figure AI announced a commercial agreement with Catalyst Brands to deploy Figure humanoid robots across its distribution and logistics network, starting at the Reno, Nevada distribution and logistics center, focusing on high-intensity physical tasks in automated supply chains.
HUMANOID ·
Humanoid partners with Bosch to manufacture HMND 01 humanoid robot, advancing mass production for the European market
UK robotics company Humanoid announced a partnership with Bosch, under which Bosch will serve as contract manufacturing partner for the HMND 01 humanoid robot, supporting production for the European market. The agreement builds on a POC completed in March 2026 at a logistics site in Bühl, Germany: in Bosch's dynamic logistics environment, the HMND 01 autonomously moved boxes from a conveyor to a cart, covering 5 different box types with varying footprints, heights, and weights, orchestrated by Humanoid's in-house KinetIQ framework.
Dyna Robotics ·
Dyna Robotics reviews 10 months of production deployment, discusses robotics bubble and three paths
Based on a review of nearly 10 months of real customer deployments, Dyna Robotics believes the timeline for converting robotics capabilities into commercial value is longer than current funding assumptions suggest, and that much of the market is a bubble. The article presents three judgments: hardware is not the same as a channel, pretraining data scale is not the same as downstream capability, and building deployment systems is underestimated. It says Dyna-1, released in April 2025, ran autonomously for more than 24 hours on tasks such as napkin folding with a success rate above 99%, but deployments did not self-accelerate, and no one in the industry has yet validated at scale that a second deployment is faster than the first.
HUMANOID ·
Humanoid signs agreement with Schaeffler to deploy four-digit number of wheeled humanoid robots by 2032
UK robotics company Humanoid has signed a binding phased deployment and supply agreement with Schaeffler, targeting the deployment of a four-digit number of wheeled humanoid robots across Schaeffler's global factories by 2032. The first systems are to go live in a production environment in Germany by the end of 2026, with an initial phase from December 2026 to June 2027 covering the Herzogenaurach and Schweinfurt sites.
线性资本 ·
Bot Auto's Hou Xiaodi on the First Fully Driverless Truck Order and Commercialization Standards for Autonomous Driving
Linear Capital shared an interview with Bot Auto founder Hou Xiaodi on Zhijian autoweek, in which he said that on April 30, the day before Musk announced the production version of the SemiTruck had rolled off the line, Bot Auto completed the first fully driverless autonomous truck commercial order in the United States, with no safety driver and no real-time remote human backup.
Lumos Robotics/鹿明机器人 ·
Lumos Robotics completes several hundred million yuan A1 and A2 funding rounds, with Mitsubishi Electric leading both
Lumos Robotics has completed several hundred million yuan in A1 and A2 funding. The A1 round was led by Mitsubishi Electric, with participation from Puhua Capital and Wuzhong Financial Holdings, among others. Mitsubishi Electric continued to lead the A2 round, with participation from Hundsun Electronics, Haigao Group, and Kunshi Investment, among others. The funding will be used for embodied large-model R&D and scenario expansion. After the funding, the company's cash reserves reached several hundred million yuan. Its flexible quality-inspection embodied intelligence solution, co-created with Mitsubishi Electric, has been put into trial use at Mitsubishi Electric's factory in China. Its self-developed Lumos Nexcore physical AI engine and bodyless data-collection system Lumos FastUMI Pro support industrial deployment and data feedback.
线性资本 ·
White Rhino completes Series C1 funding to accelerate global rollout of automotive-grade RoboVan
Recently, automotive-grade RoboVan company White Rhino announced the completion of its Series C1 funding round. On May 6, it disclosed investors including a leading global logistics industry capital, Shenzhen Nanshan Zhanxintou, and existing shareholder Yuanhe Houwang. The funds will mainly be used for core technology R&D and iteration, large-scale production of automotive-grade products, multi-scenario commercialization, and global market expansion.
1X Technologies ·
1X's NEO factory in California begins production, targeting 10,000 humanoid robots per year
1X announced that its NEO Factory in Hayward, California, is now fully operational, spanning about 58,000 square feet with more than 200 employees. It is the first vertically integrated high-volume humanoid robot factory in the United States, with capacity to produce 10,000 NEO units per year.
Figure AI ·
Figure 03 production ramps up: BotQ capacity rises 24-fold in 120 days to 1 unit per hour
Figure announced that its BotQ factory has delivered more than 350 third-generation humanoid robots, Figure 03, with takt time improving from 1 unit per day to 1 unit per hour, a 24-fold throughput increase in 120 days. The line is driven by self-developed manufacturing execution software and covers more than 150 networked workstations. First-pass yield for completed units exceeds 80%, the battery line's first-pass yield is 99.3%, more than 9,000 actuators have been produced, and each robot undergoes more than 80 functional verification tests before leaving the factory.
线性资本 ·
Wujie Dynamics completes Angel++ funding round, cumulative funding exceeds $200 million and signs over 500 million yuan in overseas orders
General-purpose embodied intelligent robotics company Wujie Dynamics announced the completion of its Angel++ funding round, jointly invested by Envision Technology Group and the Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, with existing shareholders including Sequoia China, Linear Capital, and Hillhouse Venture Capital participating. Cumulative Angel-round funding exceeds $200 million, and the Angel+++ round is nearing completion.
普华资本 ·
Pudu Robotics completes nearly 1 billion yuan new funding round, valuation exceeds 10 billion yuan
Pudu Robotics recently completed a new funding round of nearly 1 billion yuan, co-led by Longgang Financial Holdings and Asia Investment Capital, with participation from BAIC Industrial Investment, Lens Technology, Highlight Capital, and government guidance funds from multiple regions; Puhua Capital invested in its Series C round in 2022. After this round, the company's valuation exceeds 10 billion yuan, and the funds will be invested in embodied intelligence technology R&D, product matrix expansion, global market expansion, capacity building, and supply chain upgrades.
HUMANOID ·
Siemens and Humanoid test HMND 01 humanoid robot for autonomous bin handling at German factory
Siemens and Humanoid announced that Humanoid's HMND 01 wheeled Alpha humanoid robot has completed testing in logistics operations at Siemens' electronics factory in Erlangen, Germany, autonomously performing tasks to grasp, move, and place bins for operators.
线性资本 ·
Tashi Intelligence completes $455 million Pre-A round, with Linear Capital investing for a third consecutive round
Embodied intelligence company Tashi Intelligence announced the completion of a $455 million Pre-A funding round, setting the record for the largest single round and the largest Pre-A round in China's embodied intelligence sector to date. Hillhouse Ventures and Sequoia China co-led the round; Meituan Strategic Investment, as a cornerstone strategic shareholder, made a substantial additional investment and continued to co-lead; Meituan Dragon Ball, CICC Capital and others participated; existing shareholders including Qiming Venture Partners, Linear Capital and BlueRun Ventures made strategic additional investments; and the Beijing Robotics Industry Development Investment Fund and Shanghai Guotou Xiandao jointly invested in an embodied intelligence company for the first time.
Skild AI ·
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.
EngineAI ·
Zhongqing Robot completes $200 million Series B funding, valuation exceeds 10 billion yuan
Zhongqing Robot has completed a Series B funding round totaling $200 million, with its valuation exceeding 10 billion yuan. The round was led by Henan Investment Group Huirong Fund, with Luxshare Precision co-leading, and participation from multiple institutions, local state-owned capital platforms, and existing shareholders. The funding will be used to deepen technology R&D, expand production capacity, and broaden deployment scenarios.