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23 hours ago
BusinessCN

Xiaomi-backed robot chip designer Amicro clears Hong Kong listing hearing as sales rise 42% and losses widen

Zhuhai-based Amicro, which designs robot-specific chips, sensors and navigation software for cleaning and service robots, published its post-hearing information pack on the Hong Kong exchange on 30 September 2026 and is seeking a Main Board listing under Chapter 18C. Revenue rose 42.3% to RMB406.7 million in 2025 on more than 3.5 million solution sets sold, while the net loss widened to RMB155.1 million.

1 sourceAmicro TechnologyD-RoboticsSiMa.aiEdge AI ComputeLiDAR
2 days ago
FundingCN

Direct Drive Tech and Camsense raise HK$1.76 billion in back-to-back Hong Kong listings, putting the parts inside cheap robots on the market

Direct Drive Tech, which makes direct-drive motor modules for household and wheel-legged robots, raised HK$1,080.0 million when it listed in Hong Kong on 29 September 2026. Robot-vacuum sensor supplier Camsense followed on 30 September with HK$682.0 million after retail investors oversubscribed its public tranche 3,546.91 times. Both companies depend on five customers for more than 80% of sales, their filings show.

6 sourcesDirect Drive TechCamsenseAmicro TechnologyElectric ActuatorsLiDAR
2 days ago
MarketCN

Humanoid shipments jump 432% to nearly 25,000 in the first half as Chinese makers take over 95% of the market, IDC says

Global humanoid robot shipments reached nearly 25,000 units in the first half of 2026, up 432.1% year on year, with market value above $740 million, IDC said on September 29. China took about 77.9% of shipments, Chinese vendors supplied more than 95%, and IDC raised its 2030 forecast by about 50% to more than 750,000 units.

2 sourcesUBTECH RoboticsUnitree RoboticsAgility RoboticsRobot Foundation ModelsElectric Actuators
14 days ago
FundingCN

D-Robotics raises US$400 million to sell its Sunrise chips as the compute layer for China's robot makers

D-Robotics, the robot-chip business Horizon Robotics stopped consolidating in March, said on 17 September 2026 it had closed a US$400 million Series C without naming a single investor or a valuation. The company says it has shipped more than 8 million Sunrise chips and that its newest S600 part won more than 20 robot customers within six months, including UBTECH, Fourier and Booster Robotics.

3 sourcesD-RoboticsUBTECH RoboticsFourierEdge AI Compute
23 days ago
BusinessCN

XPeng's IRON humanoid rolls off its first production line after robotics unit raises US$900 million

XPeng said on September 8, 2026 that its IRON humanoid robot has started coming off a production line with more than 80% of core processes automated, ahead of mass production at the end of 2026 and deliveries in 2027. Two weeks earlier its robotics subsidiary Dogotix agreed to raise more than US$900 million at a post-money valuation above US$6.3 billion, including US$600 million from IDG Capital, Alibaba, Tencent and Gaorong Ventures.

1 sourceXPENGUnitree RoboticsFigure AIEdge AI ComputeDexterous Manipulation
Aug 28, 2026
BusinessCN

UBTech sells 921 full-size humanoids in first half as robot revenue rises 1,445%

UBTech Robotics said revenue doubled to RMB1,269.1 million in the six months to June 30, 2026, driven by RMB590.3 million of full-size humanoid robot sales, up from RMB38.2 million a year earlier. The Hong Kong-listed company sold 921 Walker-class units and narrowed its loss for the period by 23.0% to RMB338.8 million, while one customer accounted for 24% of revenue.

5 sourcesUBTECH RoboticsUnitree RoboticsFigure AIRobot Foundation ModelsWorld Models
Aug 20, 2026
ResearchCN

Tsinghua's vision-driven soccer humanoid makes the cover of Science Robotics, trained entirely in simulation

A Tsinghua University team working with ByteDance Seed and China Agricultural University published a reinforcement learning controller in Science Robotics on August 19, 2026 that links a humanoid's camera directly to its legs. On Booster Robotics' T1, the authors report a 46% cut in ball-position error, up to 64% faster time-to-kick and about 90% kick success in frontfield positions, with no real-world fine-tuning.

4 sourcesBooster RoboticsUnitree RoboticsNVIDIARLSim-to-Real Transfer
Aug 19, 2026
MarketCN

Unitree lists on Shanghai's STAR Market after raising RMB6.1 billion at 219 times earnings

Unitree Robotics began trading in Shanghai on August 19, 2026 under code 688836 after selling 40.4 million new shares at RMB150.80, raising gross proceeds of RMB6,099.32 million. The issue price values the Hangzhou humanoid and quadruped maker at about RMB60.99 billion, or 219.23 times 2025 earnings, against an industry average of 38.56 times cited in its own listing document.

3 sourcesUnitree RoboticsUBTECH RoboticsFigure AIElectric ActuatorsRobot Foundation Models
Jul 20, 2026
PolicyCN

China expects embodied AI robot output to exceed 100,000 units in 2026, MIIT says

China's industry ministry said on July 20, 2026 that more than 230 companies have released over 400 embodied AI robot models and that full-year output of complete machines is expected to exceed 100,000 units. Official data show industrial robot output rose 28% in the first half and 29.0% to 729,352 sets in the first eight months, as Beijing pushes humanoids into real factories through a joint programme with the state asset regulator.

5 sourcesUBTECH RoboticsUnitree RoboticsFigure AIRobot Foundation ModelsImitation Learning
Jun 8, 2026
PolicyCN

China orders every province and central state firm to put humanoids to work in real sites, targeting 100 use cases and 10,000-unit deployment capacity by end-2026

China's industry ministry and its state-asset regulator have launched a 2026 special action that requires each provincial region to open at least 20 real-world training scenes and each central state-owned enterprise at least 10. The notice, dated June 3 and published June 8, sets a year-end goal of more than 100 high-value application scenarios and the ability to deploy humanoid and embodied AI robots at a scale of tens of thousands of units.

1 sourceUBTECH RoboticsUnitree RoboticsTeleoperationEdge AI Compute
Apr 24, 2026
M&ACN

UBTech lifts its stake in Shenzhen-listed Fenglong to 43% as its RMB1.67 billion move into manufacturing closes

UBTech Robotics said on April 24 that it had completed the transfer of shares tendered in its partial offer for Zhejiang Fenglong Electric, taking its holding to 93,979,906 A shares, about 43.01% of the company. The Hong Kong-listed humanoid maker paid RMB17.72 a share in both steps of a deal worth up to RMB1.67 billion and later amended terms to nominate seven of eight Fenglong directors.

4 sourcesUBTECH RoboticsZhejiang Fenglong ElectricUnitree RoboticsElectric ActuatorsHydraulic Actuators
Apr 19, 2026
IndustryCN

A humanoid robot wins Beijing's half marathon in 50 minutes 26 seconds, 17 minutes ahead of the fastest human

The 2026 Beijing E-Town humanoid half marathon on April 19 drew more than 100 robot teams from 13 provinces, against five provinces a year earlier, and about 40% of robots navigated on their own. The winning robot, Lightning of the Qitian Dasheng team, finished the 21.0975-kilometre course in 50:26 while the men's human winner ran 1:07:47, according to the Beijing municipal government.

1 sourceUnitree RoboticsElectric ActuatorsBattery Systems
Apr 17, 2026
ProductCN

AgiBot says 2025 revenue topped RMB1 billion as it launches the Expedition A3 humanoid and a robot rental network

Shanghai-based AgiBot told its 2026 partner conference on April 17 that revenue grew from RMB300,000 in 2023 to more than RMB1 billion in 2025, and that its ten-thousandth robot had rolled off the line this year. The company launched four hardware lines including the full-size Expedition A3, six models and a five-year ecosystem programme worth more than RMB2 billion.

2 sourcesAgiBotUBTECH RoboticsUnitree RoboticsRobot Foundation ModelsBattery Systems
Mar 31, 2026
BusinessCN

UBTech sells 1,079 full-size humanoids in 2025 as robot revenue rises 22-fold to RMB820.6 million

UBTech Robotics said in its 2025 annual results that revenue from full-size humanoid robots rose 2,203.7% to RMB820.6 million on 1,079 units, lifting group revenue 53.3% to RMB2.0 billion. The net loss narrowed to RMB789.8 million, while three share placings raised RMB5.78 billion to fund capacity for more than 6,000 robots a year.

0 sourcesUBTECH RoboticsZhejiang Fenglong ElectricUnitree RoboticsBattery SystemsElectric Actuators
Mar 30, 2026
BusinessCN

AgiBot rolls out its 10,000th humanoid robot, doubling its fleet in 112 days

Shanghai-based AgiBot said on 30 March 2026 that its 10,000th humanoid robot had come off the production line, 112 days after it announced its 5,000th. The company said the step from 5,000 to 10,000 units ran four times faster than earlier phases, but its own December breakdown shows that only about a third of its fleet is full-size.

4 sourcesAgiBotUBTECH RoboticsUnitree RoboticsElectric ActuatorsHarmonic / Strain-Wave Gears
Mar 20, 2026
FundingCN

Unitree files for Shanghai STAR Market IPO seeking RMB4.2 billion as 2025 revenue jumps 335%

The Shanghai Stock Exchange accepted Unitree Robotics' application to list on the STAR Market on March 20, 2026, with the Hangzhou company seeking RMB4.202 billion. Its prospectus shows reviewed 2025 revenue of RMB1,708.21 million, up 335.36%, and more than 5,500 humanoids shipped in 2025, with humanoids overtaking quadrupeds as its largest product line.

3 sourcesUnitree RoboticsUBTECH RoboticsAgiBotElectric ActuatorsLiDAR
Mar 13, 2026
PolicyCN

China writes embodied AI into its 15th Five-Year Plan as industrial robot output climbs 28% to 773,000 units

China's legislature approved the 2026 to 2030 development outline on March 12, naming embodied AI a future industry and calling for national training grounds, integrated brain-and-cerebellum robot models and faster humanoid deployment. Official data show industrial robot output rose 28.0% to 773,074 sets in 2025 and 33.2% in the first quarter of 2026.

13 sourcesRobot Foundation ModelsSim-to-Real Transfer
Feb 2, 2026
FundingCN

LimX Dynamics raises $200 million Series B as JD and SAIC-backed capital bet on its robot operating system

Shenzhen-based LimX Dynamics said on 2 February 2026 it had closed a US$200 million Series B with investors including Stone Venture, JD, Oriental Fortune Capital, CoStone Capital and SAIC-backed Shangqi Capital. The round came three weeks after the launch of LimX COSA, the agentic operating system that runs its full-size humanoid Oli, and the company added a second US$200 million pre-IPO round 162 days later.

7 sourcesLimX DynamicsEngineAID-RoboticsRobot Foundation ModelsVLA