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GenRobot.AI has secured its Series‑A financing round led by Momenta, a global physical‑AI firm, with existing investors participating in successive follow‑on cheques, pushing the company’s aggregate fundraising above $200 million. The capital will back large‑scale bodiless data infrastructure, Data Foundation Model upgrades, a closed‑loop physical‑AI evaluation system, massive real‑robot cluster validation and global expansion to speed up the build‑out of its data‑driven physical‑AI infrastructure.

DexTeleop Intelligence, a Chinese supplier of embodied‑AI infrastructure, has closed a multi‑hundred‑million‑yuan Pre‑A financing round co‑led by Zhuzhou Industrial Investment, Feitu Ventures, Future Frontier Ventures and Xineng Venture Capital, with Maple Pledge Capital acting as its long‑term private‑equity financing adviser. Fresh capital will go toward expanding production capacity for mass‑produced robot bodies, upgrading real‑machine data pipelines and iterating its cloud‑based operation platform.

In2Mate, formally Shadow Gather Energy Robotics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., a high‑tech developer of emotional‑companion robots, has completed its angel financing round. Founded on Feb 14, 2026, the firm targets immersive physical companionship scenarios and develops JiaBan, a thermostatic tangible robot built for emotional interaction to ease loneliness and anxiety. Proceeds from the angel round will back ongoing R&D and market rollout of its flagship JiaBan companion robot.

Xpeng’s robotics unit has closed its maiden financing round worth more than $900 million, led by IDG Capital with participation from Gaorong Ventures and strategic backing from Tencent and Alibaba, delivering a post‑money valuation above $6.3 billion while Xpeng Group retains controlling ownership of the business. The fresh capital establishes a clear market valuation for the robotics division, speeding up mass‑production rollout of Xpeng robots and iterative upgrades to its physical AI model, paving the way for global commercial adoption of high‑end general‑purpose humanoid robots.

RoboScience, a Chinese general-purpose embodied AI company, unveiled its first wheeled humanoid general-purpose robot REX G1 at the 2026 World Robot Conference (WRC) in Beijing, while claiming an industry first by publicly displaying real-time visual reasoning from its cloud-based world model — breaking the long-standing convention of keeping inference processes opaque in public demonstrations. The 22-degree-of-freedom REX G1, which features a dual-arm configuration with a 10 kg payload capacity and repeat positioning accuracy of ±0.1 mm, performed a “lighting conductor” show at the company’s booth. The robot’s operating height ranges from 0.1 to 2.0 meters, with an adjustable width between 540 and 640 mm. World model visualization breaks industry convention At the RoboScience booth, multiple dexterous hands of varying configurations...

Unitree Robotics made its trading debut on Shanghai Stock Exchange’s STAR Market on Wednesday, opening at 1,100 yuan per share, a 629.44% jump from its IPO price, giving the firm a market capitalization of 444.91 billion yuan. Retail investors holding one standard 500‑share IPO allotment stood to book around 474,600 yuan in paper profit if selling at the opening price. Founded in 2016 by Wang Xingxing and headquartered in Hangzhou, Unitree is among China’s rare general‑purpose robotics firms generating substantial revenue and consistent profits. For the January‑June period of 2026, the company posted operating revenue of 1.152 billion yuan, rising 48.54% year‑on‑year.

Lumos Robotics on Thursday launched its new heavy-duty wheeled-arm embodied intelligence robot Lumos MOS2, targeting real-world industrial scenarios with a 50 kg dual-arm payload capacity and upgrades in mobility, perception, and control architecture. The 1.65-metre-tall robot, which occupies a floor space of roughly 0.5 square metres and requires a passage width of about 0.8 metres, features 22 degrees of freedom, including a two-degree-of-freedom head and an omnidirectional chassis. It is equipped with dual multi-line lidar on the chassis, dual wrist cameras, dual six-axis force sensors, and a binocular camera on the head, with optional top rear lidar and chest depth vision modules. “We are seeing embodied intelligence accelerate into industrial deployment,” said Yu Chao, founder and CEO of Lumos Robotics....

Global humanoid robot shipments reached approximately 19,100 units in the first half of 2026, more than tripling from 5,100 units a year earlier, according to data from U.S.-based market research firm Smart Analytics Global (SAG), with Shanghai-based AGIBOT overtaking Hangzhou-based Unitree to claim the top market share. AGIBOT shipped 8,400 units in the first half of the year, accounting for 44% of global shipments, while Unitree ranked second with 5,900 units, SAG said. Both Chinese companies substantially outsold major U.S. players including Tesla, Figure AI and Agility Robotics, underscoring the rapid development of China’s humanoid robotics industry. SAG, headquartered in California, projects global humanoid robot shipments will reach approximately 60,000 units this year and rise to 500,000 units by 2030....

LumiBot, a Chinese robotics startup specialising in dexterous manipulation solutions for embodied AI, has completed a tens-of-millions-yuan angel financing round led by a fund under a listed company, with proceeds earmarked for team expansion, product iteration, small-batch production line construction, and the development of manipulation data collection and model training, the company said.

AGIBOT, a global leader in embodied AI and robotics, today unveiled four new products at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2026 in Shanghai: the AGIBOT A3 Ultra, X2 Edu, G2 Max, OmniHand 3 Ultra-M. Together, the new products expand AGIBOT’s portfolio across full-size humanoid platforms, heavy-payload industrial task robots and direct-drive dexterous manipulation systems. At its 200-square-meter exhibition space at Booth H3-C101 in the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center, AGIBOT is presenting the three new products alongside its manipulation foundation models, industrial deployment cases and live robot demonstrations. Beyond the booth, more than 60 AGIBOT robots are operating across WAIC venues, providing visitor guidance, information services, demonstrations and other forms of on-site support. “The industry should no longer...