D-Robotics said on Thursday it has raised $400 million in a Series C round led by Mirae Asset, with participation from Meituan's strategic investment arm, government-backed funds including Hefei State Investment, Nanshan Strategic Emerging Investment and Jingquan Capital, and a roster of existing investors including Hillhouse Venture Capital, 5Y Capital, Linear Capital, Huangpu River Capital, Temasek's Vertex Growth, Prosperity7, Hexiang Capital, Yunfeng Fund, Meituan Dragonball and others. The proceeds will fund expansion of its Xuri chip lineup across the full computing range and build a full-stack software platform spanning data collection, model training, simulation validation and inference deployment, as the company seeks to serve embodied-AI development needs from established robot categories to general-purpose humanoids.

PrimeBOT, the consumer embodied AI brand under Swancor Advanced Materials, will host a new product launch event in Shanghai, where it will unveil its Q1 and T1 robots and lay out its long-term brand strategy, adopting a hybrid format with a main venue in Shanghai and satellite offline stores across Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Xiamen and Xi'an.

Unitree Robotics has undergone industrial and commercial changes, raising its registered capital from roughly 364 million yuan to about 404 million yuan, an increase of around 11%, and updating its enterprise type from unlisted foreign-invested joint stock company to listed foreign-invested joint stock firm; founded in August 2016 and led by Wang Xingxing, the firm researches, sells and manufactures intelligent and industrial robots with shareholders including Wang Xingxing, Shanghai Yiyi Enterprise Management Consulting Partnership and Hanhai Information Technology.

Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee unveiled the HKSAR's first five-year economic and social development plan for 2026–2030, outlining AI as a key growth sector to empower industries, build a multi-dimensional AI ecosystem, roll out an "AI+" initiative, boost cross-sector integration, deepen data utilization and mainland collaboration, expand computing infrastructure via the Sha Ling data park, and review relevant legislation to foster a sound regulatory framework for AI development.

OpenAI has held talks with major investors for a new funding round at a $1.2 trillion valuation, up sharply from the $852 billion financing completed in March, with the approach initiated by investors rather than OpenAI and the decision and timing hinging largely on its IPO plans, as CEO Sam Altman said last Saturday that a U.S. listing was "not timely" and pushed the IPO window beyond 2027 after the company confidentially filed in June but later slowed the process.

Scalabot on September 15 launched HERON-Context Reinforcement Action Model (CRA), the second model built on its HERON technical architecture, which features memory, reinforcement learning for error recovery, dexterous and deformable object manipulation, and cross-embodiment generalization to equip robots with continuously evolving real-world operational capabilities, shifting them from task execution to learning and iterative improvement.

Physical AI infrastructure firm Hesai Technology announced a new strategic partnership with JD Group to conduct in-depth exploration across full physical AI scenarios, leveraging high-precision 3D spatial sensing capabilities including 6D full-color lidar to support continued deployment of JD’s autonomous logistics vehicles and robots, and jointly extend the application boundaries of physical AI in the real world.

Chinese robotics firm D-Robotics and embodied-intelligence company GigaAI have formed a strategic partnership to jointly build a high-performance, deliverable and affordable edge-side integrated software-hardware solution for embodied intelligence, with GigaAI contributing its capabilities in world models, embodied foundation models, robot development and real-world deployment and D-Robotics providing high-performance edge AI computing platforms, algorithm toolchains and robotics ecosystem support, initially targeting deep adaptation of the next-generation embodied foundation model GigaBrain-0.7 with D-Robotics' large-computing embodied platform Sunrise S600 and integration of GigaWorld world-generation model capabilities, to push world-model-driven embodied intelligence into real-world scenarios spanning home services, industrial manufacturing, commercial services and the developer ecosystem, the companies said.

Chinese embodied AI startup Kinetix AI said it had completed a series of angel-plus funding rounds, raising more than 500 million yuan, with participation from Vertex Ventures, a VC firm under Singapore's Temasek Holdings, Fangguang Capital, Wanshi Capital and others. The proceeds will be used to accelerate "data-model-embodiment" iteration and drive commercialization of embodied AI products.