Musk says SpaceX confident of launching Nvidia VR NLV72 AI computer to orbit next year

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• Kinetix AI secures over 500 mln yuan angel+ round backed by Temasek-linked Vertex for embodied AI

  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.
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• Musk says SpaceX confident of launching Nvidia VR NLV72 AI computer to orbit next year

  Sept 13 — Elon Musk said in a social media reply that he is highly confident SpaceX will send Nvidia's VR NLV72 AI computer into space next year.
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• Xieyue Intelligence Secures Angel+ Funding to Build Home Embodied AI Foundation Model

  Hangzhou Xieyue Intelligence Technology has closed a multi-hundred-million-yuan Angel+ financing round backed by Linear Capital, Junshan Capital, Hongyi Capital and Yinshan Capital; founded in February 2026 by former Li Auto AI chief scientist Chen Wei and ex-Li Auto product line president Zhang Xiao, the firm focuses on embodied foundation models for home robots, boasting a core team with cross-domain expertise in large models, AI infrastructure, robot control, product and supply chain, and plans to advance model training, computing and data infrastructure.
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• 2026 Inclusion Bund Summit: Robot Grasps Diverse Objects Without Calibration

  At the 2026 Inclusion Bund Summit, crowds gather around Sudu Technology's booth, where a dual-arm collaborative robot continuously executes uncalibrated grasping of 12 types of heterogeneous objects with no preset trajectories, manual labeling or scene-specific retraining, leveraging its self-developed million-scale physics simulation platform that parameterizes real-world lighting, materials, friction and gravity disturbances to let the model undergo millions of virtual trials before low-cost real-world transfer through a "data-simulation-model-feedback" loop reshaping AI R&D from human instruction to machine self-learning and eventually self-driven evolution.
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• China accounts for over 97% of global humanoid robot shipments in H1 2026, data shows

  China accounted for more than 97% of global humanoid robot shipments of about 19,100 units in the first half of 2026, up from 5,100 a year earlier, research firm Smart Analytics Global said, as IPG Capital's Andrew Young said the country's lead rests on its manufacturing and electric-vehicle ecosystem, making it difficult for rivals to compete and smarter to build specialized applications on Chinese hardware than to replicate it.
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• Westlake Robotics secures A1 round financing following August Series A fundraising

  Westlake Robotics has closed its A1 round of financing after wrapping up Series A in August, with investors including Haiyuan Capital, Cuiwei Fund, Ginkgo Valley Capital, Westlake Sci-Tech Investment and Zhongshan Venture Capital, as fresh capital backs its technical roadmap and commercial prospects; proceeds from the combined Series A financing will be used to develop its WR1 general embodied foundational model, expand multi-scenario commercial deployment of embodied intelligence and build talent pool to strengthen its integrated foundation of technology, products and talent.
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