Unitree debuted on Shanghai's STAR Market with a valuation of RMB 445 billion ($62.3 billion USD) after shares surged 629% on opening day, and the company has produced 18,000 cumulative humanoid robot…
China's humanoid robot industry is shifting from viral demonstrations to proving economic viability, with manufacturers like Unitree, UBTech, and Zhiyuan Robotics under pressure to show real-world job…
Shares in Unitree, one of China's largest manufacturers of humanoid robots, surged by more than 460% on their first day of trading on Shanghai's STAR Market, lifting the company's valuation to around …
Unitree, the Chinese humanoid robotics maker, is drawing more investor excitement than Shein's larger IPO, with its Shanghai STAR market debut expected this week after retail investors oversubscribed …
X Square Robot reported its stationary dual-arm system sorted 1,816 parcels in a one-hour live test on August 12, with a success rate above 98%, about 45% higher than Figure AI's separate 200-hour ave…
AI companies are hiring thousands of gig workers across more than 50 countries to record hand movements and physical tasks using wearable cameras and sensors, paying as little as $2.60 an hour in Indi…
Chinese corporate expansion overseas is shifting from solar equipment to AI-enabled industrial technology, with a new generation of companies targeting global markets from inception, according to anal…
Unitree Robotics priced its Shanghai IPO at 150.80 yuan a share on August 6, valuing China's leading humanoid robot maker at roughly $9 billion, with DeepSeek and state oil giant CNPC buying in as str…
Billion-dollar robotics startups including Figure AI, Sunday Robotics, and Weave Robotics are focusing on laundry-folding robots as a first commercial home task, leveraging AI advances and cheaper har…
Hark founder Brett Adcock announced Handoff on August 5, 2026, the company's first public product, an AI agent that operates a virtual computer to complete multi-step tasks such as recruiting, booking…
Tesla's Q2 2026 earnings call on July 22 showcased CEO Elon Musk's pivot toward AI and robotics, with Musk declaring the Optimus humanoid robot could be 'the biggest product ever' for the company. Tes…
Chinese embodied-AI startup PaXini has raised RMB1 billion in a strategic funding round, bringing its total fundraising to RMB3.5 billion, to scale its tactile-sensing chips for robots. The round was …
Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Robotics 2 on July 30, a universal AI system designed to operate across different robot bodies, adapting to new hardware with fewer than 200 training examples. The syst…
Figure AI's humanoid robot F.03 has demonstrated autonomous ladder climbing without a tether or remote control, a milestone the company says expands its potential for real-world labor in warehouses, s…
AI News Digest for August 2 covers 29 stories, including Kimi K3 on MI355X offering better performance per dollar than B300, Figure AI's F.03 ladder climb raising autonomy or OSHA concerns, and Google…
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is banning imports of new foreign-made humanoid robots and power inverters, citing national security risks, in a move that targets China, which dominates the…
Humanoid robots are finally working in 2026, driven by AI breakthroughs rather than robotics advances. Vision-language-action models have replaced hand-coded rules, enabling robots to learn physical t…
China has six of the world's 10 most innovative humanoid robot start-ups, according to a LexisNexis report released Tuesday, with Chinese firms claiming the top five spots. The study evaluated patent …
IREN Limited on July 20 disclosed $2.8 billion in new multi-year AI cloud contracts with leading AI developers, raising its year-end 2026 annualized run-rate revenue target from $3.7 billion to over $…
AI infrastructure company IREN has signed $2.8 billion in new multi-year AI cloud contracts, raising its year-end AI cloud annualized run-rate revenue target from $3.7 billion to more than $4 billion.…