Five Chinese companies shipped 86% of the world's humanoid robots in the first half of 2026, according to Counterpoint Research, as Chinese firms move faster and at greater scale than U.S. rivals, sai…
Five Chinese companies accounted for 86% of global humanoid robot shipments in the first half of 2026, according to Counterpoint Research, as China's humanoid robot industry moves from demonstrations …
Chinese startup Galbot, founded in May 2023, has raised RMB 2.5 billion ($370 million) in a 2026 funding round, bringing its total funding to over RMB 4.9 billion and its valuation to over RMB 22 bill…
Galbot, a Chinese embodied AI robotics company, has raised RMB 2.5 billion ($370 million) in a 2026 financing round, bringing its total funding to over RMB 4.8 billion and its valuation to more than R…
A Chinese humanoid robot, Tiangong Ultra, developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Centre, ran 100 meters in 8.64 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, beating Usain Bolt's h…
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…
Unitree CEO Wang Xingxing said at the World Robot Conference in Beijing that humanoid robots are nearing a 'ChatGPT moment' where they can handle unfamiliar environments via voice or text commands, ta…
AI News Digest for Aug 19 covers 30 stories, including Galbot preparing a new humanoid for August robot showcases, Leopold Aschenbrenner losing $30 billion by betting too heavily, and State Farm lawye…
Galbot is preparing to debut a new humanoid robot at the World Robot Conference 2026 (WRC26) in August, aiming to demonstrate real-time capabilities in competitive tasks. The company's reveal will tes…
The third International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (IOAI) concluded in Astana, Kazakhstan, on 8 August 2026, with 108 participating countries and territories, 466 contestants, 126 team leader…
MIT researchers propose B-spline Policy (BSP), which parameterizes robot actions as continuous curves to speed up manipulation policy inference. The method reduces compute overhead by predicting B-spl…
Hong Kong opens its first convenience store operated entirely by a single humanoid robot, named Xiao Gai, built by Beijing-based AI and robotics firm Galbot. The 24-hour pop-up store, located on the H…