China's Mech-Mind Robotics, a developer of 3D cameras and AI software for robots, is set to open its order book for a Hong Kong IPO that could raise about US$300 million, up from a US$200 million targ…
IEEE Spectrum published a design profile of X Square Robot's open-source embodied AI stack, captured from spectrum.ieee.org, highlighting the use of fonts By Goran Soderstrom, Favorit-Mono, and IvarTe…
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…
Chinese startups raised over $16 billion in Q1 2026, with robotics startups alone pulling in $5.6 billion through 176 deals by mid-May, surpassing all of 2025, as investors shift focus to world models…
Spirit AI's Spirit v1.6 model briefly topped the RoboArena robotics benchmark in early June, surpassing Nvidia, but was removed days later after the benchmark's creators found evidence of 'benchmark h…
Tau Robotics launched an invite-only humanoid home cleaning service in San Francisco at $30/hour, using robots jointly controlled by remote human operators and AI. The service records customer footage…
X Square Robot is redefining robotics with an integrated AI stack that prioritizes interaction data over parameter count, achieving cost reductions by a factor of 20. The company's open-source Univers…
X Square Robot, a Chinese embodied-AI company, has outlined a foundation stack for general-purpose robots built on an integrated data, world model, and action model architecture. The company's Univers…
X Square Robot closed a Series C financing round on June 29, 2026, pushing its valuation above $2.8 billion. The startup has received backing from major Chinese tech firms including Alibaba, ByteDance…
Chinese humanoid startups AI²Robotics and X Square Robot both surpassed 20 billion RMB in valuation on the same day, with AI²Robotics raising nearly 5 billion RMB and X Square Robot completing four ro…
X Square Robot open-sourced XRZero-G0, a hardware-software framework that reduces real-robot training data requirements by up to 20×, and released the G0-Dataset, a 2,000-hour multimodal repository fo…
Chinese tech companies are deploying human workers in homes and factories to generate training data for humanoid robots, leveraging the country's low labor costs and public enthusiasm to overcome a gl…
Chinese tech companies are deploying humanoid robots into real homes and factories to collect training data, with residents in Suqian paid to film household chores and factory workers in Guangdong wea…