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XPENG’s robotics arm has raised more than $900M ahead of its humanoid production run

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XPENG said on Monday that its robotics business has raised more than $900M in what the company described as its first funding round, a substantial sum for a unit that has yet to sell a single robot commercially. The timing is deliberate, since the Chinese carmaker has committed to putting its IRON humanoid into mass […]

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Galbot Robots Complete 100 Consecutive Rallies Against a Tennis Champion

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Galbot says its robot completed more than 100 consecutive autonomous tennis rallies against former world number 15 Zheng Jie at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. The rally count, the autonomy claim and the robot’s identity all rest on the company’s own account. A robot spent Saturday rallying with a former Wimbledon semi-finalist. The […]

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A humanoid robot just beat Usain Bolt’s 100m record, and roboticists are unimpressed for good reason

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A robot built by Beijing’s X-Humanoid ran 100 metres in 9.39 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games, beating Usain Bolt’s 9.58-second record. Roboticists point out that speed on a known course is far easier for a machine than folding laundry. A machine has run the 100 metres faster than any person ever has. A […]

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Unitree, China’s humanoid robot champion, lists in Shanghai on 19 August after record demand

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Unitree Robotics, the Hangzhou company that has done more than anyone else to turn Chinese humanoid robots into a spectator sport, is due to begin trading on Shanghai’s STAR Market on 19 August, according to Reuters. The listing makes it the first general-purpose humanoid maker to go public on the mainland, and it arrives having […]

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Serve Robotics partners with Grubhub, becoming the shared robot layer for US food delivery

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Serve Robotics, the sidewalk-delivery company that spun out of Uber, has added Grubhub to its roster of partners, a move that quietly turns it into something close to the neutral plumbing of America’s food-delivery robot business. Through a deal with Wonder, Grubhub’s parent, Serve’s cooler-sized bots will start carrying takeaway orders placed on the Grubhub […]

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LG’s humanoid robot arrives in 2027, running Nvidia’s Isaac GR00T

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LG will unveil a bipedal humanoid robot in the first quarter of 2027, built on Nvidia’s Jetson Thor processor, Isaac GR00T foundation model and Halos safety system. The two signed the agreement at Nvidia’s Santa Clara headquarters on 13 August. LG will show a bipedal humanoid robot in the first quarter of next year. The […]

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The man who built Qwen has a new lab, and the Shanghai government is an investor

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The researcher who led Alibaba’s Qwen models has started his own company. Junyang Lin announced Pragmatik Labs on X on Tuesday evening, five months after walking out of Alibaba. The lab is based in Shanghai and works on what Lin calls next-generation agents across digital and physical worlds. Gaorong Ventures and HSG, the firm formerly […]

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Unitree’s IPO could value China’s robot champion at $7bn or more

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China’s best-known robot maker is about to test the public markets. Unitree could be worth more than 50 billion yuan, roughly $7bn, after its Shanghai listing, according to its IPO sponsor.The estimate comes from CITIC Securities. As the deal’s sponsor, CITIC set out the valuation as Unitree kicked off pricing for its float on Shanghai’s […]

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A Korean chip startup just quadrupled to $2.2bn, betting AI’s next money is outside the data centre.

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A South Korean chip designer few outside the industry have heard of just became a $2.2bn company. DeepX has signed the first tranche of a Series D round that values it at roughly four times its previous mark. And it is not finished raising. The first slice is about $29m, from existing backers BNW Investment […]

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