4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (408+ words) The first time many people saw a humanoid robot, it was probably doing something impressive: dancing, flipping, or performing a carefully rehearsed routine. The industry’s biggest challenge now lies in turning those impressive demonstrations into robots that can perform useful…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (98+ words) Embodied AI startup PHYMI raises nearly US$100 million in seed funding TechNode PHYMI, an embodied AI startup founded by former DeepRoute.ai executive Liu Nianqiu, has raised nearly US$100 million in seed funding. IDG Capital led the round, with participation…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (696+ words) What does a humanoid robot boom actually look like? In China, it is taking shape not only in capital investment and production, but in the growing range of places where robots are being put to use. The correction, however, has…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (107+ words) Xpeng activates a production line for its humanoid robot technode.com Xpeng has activated an automated production line for humanoid robots, with what the company describes as the first high-level general-purpose humanoid robot completing assembly and walking off the line…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (130+ words) Alibaba’s Qwen releases open-source model for autonomous driving TechNode Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Drive-1.0-4B, an open-source model that combines driving-scene understanding with planning a vehicle’s movements. Developed with Huazhong University of Science and Technology, it uses Qwen3.5-4B as its vision-language…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (512+ words) A robot cooked noodles in about a minute. Another prepared breakfast. Humanoids climbed stairs, crawled across obstacles and sparred inside a fighting cage. Elsewhere, robots sorted packages, fetched medicine and practiced jobs ranging from household chores to emergency rescue. The…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (143+ words) DapuStor plans Hong Kong listing after first-half revenue jumps 531% TechNode DapuStor Corporation, a Chinese enterprise SSD and data-center storage maker, said its board has approved a plan to issue H shares and seek a listing on the Hong Kong Stock…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago   (101+ words) ENGINEAI says general-purpose humanoid robot costs have fallen below RMB100,000 TechNode ENGINEAI, the Shenzhen-based humanoid robot maker, says the cost of a general-purpose humanoid robot capable of performing practical tasks has fallen below RMB100,000 per unit. CEO Zhao Tongyang said comparable robots…...