5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1593+ words) Editor’s note: This article is republished from Jumpstart, a TechNode Group publication. At night, some of the most consequential robots in China are the ones nobody notices. They move quietly through hotel corridors, wait for elevators, carry deliveries across campuses…...

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…...

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…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (141+ words) China has more than 70 operational embodied-AI training grounds, report says TechNode More than 70 embodied-AI training grounds had been built and put into operation across China by the end of June, according to a 2026 report from the China Academy of Information…...

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…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (601+ words) On Wednesday, Unitree Robotics debuted on the STAR Market of the Shanghai Stock Exchange under the ticker 688836.SH. On the same day, the 2026 World Robot Conference opened in Beijing. The timing was symbolic: humanoid robots are moving beyond labs and…...

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…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (408+ words) humanoid robotics startup that focuses on embodied intelligence and commercial deployment, expects demand to...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (512+ words) returning them — a showcase of how embodied intelligence could be applied to factory operations. Unitree’s...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (80+ words) Mech-Mind clears Hong Kong listing hearing as overseas revenue passes 50% TechNode Chinese machine-vision and robotics company Mech-Mind has cleared the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s listing hearing. Its overseas revenue accounted for 50.3% of total revenue in 2025. The company develops 3D-vision systems…...