Major news in embodied AI: Spirit AI, also known as Qianxun Intelligence, announced today that it has completed a RMB 1.5 billion Series A+ round.
The shareholder lineup is unusually strong: top-tier financial PE firms, international USD funds, industrial capital, and local state-backed funds.
Four rounds in three months. More than RMB 4.5 billion raised in total.
👉 February: two consecutive rounds, nearly RMB 2 billion, pushing valuation past RMB 10 billion.
👉April: RMB 1 billion, co-led by Shunwei Capital and Yunfeng Capital.
👉 June: another RMB 1.5 billion, setting a new financing-frequency record for the embodied AI sector.
Capital is only the opening move. The technical signal matters more.
Spirit AI's in-house model, Spirit v1.6, topped RoboArena, a Silicon Valley-led global benchmark, outperforming NVIDIA Cosmos3 and Physical Intelligence Pi0.5.
It became the first Chinese embodied model to reach No. 1 on the leaderboard.
China has taken an "Olympic gold medal" in embodied AI.
More importantly, Spirit v1.6 is now open source.
Performance, upgraded again.
DEEP Robotics' DR02 full-size humanoid robot now features upgraded payload capacity and obstacle traversal capabilities.
Through continued real-world deployment across industry scenarios, DR02 is further expanding the application boundaries of humanoid robots and unlocking more possibilities in the field.
On June 1, GenRobot announced that it has completed several consecutive funding rounds totaling hundreds of millions of yuan. Ant Group, Didi, and DT Capital led the rounds, with continued participation from existing investors including Shunwei Capital, BV Baidu Ventures, and Jiushi Intelligence. It may be the largest financing round to date in China's robot-agnostic embodied AI data sector.
Founded in July 2025, GenRobot is an embodied AI data solutions company. Its core team comes from autonomous driving and foundation model backgrounds.
Its main products include the Gen DAS wearable data collection system, covering Ego, Fingers, Gripper, and other hardware for head, hand, and full-body data capture. The company also offers Gen EgoData, a first-person multimodal dataset; Gen ADP, a specialized embodied AI data production line; and a Data Foundation Model for scaling high-precision, multimodal behavior data.
On the first floor of DEEP Robotics' company headquarters, there is an embodied intelligence robot showroom, where this demonstration is being performed for visiting guests.
🐆 DEEP Robotics LYNX S10 wheel-legged robot has officially launched!
✅ ≤20 kg total weight, one-person carry, rapid deployment.
✅ Up to 8 m/s top speed, 50 cm obstacle clearance.
✅ Four-way ultra-wide-angle cameras + front and rear LiDAR.
✅ Autonomous navigation + intelligent obstacle avoidance, no manual intervention required.
✅ IP66 protection | -20°C to 55°C | 3h+ endurance, with autonomous charging support.
💰 Available at a five-figure RMB price point. Pre-orders are now open!
🔥 Power grid inspection / security patrol / emergency rescue / education and research: built for full-scenario deployment.
#DEEPRobotics #LYNXS10 #EmbodiedIntelligence #Robotics
UNITREE drops the GD01 — a manned, transforming mecha.
The world's first mass-produced manned mecha, classified as a civilian transportation vehicle.
Specs are sparse:
👉Transformable, carries one person, ~500 kg when manned
👉Officially designated "civilian transportation vehicle"
👉Priced from ¥3.9 million (~$535,000)
👉Announced May 12, 2026
Range, top speed, and dimensions have not been released.
Chongqing's "Bang-bang" Porters Meet Their Robot Partner 🤖⛰️
📦 Hauling construction debris — now a whole lot easier
🏗️ Climbing stairs in old residential compounds — no longer a struggle
⚡ Double the efficiency, with door-to-door delivery on top
"Used to call a porter. Now we just send the robot dog."
This is what embodied AI looks like when it steps into real life.
Unitree UniStore is now fully open — the world's first humanoid robot app store, with User Square, Action Library, Dataset, and Developer Center all live. Upload a dance routine, an inspection workflow, a martial arts sequence you've trained and share it in the Square. Download a solution from the Library, deploy it in one tap. The leap from feature phone to smartphone just landed in robotics.
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UBTECH Robotics has closed an $820 million Series C funding round, reaching a $5 billion valuation. It was the largest single-round AI funding at the time.
The round was led by Tencent Holdings, with participation from ICBC, Haier Group, Minsheng Securities, Telstra, Easyhome, Charoen Pokphand Group, China Minsheng Bank, CreditEase, CGN, Sichuan Railway Investment Group, Green Pine Capital Partners, and others. CDH Investments made a follow-on investment.
ENGINE AI T800 is on patrol at MixC, Shenzhen.
The specs:
👉First humanoid robot powered by a solid-state power battery purpose-built for humanoids — 4 to 5 hours of runtime
👉29 fully proprietary joint actuator modules, 450 N·m peak torque, 14,000 W peak instantaneous joint power
👉43 total degrees of freedom (including dexterous hands), 5 kg payload per hand
👉360° LiDAR enabling millisecond-level environmental mapping
👉Aerospace-grade magnesium-aluminum alloy unibody die-cast chassis
A 3-year contract covering over 2,000 PM01 units, totaling over 100 million RMB, has been signed. Use cases: patrol, inspection, and traffic management. This is the largest commercial humanoid robot order in China's policing sector.
The T800 is taking the "deploy first, iterate later" path. Policing is emerging as the first domain for scaled humanoid robot deployment.
MagicLab unveiled MagicBot X1 at The Magic X Global Embodied AI
Innovation Summit (GEIS) 2026 in Silicon Valley.
Here's what makes it different:
🧠 BRAIN — Magic-Mix world model
Doesn't just execute commands. Predicts physics.
Adapts to unstructured environments without reprogramming.
⚙️ BODY — 31 DOF / 450 N·m peak torque
Fewer joints. More force where it counts.
Engineered for factory floors, not conference stages.
🔋 POWER — Dual hot-swappable battery system. No charging stops. No production downtime.
The robots aren't coming. They're already here.
📸 MagicBot Gen1 shown — no official X1 prototype image released yet.
Context worth noting:
- STAR Market IPO accepted by the Shanghai Stock Exchange, targeting ~¥4.2B
- Their in-house Embodied Foundation Model UnifoLM-X1-0 is already running joint motor assembly in their own factory
- Over the past year — ROBOTERA, AgiBot, others — real-world deployment has become the top priority. The acrobatics-demo era is over.
UNITREE just launched a dual-arm humanoid robot. ¥26,900 (~$3,700).
15–31 DOF. Arms: 5 or 7 DOF, swappable end-effectors — 2-finger gripper, 3-finger or 5-finger dexterous hand. ~2 kg payload per arm. Stationary base or mobile chassis. 👇
For the past two years, UNITREE was the company with the backflipping, boxing robots. Today's demos: parcel sorting, factory loading/unloading, toy classification.
¥26,900 gets you a desktop-class dev platform. The message is hard to miss — this one is built to work.