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4.5 Billion RMB in Funding, One Hand, and an Ice Cream Shop
Sharpa, backed by 4.5 billion RMB in funding, deploys its North robot at a DQ store. Founder Li Yifan argues that true embodied AI requires completing full workflows, not just performing isolated dexterous tasks.
Becoming a Top-Three National Player in Months, Lingxi Zhiyong Brings ROSS Harness to the Industrial Arena
Lingxi Zhiyong's robot achieved 160 points and ranked among the top three at the World Humanoid Robot Games. The company attributes this success to its self-developed ROSS Harness Agent, which bridges AI models and hardware execution.
Unitree's New Brain Debuts: Embodied AI Moves from Concept to Real Machines
On July 20, Unitree Technology officially released UnifoLM-OminiA-0.3, an embodied large model for home care tasks, natively integrated into the G1 robot. This marks a substantive step toward real-world deployment in civilian service.
LimX Dynamics, Having Raised $400 Million in Half a Year, Accelerates IPO Timeline
Embodied AI unicorn LimX Dynamics announces a nearly $200 million Pre-IPO round, bringing its half-year total to $400 million and pushing its IPO process forward.
The First Embodied AI Stocks in the US and China: What Routes Have Unitree and Agility Taken?
Agility Robotics and Unitree Technology represent two diverging paths for embodied AI commercialization. Agility focuses on specialized, vertical integration in logistics and manufacturing, while Unitree pursues a broad, horizontal hardware platform strategy to lower costs and expand ecosystems.
Behind the Unitree Controversy, NVIDIA's New Computing Power Business
NVIDIA is leveraging partnerships like the one with Unitree to build a "CUDA ecosystem" for robotics. By standardizing hardware interfaces and simulation tools, NVIDIA aims to turn embodied AI into a new, scalable demand for GPU computing power.
General Robotics Unveils AstraBrain-WBC 0.5: The GPT Moment for Humanoid Robot 'Cerebellum'
General Robotics launches AstraBrain-WBC 0.5, the world's first general-purpose cerebellum foundation model for humanoid robots. With 80.4 million parameters, it becomes the first in its field to reach the GPT-1 scale, addressing the trade-off between agility and generalization in motion control.
From Zhiyuan's 6-Day Factory Operations, Viewing the 'Deployment Phase' Turning Point of Embodied AI
Zhiyuan's Genie G2 robots completed over 11,000 tablet quality inspections with a 99.985% success rate in a transparent 6-day factory trial, marking the industry's shift from experimental 'development phase' to scalable 'deployment phase'.
Behind the Unitree Controversy: NVIDIA's New Compute Business
While Unitree faces regulatory scrutiny, NVIDIA is leveraging its Isaac GR00T reference design to build a 'CUDA-like' ecosystem for embodied AI, turning robot training into a sustainable compute business.
Robots Are Starting to 'Eat Data': From Indian Data Factories to the Hidden Supply Chain of Billion-Dollar Humanoid Robots
As Embodied AI companies face a critical data shortage, a new supply chain is emerging. This article explores how human demonstration data, particularly Ego Data from low-cost labor hubs like India, is becoming the key asset in training general-purpose humanoid robots.
Just Now: Vbot WeiTaDongLi Completes Nearly 500 Million RMB Financing, Targets Humanoid Robot R&D in Next Phase
Vbot WeiTaDongLi has completed a Pre-A round of financing totaling nearly 500 million RMB, marking the largest single investment in the consumer-grade Embodied AI sector to date. The funds will support mass production and the R&D of next-generation humanoid robots.
Opening Doors, Making Beds, and Nodding: Figure Turns Two Robots into 'Colleagues'
Figure AI demonstrates multi-robot collaboration with two Figure 03 units using the Helix 02 model to perform complex bedroom tasks, highlighting advancements in embodied AI and scalable deployment.