3+ day, 21+ 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…...

3+ day, 23+ 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…...

4+ day, 23+ 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…...

5+ day, 20+ 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, 20+ min 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, 10+ min 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, 4+ 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, 4+ 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…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (99+ words) Chinese humanoid robot team wins first weightlifting title after lifting 16kg TechNode A robot from the Beijing Humanoid–HUST team won the first humanoid robot weightlifting title after lifting 16 kilograms, according to a competition report. The robot started with a 15-kilogram…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (116+ words) XPeng’s robotics unit raises over $900m at a $6.3bn valuation TechNode XPeng said in an announcement that its robotics business has entered share purchase agreements with multiple investors to raise more than $900 million at a post-money valuation above $6.3 billion. The round is…...