The Meituan-backed industrial vision-guided robotics maker is set to open its order book for a roughly $300 million Hong Kong listing, with a debut expected in early September. It extends the wave of Chinese robotics IPOs following Unitree, reinforcing Hong Kong's emergence as the go-to
Humanoid · Event · Beijing Faster than Bolt, higher than the world record: inside the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games Over five days in Beijing, more than 2,000 humanoid robots ran, jumped, boxed and played football. Two of them beat marks that took humans a century to set. Here's
China's flagship robotics expo opened Aug 20 with humanoid robots boxing, dancing, and demonstrating industrial and even battlefield-adjacent applications, alongside major exhibitors including Xiaomi's first humanoid reveal. It's the clearest annual snapshot of how fast Chinese robotics is moving from lab demos to
Robot Hive · Defense Desk Pocket version Defense · Autonomous Systems · Anduril Industries The unfair fight A homeschooled VR prodigy sold Oculus at 21, was pushed out of Facebook at 24, and then built a $61-billion defense company, a national bank, and an arsenal that spans air, sea, land and spectrum.
Unitree has raised 6.1 billion yuan ($905 million) in its IPO, according their prospectus. Shares rose to 968.1 yuan apiece, after hitting as high as 1,100 yuan/share.
https://www.worldrobotconference.com/en/sara/contributions/callforpaper/ * Dates: August 19–23 * Location: Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (Beijing E-Town), China * Organizers: The Chinese Institute of Electronics and the World Robot Cooperation Organisation Key Highlights * Scale & Participation: The event features over 300 exhibitors and more than 2,000
AgricultureField Robotics/Clarkson's Farm S5/Robot Hive How Clarkson accidentally sold Britain on robot farming In Clarkson's Farm Season 5, a health scare and a budget crisis pushed Jeremy Clarkson toward automation — a Dutch driverless tractor, a Danish seeding robot, and a trip to the hyper-
Company Deep DiveHumanoids/United Kingdom/Robot Hive The jeweller who built Britain's robot In under two years, a Russia-born jewellery magnate turned ~$30M of his own money into Europe's first pure-play humanoid unicorn — and put a wheeled robot on a live Siemens factory floor.
Capital MarketsRobotics ·China IPO Rush·Robot Hive Data Desk The great robot IPO rush Thirty-plus Chinese robot makers are sprinting to go public at once. Unitree just priced at $9 billion. Here's the whole field — on which exchange, at what valuation, with every company's funding
Supply ChainTechnology ·Actuators & Reducers ·Robot Hive Data Desk The joint problem: who really controls the robotics race The winner won't be decided by the smartest AI. It'll be decided by whoever controls the tiny, backlash-free gears that let a robot bend its arm — and
China’s humanoid and embodied-intelligence sector has exploded in the mid-2020s, fueled by capital, supply-chain strength, and a wave of exceptionally young founders. A recent industry ranking of the youngest entrepreneurs (ordered by birth year) spotlights a generation that is skipping traditional career paths and building full-
news
In May 2025, two third-year engineering students at BITS Pilani Hyderabad — Jayant Khatri (mechanical engineering) and Sourya Choudhury (electrical engineering) — founded Apollyon Dynamics out of a hostel room. Within two months they were supplying combat drones to the Indian Army. By early 2026 the company had delivered a mobile
news
Behind the polished glass and humming assembly lines of Hefei, a quiet revolution is being packed into shipping containers. At the global manufacturing headquarters of Geek+, the scene is less a factory and more a departure gate for a mechanized migration. Dozens of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are undergoing their