news
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
analysis
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
editorial
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
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