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Unitree shares fell 45% after surging more than 5x in their August 19 Shanghai debut, cutting its valuation from $66B to $36B, raising robotics bubble concerns (www.reuters.com)
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Source: robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete physical tasks in April, raised ~$200M led by 8VC, after raising $400M in June (www.axios.com)
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A look at startups like General Intuition working on large action models, aka world models, which are trained on videogames and simulations, to pilot robots (www.wsj.com)
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Humanoid Robots Run 100 Meters Faster Than Usain Bolt's Record Pace (hardware.slashdot.org)
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Chinese EV maker XPeng says its robotics business raised $900M+ led by IDG and Gaorong Ventures at a $6.3B valuation, with Tencent and Alibaba participating (www.reuters.com)
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At Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, a robot made by Honor ran 100m in 9.39s, and another Chinese robot finished 400m in 38.16s, both beating human records (www.telegraph.co.uk)
1 day ago China Robot

Inside the World Robot Conference in Beijing, drawing over 300 exhibitors; Unitree founder Wang Xingxing said the industry's “ChatGPT moment” has yet to come (www.ft.com)
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The Chinese city of Hangzhou deploys traffic-control robots that operate autonomously, using cameras and radar to signal traffic and flag violations (www.reuters.com)
4 days ago China Robot

China's humanoid robot makers derive much of their revenue from government-backed training centers that sell training data back to them, raising demand concerns (www.ft.com)
5 days ago China Robot

How Unitree's Go series, which helped the company dominate the quadruped robot market, drew on openly published US university research funded by the US military (www.reuters.com)
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Chinese Robotics Giant Unitree Soars In Stock Market Debut (hardware.slashdot.org)
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Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree's stock surged 629% in early trading in its Shanghai debut on Wednesday, after raising ~$904M in its IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
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Velaura AI, which is developing low-power chips for data centers and physical AI applications, like robotics, raised a $110M Series A at a $1B+ valuation (www.reuters.com)
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ETH Zurich spinout Gravis Robotics raised a $200M Series A from SoftBank to scale Gravis Rack, a retrofit autonomous control appliance that mounts on excavators (siliconangle.com)
7 days ago Robot ETH

A look at Unitree's G1 and R1, the humanoid robots behind viral influencer accounts worldwide, as Unitree shipped 5,500+ units in 2025 and readies its China IPO (www.wired.com)
9 days ago China IPO Robot

Robots That Walk and Talk Are Coming To Car Factories (hardware.slashdot.org)
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US-based robot vacuum maker Matic rolls out a firmware update that lets users control its $1,245 vacuum with voice commands in more than 70 languages (www.bloomberg.com)
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A look at workers in India who are paid extra to wear devices that capture first-person video of factory and other work tasks for use as AI robot training data (www.bloomberg.com)
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Swarms of Tiny Robots Remove Microplastics From Soil and Water (hardware.slashdot.org)
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Filings show Uber divested from long-time partner Serve Robotics in Q2, as the companies clash over how to deploy delivery robots; Serve has a DoorDash deal (www.bloomberg.com)
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Smart Analytics: Chinese humanoid robot makers were 97%+ of global shipments in H1 2026, reaching ~19,100 unit shipments globally, up from 5,100 in H1 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
14 days ago China Robot

'Asimov Was Right' About Rules For Robots, Says Ex-US Cyber Director (it.slashdot.org)
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Filing: DeepSeek has invested ~$20.8M in Unitree Robotics' Shanghai IPO and agreed to jointly develop AI models for humanoid machines (www.reuters.com)
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Filing: Hangzhou-based Unitree Robotics prices its Shanghai IPO at ~$22/share, aiming to sell 40.4M shares to raise $904M; Unitree shipped 5,500+ robots in 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
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Ukraine aims to have 50,000 combat robots built this year - as Zelensky pleads for allies to provide missile shield (www.dailymail.co.uk)
18 days ago Robot Ukraine

Chinese VC firms are rushing to raise new funds after three years of record-low fundraising, amid renewed enthusiasm for China's tech, AI, and robotics sectors (www.ft.com)
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Google's Gemini Can Now Stomp Around as a Humanoid Robot (tech.slashdot.org)
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Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2, which combines several different AI models into a single system to control a range of robots, including humanoids (www.wired.com)
25 days ago Google AI Robot

The US FCC's ban on foreign “advanced robotic devices” covers any new ground-based, software-controlled wireless robot over 4.4 pounds, including robot vacuums (www.theverge.com)
25 days ago Robot Ban

The FCC's ban on foreign “advanced robotic devices” includes any new ground-based, software-controlled wireless robot over 4.4 pounds, including robot vacuums (www.theverge.com)
26 days ago Robot Ban

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