Ant Group News Latest Ant Group news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 10 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
Ant Group is the Alibaba-affiliated Chinese fintech and AI infrastructure giant operating Alipay and an array of consumer credit, wealth and merchant services. The Hangzhou-based company is investing in autonomous mobility through its stake in the Hellobike-CA...
Hello Robotaxi Bags ~$100M At Nearly $3B For Its HR1 Robotaxi Buildout — Sep 17, 2026 — Hello Robotaxi, the L4 JV between Hello Inc., Ant Group and CATL, has closed ~$100M at nearly $3B post-money led by Shanghai Guotou Pioneer Fund to sc...Ant International, Visa and Mastercard Unite on a 'Know Your Agent' Standard for AI Commerce — Sep 11, 2026 — The three payments giants will merge Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol, Mastercard's Verifiable Intent and Ant International's Agentic Mobile Protocol int...Alibaba Cloud, Cambricon Join PyTorch Foundation As Ant Group Takes Gold Seat — Sep 8, 2026 — Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon joined the PyTorch Foundation as Platinum members and Ant Group as Gold, announced Sept. 8 at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + O...Unitree Unveils $650K Transforming GD01 Mecha As Shanghai IPO Nears — Jul 18, 2026 — China's Unitree revealed the GD01, a wall-smashing transforming mecha priced at $650,000, in the same week regulators cleared its roughly $619 million...Ant Group Open-Sources SingGuard-NSFA To Lock Down Autonomous AI Agents — Jul 14, 2026 — Ant Group's AI Safety Lab has open-sourced SingGuard-NSFA, a guardrail model tuned specifically for autonomous AI agents, covering 7 risk categories,...Thailand's Amity Robotics Closes $7M Seed To Scale ARC Concierge Robots — Jul 9, 2026 — Thai physical AI startup Amity Robotics raised a $7M seed round led by East Ventures to scale its ARC Base kiosk and ship its first mobile robot, ARC...Robbyant Ships LingBot-Depth 2.0 And Boundary-Centric LingBot-Vision For Robots — Jul 7, 2026 — Ant Group's embodied AI unit Robbyant unveiled LingBot-Depth 2.0 and LingBot-Vision, halving depth error on transparent and reflective scenes and roll...Zeroth Robotics Raises $73.6M Pre-Series A Led by Ant Group for Companion Humanoids — Jul 5, 2026 — Suzhou-based Zeroth Robotics closed a 500M-yuan ($73.58M) pre-Series A led by Ant Group, giving Ant its 12th humanoid deal in 18 months as the startup...Orbbec Brings AI-Powered 3D Vision to Automate 2026 — Jun 27, 2026 — Orbbec showcased industrial-grade 3D cameras and edge-AI depth perception at Automate 2026, partnering with Ant Group's Robbyant to sharpen robot mani...CATL-Hellobike-Ant Robotaxi JV Targets Level 4 Mass Production In June 2026 — Jun 15, 2026 — The CATL-Hellobike-Ant Group robotaxi JV is preparing to mass-produce its first Level 4 HR1 robotaxis in June 2026, with commercial pilots already run...