China News
Latest China news and analysis — 181 articles tagged China on The Robotics Media.
- China Freezes Humanoid Robot IPO Rush As Regulators Probe Valuations — — Chinese regulators have effectively frozen humanoid robot IPOs, probing whether government-backed data-collection revenue distorts valuations at Unitr...
- AGIBOT drops 300 humanoids into Chimelong Spaceship Park, hits 20,000-robot mark — — AGIBOT has integrated more than 300 embodied AI robots across Chimelong Spaceship Park in Zhuhai — the largest single-site rollout of humanoids to dat...
- China's Direct Drive Tech Prices $138M Hong Kong IPO for September 29 Listing — — Dongguan-based Direct Drive Tech is set to raise about $138 million in a Hong Kong Stock Exchange listing on September 29, 2026, extending a wave of C...
- China's ENN Group Breaks Ground On Helong-2 Hydrogen-Boron Fusion Plant — — ENN's 120-acre Langfang plant targets aneutronic fusion electricity by 2030 with a spherical-torus proton-boron design that skirts the D-T neutron pro...
- Alibaba Ships Qwen-Audio 3.1, Cuts Voice API Prices By Up To 95% — — Alibaba's five-model Qwen-Audio 3.1 stack undercuts ElevenLabs and OpenAI Realtime pricing, adds ASR-Next speaker ID and TTS-Next single-pass mixed au...
- UAE's Stone Venture Leads GENISOM AI Series B As Robot Output Passes 15,000 — — Beijing quadruped-robot maker GENISOM AI closed a Series B "in the tens of millions of dollars" led by Abu Dhabi's Stone Venture and Hongshan Capital...
- Alibaba Unveils AgentCore And Agent Native Cloud At Apsara 2026 — — At Apsara 2026, Alibaba Cloud unveiled AgentCore, Agent Native Cloud and a stack of new infrastructure - HPN 8.0 Pro, next-gen CPFS and OpenLake - bui...
- CanSemi Tech Sets $918M Shenzhen IPO As China's Chip Push Accelerates — — Guangzhou foundry CanSemi priced its Shenzhen offering at 12.01 yuan a share and pulled in Alibaba, Goodix and Biwin as strategic backers.
- Alibaba Unveils Zhenwu V900 AI Chip, Targets 10-Trillion-Parameter Qwen — — At Apsara 2026, Alibaba unveiled the Zhenwu V900 AI chip and outlined Qwen models scaling to 5-10 trillion parameters, with a 20-GW data-center target...
- Robotics Companies Raised $4.87B Across 162 Deals In August 2026 — — The Robot Report's August 2026 tally puts disclosed robotics funding at $4.87 billion across 162 transactions, with China booking roughly half and hum...
- Envision Energises Morocco's First Large-Scale BESS At OCP's Benguerir Mine — — Envision Energy has energised Morocco's first large-scale lithium-iron-phosphate battery-storage system — a 25 MW / 125 MWh install at OCP's Benguerir...
- UBTECH Names Slovenia's Hiproject Its Exclusive Walker-Series Balkan Distributor — — UBTECH walked its Walker C1 humanoid onto the 58th MOS fair in Celje this week, signing a five-country Balkans distribution deal with Slovenian engine...
- X Square's QUANTA X1 Pro Starts Work At Lululemon's Wuhan Warehouse — — Shenzhen embodied-AI startup X Square Robot has deployed its wheeled dual-arm QUANTA X1 Pro humanoid on live parcel-sorting lines inside lululemon's n...
- China Launches Four More PIESAT-2 SAR Satellites On Long March 2D — — A Long March 2D lifted PIESAT-2 satellites 13-16 to a 700-km sun-synchronous orbit on Sept 19, growing the GalaxySpace-built, PIESAT-operated commerci...
- Dongfeng-Huawei Epicland X9 Launches Sept 24 With ADS 5, Books 20K Orders In A Day — — The Dongfeng-Huawei Epicland X9 launches September 24 from 299,800 yuan, ships Huawei Qiankun ADS 5 with four LiDAR units standard, and has already bo...
- Nio 3rd-Gen ES8 Hits 150,000 Deliveries In One Year, Sweeps China’s Premium SUV Chart — — Nio’s third-gen ES8 reached 150,000 cumulative deliveries on September 20, 2026, exactly one year after launch, locking in a lead in China’s 400,000-y...
- Volkswagen Launches ID.AURA T6, Its First LiDAR-Equipped EV, In China From 9,240 — — Volkswagen has launched the ID.AURA T6 in China from 129,900 yuan (~9,240), its first production EV with a 192-channel LiDAR wired to a Horizon Roboti...
- Dongfeng To Trial-Produce Xiaodong Humanoid By Year-End, Targets Human-Parity In 2027 — — Dongfeng Motor will begin small-batch trial production of its Xiaodong humanoid robot at the end of 2026 and wants it working alongside plant staff by...
- CATL Signs EGP 2 Billion Battery Pack Deal With Egypt's BME — — The joint venture between Egyptian truck maker MCV and Auto D will license CATL cells and equipment to build a 1 GWh pack plant near Cairo, scaling to...
- EVE Energy Locks In 206 GWh, 5-Year LFP Battery Supply Deal With Fluence — — EVE Energy's Hubei EVE Power subsidiary will supply Fluence with up to 206 GWh of LFP batteries between 2027 and 2031, one of the largest disclosed BE...