Ant Group's embodied AI division, Robbyant, is seeking approximately 1.5 billion yuan (US$222 million) in its first external fundraising round, with plans for a second round by year-end, following the release of its second-generation LingBot AI models.
Alibaba Group Holding's mapping unit, Amap, has upgraded its ABot AI framework, which unifies a robot's core functions into a single system. The new framework features five specialized foundation AI models designed to overcome the industry's challenge of siloed, independently operating robot models.
Nvidia is recruiting for over a dozen robotics roles in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, focusing on embodied intelligence, simulation, and AI systems for humanoid robots like Project GR00T, aiming to accelerate real-world deployment of autonomous machines.
Twenty-four Chinese and South Korean enterprises, universities, and industry associations have established the Northeast Asia Embodied Intelligence Innovation Cooperation Alliance in Changchun, aiming to deepen international cooperation in embodied intelligence and create a hub for innovation and cross-border computing services.
Tencent's Chief AI Scientist Yao Shunyu argues the AI race is in its early stages, with vast opportunities in coding agents, embodied intelligence, and multimodal AI, despite current setbacks.
The Northeast Asia Embodied Intelligence Innovation Center has officially begun operations in Shenyang, China. The center aims to integrate technology R&D, talent cultivation, industrial transformation, and application scenarios to empower the robotics industry and smart city construction.
Hangzhou is aggressively promoting embodied intelligence robotics, launching regulations, a national testing base, and scene application initiatives. The city aims to build a leading AI innovation hub and a "human-robot collaboration" benchmark city, with its embodied intelligence industry already valued at 106.8 billion yuan.
A desk with a laptop and a stack of books. A shirt waiting to be folded. A kitchen counter, a milk-tea stand and pile of building blocks – all in a single room. Robots of different shapes face their tasks with focus, controlled by a human operator. Pick up. Place. Fold. Repeat. This is not a film set, it is a data collection factory for embodied intelligence – a de facto “data foundry”. The facility, in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang hi-tech zone, is run by Agibot, a fast-rising robotics company. The...
China's State Grid plans to deploy 8,500 AI-powered robots this year to maintain infrastructure, contributing to a sector-wide investment expected to exceed 10 billion yuan by 2026.
