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Westlake Robotics Raises 500 Million Yuan in Six Months, Betting on the Embodied Intelligence "GPT Moment"

Westlake Robotics has closed its Series A round, bringing the total to 500 million yuan across four financing rounds within six months. Built on a "general brain + whole-body cerebellum + proprietary body" full-stack R&D roadmap, the company has released the world's first general motion large model GAE and a dual-brain pre-training architecture, along with the proprietary humanoid robot "Westlake o1."

55630 days ago
IO-AI Tech Raises Hundreds of Millions of Yuan as Embodied Intelligence Data Infrastructure Heats Up

IO-AI Tech Raises Hundreds of Millions of Yuan as Embodied Intelligence Data Infrastructure Heats Up

IO-AI Tech, a data infrastructure provider for robotics and embodied intelligence, has announced a financing round of hundreds of millions of yuan, co-led by Shunwei Capital, Pine Capital, and Shenzhen Capital Group. The company focuses on three product lines — teleoperation data collection, human data acquisition, and embodied data management — aiming to lower the barrier for embodied intelligence models to enter the physical world.

27230 days ago
BYD Humanoid Robot to Debut in August at Zhengzhou Di Space

BYD Humanoid Robot to Debut in August at Zhengzhou Di Space

BYD has confirmed it will publicly unveil its first self-developed humanoid robot in early August 2026 at the Zhengzhou Di Space. Nicknamed "Xiao Di," the service-oriented humanoid stands 1.61 meters tall, weighs 58.5 kg, and features 31 degrees of freedom with 7 dexterous degrees per hand. It supports 360° vision, dynamic real-time environment modeling, facial recognition, lip movement recognition, and gesture recognition, along with real-time two-way translation across 6 Chinese dialects and 6 foreign languages. BYD Executive VP Stella Li has outlined a roadmap: 2-3 robots per showroom in the short term, expansion to retail and warehousing mid-term, and household applications long-term. BYD is far from alone — nearly 20 automakers globally have entered the humanoid robotics field.

78341 days ago