embodied AI

William Li internal speech: NIO to focus on core business, premium, core markets for next three years

NIO founder William Li said in an internal speech on September 8 that the company will focus on its core business, the premium market, and core markets over the next three years, and confirmed the launch of an important new model in 2027. Onvo will release a strategic new product, while Firefly currently has no plan for a second vehicle. NIO's second-quarter revenue was RMB 32.14 billion, up 69.1% year over year, with vehicle margin at 18.5% and a GAAP net loss of RMB 528 million; revenue from services and community business in the first half was RMB 5.8 billion. Li said embodied AI will be pursued long term as a strategic investment and is not listed as a core business.

16619 hours ago

CasiaHand Partners with Fulai New Materials, Dexterous Hand Production Targets 100,000 Units Annually

CasiaHand Robotics and Fulai New Materials have signed a strategic partnership agreement for 200,000 sets of high-performance tactile sensors to support mass production of 40,000 industry-grade dexterous hands. Production capacity is targeted to reach nearly 30,000 units by end-2026 and exceed 100,000 units by late 2027, marking the dexterous robot hand industry's entry into the era of scaled delivery.

40231 days ago

Embodied Intelligence Takes Center Stage in Automotive Innovation as 2026 Marks an Inflection Point

The 2026 Gasgoo Awards has identified embodied intelligence as a frontier area of automotive industry innovation. As foundation models, embodied AI, intelligent hardware, and AI agents converge at an accelerating pace, the industry is evolving from traditional smart cockpits and ADAS into new territories of intelligent manufacturing, smart logistics, and human-machine collaboration.

20131 days ago

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.

27933 days ago

Embodied AI Accelerates into Automotive Innovation as 8th Golden Gear Awards Open for Entries

The 2026 8th Golden Gear Awards and China Automotive Industry Innovation Case Database call for entries has officially launched. Embodied AI and cross-sector technologies are accelerating convergence, pushing the automotive industry from "smart vehicles" toward "intelligent mobile terminals" and becoming the new frontier of automotive innovation.

39038 days ago

AiMOGA Surpasses 2,000 Global Deliveries as Chery Accelerates Robotics Export

Chery Group's AiMOGA Robotics announced cumulative global deliveries exceeding 2,000 units across 60+ countries and regions. The company had delivered only 300 humanoid robots and 1,000 robotic dogs by end-2025, achieving over 7x growth within approximately 18 months, and has secured both EU CE and US FCC certifications.

58045 days ago

Chery AiMOG Robot: 41 DOF and a "Smart Salesperson" for 4S Dealerships

Chery's AiMOG humanoid robot features 41 degrees of freedom, a dual-core AI brain, and 10-language conversation capability. Already deployed in Malaysian 4S stores, it signals Chery's expansion from intelligent manufacturing to intelligent services.

39446 days ago

Yimu Tech Closes Series E Round Exceeding 1 Billion Yuan, Valuation Tops 10 Billion

Yimu Tech has completed a Series E funding round exceeding 1 billion yuan, pushing its valuation past 10 billion yuan. The company's proprietary bionic visuotactile sensor has been reduced to under 3mm thick—the thinnest mass-producible sensor globally—with 90% of core tactile metrics matching human-level performance.

62656 days ago

Leju Robotics and Hutchinson Forge Strategic Partnership to Advance Embodied Intelligence in Manufacturing

Leju Robotics has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Hutchinson in Suzhou, becoming the French group's core partner for embodied intelligence in China. The collaboration focuses on inspection, production line logistics, and precision assembly assistance in high-end manufacturing.

48357 days ago

Tsing Standard Completes Series B Funding Worth Hundreds of Millions, Ships Over 10,000 Units Across 30+ Countries

In June 2026, Tsing Standard, a Tsinghua University-incubated embodied AI company, completed Series B financing worth hundreds of millions of yuan. Leveraging eight years of data accumulation, the company built a physical AI data flywheel serving nearly every major domestic automaker and battery manufacturer.

39262 days ago