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Every AI News story tagged with both China and AI Robotics — the two topics side by side, updated as new articles publish.
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XPeng's robotics unit raised over $900 million from IDG Capital, Tencent and Alibaba at a $6.3 billion valuation, the largest single-round raise yet in China's humanoid robot industry.
Read more →At Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, a robot called Tiangong Ultra ran the 100 meters in 9.39 seconds, edging out Usain Bolt's 9.58-second world record, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Read more →Chinese robotics maker AgiBot shipped more humanoid robots than rival Unitree in the first half of 2026, a new market report found, as both firms race toward competing IPOs.
Read more →Xiaomi released the code and checkpoints for Xiaomi-Robotics-1, a vision-language-action model it says tops several robot-manipulation benchmarks, under an Apache 2.0 license.
Read more →The US FCC added foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots, plus power inverters, to its national-security 'Covered List,' blocking new import approvals over spying and cyberattack risks.
Read more →Shenzhen humanoid-robot maker LimX Dynamics closed a nearly $200 million pre-IPO round on July 14, valuing it at about $2.1 billion as it pushes toward a stock listing.
Read more →China's top humanoid robot maker received China Securities Regulatory Commission clearance on July 2 to list on Shanghai's STAR Market, aiming to raise 4.2 billion yuan to fund AI model development and new products.
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