Manufacturing AI
Unitree Fell 11% on Day Two While Its Founder Put the "ChatGPT Moment" at Five to Ten Years
The quote everyone ran is the optimistic half. Wang Xingxing gave a range, and the top of it is a decade.
Aug 20, 2026
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AI Models
A Chinese Robot-Brain Startup Says Its Valuation Rose Tenfold in Six Months
Motion Brain added roughly 100 million yuan to a Pre-A round it first closed in May. The revenue it reports is cash collected rather than booked, and the round labels take some untangling.
Jul 26, 2026
AI Research
Carmaker Chery Leads a ~$100 Million Round Valuing China's PsiBot at $1.48 Billion
The Shanghai world-model startup — training robots with data from bespoke gloves and humanoids — becomes China's newest embodied-AI unicorn, with an Apple supplier on the cap table.
Jul 23, 2026
AI Agents
Mistral's First Robotics Model Steers Robots With a Single Camera
Robostral Navigate, an 8-billion-parameter model released July 8, drives wheeled, legged and flying robots from one ordinary RGB camera — no lidar, depth sensors or pre-built map.
Jul 12, 2026
AI Research
Ant Group's Robbyant Unveils LingBot-VA 2.0, an 'Embodied-Native' Robot Model
The Alipay parent's robotics unit says it trained a video-action foundation model from scratch for physical manipulation — reporting 93.6% on a 50-task benchmark and a sixfold latency cut to real-robot speeds.
Jul 11, 2026
