Robotics Ant Group leads $74M into Zeroth's home robots
Ant Group led a $74M round in Zeroth, a Chinese startup building humanoids for homes — not factories — with 30,000 orders and 600% revenue growth.
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Robotics Ant Group led a $74M round in Zeroth, a Chinese startup building humanoids for homes — not factories — with 30,000 orders and 600% revenue growth.
Robotics Tsinghua's team defended its humanoid soccer world title at RoboCup 2026 in Incheon, where robots perceived, planned, and passed with no human control.
Robotics China's MIIT and SASAC ordered state-owned firms to put 10,000 humanoids into routine operation across 100-plus real scenarios by the end of 2026.
Robotics Unitree's STAR Market IPO registration went effective on July 2, making the Chinese humanoid maker the first embodied-AI company cleared for China's A-share market.
Robotics At MWC Shanghai's June 24 opening, the GSMA reframed the network as the nervous system for machines, while China Mobile, Telecom, and Unicom showed robots in named jobs.
Robotics China shipped ~90% of 2025's humanoids, and in June its open-source models beat Nvidia on a real-robot benchmark — collapsing the idea that the West still owns the robot 'brains'.
Robotics EngineAI, founded in 2023, has filed confidentially for a Hong Kong listing — the latest sign that public markets now want to fund the machines built to replace human labor.
Robotics China's MIIT and SASAC launched a 2026 campaign ordering humanoid robots from demos into real jobs: 100+ scenarios, 10,000-unit deployment, provincial plans due end of June.
Robotics X Square Robot open-sourced XRZero-G0 on June 11: a VR headset plus handheld grippers that turn human demonstrations into robot training data, cutting real-robot data needs up to 20x.
Robotics Faraday Future, the EV company that delivered a handful of $300K cars in a decade, has rebranded as a Physical AI firm, shipped 68 robots, and scheduled two June launch events.
Robotics Agibot moved its G2 deployment at Longcheer's tablet line from 「livestream demo」 to operational metrics: 99.9% success, 310 units/hour, ~19s cycle, 36-hour line integration, 24/7 shifts. Q3 target: 100 robots, plus expansion into automotive, semiconductors, and energy.
Robotics Vbot — a Shanghai embodied-AI startup founded in late 2024 by ex-Horizon Robotics and ex-Li Auto leadership — closed a ~500M yuan ($73M) Pre-A on May 11 with a shipping commercial product (the BoBo robotic dog) already running 500 units and scaling to 2,500/month in June. The humanoid roadmap is funded by the dog.