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Researchers from Shanghai AI Lab, Dobot, SJTU, and Noitom introduce AdaPT, an adaptive planning and tracking framework that extracts stylized tennis rallying and serving from broadcast footage.
Humanoid News From China
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Bipedal machines crossed a major athletic threshold in Beijing, smashing human sprinting and jumping benchmarks while facing persistent braking and autonomy challenges.
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XPENG has closed a record-breaking $900 million financing round for its humanoid robotics division, backed by IDG Capital, Alibaba, and Tencent, ahead of late-2026 mass production.
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Days after Unitree’s blockbuster listing, founder Wang Xingxing used his WRC 2026 stage time to explain why the company has held back from large-scale factory deployment — and laid out the generalization bottleneck, the "lossy" nature of physical AI, and a self-evolving software loop aimed at both.
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A new report from Counterpoint Research reveals global humanoid shipments surged nearly 300% in the first half of 2026, with AGIBOT capturing top market share while the industry grapples with how to define humanoid form factors.
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With over 2,000 robots descending on Beijing, the second World Humanoid Robot Games signal a critical industry shift from viral agility demonstrations to commercial viability and complex physical labor.
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Unitree Robotics made its highly anticipated debut on the STAR Market, with shares surging as the company leverages massive scale, a DeepSeek AI partnership, and intense vertical integration to dominate the global robotics race.
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Beijing-based Galbot has released a cinematic teaser of its first bipedal humanoid, the ET1, showcasing athletic tennis capabilities ahead of its official unveiling at the World Robot Conference.
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A highly polished new video shows EngineAI’s T800 humanoids working in a Luxshare-ICT factory, drawing a sharp contrast to the robot’s violent US debut in a San Francisco combat league over the weekend.
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With a reported top speed of 12.66 m/s and a 2-meter standing high jump, Unitree’s latest prototype appears to fulfill its CEO’s promise to outpace the world’s elite human athletes.
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Chinese embodied AI startup X Square Robot just completed a live, uncut package sorting challenge. Relying on simple grippers instead of dexterous hands, the system shattered its throughput target, inevitably drawing comparisons to Figure AI.
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Fresh off its blockbuster Shanghai IPO, Unitree revealed it has manufactured roughly 18,000 bipedal humanoids—a count that explicitly excludes wheeled or hybrid platforms in an ongoing rivalry with AGIBOT.