China

ShengShu Technology has announced Motubrain, a hardware-agnostic robotic brain that unifies perception and action to outperform traditional VLA models on global benchmarks.

Beijing-based Robotera has raised nearly $350 million in just two months, signaling a massive shift from R&D prototypes to industrial-scale delivery in the humanoid sector.

Shenzhen-based Kinetix AI has debuted KAI, a full-sized humanoid robot featuring a record-breaking 115 degrees of freedom and a proprietary world model designed for domestic and office environments.

During a technical workshop in Beijing, XPENG's Mi Liangchuan revealed that while robotic AI is scaling rapidly, hardware reliability and a lack of clear data strategies remain significant hurdles for the 'Iron' humanoid.

The second annual Beijing Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon saw a historic leap in performance, with Honor’s "Lightning" model surpassing the human world record. While 300 robots competed in China, a sharp contrast emerged as Tesla opted to showcase Optimus on the sidelines of the Boston Marathon.