China

State Grid Corp. of China has unveiled a landmark 6.8 billion yuan ($994.7 million) procurement plan for 8,500 embodied AI units, signaling the first 10-billion-yuan vertical market for humanoid and quadruped robotics.

After proving its mettle in automotive assembly, Xiaomi’s upgraded humanoid robot makes a public appearance, demonstrating smooth social interaction and refined motor control.

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.