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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.

Motion technology giant Schaeffler has signed a strategic partnership with Hexagon Robotics to deploy at least 1,000 AEON humanoids while supplying the high-precision actuators that power them.

German retail giant Rossmann has launched a year-long pilot program using the UBTECH Walker S2 humanoid robot to automate repetitive warehouse tasks, marking a significant expansion of UBTECH's industrial footprint into Europe.

Skild AI has acquired Zebra Technologies’ robotics automation business, formerly Fetch Robotics, to integrate fleet management with its "omni-bodied" foundation model.

Shenzhen-based EngineAI has reached a $1.4 billion valuation following a massive funding round led by Luxshare Precision, signaling a pivot from viral combat stunts to industrial-scale manufacturing.