Xiaomi publishes an open-source embodied generative model with 38 billion parameters that unifies four robotic tasks into a single architecture. The race for embodied backbones takes a step towards openness.
Jul 15, 2026 at 12:34 9 10
Meituan leads a $73.9M round for Xynova, a Chinese robotics company - its third round of the year. Service hyperscalers are pivoting towards embodied - not as a lab, but as a strategic client.
11 h ago 9 11
WeRide unveils WITT at WAIC 2026: a "physical AI" foundation model that is multimodal and unified around "minimal physical facts." The approach borrows from the LLM architecture.
11 h ago 8 7
The China humanoid pack is now shipping demos at Silicon Valley pace. The signal isn't a video - it's the cadence.
yesterday 10 11
Xpeng, better known for EVs, will launch humanoid robots globally next year. The claim itself is common in 2026; the "globally" is the wager - and it lands right in the middle of the embodied-foundation race.
yesterday 8 9
Nvidia is partnering with Toyota's Woven City on physical AI hardware and software. The reason it matters: Woven City is not a demo - it's an actual populated test bed, and Nvidia just booked the seat next to the engineers.
yesterday 9 9
The X-Square Robot laboratory publishes a three-layer "foundation stack" for embedded AI. It's not yet a robot GPT - but the architecture reading, it, is ripe.
Jul 13, 2026 at 17:27 10 11
Mitsubishi Motors will mass-produce humanoid robots for its own factories (1,000/month by 2027, via a University of Tokyo spin-out). Fanuc + Taisei doubled a warehouse's space efficiency with AI. Japan is not talking about humanoids - it's ordering them.
Jul 11, 2026 at 11:41 11 7
A public lab in Beijing demonstrates autonomous agents that design, execute, and interpret material chemistry experiments.
Jul 11, 2026 at 10:44 12 7
