Raymuse Technology has announced an angel financing round worth tens of millions of yuan for bibo, a compact non-verbal companion robot. 36Kr reported that Trends Media Group and Hongyi Asset Management Group led the round. Raymuse is the English brand used by Hangzhou Leimeng Technology Co., Ltd. (杭州镭萌科技有限责任公司).
Wuwen AI, whose Chinese name is Wuwen Zhike (无问智科) and which is operated by Zhejiang Wuwen Zhixing Technology Co., Ltd., has announced a Series A financing round worth several hundred million yuan.
China’s humanoid-robot sector has attracted capital, founders, and public-market attention at an exceptional pace. Now it may face a stricter test before reaching an IPO. Chinese regulators have reportedly given informal guidance to some banks and companies that raises the approval threshold for humanoid-robot listings after Unitree Robotics’ volatile market debut, according to Reuters.
Alibaba Cloud is trying to make its AI agents useful beyond Alibaba’s own software. Its updated QoderWake tool lets users create “digital employees” from a single line describing a role, then deploy those assistants inside DingTalk, ByteDance’s Feishu, or Tencent’s WeCom. The cross-platform approach was reported by the South China Morning Post.
JD Logistics has set a five-year automation target covering 100,000 delivery drones, 1 million unstaffed vehicles, and 3 million robots. Together, the targets outline a supply chain with far more machine-led operations.
Xiaoyu Intelligent Manufacturing has completed a B3 financing round worth hundreds of millions of yuan, adding to a rapid series of investments in a Chinese company focused on embodied-AI systems for industrial work. The round closed in August and was announced on September 8, according to Beijing News.
Wang Naiyan, Xiaomi Auto’s reported L3 autonomous-driving technology lead, has left the company and is exploring a new physical-AI venture, according to CnEVPost. The departure is one of the clearest recent examples of senior Chinese autonomous-driving talent turning toward robotics and embodied AI.
Baidu’s Xiaodu smart-device unit has scheduled a September 8 hardware event centered on its updated Chaoneng Xiaodu assistant and a new group of connected devices. The event is set for 2 p.m. Beijing time, according to TechNode, which cited Xiaodu’s invitation.
NetEase Youdao has released a behavior report based on users of its LobsterAI desktop agent, offering a detailed but provider-specific picture of how office agents are being used in China. The report was published in Beijing on September 7 and summarized through an authorized QbitAI release.
Alibaba’s Qwen team and Huazhong University of Science and Technology have released an open model that attempts to combine three tasks usually handled separately in autonomous-driving research: seeing the road, answering questions about it, and planning a vehicle’s next movement. The project, Qwen-Drive-1.0-4B, became available on September 7 through an official Qwen GitHub repository.
Bilibili’s first AI Creation Open has offered a large-scale snapshot of how generative tools are changing who can build digital products in China. The company said its competition received more than 30,000 submissions from 13,400 creators, with more than 80 percent of participants working alone.
Doctors at the Sixth Medical Center of the Chinese PLA General Hospital have reported using an AI-powered ultrasound robot to guide a transcatheter procedure for congenital heart disease, an advance that places imaging, planning, and navigation inside a single robotic workflow.
China’s Ministry of Public Security has launched a new anti-scam service built around large language models, multimodal AI, and agent technologies, expanding the country’s use of artificial intelligence in public-facing fraud prevention.
HuaYan Robotics will enter Hong Kong Stock Connect on September 7, giving mainland investors a direct route to trade the Hong Kong-listed robotics company just days after it announced a new embodied-intelligence control platform.
Shenzhen’s Longgang District has turned a local commercial corridor into a test case for AI service delivery. People’s Daily reported on September 5 that the district opened what local authorities describe as China’s first AI Service Street on September 4, linking research and development, application scenarios, industrial support, and services for businesses and residents.
Beijing is bringing generative models, genomic tools, automation, and humanoid robotics into the same agricultural showcase. Xinhua reported on September 5 that the 33rd China Beijing Seed Industry Congress, held in Fengtai from September 4 to 5, featured more than 600 technology achievements from 138 research institutions, seed companies, and service providers.
China’s experiment with AI-generated drama has reached a more visible stage. South China Morning Post reported on September 5 that Later Journey to the West premiered on Hunan TV on August 31 as the first fully AI-generated long-form series to run in a prime-time slot on a major Chinese satellite broadcaster.
Guangxiang Technology is proposing a different role for world models in industrial robotics: use one to train the robot, then remove it before the robot goes to work.
Alibaba says its workplace-agent product QwenWork has reached more than 30 million users within its first month, giving the company a new deployment metric in China’s increasingly competitive market for enterprise AI tools.
China’s energy system is becoming a major test bed for artificial intelligence at the same time that it is becoming the world’s largest solar-power base by installed capacity.
