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Mar 31, 2026
BusinessCN

UBTech sells 1,079 full-size humanoids in 2025 as robot revenue rises 22-fold to RMB820.6 million

UBTech Robotics said in its 2025 annual results that revenue from full-size humanoid robots rose 2,203.7% to RMB820.6 million on 1,079 units, lifting group revenue 53.3% to RMB2.0 billion. The net loss narrowed to RMB789.8 million, while three share placings raised RMB5.78 billion to fund capacity for more than 6,000 robots a year.

Mar 31, 2026
FundingUS

Saronic raises $1.75 billion at a $9.25 billion valuation to turn uncrewed warships into a shipbuilding business

Austin-based Saronic Technologies said on March 31, 2026 it had closed a $1.75 billion Series D led by Kleiner Perkins at a $9.25 billion valuation, about 2.3 times the $4 billion set in its February 2025 Series C. The autonomous surface vessel maker is putting shipyards at the centre of its plan, including a $300 million expansion in Louisiana and a planned next-generation yard called Port Alpha.

Mar 30, 2026
BusinessCN

Geek+ turns an adjusted profit in 2025 as US sales overtake China

Hong Kong-listed warehouse robot maker Geek+ reported 2025 revenue of RMB3.17 billion, up 31.6%, and its first full-year adjusted net profit of RMB43.8 million, while its IFRS loss narrowed to RMB10.4 million. The United States became its largest single market and new orders rose 31.7% to RMB4.14 billion as the company pushes a warehouse foundation model and a wheeled humanoid toward production.

Mar 30, 2026
PartnershipGB

London's Humanoid hands its HMND 01 robot to SAP's AI agent in a live car-parts plant, the first outside control of its KinetIQ stack

UK robotics start-up Humanoid said on 30 March 2026 that its wheeled HMND 01 Alpha completed a January to February proof of concept with SAP and Turkish seat maker Martur Fompak, taking orders from SAP's AI agent in live production. It was the first time an enterprise system controlled a Humanoid robot externally, through the four-layer KinetIQ AI framework the company unveiled on 5 February.

Mar 30, 2026
BusinessCN

AgiBot rolls out its 10,000th humanoid robot, doubling its fleet in 112 days

Shanghai-based AgiBot said on 30 March 2026 that its 10,000th humanoid robot had come off the production line, 112 days after it announced its 5,000th. The company said the step from 5,000 to 10,000 units ran four times faster than earlier phases, but its own December breakdown shows that only about a third of its fleet is full-size.

Mar 30, 2026
MarketCN

Huayan Robotics raises HK$1.58bn in Hong Kong debut after retail book is covered 5,059 times

Chinese collaborative robot maker Guangdong Huayan Robotics began trading in Hong Kong under code 1021 on 30 March 2026 after pricing its H shares at HK$17.00 and raising HK$1,579.34 million gross. The retail tranche was subscribed 5,059.38 times, while preliminary 2025 results showed revenue up 24.6% to RMB386.9 million and a net loss of about RMB29.9 million.

Mar 26, 2026
BusinessCN

MicroPort MedBot doubles revenue to RMB551 million as Toumai exports reach 73% of 2025 sales

Shanghai MicroPort MedBot said revenue rose 114.2% to RMB551.1 million in 2025, with overseas sales of RMB400.2 million accounting for 73% of the total. The Hong Kong-listed surgical robot maker cut its net loss by 60.7% to RMB254.1 million as cumulative orders for its Toumai laparoscopic robot reached about 220 units.

Mar 26, 2026
FundingUS

Shield AI raises $2 billion at a $12.7 billion valuation and buys Aechelon, the simulation house behind the Pentagon's combat test range

Shield AI is raising $1.5 billion in Series G equity led by Advent International at a $12.7 billion post-money valuation, plus $500 million of fixed-return preferred equity from Blackstone funds. The San Diego company is also buying Aechelon Technology, the simulation provider for the Pentagon's Joint Simulation Environment, to train its Hivemind AI pilot in synthetic worlds.

Mar 26, 2026
BusinessKR

Doosan Robotics' 2025 loss widens to 59.5 billion won as cobot arm sales halve, and it puts $16 million more into its US solutions arm

Doosan Robotics reported 2025 consolidated revenue of KRW 32.98 billion, down 29.6%, and an operating loss of KRW 59.47 billion, according to its DART filings. Sales of its core cobot arms roughly halved as North American demand fell about 50% under tariff uncertainty. On 26 March 2026 the board approved a USD 16.0 million capital injection into Doosan Robotics Americas, the former ONExia, to expand its factory on the back of a USD 14.9 million order backlog.

Mar 26, 2026
PolicyJP

Japan approves AI robotics strategy targeting a 30% global share and 20 trillion yen market by 2040

Japan's inter-ministerial AI robotics council on March 26, 2026 endorsed a national strategy that aims to win more than 30% of a multi-purpose robot market the government expects to reach about 60 trillion yen by 2040. The plan promises an open-source domestic robot foundation model by around June 2027, names 16 deployment fields and defers concrete sector targets to a roadmap revision due in May.

Mar 25, 2026
BusinessCN

RoboSense posts its first quarterly profit as lidar sales to robot makers jump to 303,000 units

Hong Kong-listed RoboSense earned RMB103.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2025, its first profitable quarter, as robotics revenue more than tripled over the year to RMB709.8 million. Robot lidar shipments rose to about 303,000 units from 24,400, outpacing rival Hesai's 239,273, while revenue from car sensors fell 17.2%.

Mar 25, 2026
M&AUS

Amazon buys Fauna Robotics, maker of the 107 cm Sprout humanoid, less than two months after the robot's launch

Fauna Robotics said on 24 March 2026 that it had joined Amazon and would operate as an Amazon company, keeping its Sprout humanoid on sale and its customers supported; no terms were disclosed. The deal gives the operator of more than 1 million warehouse robots a small, safety-first humanoid used by Disney, Boston Dynamics, NYU and UC San Diego, and a team drawn from Google DeepMind and CTRL-labs.

Mar 24, 2026
PartnershipDE

Agile Robots signs Google DeepMind research pact to run Gemini Robotics models on its industrial robots, widening Google's hardware bench

Munich-based Agile Robots said on 24 March 2026 it had formed a strategic research partnership with Google DeepMind to integrate Gemini Robotics foundation models with its hardware, starting with manufacturing use cases. The German company, which says it has installed more than 20,000 robotic solutions, becomes the latest hardware maker in Google's orbit after Boston Dynamics and Apptronik. No financial terms were disclosed.

Mar 23, 2026
PolicyKR

Korea opens bidding for a 9.7bn won humanoid robot safety certification centre in Daegu

South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on 23 March 2026 invited proposals to build a dedicated safety and security certification centre for humanoid robots, with up to 9,681 million won of government funding over 2026 to 2030. The lead institution must secure cash or in-kind backing from a Daegu-area local government, and by the final year the centre is expected to set three group standards and win KOLAS accreditation.

Mar 20, 2026
FundingCN

Unitree files for Shanghai STAR Market IPO seeking RMB4.2 billion as 2025 revenue jumps 335%

The Shanghai Stock Exchange accepted Unitree Robotics' application to list on the STAR Market on March 20, 2026, with the Hangzhou company seeking RMB4.202 billion. Its prospectus shows reviewed 2025 revenue of RMB1,708.21 million, up 335.36%, and more than 5,500 humanoids shipped in 2025, with humanoids overtaking quadrupeds as its largest product line.

Mar 17, 2026
ProductUS

NVIDIA previews GR00T N2, betting robots should predict video before they move

NVIDIA used its GTC keynote on March 16, 2026 to preview Isaac GR00T N2, a robot foundation model built on its DreamZero world action model research that it says succeeds at new tasks in new environments more than twice as often as leading VLA models. It also put the 3-billion-parameter GR00T N1.7 into commercial early access and announced Cosmos 3 and Isaac Lab 3.0, with N2 due by the end of 2026.

Mar 13, 2026
PolicyCN

China writes embodied AI into its 15th Five-Year Plan as industrial robot output climbs 28% to 773,000 units

China's legislature approved the 2026 to 2030 development outline on March 12, naming embodied AI a future industry and calling for national training grounds, integrated brain-and-cerebellum robot models and faster humanoid deployment. Official data show industrial robot output rose 28.0% to 773,074 sets in 2025 and 33.2% in the first quarter of 2026.

Mar 13, 2026
FundingUS

Sunday raises $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation to move its glove-trained Memo robot from demos into homes

Sunday, the Silicon Valley developer of the Memo household robot, said on 12 March 2026 that it had raised an oversubscribed $165 million Series B at a $1.15 billion valuation, led by Coatue, with Coatue's Thomas Laffont joining the board. The company trains Memo on data from people wearing its Skill Capture Glove instead of teleoperating robots, plans an invite-only home beta from the autumn and expects to ship at scale in 2027-2028.

Mar 12, 2026
FundingUS

Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake

Mind Robotics, the industrial AI robotics company founded and led by Rivian chief executive RJ Scaringe, said on March 11, 2026 that Accel and Andreessen Horowitz co-led a $500 million Series A, about four months after a $115 million seed. Rivian's filings show it deconsolidated the start-up in March, valued its remaining 37.6% at about $569 million using the Series A share price and recorded a $506 million gain, which by MEKAWIRE arithmetic implies an equity value near $1.51 billion.