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Note: All monetary amounts in this article are expressed in Chinese Yuan (CN¥). Today, let’s talk about Inovance. Inovance is a tech company that does R&D, production, and sales of industrial automation gear, mainly for medium-to-high-end equipment makers. Their product lineup includes low-voltage drives (inverters), integrated and specialized drives, servo systems, and PLCs. They’re one of the top domestic players in the low-voltage drive market, and in many niche segments, their integrated and specialized products are either industry-first or market leaders. Inovance’s main business lines I. General Automation (market leader, #1 position) This is the company’s real bread and butter…
By 2026, three things separate smart factories from the rest: machines, systems and processes that talk to each other through the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT); data that works as hard as any physical asset, refined by advanced analytics and AI; and production lines that increasingly run themselves. This isn’t a distant vision. It’s already taking shape on factory floors from Germany to Guangdong. What “smart” actually means now The shift from digitalization to intelligence isn’t just a buzzword upgrade. At its core, it’s about manufacturers wiring up their operations with sensors and connected devices, pulling in streams of real-time…
Beijing, April 24 – As Auto China 2026 opened its doors on Thursday, Chery’s robotics unit AiMOGA drew a steady stream of visitors with a lineup that included its intelligent policing robot, the humanoid robot MORNINE, and the quadruped robot Argos. The common thread running through the display wasn’t just the hardware — it was the idea that robots and cars should share more than a parking lot. They should share core technologies, too. The Chery booth attracted more than 4,000 international guests on the first day alone. Around 2,500 of them have already made plans to travel to Wuhu,…
GUANGZHOU, China — At the 139th Canton Fair, a moment of raw emotion upstaged even the most advanced hardware on display. An Argentine woman, long confined to a wheelchair by a muscle-wasting disease, slowly rose to her feet and took her first steps in years — supported by a powered exoskeleton developed by a Chinese startup. Her family wept. The crowd that had gathered around the booth broke into spontaneous applause. Within days, a short video of the scene had ricocheted across social media platforms both inside and outside China, drawing millions of views and an outpouring of empathy. There…
For the past two years, China’s embodied intelligence sector has been riding a wave of easy money, vaulting valuations, and breathless founder narratives. Every startup had its own story about why it was ahead, and capital was happy to buy in — until a half-marathon in a Beijing suburb forced everyone to run on the same track. The Yizhuang Humanoid Robot Half Marathon wasn’t just a novelty. It was a revelation, and a deeply uncomfortable one for the industry’s homegrown stars. If the race proved anything, it’s this: capital may give you time. Big Tech will not. And for China’s…
SHENZHEN, China, April 22, 2026 — Walking the floor at FAIR plus 2026, it was hard to miss the crowd gathered around booth 9-W01. There, Rokae Robotics took the wraps off its latest embodied intelligence hardware, headlined by the first public appearance of the AR3 humanoid force-control arm, and reinforced its bet that whole-body manipulation is moving rapidly from lab curiosity to commercial reality. AR3 Humanoid Force-Control Arm: Purpose-Built for Embodied Intelligence The star of the showcase, the AR3, has been designed specifically for what Rokae calls the “embodied intelligence era.” As a standardized, high-performance, scalable AI hardware platform, the…
On March 28, 2026, AgiBot’s co-founder Peng Zhihui announced a milestone that would reshape the industry’s understanding of what was possible: AgiBot’s 10,000th general-purpose embodied robot, the Expedition A3, had officially rolled off the production line. In just 15 months, AgiBot had scaled production from 1,000 to 10,000 units—a tenfold increase. The acceleration was equally remarkable: it took the company 11 months to go from 1,000 to 5,000 units, but only three months to add another 5,000—a fourfold increase in production velocity. For AgiBot, founded only three years ago, the journey from concept to mass production has been compressed into…
On April 19, 2026, at the 2026 Beijing E-Town Half Marathon & Humanoid Robot Half Marathon, the “Flash” robot, developed by Shenzhen Honor Smart Technology Development Co., Ltd. (the Qitian Dasheng Team), won the championship with a net time of 50 minutes and 26 seconds — nearly seven minutes faster than the 57 minutes and 20 seconds set by Ugandan star runner Jacob Kiplimo this past March. This achievement marks a new milestone in human-robot racing history. It is not only a special athletic competition but also an extreme test that drives industrial development. Global teams will accumulate valuable data…