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On August 22, the subsidiary of Silk Steel, Silk Intelligent Technologies and the People's Government of Yangon Province, Anhui, signed a memorandum of understanding to invest in the Silk Technology Intelligent Manufacturing Base project, with a total investment of about 1.5 billion yuan, for the production of welding robots, intelligent spraying robots, intelligent transportation robots, numerically controlled laser cutting equipment, key components and high-end steel structure manufacturing, among others.
On August 27, a groundbreaking ceremony was held in Kunsan for the Kukari Seger Intelligent Manufacturing Center project, which covers an area of 28 hectares, with a planned capital increase of about RMB202 million and an expected annual output of over RMB3 billion.
On 28 August, Intelligent Innovation and East Soft Group formally signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement in Guyang, where the two sides will develop deep cooperation around the application of intelligent robots in industry scenarios, focusing on energy power, high-end manufacturing, educational literature, construction engineering, smart parks, emergency relief, mining safety, and smart agriculture.
On 28 August, the Shandong People's Government officially signed a cooperation agreement with Shandong Technology, with Shandong Technology planning to invest a total of 1 billion yuan in the construction of industrial robotic accelerators, R&D centers for connective tissue modules and a production base in Shandong.
On 25 August, the company officially disclosed its 2026 Semiannual Report, in which its robotic critical parts and robotic whole machinery manufacturing and scenario deployment business generated revenue of 7938.47 million yuan, accounting for 10.97% of revenue.
On August 27, Byte Jumping announced that it had entered into a deep collaboration with 15 smart furniture companies to provide a complete chain of data capture, processing, labeling, management, simulation and training around the core production elements of its smart furniture solutions.
On August 25, BYD and Pasini reached a strategic partnership in which the two sides will jointly conduct research and development in the field of industrial humanoid robots, bringing touch hardware to the hands of factory robots, enabling the hands of the machine to have touch sensing capabilities to achieve precise crawling and assembly operations.
On 28 August, KELDA released its Semi-annual Report 2026, which achieved an operating income of 425 million yuan in the first half of the year, an increase of 34.73% on the previous year, achieving sales of 3,385 industrial robots, of which 1,406 were self-produced robots, an increase of 44.21% on the previous year.
On August 25, when NeonTech released its 2026 Semi-annual Report, in which the Intelligent Robotics business generated operating revenues of US$100,253 million, it established stable cooperation with multiple robotic body manufacturers in the field of remote control.
On 27 August, Heavy Technology released its 2026 Semiannual Report, and its holding subsidiary, Chongqing-Hee, has now signed a flexible production line order covering multiple application scenarios such as production of humanoid robot assembly.
On August 26, the company released its mid-term performance report for 2026, with total laser radar sales of 719,200 units in the first half of the year, an increase of 169.6%.
On 28 August, Obi-Wan Kenoba and Li-Young Smart formally entered into a strategic partnership. The two sides will work together to create solutions to integrate silicon hardware and silicon data around real-world data collection needs.
On 24 August, Obi-Wan Kenobi revealed that for the second half of 2026, its revenue from the sales of visual programming for the global robotics market has more than doubled compared to the same period last year.
On 19 August, Shenzhen Innovation and Pasini formally signed a strategic cooperation agreement. The two sides will work in-depth on the delivery of intelligent full-mode data, cross-bodied migration, cross-scenario generalization and robotic model training data.
On 28 August, Yu-i-Teng and Melting Sun S.I. reached a strategic partnership that will complement the advantages of technological products and industry resources, jointly promoting the scale-up of physical intelligence in pan-energy scenarios such as electricity, chemicals and more.
On August 27, Kelong University and the Zhejiang Center for Human Robotics Innovation formally signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Ningxi, where the two sides will work in-depth on the three levels of supply chain collaboration, standard co-building and industry scenario deployment.
On August 26, Moderne Automobile President and CEO Jose Muñoz announced plans to build a robot manufacturing plant in the United States and start production in 2028, with an annual design capacity of 30,000, and the first 25,000 commercial robots have already confirmed demand.
On 26 August, Guangzhou Liao and Intel announced a strategic partnership between the two countries, which will integrate basic models, robot bodies, and real-world application scenarios, to build an iterative closure from model training, real-world deployment to scenario feedback.
On August 27, Seventh-day Robot officially signed a strategic partnership agreement with Xi'an Northwest Petroleum Pipeline Limited, where the two sides will work in-depth on smart inspections of oil and gas pipelines and on-site stations, oilfield patrol and rescue integration services, and promote the large-scale deployment of special robots in pipeline operations.
On August 28, the seven-piece robot signed a strategic partnership agreement with China Petroleum Communications, which will rely on their core strengths to integrate satellite-wide remote sensing, 3D data transmission, and ground-based intelligent applications to achieve deep integration of the space-based digital underpinnings and ground-based intelligent terminals.
On August 29, CloudSmart signed a strategic partnership agreement with UAE company NO COMPETITION INFINITY GAMING DEVELOPMENT SERVICES L.L.C. in Taizhou to develop strategic partnerships around the technical evaluation, software development, pilot deployment and potential large-scale applications of human robots.
On 28 August, the company announced that its robotic joints business had entered a scale-up phase, setting a target of delivering 100,000 joint modules throughout the year.
On August 25, ABB Robotics announced a global collaboration with Ross Diagnostic to co-develop and launch new robotic solutions for clinical laboratories.
On 27 August, Kawasaki Robotics reached a strategic partnership with Yongle Services, where the two sides will work together on ground cleaning robots to promote the large-scale deployment of commercial cleaning robots around real estate scenarios such as residential, commercial offices, warehouses and parks.
On August 27, Risa Electronics announced the establishment of a physical AI and robotics lab in Beijing to help Risa accelerate its advancement of physical AI strategy and drive robotic innovation from conceptual verification to large-scale deployment.
On August 26, China Komoto Ltd. and Zhi Quad officially reached a strategic partnership to develop deep collaboration around the research and development of general robot automation production lines, process optimization, mass production landing, focusing on the overall assembly line of robotics.
On August 28, the company released its 2026 half-yearly report, with total revenues of 1.27 billion yuan, an increase of 104.2 percent. Total sales of human robots were 16,123 units, an increase of 268.3 percent; of these, full-size, intelligent human robot revenues were 590 million yuan, an increase of 14,45.0 percent.
On August 29, Heichin announced a partnership with Cloud Deep to build on both sides' strengths in multi-spectrum AI and physical intelligence to work together on high-value areas such as power energy.
On August 24, the Intelligent Flexible Robotics Laboratory, co-founded by Sora and Haji University Shenzhen, was officially unveiled in Shenzhen, focusing on smart flexible robots, imitating the agility of human hands, and a joint approach to technologies such as touch perception and flexible drive.
On 26 August, the Qingdao-era Guangdong Headquarters & Phase II Intelligent Manufacturing Center officially signed a contract to settle in Guangzhou's Ha Noi district, with a total investment of 100 million yuan, which is expected to reach full production by the end of the year with an annual capacity of 2 million units of robotic joint modules.
On 28 August, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said at its regular meeting in August that the robotics industry must develop in an affordable, healthy and orderly manner, build on local resource empowerment and industrial advantages, identify locations, exploit advantages, prevent blindness and wind shear, and effectively promote the stability of relevant industries.
On 25 August, Meg Smart and Yu-Gi-Oh! entered into a strategic partnership to develop a deep collaboration in the fields of technology and products such as intelligent robots, high-powered AI modules, end-to-end AI cameras, and jointly promote the application of physical AI in multiple scenarios such as traffic, electricity, and public services.
On 28 August, Microtechnology and Warco Cooling officially signed a strategic partnership. The two sides will launch a joint operation around special robot liquid cooling technology and heat management technology to further improve the overall performance and operational reliability of microtechnology robots in extreme environments and high-load operating scenarios.
On August 23, Xi'an and the Longlong Group officially signed a strategic partnership agreement at the Longlonglong Shipyard in Yokohama, Japan, to create the world's first, largest, most scenic, and technologically advanced large-scale smart theme park.
On 25 August, the Ministry of Industry and Communications of the Republic of China formally publicly requested the guidance on the construction of the National Human Robot Industry Standards System (NDSS) for the strengthening of the standardized work system of humanoid robots.
On 25 August, the Ministry of Industry and Communications Electronics 5 officially released a benchmark for measuring the intelligence of the human body, covering various test objects such as the VLA model, the world model, the body and the executive system.
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On August 26, RoboCop officially released the industrial vertical-scale model KUAVO-VLA, which can significantly improve the success rate of robotic skills in industrial scenarios and significantly reduce the development costs of scenarios.
On August 27, Janko released a brand new long-distance food class DR/8-16B stainless steel specification and connector robot with a rated load of 8 kg, a range of up to 1600 mm, adapted to a larger specification production line layout.
On August 27, China unveiled a new generation of industrial humanoid robot HSR-ER-HR705, based on multiple capabilities such as mobile chassis, arm operation, full-body perception, power control intelligence, which can cover a variety of industrial scenarios such as flexible precision assembly, disordered material sorting, and more.
On August 25, Ropedia released the head-mounted real-world data collection device HOMIE Gen2, which supports data engines that synchronize and output more than a dozen models, including depth graphics, full-body motion capture, hand-held key points, 3D scene representations, and layered text markup.
On August 26, the Seidi Institute of Technology, the North O Group, the Beijing Center for Human Robot Innovation, Shanghai Xiao, and other leading companies, jointly released the world's first world-class human-robot sporting event data set with a total duration of more than 2,500 hours.
On August 28, Intelligent Technologies released the self-evaluating body model unified architecture RUDA, which enables the perception, decision-making, control, execution of all technology links, standardized data and interface systems, adaptive humanoid robots, all kinds of agile hands, industrial claws, and other multi-form hardware.
On August 25, VanToon Technology released the Oricon C1. A high-altitude self-cleaning, lossless robot that uses a 35 kg lightweight working form of a top-of-the-floor workstation for downward throttling, and can be applied in depth to high-altitude cleaning.
On August 27, autonomous variable robots released the next iteration of the WALL-SS world model, achieving three-dimensional breakthroughs in predictive stabilization, long-term stability and validation.
On August 26, India launched the Jetson Orin Nano 2 robotic computer aimed at entry-level edge AI, which can be used to build robots, deliver and patrol drones, and cutting-edge physical AI applications such as visual AI systems.
On August 28, the company released the MGV162M-H2 1.5 million-pixel black-and-white industrial camera, which is widely used in semiconductor component detection, 3C electronics, PCBA detection, hardware part defect detection, flow line high-speed sorting, precision positioning measurement, and other industrial vision detection projects.
On 28 August, Evoco released the "Ring Explorer D1" quadruped-footer intelligent reconnaissance robot, which uses a 16-frequency quadruped-footer complex motion system, with a maximum speed of up to 8 m/s in wheel-based mode, and a maximum climb of 45° in pedestrian mode.
On 28 August, Eco-LED released the SG3011 spectral focal length sensor, which has the core advantages of high accuracy, wide-field and wide-angle detection, providing visual sensing solutions for advanced semiconductor packaging, precision electronics, and new displays.
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