Summary of Major Events in the Robotics Industry in the First Half of the Month

Robot Orders

  • March 31: Kepler humanoid robot received pre-orders from European and American customers, accelerating commercialization due to high labor costs in these regions.

  • April 9: Hyundai plans to purchase tens of thousands of Boston Dynamics robots, including the Atlas humanoid robot and Spot quadruped robot, for factory automation.

  • April 12: UBTECH’s CFO concluded a Wall Street roadshow and returned to Shenzhen, with Saudi PIF placing a massive $2 billion order in exchange for equity.

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New Robot/Key Component Releases

  • March 31: Purdue released the world’s first commercial humanoid robot Arm, equipped with 7 degrees of freedom bionic arms, supporting cross-scenario services.

  • April 1: Yushu Technology launched the Dex5 dexterous hand, featuring 20 degrees of freedom and 94 tactile feedback points.

  • April 5: Yujian Technology released the Dobot Atom, a knee-walking robot aimed at industrial precision operations, with plans for trial production mid-year.

  • April 12: Shenkaihong released the distributed robot operating system M-Robots OS 1.0, supporting multi-machine collaboration and AI-native development, with industrial line testing planned for 2025.

  • April 15: Qingtian Intelligent released the humanoid service robot XMAN-R1, focusing on service scenario collaboration and data sharing.

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Industry Collaborations

  • April 9: Joyson Electronics and Zhiyuan Robotics reached a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly tackle the “brain” (decision-making) and “small brain” (motion control) technologies of robots.

  • April 10: Baidu Intelligent Cloud and Zhiyuan Robotics collaborated to develop an educational robot platform, initially focusing on AI training laboratories and other educational scenarios.

  • April 10: Huawei signed a memorandum of cooperation with Efort Intelligent Robotics to explore deep collaboration in the field of embodied intelligence and jointly develop a new ecosystem for embodied intelligence.

  • April 14: Huawei signed a memorandum of cooperation with Efort Intelligent Robotics to promote the application of embodied intelligence technology in industrial scenarios.

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Financing

  • April 2: Zhongqing Robotics completed nearly 200 million yuan in Pre-A round financing, led by UAE’s Stone Venture.

  • April 7: Blue Core Technology completed several hundred million yuan in financing, focusing on the research and development of robot vision and mobility technologies.

  • April 8: Lingxin Qiaoshou received over 100 million yuan in seed round financing, with funds allocated for the development of dexterous hand technology for robots.

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Others

  • April 11: UBTECH’s “Tian Gong Xing Zhe” research robot opened its underlying interfaces for secondary development.

  • April 15: Tao Shi Intelligent Technology’s reducer was awarded the 2025 Annual Core Drive Award for Humanoid Robots, featuring a conical envelope multi-tooth meshing design, producing the world’s smallest center distance of 4.5 mm for dexterous hand joints, with a control precision of 0.015 mm, weighing only 9-49 g, and a single joint output of 1-3 Nm torque, optimizing space utilization by 30%.

  • April 15: At the Huawei Cloud Ecological Conference, Huawei showcased a cloud-based collaborative solution for robots.

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