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Lead Intelligent × Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, May 13 at CIBF Shenzhen: China's Largest Battery-Equipment Maker Just Sole-Sourced the National-Tier Tiangong Humanoid Onto Its Customers' Production Lines Robotics

Lead Intelligent × Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, May 13 at CIBF Shenzhen: China's Largest Battery-Equipment Maker Just Sole-Sourced the National-Tier Tiangong Humanoid Onto Its Customers' Production Lines

On May 13 at CIBF 2026 in Shenzhen, Lead Intelligent — China's largest battery-manufacturing-equipment maker — signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, China's national-tier embodied-AI platform behind the Tiangong open-source humanoid. The cap-ex line that builds every CATL and BYD line just sole-sourced its humanoid.

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#lead-intelligent#beijing-humanoid-robot-innovation-center#tiangong
Vbot, May 11: 500-Million-Yuan Pre-A ($73M), 500 Robotic Dogs Already Shipping, Production Ramping to 2,500/Month in June — the Chinese Humanoid Playbook Is to Fund the Humanoid With a Dog That Already Works Robotics

Vbot, May 11: 500-Million-Yuan Pre-A ($73M), 500 Robotic Dogs Already Shipping, Production Ramping to 2,500/Month in June — the Chinese Humanoid Playbook Is to Fund the Humanoid With a Dog That Already Works

Vbot — a Shanghai embodied-AI startup founded in late 2024 by ex-Horizon Robotics and ex-Li Auto leadership — closed a ~500M yuan ($73M) Pre-A on May 11 with a shipping commercial product (the BoBo robotic dog) already running 500 units and scaling to 2,500/month in June. The humanoid roadmap is funded by the dog.

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#vbot#china-humanoid#embodied-ai
Robotera's May 8 $200M Round: SF Group and China Post Aren't Just Investors — They're the Pilot Customers, and the Q2 Run Rate Just Crossed a Thousand Units Robotics

Robotera's May 8 $200M Round: SF Group and China Post Aren't Just Investors — They're the Pilot Customers, and the Q2 Run Rate Just Crossed a Thousand Units

On May 8 Beijing-based humanoid maker Robotera closed >USD $200M led by SF Group (顺丰), with HSG, IDG Capital, Hillhouse, CICC Capital, and ICBC Capital piling on. The bigger signal sits underneath the cap-table line: Robotera's robots are already running across 10+ China Post and SF logistics centers, deliveries crossed a thousand units in Q2, and growth is reportedly +300%.

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#robotera#sf-group#china-post
Japan Airlines Will Put Two Chinese-Made Humanoids on the Tarmac at Haneda in May. The Cover Story Is 「Labor Shortage.」 The Real Story Is the Roadmap to 2028. Robotics

Japan Airlines Will Put Two Chinese-Made Humanoids on the Tarmac at Haneda in May. The Cover Story Is 「Labor Shortage.」 The Real Story Is the Roadmap to 2028.

On April 27, JAL Grand Service and GMO AI & Robotics Trading announced Japan's first airport humanoid pilot. Two China-made wheeled humanoids will load baggage and shift unit-load devices at Haneda starting in May. The phased plan runs through 2028. The job category being pre-disrupted — airport ground handler — has been one of the most stable, unionized, blue-collar jobs in postwar Japan.

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#jal#haneda#gmo-ai-robotics
Robot Era Just Closed Another $200M and Quietly Pulled SF Express Onto an Embodied-AI Customs Lane. Beijing's Humanoid Race Is No Longer About Demos. Robotics

Robot Era Just Closed Another $200M and Quietly Pulled SF Express Onto an Embodied-AI Customs Lane. Beijing's Humanoid Race Is No Longer About Demos.

On April 27, Caixin reported that Beijing-based Robot Era closed a fresh round of more than $200M, taking total funding past $346M and pushing valuation well clear of the $1.5B post-money it set in March. The signal isn't the dollar figure — it's the customer roster. SF Express, China's largest courier, is already running embodied-AI customs inspection with Robot Era hardware on cross-border cargo lanes.

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#robot-era#robotera#sf-express
X Square Robot Says It Will Put Humanoids in Real Chinese Homes in 35 Days. The Cap Table Reads Alibaba, ByteDance, Xiaomi, Meituan. Robotics

X Square Robot Says It Will Put Humanoids in Real Chinese Homes in 35 Days. The Cap Table Reads Alibaba, ByteDance, Xiaomi, Meituan.

On April 23, X Square Robot — backed by every Chinese platform that matters — unveiled the Wall-B foundation model and said its Quanta humanoids will start showing up in Chinese family homes within 35 days. Pudu Robotics raised $150M at a $1.5B valuation the same week. The Chinese embodied-AI race just compressed its timelines again.

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#x-square-robot#embodied-ai#wall-b