# embodied intelligence
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China’s Spring Gala Becomes a ‘Super Roadshow’ for Humanoid Robots — But the Real Test Is Commercialisation
China’s CCTV Spring Festival Gala featured multiple domestic robot makers in high‑visibility performances, turning the national broadcast into a de facto investor roadshow. The exposure has already driven search and order spikes, and several companies are accelerating listing plans, but converting spectacle into sustainable revenue will require scalable manufacturing and clear commercial use cases.
China’s Spring Gala Puts Humanoid Robots Center Stage — Embodied AI Moves From Lab to Spotlight
China’s Spring Festival Gala prominently featured humanoid robots whose stage performances were presented as signs that embodied intelligence is moving from innovation into industry. Firms showcased advances in facial actuators, dynamic balance and large embodied datasets, a combination that could accelerate commercialization but raises questions about robustness, safety and regulation.
China’s Spring Gala Puts Robots Center Stage — Markets Cheer, Reality Lags Behind
China’s 2026 Spring Festival Gala showcased multiple robot makers and shone a spotlight on listed suppliers and investors with exposure to embodied-intelligence technologies. While the public debut boosted attention and prompted capital-market scrutiny, most corporate participants report only small-batch orders and pilot-stage business, leaving the sector’s commercial inflection point uncertain.
China’s UniX AI Unveils Wanda Panther: A New Generation of Mobile Manipulator for Industrial and Service Uses
UniX AI launched the Wanda Panther Black Panther series in February 2026, a production-oriented mobile manipulator that pairs an 8-DOF bionic arm and adaptive gripper with an omnidirectional four-wheel steering and drive chassis. The platform reflects a broader shift toward integrated, embodied-intelligence robots aimed at reducing deployment friction in manufacturing, logistics and service sectors.
Zhiyuan’s A3 Humanoid Marries Martial‑Arts Agility with Eight‑Hour Endurance — A Direct Challenge to YushU
Zhiyuan Robotics launched the full‑size YuanZheng A3 humanoid, showcasing continuous martial‑arts style moves and claiming up to eight hours of mixed‑use battery life. The machine pairs hardware upgrades with a multimodal interaction stack and a company‑backed data platform, signalling a push to convert spectacle into deployable service robots and to outflank rivals such as YushU.
China’s Yushu CEO Says “Embodied Intelligence” Is Just Beginning — And Could Dwarf the Mobile Internet
Yushu Technology CEO Wang Xingxing says embodied intelligence — AI embodied in robots and edge devices — is in its early platform phase but could surpass the mobile internet in scale and economic impact. Scaling will depend on industrial innovation in hardware, safety standards and supply chains rather than software breakthroughs alone.
Xiaomi’s Robotics Team Unveils TacRefineNet — Millimetre-Scale Tactile Pose Refinement Without Vision
Xiaomi’s robotics team unveiled TacRefineNet, a tactile‑only pose refinement model that can reduce grasping errors to millimetre precision without cameras or 3D object models. Demonstrated in both simulation and real‑world tests on automotive parts, the open publication of technical details could accelerate industrial adoption—provided hardware durability and generalisation challenges are addressed.
Li Auto Recasts the Car as a Robot with New L9 — A Decade in the Making
Li Xiang announced that Li Auto’s next-generation L9 will be marketed as an ‘‘embodied-intelligence’’ robot, turning the vehicle into an active, personalised partner. The claim signals a strategic move from product to platform but will require heavy investment in sensors, compute, software and regulatory compliance to be realised.
As Cloud Giants Duel, China’s Mianbi Pushes a 9‑Billion‑Parameter Multimodal ‘Brain’ for Edge Devices
Mianbi Intelligence has launched MiniCPM‑o 4.5, a 9‑billion‑parameter multimodal model that can ingest continuous audio, video and text while producing simultaneous outputs, and introduced a Jetson‑based developer board called Pinea Pi. The company positions the stack as an early example of on‑device, embodied AI aimed at robotics, automotive and personal devices, arguing that hybrid cloud‑edge deployments will better meet latency, privacy and stability needs than cloud‑only approaches.
Chinese Startup Says the Dawn of Truly Natural Human–Machine Interaction Is Two to Three Years Away
Mianbi Intelligence’s founders say multi‑modal, embodied human–machine interaction is entering a decisive phase: rapid improvements in compact, dense models could bring meaningful advances within two to three years. The transition will be incremental, hinging on better on‑device models, cloud–edge integration, and solutions to privacy and power constraints.
China’s Fourier Says Brain‑Controlled Exoskeletons for Stroke Rehab Could Reach Clinics in 1–2 Years
Fourier, a Chinese robotics firm, says it will integrate brain‑computer interfaces with exoskeletons to enable robots to detect patients’ movement intentions and provide timed physical assistance, aiming for clinical rollout within one to two years. The move rests on more portable BCI hardware, AI advances in signal interpretation, and a staged market strategy that targets hospitals first, then care homes and households.
From Thought to Motion: Why China’s Robotics Industry Is Betting on Brain–Computer Interfaces for Rehabilitation and Elder Care
Chinese robotics firms are prioritizing rehabilitation and eldercare as the first real markets for embodied intelligence, pairing non‑invasive brain–computer interfaces with exoskeletons to restore patient agency and create quantifiable training data. Industry players are addressing technical, data and integration challenges through consortiums and clinical partnerships, aiming to convert early prototypes into scalable clinical products over the next three to five years.