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X Square Robot
Founded in Late 2023. No Mass-Production Yet. Backed by All Four of China’s Internet Giants. Valued at $2.8 Billion. A Bet on the Brain, Not the Body.
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The Robot Joint That Works By Being Bent
Forty Years of Japanese Monopoly. A Physicist Flew to Tokyo to Look. Six Years to a Prototype. Now Humanoids Run on His Joints. The Body Was Never…
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China’s AI Platform War
Four Tech Giants. Four Strategies: Super-App, Token Hub, Full Stack, Distribution Flood. No Clear Winner. One Map.
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Sep 22
Unitree
Filed for a $7 Billion IPO. The Price Destroyer. 5,500 Humanoids Shipped. Now Profitable. Waiting on a Brain.
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Sep 21
ICM Weekly: September 13 – September 19, 2026
Memory, more than the roadmap, limits Chinese AI compute. Huawei’s 950DT reportedly passed 250,000 yuan while CXMT’s IPO left 36.8 billion yuan…
Sep 20
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China’s Humanoid Industry Landscape
140 companies. Over 10,000 robots. One question nobody is asking.
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Sep 20
AgiBot
The world’s top-shipping humanoid maker in under three years. Now comes the hard part.
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Sep 17
UBTECH’s Walker S2 and Factory Economics
A humanoid’s factory economics depend on the human work it still requires. UBTECH offers a test of how model reliability becomes labor savings, and who…
Sep 13
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ICM Weekly: September 6 – September 12, 2026
Unitree’s own filing shows humanoid robots passed half its revenue at a 60 percent margin, and profit still fell. Reuters found the same gap in 100-plus…
Sep 12
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July 2026
Inside China’s Machine: July 20 – July 26, 2026
The scarce input in China’s robot-data economy is premises access, not collection capacity. A June MIIT notice allocates it: at least 20 work scenarios…
Jul 27
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What a Robot-Hour Actually Costs: AgiBot’s 2,976 Hours, Leju’s 308,000-Yuan Instrument, and the Utilization Nobody Discloses
China’s robot-data factories may be selling below cost. AgiBot’s own disclosures put the labor in one trajectory-hour anywhere from 265 to 2,244 yuan…
Jul 24
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The Sanctioned Input Is the Cheapest One: 1.8-Yuan Domestic Card-Hours, the 30 Percent Treasury Voucher, and the Price Book Hidden in…
Compute, the input export controls were meant to choke, is the cheapest term in China’s robot-hour. Domestic card-hours rent near 2 yuan, the treasury…
Jul 21
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