China invests over 15 billion yuan in humanoid robot industry this year

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China invests over 15 billion yuan in humanoid robot industry this year

2025-07-27 13:37 Last Updated At：07-28 00:47

China's humanoid robot industry saw accelerated development this year, with more than 15 billion yuan (about 2.09 billion U.S. dollars) already invested and financed.

Since June, more than 10 humanoid robot enterprises have announced the completion of their new round of financing, with each financing surpassing hundreds of millions of yuan, according to statistics.

"We just completed a new round of financing of nearly 500 million yuan (about 69.75 million U.S. dollars) in early July. We are using it primarily on three areas, namely the research and development of humanoid robot products and technological breakthroughs, the expansion of the production line for quadruped robots, and the recruitment of talents," said Li Yang, brand director of DEEP Robotics, a high-tech enterprise specialized in innovation and application of "embodied AI technology."

On the one hand, many venture capital institutions and equity investment funds are accelerating their layout in the industries of embodied intelligence and humanoid robots. On the other hand, local governments have also increased their financial support, many planning to establish relevant industrial funds to guide more funds to be invested in key areas of humanoid robots.

"Since April this year, we promptly laid out several important industrial funds related to artificial intelligence and embodied intelligence. In the entire field of artificial intelligence and embodied intelligence, over 100 companies have made direct investments and fund investments, of which 20 percent is our own direct investment, with nearly one billion yuan focusing on embodied intelligence," said Zhu Min, director for science, technology, and innovation at Shanghai State-owned Capital Investment Co., Ltd., and president of Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Group. "Our first step now is to accelerate the industrialization and application. That is to say, we need such a training ground to support the data reasoning model and apply it in various scenarios. By the end of this year, we aim to collect 10 million pieces of data," said Yang Zhengye, marketing director of Shanghai-based National and Local Co-Built Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center.

Data shows that China has seen 108 rounds of investment and financing in the field of humanoid robots in 2025, with a total amount of 15.35 billion yuan (about 2.14 billion U.S. dollars), while 41,696 new Chinese invention patents have been added.

"I believe that in the process of obtaining large-scale financing and in their practice, enterprises have seen the future of this industry. Humanoid robots can make up for the technological bottleneck in the past in the field of industrial automation, which was insufficient in intelligence, weak in perception and insufficient in generalization. It is believed that within three years, humanoid robots can be able to enter the service industry, such as supermarkets and banks," said Jiang Lei, principal investigator of the National and Local Co-Built Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center.

Canadian PM's visit to China paves way for more pragmatic trade ties: scholar

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's official visit to China signals a policy shift towards building a more pragmatic relationship between the two countries, according to a Canadian researcher.

Carney arrived in Beijing on Wednesday to begin an official visit to China through Saturday, which marks the first trip by a Canadian Prime Minister to the country in eight years.

Robert Hanlon, director and principal investigator of Canada and the Asia Pacific Policy Project (CAPPP) at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia, told the China Global Television Network (CGTN) that Carney's visit indicates Canada is recalibrating its strategic perception of China, which could cement the foundation for the country's economic diversification efforts and boost the development of bilateral cooperation.

"I think it's a clear message that he has moved Canada's strategy to a much more pragmatic, interest-based, -focused relationship with our trading partners, moving away from values-based narratives that we might have heard on previous governments. Canada has spoken about moving from what the Prime Minister's Office is calling "from reliance to resilience", and that means diversifying our economies and our trade everywhere in the world. And so China being our second largest trading partner, it makes perfect sense for our PM to head to Beijing," he said.

The scholar also noted the huge cooperation potential between the two sides in economic and trade fields, citing Canada's efforts to step up shipments of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and the planned construction of an oil pipeline in Alberta which aims to increase export access to Asian markets. "Canada and China both share tremendous economic opportunities together and so finding ways to enhance our exports. Canada specifically looking to build out its LNG and oil, kind of export market. We know Canada is a major producer of critical minerals and China is a buyer. And so there's a lot of synergy between that kind of those kind of markets," he said.