Ahospital in eastern China yesterday operated on a patient living 3,900 kilometers away in the country’s westernmost Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region with the help of a surgical robot. Liang Xiao, a senior surgeon at Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Province, sent commands to a surgical…

Shentong Robot Education Group (神通机器人, 8206.HK), a Chinese company providing robot-focused STEM education and marketing services, reported better-than-expected earnings and returned to profit in the first three quarters of the 2022/2023 fiscal year, the firm said. According to financial results released for the nine months ending December 31, 2022, Shentong…

Robotics should be harnessed to better serve the needs of mankind, China’s state-run newspaper Guangming Daily said in a rare editorial published today on wider adoption of robots in the country. The paper, considered to be a Communist Party mouthpiece alongside People’s Daily, began by saying that AI, new energy…

Pudu Robotics (普渡科技), a delivery robot startup based in China’s tech hub Shenzhen, recently completed a Series C3 round of financing worth more than 100 million yuan (US$14.6 million), backed solely by Puhua Capital. This round came six months after Pudu, mired in losses, announced massive layoffs and cuts to…

Xiao-i Robot (小i机器人), a Shanghai-based tech startup providing AI chatbot products, updated its prospectus on February 13 that had been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) late last year. The company first submitted its Form F-1 on December 20, 2022, planning to list on Nasdaq under the tick…

Estun (埃斯顿, 002747.SZ), China’s leading industrial automation and robot developer, has launched its latest generation of high-speed, high-precision and small-payload multi-joint robot series. The series, comprising products coded ER12B-1512, ER20B-1760, ER35B-1810, ER30B-1810-F and ER20B/10–2010-HI, are widely applied in scenarios ranging from pressing to dispensing, from polishing to tranfering, and from…

ZD Medtech (卓道医疗), a Shanghai-based startup making rehabilitation robots, recently announced a Series B round of funding valued at more than 100 million yuan (US$14.65 million), VC Beat, a healthcare-focused media outlet, reported today. Redhill Capital and Hengxu Capital led the round, followed by Shunwei Capital. The proceeds from Series…

Beijing had 1,048 major artificial intelligence companies as of October 2022, representing 29% of the national total, said a report on the city’s AI development. The report, issued yesterday by Beijing’s municipal bureau of economy and information, pointed out that Beijing has a leading AI industry chain nationwide. Beijing has…

Chinese tech media 36Kr reported yesterday that BionicM (健行仿生), a Chinese company producing motor-powered prosthesis, had raised tens of millions of yuan in a fresh round of founding. The round was led by NVenture Capital, a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC. Other participants in the deal include Shinsei Corporate Investment…