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Consumer-oriented embodied AI developer Noin Intelligence has closed a 500 million yuan Angel++ round, part of a broader capital shift in China toward embodied AI models rather than robot hardware. Chinese humanoid robot makers accounted for more than 97 percent of global shipments in the first half of 2026.
Robbyant, an embodied AI company within Ant Group, has unveiled LingBot-VA 2.0, an autoregressive world model built from scratch for physical-world robot control rather than adapted from digital video generation, achieving 150 Hz closed-loop control on a single GPU and adapting to new tasks with as few as 20 demonstrations.