Live Briefs 2026-10-03 · Full coverage of embodied AI

All Industry Capital Technology Policy Global Deep Dive

Aug 22 Sat 1 briefs

07:31

Deep Dive Dexterous Hand Humanoid Robot Embodied AI Frontier HOT:95

China's Dexterous Hand Industry: A $3.5B Quest for a "Standard Hand"

China's dexterous hand sector raised RMB 25 billion in H1 2026 yet no standard hand exists: three routes, three 'No. 1' claims, and a $6B valuation target still unclosed.

Aug 21 Fri 1 briefs

11:05

Deep Dive Humanoid Robot Supply Chain Embodied AI Frontier HOT:95

China's Humanoid Price Revolution: Inside the $12,000 Unitree G1

Unitree G1 teardown: a RMB 41,574 bill of materials with 66% in joints. How China cut humanoid prices from RMB 593,400 to RMB 9,998 in three years.

Aug 20 Thu 2 briefs

12:31

Deep Dive WRC2026 Humanoid Robot Embodied AI Frontier HOT:98

The Silent Supermarket: A German AI Fellow at WRC 2026, Full Transcript

A German National Academy member and IEEE/AAAI Fellow explains why home robots are the hardest build in embodied AI: world models, touch, and a silent market. Full transcript included.

11:15

Deep Dive WRC2026 Humanoid Robot Embodied AI Frontier HOT:98

From Exhibits to Products: Unitree's CEO at WRC 2026, Full Transcript

The day after Unitree's record IPO, founder Wang Xingxing took the WRC 2026 stage to define embodied AI's first quantifiable threshold: 80% of unfamiliar scenes, 80% of tasks.