Consumer & Home Service Robots

Mori Building and its partners on the 28th opened to the press a demonstration of the AI Suitcase, a guiding robot that assists the movement of visually impaired people, at Toranomon Hills in Tokyo's Minato Ward. On one floor, two courses have been set up: one that guides visually impaired visitors and others through indoor and outdoor movement, and another where visitors can touch the device. The demonstration will run for the month of October. The robot is being developed mainly by the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, with the aim of offering a rental service in the future. The museum's director, Chieko Asakawa, who is herself visually impaired, said, "I hope this brings us one step closer to the dream of enjoying independent walks around town."

Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. said it believes it has regained compliance with the Nasdaq Capital Market's Equity Standard as of July 31, 2026, and has maintained compliance through the date of its latest Current Financial Report. The company's Total Stockholders' Equity had fallen to $1.412 million as of June 30, 2026, below the $2.5 million minimum required by Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(b)(1). During July and August 2026, FF reduced notes payable by approximately $10.0 million based on a preliminary fair valuation of the instrument as of June 30, 2026, lowered its derivative call option liability by approximately $5.8 million, and cut accounts payable and accrued liabilities by approximately $15.3 million, primarily through a $13.5 million reduction in employee-related liabilities and a $2.5 million cleanup of legacy vendor accounts payable. The company said its EAI robot cumulative sales and shipments reached 552 units by August end since deliveries began in February, with positive product gross margin, as it works toward its full-year target of 2,000 units. Nasdaq will continue to monitor the company's ongoing compliance, and final third-quarter 2026 financial results remain subject to auditor review and will be disclosed in the company's Form 10-Q for Q3 2026.

MBody AI Ltd. announced the completion of its corporate name change from Check-Cap Ltd., establishing a unified public-market identity following its merger with MBody AI Corp. on August 26, 2026, and a $10.0 million underwritten public offering on August 27, 2026. The company's ordinary shares continue to trade on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol MBAI, with a CUSIP of M6S83C106. In the merger, former stockholders of MBody AI Corp. received an aggregate of approximately 12,379,581 ordinary shares, representing approximately 90% of the company's outstanding ordinary shares immediately after the merger and before the offering closed. The offering consisted of 1,538,462 ordinary shares at $6.50 per share, for gross proceeds of approximately $10.0 million, with no warrants, preferred shares, or convertible securities issued. As of September 15, 2026, the company had 15,293,584 ordinary shares issued and outstanding and a market capitalization of approximately $99 million. MBody AI, whose Orchestrator platform manages robot fleets across eleven U.S. states and Canada, serves Fortune 500 gaming and hospitality operators including Mohegan Sun, and its fleets have cumulatively delivered service across approximately 600 million square feet of large-scale hospitality environments.

Cheetah Mobile reported second-quarter revenue of RMB266.1 million, up 9.9% year over year and 2.7% sequentially, while its non-GAAP operating loss widened to RMB25.6 million from RMB2.1 million a year earlier. Chief Financial Officer Thomas Jintao Ren attributed the larger loss to lower advertising agency services revenue within global enterprise services and continued investment in robotics commercialization. The cloud and AI infrastructure business was the main growth driver, with revenue up 83.1% year over year to RMB59.1 million, or 22.2% of total revenue, and gross billings exceeding RMB500 million in the quarter; Chairman and CEO Fu Sheng said the company expects cloud and AI infrastructure gross billings to exceed RMB2 billion in 2026, growth of more than 100% year over year, with related revenue surpassing RMB200 million. Robotics and other businesses generated RMB54.5 million in revenue, up 72.5% year over year, helped by the UFACTORY acquisition in July 2025, and smart mobility products began shipping and contributing revenue during the quarter, though the segment's adjusted operating loss widened sequentially to RMB34 million. Internet services revenue fell 17.3% year over year to RMB130.5 million, but adjusted operating profit in that segment rose 14.2% to RMB25.4 million as its adjusted operating margin expanded to 19.4%.

SYNEX Public Company Limited, or SYNEX, has set its 2026 revenue target at 53 billion baht, confident it will meet or exceed the goal after first-half sales reached 23.122 billion baht, with most sales expected to come in the second half. Chief Executive Officer Suthida Mongkolsuthi said key drivers come from new product launches and sales, especially in the Apple product group, where the company aims for sales growth through its many distribution channels and partners. Even though the overall IT industry remains under pressure from supply chain tightness, demand for Apple products in particular is still so high that the company is confident products will sell out as soon as they reach the market. Meanwhile, costs for memory and storage products are likely to keep rising through the end of the year, driven by the AI growth trend that has hyperscalers competing for enormous amounts of hardware components and production capacity. The company manages this risk by diversifying its portfolio of product brands. As for future businesses, the company plans to travel to China in October to negotiate deals and study technology, focusing on commercial service robots, and expects clarity on the new product group and an actual product launch within the fourth quarter of 2026. At the same time, SYNEX is pressing ahead with its shift from distribution to value creation under the concept The Next Chapter of SYNNEX – From Distribution to Value Creation, building on partnerships with more than 70 global technology brands and over 6,000 distribution channels.

Shangpin Home Collection released its 2026 half-year report, achieving operating revenue of 1.177 billion yuan in the first half of the year. Facing weak demand in the home furnishing industry and intensifying competition, the company has adhered to its positioning as a provider of technology-driven home living solutions and is making every effort to deploy new tracks in AI intelligence and embodied intelligence. In terms of AI, the company has iterated and upgraded its self-developed multi-agent platform, linked it with the K20 design platform, and opened up the full chain of intelligence from floor plan analysis to production and manufacturing. In the field of embodied intelligence, Shangpin Home Collection has joined hands with Qiyuan Robotics to explore a robot-friendly home model, promote the large-scale implementation of personal robots, and deploy offline experience showrooms as well as physical AI embodied data DaaS business, building a ten-million-level spatial data foundation and opening up a second growth curve. The company is transforming from a traditional home furnishing service provider into an enterprise focused on embodied intelligence scenarios and data technology.

Sharp began accepting pre-orders on the 25th for the second generation of its palm-sized conversational AI robot, Poketomo. It will go on sale in December. Its biggest feature is a cheeky, blunt 'bossy' character that opens up and shows unexpected sides as conversations accumulate. Like the first generation, it is modeled on a meerkat, but its personality is the opposite of the first generation's honest and highly empathetic nature. The price is 49,500 yen on the official online store, with service fees starting at 495 yen per month. Miho Kagei, head of the Mobile Solutions Business Division, said, 'We want to increase the variety and develop it as a series.'

German robotics startup Neura Robotics has announced its fifth acquisition in 16 months, taking full ownership of Adlatus, a German maker of autonomous cleaning and sweeping robots for industry, logistics, healthcare and public spaces. Neura plans to add its own sensor and AI capabilities to Adlatus's fleet, which it will then fold into its shared physical AI infrastructure, the Neuraverse. The deal follows Neura's announcement earlier this month of its takeover of ACTIVE Shuttle, the driverless transport system from Bosch Rexroth, effective Oct. 1 this year. Neura has a significant war chest to fund acquisitions, having raised up to $1.4 billion for its Series C in June. Physical AI is also drawing significant interest from VCs, with startups in the space raising over $8 billion globally in H1 this year, more than double 2025's annual total.

Reliable Corporation and Stardust Intelligence officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement at the 2026 World Robot Conference, focusing on the joint development and real-world deployment of AI nursing robots. Reliable Corporation is the first A-share listed company in China's adult incontinence care sector, with more than two decades of deep experience in the silver economy, having accumulated operational expertise across nursing homes, care facilities, and home-based elderly care. Stardust Intelligence is an embodied intelligence company centered on AI, having built a fully self-developed system integrating AI models, an embodied operating system, and cable-driven robotic bodies, and has already achieved large-scale deployment in multiple fields. The two parties will jointly create products and service solutions suited to diverse scenarios, offering elderly individuals a range of services including daily companionship, care assistance, and health management. Reliable Corporation Vice President Qian Mingxia stated that this partnership is an important step for the company to deepen the application of AI technology and improve its strategic presence in the silver economy ecosystem.

Giant Creative Intelligence made its debut at the 2026 World Robot Conference, which opened on August 19, exhibiting two product lines: the Zhang'anxing AI Smart Patrol Robot Dog and the Zhang'anxing Electromagnetic Net Catcher. The AI Smart Patrol Robot Dog is equipped with the company's self-developed embodied robot brain, with more than 230 built-in recognition algorithms. It can perform tasks such as patrolling, recognition, early warning, and net capture control, and has already been deployed in public security bureaus, schools, and hospitals across multiple regions in China. At this exhibition, the demonstration was upgraded to a multi-robot cluster collaboration, covering scenarios including autonomous patrol, target recognition, warning announcements, and net capture control. The Electromagnetic Net Catcher exhibited alongside it is based on electromagnetic catapult technology and can carry out contactless restraint of targets within a range of 5 to 10 meters. The dual-launch version supports firing two capture nets consecutively, making it suitable for security in campuses, hospitals, banks, government agencies, and other venues, as well as for assisting public security in apprehension scenarios.

LG Electronics announced it is accelerating its robotics collaboration with NVIDIA, hosting senior NVIDIA officials at its Data Factory under construction at the Yangjae R&D Campus in Seoul. The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding for strategic collaboration at NVIDIA's headquarters in Santa Clara, California, on August 13, and reconvened four days later to speed up commercialization of the robotics business. LG's Data Factory, scheduled to be fully operational by the end of the year, will house several hundred robots across four floors totaling 10,000 square meters, with training data expected to reach 100,000 hours by year-end. LG plans to use this data to advance its Robot Foundation Model and has established a Robotics Business Center reporting directly to the CEO as it expands from industrial and commercial robots into home robotics.

The 2026 World Robot Conference will be held from August 19 to 23, 2026, alongside the World Robot Expo and the World Robot Contest. ThunderSoft said its full range of mobile robot products includes core offerings such as latent mobile robots, forklift robots, and composite and embodied robots. In January 2026, its subsidiary Hangzhou Xiaowu Intelligent Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, and the two sides will carry out in-depth cooperation on the large-scale application of humanoid robots in vertical scenarios such as automobile manufacturing, warehousing and logistics, and commercial services. OGAWA said the company is accelerating its embodied intelligence business layout and exploring scenario-based application implementation of health service robots in vertical fields. Ningbo Huaxiang said its subsidiary Huaxiang Qiyuan will have a booth at the World Robot Conference to showcase its latest bipedal and quadruped robot bodies as well as lightweight joint components and skeletal parts. Bojay Electronics said that in response to the needs of humanoid robots for electronic eye observation, electronic skin tactile sensing, and microphone sound reception, it has developed testing technologies adapted to humanoid robot cameras, force sensors, and microphones.

Hong Kong is preparing a major overhaul of the Hang Seng Tech Index, increasing the number of constituents from 30 to 50 companies and giving greater weight to artificial intelligence, robotics, semiconductors, and future technologies. Under the new framework, 10 companies will be selected based on revenue growth rather than market capitalisation, allowing smaller tech firms to enter the index more quickly. Currently, passive investment assets tracking the index total approximately 40 billion dollars. Hang Seng Indexes has also defined six new core themes: digital platforms, artificial intelligence, advanced hardware, robotics, cloud computing, and future technologies, while expanding sub-themes to 24 groups, incorporating emerging technologies such as quantum computing and aerospace. A simulation of the new structure shows the combined weighting of the top 10 stocks would decline from 70.6% to 66.1%, reducing concentration. The consultation is open until 18 September, with final details expected by the end of September, ahead of implementation in the December 2026 index rebalancing.

AIxCrypto Holdings has designated its RoboShare robot-sharing marketplace as the top priority for the second half of 2026, with initial rental activity in Los Angeles targeted for August. CEO Jiawei Wang described RoboShare as an on-demand matchmaking platform akin to Uber plus Turo for robots, supporting both whole-machine and service-based rentals. The company reported a second-quarter net loss of $4.19 million, or $0.21 per share, on operating expenses of $2.96 million, which declined from $4.3 million in the first quarter due to reduced marketing, legal, and accounting costs. President and CFO Jie Sheng highlighted constrained liquidity, with cash and cash equivalents of $577,000 and digital assets valued at $5.2 million, and stated that the pace of hiring and expansion will be gated by available liquidity and operational readiness. Management also noted that earlier timelines for the EAI platform and RWA tokenization should no longer be relied upon, as those initiatives are now sequenced behind RoboShare.

GoldenHome has officially launched its third growth curve strategy, accelerating its transformation from a traditional home furnishing manufacturer into an industrial AI technology company. The company has entered into a deep strategic partnership with Tuoyuan Intelligence, focusing on AI applications in home scenarios and jointly promoting the entry of home service robots into households. As the core support, the Feiliu AI platform has completed triple closed-loop validation in technology, users, and commercialization, with cumulative visits approaching 500,000 and monthly active users of about 40,000, over 80% of traffic coming from organic search. GoldenHome forecasts that Feiliu AI will boost revenue growth by the end of 2026, and annual visits are expected to exceed 1 million in 2027. The company stated that this strategic partnership marks an important milestone in its shift from manufacturing-driven to technology-driven, and it will continue to deepen its presence in home scenarios and refine its self-developed AI technology.

GOKO, the outdoor robotics brand under Robot++, will showcase the GOKO M6 robotic lawn mower and preview the GOKO X5 commercial remote-controlled mower at Lawn & Land Equip Expo 2026 on the Gold Coast. The M6 is a 4WD robotic lawn mower designed for large yards, steep slopes, and uneven terrain, capable of handling inclines up to 90 per cent and obstacles up to 7.5 centimetres. It uses an AI obstacle avoidance system with four QuadVision cameras and a fusion-navigation system combining nRTK, VSLAM, IMU, and wheel odometry for wire-free operation. The M6 raised more than US$1 million on Kickstarter and has won a Gold Award at the French Design Awards and a Red Dot Award. The X5 is a modular 3-in-1 commercial machine for mowing, snow blowing, and towing, intended to help contractors use one platform across multiple seasonal tasks. Visitors can meet the GOKO team at Booth BA8 from 9am to 3pm, where Australia-based technology creator Lars Klint will also be present.

Chengdu has announced its potential as a new AI and digital economy hub for the Asia-Pacific region, following strong government policy support and the distribution of computing power vouchers. The city unveiled its intelligent computing center strategy with computing power reaching 408 petaflops, serving over 340 companies and research institutions. It made history as the first city in China to launch a computing-power investment model, shifting from leasing to using computing resources as equity stakes in startups to reduce initial business costs. In the robotics and embodied AI sector, Chengdu has exported delivery robots to more than 50 cities worldwide, including Singapore's Changi Airport. Most recently, on July 10, 2026, it opened China's first robot street on Jiaozi Avenue, along with the country's first intelligent robot store, to concretely drive AI innovation into daily life.

3 E Network Technology Group Limited announced it is developing an enterprise-grade AI SaaS platform for smart companion and eldercare robots. The platform is designed to provide a cloud brain with three core modules: a generative AI companion agent with multimodal affective computing, predictive AI monitoring with low-latency risk escalation, and a digital twin fleet management hub. It is built on four key technologies including cloud-native multi-tenant architecture, an edge-cloud collaborative LLM routing engine, retrieval-augmented generation with vector memory sandboxes, and medical-grade encryption. CEO Dr. Tingjun Yang said the SaaS platform complements the company's previously announced edge AI SoC, enabling a dual-engine business model that combines hardware delivery with recurring cloud subscriptions. The core microservices architecture and data pipelines have been finalized, with R&D now focused on fine-tuning multimodal models and enterprise-grade testing ahead of a planned global commercial rollout.

Shangpin Home Collection and SWANCOR have officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement. The two sides will engage in deep collaboration around SWANCOR’s globally leading consumer-grade embodied intelligence brand, Qiyuan Robot, to jointly build China’s first Robot-Ready Home ecosystem and open up a new track for physical AI embodied data. Shangpin Home Collection Group Chairman Li Lianzhu, Brand Co-General Manager Zhou Weijia, along with SWANCOR CEO Tian Hua and Global Marketing and Service President Zhang Peng, attended the signing ceremony. This cooperation marks the first full-chain, deep ecological collaboration between China’s home furnishing industry and the consumer humanoid robot sector, signaling Shangpin Home Collection’s official strategic upgrade from a traditional whole-house customization service provider to a technology-driven home furnishing and embodied intelligence scenario data enterprise. Leveraging Shangpin Home Collection’s accumulated database of over 3 million real floor plans, more than 30 million design solutions, and its self-developed 3D simulation technology, combined with Qiyuan Robot’s fully self-developed transformable humanoid robot and the ViLLA home embodied large model, the partnership will integrate the full lifecycle requirements of robot navigation, environmental perception, and task execution into the foundational design logic from the very start of whole-house design. It will also establish a comprehensive service system covering scenario construction, simulation training, and compliant dataset output, filling the gap in home training data for the industry.

Apple is expanding its robotics team as it prepares for a potential push into the space. Senior principal research engineer Jeremy Fishel posted on LinkedIn that he is building a team to work on difficult, high-impact robotics challenges, pointing to three new Cupertino-based job listings for a senior tactile research engineer, a mechatronics research engineer, and a senior tactile embedded controls research engineer. The expansion comes ahead of incoming CEO John Ternus taking over from Tim Cook on September 1, with Ternus having a background in robotics projects including a college-era mechanical feeding arm. Apple is reportedly working on a tabletop robot with an iPad-like screen and a motorized 360-degree swiveling arm that could launch as soon as next year, while a mobile robot or smart home security camera is in very early development and may not arrive until next decade. Morgan Stanley estimated in November 2025 that Apple could generate at least $130 billion in revenue from robotics by 2040, representing 10% to 25% of its share price at the time.

Zhongjian Technology announced it expects a loss of 5.8 million to 11.6 million yuan for the first half of 2026, a decline of 111.36% to 122.72% from a profit of 51.06 million yuan in the same period last year. The company's operating revenue grew sharply year on year, with steady performance in its garden machinery business, but net profit swung to a loss due to the combined impact of R&D spending and foreign exchange gains and losses. During the reporting period, the company expanded its embodied intelligence R&D team and increased investment in basic research and cutting-edge technology exploration for robot components and complete machines, leading to a significant year-on-year rise in R&D expenses. At the same time, it incurred substantial foreign exchange losses from fluctuations in the US dollar and euro against the yuan, pushing up financial costs. In 2025, the company's net profit attributable to shareholders was 173 million yuan, surging 166.85% year on year, but this was mainly driven by a 167 million yuan investment gain from changes in the fair value of its stake in overseas AI robotics company 1X. Excluding non-recurring items, net profit was only 40.64 million yuan, down 22.04% year on year. As of the close on July 14, Zhongjian Technology shares traded at 71.09 yuan, having fallen 37% year to date.

BDStar Navigation disclosed its earnings forecast, estimating first-half 2026 net profit attributable to the parent at 35 million to 50 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2,368.27% to 3,426.09%. The company is focusing on its core businesses of intelligent positioning digital base and ceramic components, seizing market opportunities in emerging sectors such as smart lawn mowers, industrial drones, agricultural machinery, and intelligent robots. Revenue growth in chip and module product lines within the chip and data services business, as well as the Livox product line within the navigation products business, drove the substantial increase in net profit attributable to the parent.