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Embodied AI

Embodied AI is where China’s freshly-available self-driving talent and its most aggressive capital are meeting. The rounds are enormous and the valuations run ahead of shipments, into a physical problem that neither the money nor the talent can shortcut. We watch whether the unit numbers ever catch the funding.

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1. The Transplant7 Jul 2026

   A product-less humanoid startup hit a billion-dollar valuation, built by Huawei’s former self-driving lead. China’s autonomous-driving talent is transplanting into robots.

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