It seems that capital has stopped investing in basic, large-scale models in the last three months. More companies are investing in robotics. For example, "Star Era Raises Nearly 1 Billion Yuan in Series A+ Funding! Led by Geely Capital, Total Orders Exceed 500 Million Yuan." The company focuses on embodied intelligent industry solutions and has established deep partnerships with companies such as Geely, Renault, SF Express, TCL, Haier, Lenovo, and Century Golden Resources.
Recently, there has been a surge in hiring in the embodied intelligence field. Here is a list of embodied intelligence companies (and research institutions); you can check out their websites below: 1. Embodied Intelligence and Robotics Startups/Unicorns These companies focus on robot bodies, dexterous hands, or large-scale embodied intelligent models. Agibot (including the Talent Program) Galbot / Galaxy General Robotics (including: Peking University Galaxy General Joint Laboratory) Robot Era / Star Era Stardust Intelligence Unitree (including Unitree Robotics) LimX Dynamics Fourier Intelligence AgileX Robotics (including AgileX) Spirit AI / Qianxun Intelligence Figure AI Boston Dynamics Agility Robotics Zero Point / Zero-Power Robot Lightwheel AI / Lightwheel Intelligence Self-Variable Robot ForceSight Accelerated Evolution XYZ Robotics / Star Monkey Zhe Flexiv / FeiXi Technology Noether Networks / Qiongche Intelligence Infinigen / Infinite Workshop Deep Lang / Lingdong General (including: Lingdong General Robots) PaXini / Pasini Sensing Technology Cross & Wei / Cross-dimensional Intelligence Tashi / Tashi Zhihang Galaxy Bot / Interstellar Light-Year (including: Shenzhen Interstellar Light-Year) ZhongQing Robot PNDbotics YiXing Robot Renxin Robot Hanyu Chenxing Langyi Robot Noitom VLAI / Future Power Unbounded Wisdom (including Shenzhen Unbounded Wisdom) SenseRobot (Note: Based on the context, this may be a separate entity) CASIA-HuiLing / 中科慧灵 Leading Future 2. Tech Giants & Enterprises Including its affiliated research institutes, robotics department, and AI laboratory Huawei / Huawei (including: Huawei Automotive BU, Huawei Central Research Institute, Huawei Manufacturing Department) Xiaomi (including: Xiaomi Robotics, Xiaomi Auto, Xiaomi Group) Tencent (including RoboticsX Labs) Alibaba Group (including DAMO Academy and AliStar) Ant Group (including Ant Financial's Tianji Labs and PlanA) ByteDance (including TikTok and the Jindouyun Project) https://t.co/ptECU5HfMv/ JD.com (including JD Research Institute) Meituan (including the Beidou Internship Program) Baidu NVIDIA Microsoft (including Microsoft Research Asia, MSRA) Google / Google (including DeepMind) Tesla Samsung (including Samsung Electronics China Research Institute) Amazon / Amazon (including Amazon Robotics) Lenovo (including Lenovo Research Institute - not explicitly listed but common among major manufacturers; Motorola/Moto mentioned in the original text is retained here if applicable; the original text mainly mentions ZTE and China Telecom) ZTE / ZTE Corporation Midea Group (including its AI Research Institute) Haier iFlytek SenseTime 3. Autonomous Driving & Mobility Many of these companies have technology stacks that overlap with embodied intelligence (such as VLA and end-to-end). DJI (including DJI Automotive/DJ) XPeng (including XPeng Robotics and XPeng Motors) Li Auto / Ideal Auto NIO BYD Momenta https://t.co/G2kkVZZatN/ Pony.ai Horizon Robotics (including: Digua Robotics, Core Robotics) RoboSense / 速腾聚创 Waymo WeRide / WeRide Huixi Intelligent ZongMu (not mentioned much in the original text, but belongs to this category) OpenDriveLab (part of the Shanghai AI Lab ecosystem, but also recruits independently) 4. Top Research Institutes and National Laboratories Independent research institutes not affiliated with universities Shanghai AI Laboratory (including: Embodied Intelligence Center, OpenDriveLab) BAAI / Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence BIGAI / Beijing General Artificial Intelligence Research Institute National Local Joint Humanoid Robot Innovation Center (including: Humanoid Robot (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.) Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center Zhejiang Humanoid Robot Center IDEA / Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Digital Economy Research Institute CAS / Chinese Academy of Sciences (including: Institute of Automation, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Space Application Center, etc.) CAICT / China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (including: Institute of Artificial Intelligence) 5. Consumer/Industrial/Specialty Robots Narwal / Cloud Whale Intelligence Roborock Dreame / Seeking (implied in the text, usually listed alongside Narwhal / Stone) ECOVACS (The article mentions "Tineco" or related competitors?) -> The original article mainly mentions Pudu. Keenon (not explicitly stated in the original text, but belongs to this category) Estun (the original text is not explicitly stated, but Inovance is mentioned) Inovance / Huichuan Technology Rokid (not mentioned in the original text, but Anker is mentioned) Anker / Anker Innovations Siasun / Siasun Robot Youibot / Youaizhihe Tianqi / Tianqi Shares 6. Universities & Academic Labs This merged all labs, professor groups, and research assistant positions within the university, including those in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. Tsinghua University (including: Institute for Advanced Study in Engineering, SSR, AIR, and Shenzhen Graduate School) Peking University (including: School of Intelligent Machines, Institute of Information Technology, Dong Hao's Group, etc.) Shanghai Jiao Tong University (including: MVIG, RhOS, ScaleLab, and the School of Automation and Sensing) University of Hong Kong (HKU) (including MMLab, Luoping Group, etc.) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) (including Guangzhou Campus HKUST-GZ) Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) (including Shenzhen Campus CUHK-SZ) Zhejiang University (including Fast Lab) Fudan University Nanjing University Westlake University (including the Machine Intelligence Lab MiLAB) Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo Harbin Institute of Technology (including Shenzhen Campus) Tongji University Beihang University Xi'an Jiaotong University Southern University of Science and Technology (Overseas): Nanyang Technological University (NTU) (including Pine Lab) National University of Singapore (NUS) ETH Zurich KTH Royal Institute of Technology / Swedish Royal Institute of Technology MBZUAI / Mohammed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence University of Tokyo (few mentioned in the text, mainly referring to universities in Europe and America) Stanford/MIT/CMU/Berkeley (the text repeatedly mentions various professor groups, such as UC Berkeley/CMU Robotics Institute) UK Universities: Imperial, Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, Edinburgh, Nottingham, etc. Technical University of Munich (TUM) Delft/Eindhoven (TU Delft/TU Eindhoven) 7. Investment Institutions & Community (VC & Community) CICC (including CICC Research Institute) Wenzheng Asset / 稳正资产 DeepBlue Academy (Education and Training) Embodied AI Community (Lumina, Xbotics - although the publisher, they are also recruiting operators)