Reuters reports Chinese embodied-AI firms raised about $13B across 322 deals in the first half of 2026. CATL says Spirit AI robots insert flexible wires in battery-pack testing at over 99% success, and DexForce is readying some factory tasks in 6 to 8 hours. The factory floor is where this money is now being judged.
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BMW's Automated Driving In-Plant system, built with Embotech, has moved 1 million new cars at four UK and German sites. It runs about 3,500 moves a day at over 99.5% availability. Plant logistics automation at real scale, with an uptime number.
SK Ecoplant had AI study each employee's work data to build role-specific agents. The first ones handle report and record work at semiconductor plant and AI data center job sites. The company has trained 318 staff as in-house AI experts.
Since August, AI agents built with Palantir cut average robot program problem-solving time at HD Hyundai Robotics from 21.5 days to 7.9 days, a 63% drop. The company expects programming costs to fall over 50%. Field engineers will be retrained as on-site solution experts.
