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Green's harmonic stock briefly rose over 12% during trading, reaching a maximum of 377.15 yuan, with a maximum increase of over 15%, currently reported at 368 yuan.Previously, "New Stock God" Serenity posted on platform X, stating that Green's harmonic has a strong competitive advantage in the humanoid robot industry chain, holding over 60% of the domestic harmonic reducer market share, and called it one of its most favored investment targets in the humanoid robot sector.

Robot AI startup Generalist AI has completed a new round of financing of $400 million, led by Radical Ventures, with participation from 8VC, Union Square Ventures, Hanabi Capital, and existing investors NVIDIA and Bezos Expeditions. After this round of financing, the company's valuation has reached $2 billion.The company was co-founded by Pete Florence, Andy Zeng, and Andy Barry, focusing on leveraging cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology to iterate robot models and develop intelligent robot products capable of handling complex tasks. The funds raised in this round will be used for advanced AI model development and expanding the application scenarios for robots.

According to Fortune, the startup Mecka AI, which focuses on training data for robotic AI, announced the completion of a total financing of $60,000,000, including a $25,000,000 Series A round completed last November and a subsequent $35,000,000 follow-on financing. Both rounds were led by Framework Ventures, with participation from institutions such as Menlo Ventures, SV Angel, and Kindred Ventures.Mecka AI primarily collects human motion data through body sensors, iPhones, and custom hardware, including physical behavior data such as gestures and gait, to train robotic AI models.The company's founder and CEO, Josh Gao, stated that its core philosophy is to train robots using human behavior data rather than traditional teleoperation data, thereby enhancing the general capabilities of robots in the real world.It was introduced that Mecka AI was established in 2025 and currently has about 40 employees. The company claims that based on signed contracts, its annual recurring revenue (ARR Run Rate) is expected to reach $100,000,000, but it has not disclosed a specific client list.Vance Spencer, co-founder of Framework Ventures, stated that Mecka AI is one of the fastest-growing companies in the institution's portfolio.In the future, Mecka AI plans not only to provide training data but also to directly participate in the training and deployment of robotic models, promoting the commercialization of robots in real-world scenarios.

After previously announcing the completion of a $200 million Series B financing, Shenzhen Zhongqing Robot Technology Co., Ltd. has now completed a Series B+ financing, with the specific scale and investors yet to be disclosed.According to official sources, after the completion of the Series B financing, Zhongqing Robot's valuation exceeded 10 billion yuan, placing it in the top tier of valuations in the domestic humanoid robot sector. Recently, the foreign investor representative of Zhongqing Robot, REDA NIDHAKOU, has resigned from the board of directors of Zhongqing Robot.

Meta is developing a highly personalized AI assistant to help users manage daily tasks. According to insiders, the project includes an advanced digital assistant powered by Meta's newly launched Muse Spark AI model, which is currently being tested among internal employees.Additionally, reports indicate that Meta aims to create a product similar to OpenClaw, allowing users to create AI robots known as "agents" that can autonomously perform tasks.

According to The Block, the x402 Foundation, incubated by Coinbase, has announced the launch of the unified platform Agent.market, aimed at providing an "app store"-like service entry for AI robots.The platform is built on the x402 protocol and helps users and robots access hundreds of tools and services. The x402 protocol is named after the unused HTTP 402 "Payment Required" status code, allowing websites, APIs, and AI robots to request and receive instant micropayments through blockchain and traditional payment channels. The protocol is managed as an open standard by the x402 Foundation under the Linux Foundation and has the support of over 20 organizations and crypto companies, including Cloudflare, Stripe, AWS, Google, Visa, Base, Circle, and the Solana Foundation.When Agent.market goes live, it will cover seven major categories including reasoning, data, media, search, social, infrastructure, and trading, with service providers including OpenAI and Venice (reasoning); Bloomberg and CoinGecko (data); LinkedIn, X, and AgentMail (social); AWS Lambda, QuickNode, and Alechemy (infrastructure); as well as Bankr and Coinbase RAT (trading). Providers can join the marketplace without permission.Erik Reppel, the creator of the x402 protocol, stated that there are currently about 69,000 active agent robots on the protocol, which have completed over 165 million transactions with a transaction volume of 50 million dollars. He pointed out that agent commerce based on x402 is reshaping the customer acquisition activation costs for businesses, as robots can now access services at a very low setup cost without needing API keys.

AI Agent Protocol Virtuals Protocol launched the Embodied Intelligent Robot project Eastworlds, aiming to help prototype robots in laboratories quickly transition to real-world applications.The core functions of Eastworlds include building a community of robotic engineers to collaboratively solve complex problems; providing ready-to-deploy robotic hardware; and creating an Embodied AI Data Lake to capture real-world chaotic data for training autonomy.

Coin Bureau posted on platform X that X product head Nikita Bier stated that there is no technology that can solve the spam issue under cryptocurrency posts, as about 80% of the activity is driven by bots.

Silicon Valley-based industrial robotics company RoboForce announced the completion of a $52 million oversubscribed financing round, bringing the total funding amount to $67 million. This round of financing was led by YZi Labs, with participation from Yahoo co-founder and former CEO Jerry Yang. Additionally, existing investors including Nobel Laureate Myron Scholes, Qiming Venture Partners founding partner Gary Rieschel, and Carnegie Mellon University also continued to participate. The new funds will be used to accelerate the development of the company's next-generation robotic foundational models, promote the scaling of general-purpose Physical AI robots, and advance manufacturing capabilities to prepare for commercial deployment.The industrial sector is currently facing a continuously expanding labor gap: many physically demanding, repetitive, and safety-risk jobs still rely on increasingly scarce human labor, leading to extended project cycles and increased safety risks. RoboForce's solution aims to take on these high-risk, monotonous jobs, with application scenarios including large solar power plants, data centers, mining, shipping, manufacturing, and logistics in various industrial environments.

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German robotics startup Neura Robotics is preparing for a new funding round of approximately 1 billion euros to accelerate the development of AI-driven humanoid robots. According to insiders, the issuer of the stablecoin USDT, Tether, is expected to participate in this round of investment.This funding round could value Neura Robotics, headquartered in Meckenheim, Germany, at around 4 billion euros, and may lead to further financing in the future. Neura Robotics was founded in 2019 by David Reger and is dedicated to developing "cognitive robots" equipped with visual, auditory, and environmental perception capabilities. The company is also developing both industrial and consumer-grade robots and has created a software platform called Neuraverse to support safe interactions between intelligent robots and humans.Public information shows that the company previously completed a funding round of 120 million euros in January 2025, led by Lingotto Investment Management, with investors including the Volvo Cars Tech Fund. The company has stated that its order volume is nearing 1 billion dollars, with clients including Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Omron.

German robotics startup Neura Robotics has completed a financing round of approximately 1 billion euros (about 1.2 billion dollars), with participation from stablecoin issuer Tether Holdings SA, aimed at developing AI-driven humanoid robots. This round of financing values the company at around 4 billion euros, with potential for further funding in the future.Neura Robotics, headquartered in Metzingen, Germany, currently sells products including factory transport robots and robotic arm devices for home use. The company's CEO, David Reger, previously stated that the company's order volume last year was close to 1 billion dollars, with clients including Japan's Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Omron. In January 2025, the company completed a financing round of 120 million euros led by Exor's Lingotto Investment Management.This investment is Tether's latest move in its ongoing expansion beyond the cryptocurrency business, having previously invested in brain-computer interface company Blackrock Neurotech and Italian robotics startup Generative Bionics.

According to The Wall Street Journal, crypto venture capital firm Paradigm is seeking to raise up to $1.5 billion for its next fund, with investment scope expanding from crypto to "frontier technologies" such as AI and robotics, while still continuing to invest in the crypto space.

OpenMind and Circle have officially announced a strategic partnership to jointly launch the world's first payment infrastructure specifically designed for autonomous intelligent agents and real-world embodied AI. By deeply integrating Circle's USDC stablecoin with OpenMind's x402 protocol module, this collaboration enables robots and AI entities to achieve direct and autonomous payments for energy, services, and data in the physical world.Based on the collaboration between OpenMind and Circle, the FABRIC Foundation will accelerate the implementation and large-scale deployment from two main directions: Robot Birthplace and Acceleration of Adoption.The payment infrastructure provided by OpenMind + Circle offers machines an "economic brain," while the FABRIC Foundation is responsible for the entire closed-loop chain of "birth, production, operation, and evolution." The synergy among these three will jointly give rise to a true machine economy era—where robots are no longer mere tools, but independent economic entities with autonomous perception, decision-making, action, and payment capabilities. In the coming months, more real-world deployment cases (such as automatic charging stations) are worth continuous attention.

The robotics startup Axis Robotics announced that in an experiment codenamed "The Rose of the Little Prince," it mobilized 12,000 users worldwide to complete the crowdsourced collection of 10,000 high-quality trajectory data points within 5 days through its self-developed browser-based platform. This experiment demonstrated that robotic intelligence can be constructed outside of traditional, expensive laboratory environments, achieving data scale explosion through public participation.Leveraging the MetaSim architecture, Axis Robotics has created an end-to-end pipeline from task setup to real machine deployment, decoupling complex physical simulations from lightweight web interactions to ensure that the collected data has deep processing capabilities. The platform enhances data diversity through cross-simulation replay technology, replaying high-frequency physical data from MuJoCo in Isaac Sim and performing large-scale domain randomization.Currently, the official team has successfully achieved real machine reproduction on the Franka robotic arm based on this batch of data provided by ordinary internet users, validating the feasibility of this data collection model in industrial implementation.

According to the official announcement, Gate will launch the robot upgrade event from February 9, 16:00 to February 27, 08:00 (UTC+8). During the event, both new and existing users who sign up to participate in robot trading will have the chance to receive robot trial funds and Gate merchandise.At the same time, users participating in trading can also take part in the leaderboard evaluation based on the total trading volume of the robots and the trading volume of different strategies, covering strategies such as spot grid, contract grid, spot martingale, and contract martingale, to win corresponding ranking rewards.