China Merchants Venture Capital is a venture capital firm based in Shenzhen, China. China Merchants Venture Capital has deployed $30M in robotics investments. Its humanoid robotics portfolio includes LimX Dynamics. Focus areas include Chinese industrial tech, infrastructure, logistics.
Round size: Undisclosed
China Merchants Venture Capital is a venture capital firm based in Shenzhen, China. China Merchants Venture Capital has deployed $30M in robotics investments. Its humanoid robotics portfolio includes LimX Dynamics. Focus areas include Chinese industrial tech, infrastructure, logistics.
This 36Kr article is primarily a news aggregator page listing multiple technology and business stories from July 17, 2026, rather than containing the full text of the reported story. The headline references a humanoid robot ODM maker that secured tens of millions in financing from Fine-MEC and Sunsoar Tech, but the detailed article content is not included in the provided text.
Agility's Digit humanoid robot has learned to perform a 65-pound (29.5 kg) deadlift through advanced simulation-based policy training that accounts for load distribution, grip forces, and center of mass changes. The training demonstrates whole-body coordination and actuator resilience required for heavy lifting tasks. This week's IEEE Spectrum Video Friday roundup also highlights emerging robotics companies including Harvard's autonomous swarm robots (RAnts) that can build and dismantle structures, Gatlin Robotics' debut Robot-as-a-Service commercial, and MagicLab Robotics' large-scale deployment of robot dogs and humanoids at a sports stadium opening ceremony.
Video Friday: Digit Learns to Dead-lift - IEEE Spectrum