X Square Robot raises new funds, targets home trials by May
Chinese humanoid robotics startup X Square Robot said it has secured Series B funding led by Xiaomi Corp.’s strategic investment arm and plans to begin testing its new generation of robots in real households by late May. Chief executive officer Wang Qian announced the developments at an event in Beijing on Tuesday. The company is recruiting its first batch of household users, describing the May 25 deployment as an experimental phase rather than a mass-market rollout. At Tuesday’s event, X Square Robot unveiled Wall-B, an embodied AI foundational model based on a “World Unified Model” architecture. The architecture gives the robot an intuitive sense of its physical dimensions and the ability to perceive basic physics such as gravity, inertia, and friction, enabling it to learn from failure and adjust its strategies.
Tencent’s QClaw launches overseas beta testing
Tencent Holdings Ltd. launched the overseas beta test of its AI tool QClaw on Tuesday, rolling it out in countries including the U.S., Canada, Singapore and South Korea. The international version supports multiple languages and mainstream messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram. During the testing phase, it offers users 40 million tokens daily. Tencent said that the overseas edition was developed in just five days based on the domestic version, with about 99% of the code written by QClaw itself.
Smart truck maker DeepWay raises $310 million in pre-IPO round
Smart new-energy truck developer DeepWay announced Tuesday it has secured $310 million in a pre-IPO funding round led by Stone Capital. The round was also joined by investors including Australian pension fund NGS Super and ABC Impact. The funds will be primarily used to advance DeepWay’s autonomous driving technology and the global commercialization of its driverless freight robots.
Xiaomi launches desktop version of AI agent miclaw
Xiaomi Corp. announced Tuesday the launch of its AI agent application, Xiaomi miclaw, for PC, Mac, and smart displays, initiating a small-scale beta test. Built on Xiaomi’s MiMo large language model, the product was originally launched on March 6 as China’s first smartphone-based AI agent application.
