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Nine Hundred Million for a Robot That Hasn't Shipped: Inside Physical AI's Capital Moment - August 25, 2026
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Nine Hundred Million for a Robot That Hasn't Shipped: Inside Physical AI's Capital Moment - August 25, 2026 XPeng's robotics unit just raised over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation, the largest single-round private financing in China's embodied AI industry, for a humanoid robot that won't reach paying customers until next year. Meanwhile, a Chinese robot outran Usain Bolt's 100m world record in Beijing and then collapsed and had to be carried off on a stretcher. We dig into the wideni...