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According to The Information, Tesla has increased the production of its Optimus humanoid robot by about 10 times in recent months.

According to the official announcement, the Gate contract Robinhood section has launched AGRIPPA and MONITOR contract trading, trading robots, and Order Tracking features, all supporting 1-10 times leverage for long and short positions.AGRIPPA (Agrippa) is named after the ancient Roman general Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and features a cute Bear-style Avatar; MONITOR (The Situation) revolves around the long-popular internet meme "Monitoring the Situation." Both are on-chain tokens of Robinhood.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk accepted an exclusive interview with China Central Television's finance channel. When discussing robots, he stated that everyone could have their own personal robot, which can take care of elderly parents, look after children, and serve as a one-on-one tutor for kids, handling various tasks.Musk mentioned that in the future world, a person could control hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of physical robots and digital intelligences. "My prediction is that within ten years, there will be at least 1 billion humanoid robots; in the next 15 years, it may reach 10 billion; and in the next 20 years, it could reach 100 billion."

According to statistics from Gaogong Robotics, in August of this year, there were a total of 168 winning projects disclosed in domestic bidding related to embodied intelligent robots, with a total amount of approximately 550 million yuan. Among them, products from Yushu Technology appeared in 55 procurement orders and 89 bids, accounting for about one-third, and ranked first in the number of winning bids with 136 medium/full-size humanoid and quadruped robots.In terms of amount, there were only 7 orders at the ten million yuan level, accounting for about 4%. The largest single order was for the "Shanxi Taichu Embodied Intelligent Innovation R&D Center Integrated Technology Operation Service Provider Project," amounting to 122 million yuan, used for the construction of a data collection and training center. In the overall orders, the amount for the data collection training center accounted for about 60%, while the projects flowing into scientific research and education accounted for nearly 80%. Projects directed towards real scenarios such as power inspection, industrial inspection, cultural tourism commercial use, and firefighting accounted for less than 10%.

According to Nikkei Asia, Chinese startup Unitree Robotics saw its stock price drop more than 50% from its opening price one month after listing on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The market capitalization corresponding to the company's opening price reached 66 billion dollars.The report states that as the IPO frenzy subsides, investors are assessing the future of humanoid robots, with retail investors paying closer attention to the potential of humanoid robots. Unitree Robotics is a Chinese robotics startup, with products covering quadrupedal robots and humanoid robots.

According to a report by Reuters, Gao Yang, co-founder and chief scientist of the Chinese humanoid robot startup Spirit AI, stated that humanoid robots could complete most general tasks based on verbal instructions as early as next year, but it will take at least 8 more years to enter households. He mentioned that the brain is the weakest link in the entire robotics technology stack, and it is expected to reach a milestone similar to GPT-3.0 by mid-2027, allowing users to speak to robots in natural language and have them perform a series of reasonable physical actions to attempt to complete tasks.Spirit AI was founded in 2024, has about 300 employees, and raised $670 million in funding within two years, with a valuation of $2.9 billion. The company employs about 1,000 contractors who wear data collection devices at home or in factories, primarily relying on real-world data for training. The success rate for simple tasks in a structured living room environment is 90%. Currently, dozens of Moz1 wheeled humanoid robots are deployed on production lines at CATL and JD.com.Gao Yang stated that the next 1-2 years represent the initial window for industrial applications, and after two years, they can enter commercial service scenarios to perform simple tasks, but entering households will be more challenging. In terms of safety, full-body force control is implemented, and the robots will automatically engage emergency braking when encountering significant interaction forces. High-quality data is the main bottleneck for training the robot's brain.

According to a research report released by Tiger Sniff on September 20, as of August 2026, there are a total of 106 publicly disclosed centralized embodied intelligence data collection centers in the country, of which 84 are in operation, accounting for 79.25%. 52 centers disclosed the number of deployed robots, totaling approximately 3,972 units, which estimates that there are at least over 5,000 robots operating in data collection centers nationwide. The peak of construction is expected in the first quarter of 2026, after which new projects will significantly decrease, and the industry will shift from intensive construction to concentrated operation.In terms of regional distribution, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangdong have 18, 17, and 11 centers respectively, Sichuan has 8, and Beijing has 7. In terms of robot brands, Zhiyuan Robotics appeared 31 times, Leju 15 times, UBTECH 13 times, and Yushu Technology and Galaxy General each 10 times. 65.96% of data collection centers use a single robot brand, while 34.04% adopt a multi-brand strategy, and cross-entity data reuse remains a challenge.Regarding data pricing, the current real machine data costs about 500 to 1,000 yuan/hour, UMI and other non-entity data costs about 300 to 400 yuan/hour, and simulated synthetic data costs about 200 to 500 yuan/hour, with remote operation collection accounting for 79.05%. The report points out that centralized data collection has not yet formed a stable commercial closed loop, with buyer growth lagging behind base expansion. Centers that primarily rely on one-time construction funding will face greater operational pressure, and the industry elimination race has already begun.

According to the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, Shanghai-based embodied haptic company Qianjue Robotics has announced the completion of two rounds of strategic financing totaling hundreds of millions. Previously, Qianjue Robotics had announced the completion of financing at the hundred million level, with investors including embodied intelligence industry players, Tianji Capital, and Jide Electric. Currently, Qianjue's shareholders include financial investment institutions such as Hillhouse Venture Capital, Yuanhe Origin, and Futen Capital, as well as industry players in the embodied and industrial fields like Li Auto, Zhiyuan Robotics, and Jide Electric.This round of funding will focus on product upgrades, business expansion, and industrial implementation, accelerating the iteration and large-scale delivery of high-precision visual and haptic sensors, improving the collection of real interaction data, haptic simulation, and dataset construction, and continuously promoting the research and development of haptic embodied models and haptic world models.

On September 14, blockchain intelligence company TRM Labs released a report revealing that fake YouTube tutorials lured 224 victims into deploying and funding malicious smart contracts under the guise of building AI-based crypto arbitrage bots, resulting in the theft of 274.6 ETH. TRM identified a total of 234 contracts deployed by the victims, with funds ultimately flowing into six collection addresses controlled by the operators. The stolen ETH was worth approximately $517,000 at the time of the transfer, with a median loss of 1 ETH per incident.Unlike common wallet theft attacks, this scam did not involve phishing links, spoofed domains, or malicious authorization prompts. Victims chose the tutorials themselves, copied the code, deployed the contracts, and funded them from their own wallets, with each step authorized by the victims themselves. As a result, wallet security warnings and phishing blacklists could not be triggered. TRM discovered nine nearly identical YouTube tutorials disguised as different creators, using AI-generated virtual hosts and voiceovers, promising to build fully automated crypto trading bots with Claude, and guiding victims to a compiler website controlled by the operators, some of which mimicked the commonly used Remix development environment.In one variant analyzed by TRM, a backend script would discard the source code pasted by the victims and retrieve another contract from the operator's server, with the clean code displayed on the screen never being on-chain. The replaced contract accepted deposits and transferred any balance over 0.05 ETH to the operators when the victims pressed Start or Withdraw, with no arbitrage logic or AI functionality included in the contract.

According to official news, the Gate perpetual contract area for stocks was launched on September 18 at 18:00 (UTC+8) with contract trading for PATH (UiPath), CYPH (Cypherpunk Holdings), HUT (Hut 8), APLD (Applied Digital Corporation), AGPU (ExaWatt), QLD (ProShares Ultra QQQ), and CONL (Coin Daily Double Long ETF), as well as trading bots and Order Tracking features, supporting 1-20 times leverage.

The Tesla team arrived in Ningbo on September 16 and launched a new round of mass production audit for the robotics business on September 17. This audit aims to review the exclusivity and consistency of the mass production of the Optimus robot, with plans to roll out approximately 50,000 Optimus robots by 2026.

According to CoinDesk, an attacker exploited a permission verification flaw in the Multicall contract authorized by the Safe multi-signature wallet, attempting to transfer approximately 2,900 rsETH (about 7.8 million USD). However, the automated trading bot Yoink discovered the transaction in the public trading pool, paid about 47,000 USD in fees to execute the transaction first, intercepted 2,882 rsETH, and transferred it to another address.BlockSec, Blockaid, Slow Mist, and AstraSec have all confirmed that the vulnerability lies in the components authorized by the user, rather than the core Safe contract. The issuer of rsETH, Kelp DAO, has implemented a 24-hour suspension on the receiving address.

Shanghai Guotou Xian Dao recently led a new round of financing for Hello Robotaxi with approximately 100 million USD, with Min Jin Investment and Genesis Partners Venture Capital participating.After this round of financing, the valuation of Hello Robotaxi's business is close to 3 billion USD.

An MEV bot named Yoink on Ethereum front-ran an exploit attack targeting the Safe wallet, which PeckShield referred to as an approximately $7.81 million rsETH attack. On-chain records show that the Yoink transaction received 2,900 rsETH and sent 2,882.37 rsETH to the address 0xC70f00CD7E461686b04B0E912E309becA8b80ea0, which currently has a balance of 2,882.36740883 rsETH.The same transaction also sent 17.63 rsETH to the Uniswap v4 Pool Manager, which sent 18.95 ETH to the Yoink contract, which then transferred 18.93 ETH to the block builder. The Yoink transaction and the original attack transaction both occurred in Ethereum block 25980525, with the Yoink transaction at the top of the block, and the original transaction executed a rollback, consistent with the front-running judgment of security researchers.BlockSec attributed the vulnerability to a flaw in the authorization checks of the executor contract associated with the enabled Safe module, allowing calls controlled by the attacker to be executed through a trusted executor. Blockaid stated that the attacker exploited a public keeper multi-call to direct a custom Uniswap v4 liquidity module to a hook pool created by the attacker, which subsequently unpacked aEthrsETH into rsETH.

According to Jinshi News, Yushu Technology announced that the humanoid robot G1 has been fully upgraded, officially launching the G1+. The G1+ brings 6 upgrades across three dimensions: motion performance, perceptual interaction, and intelligent experience, while maintaining the high cost-performance positioning of the G1. It focuses on enhancing neck flexibility, joint motor output and thermal management, visual and tactile perception, power supply endurance, and long-distance voice interaction capabilities.The standard version of G1+ has a tax-inclusive price of 95,000 yuan, while the price of the G1+EDU, aimed at research and deep development scenarios, has not yet been announced.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Chinese regulators are seeking to raise the threshold for humanoid robot companies to enter the public capital market. Sources revealed that the China Securities Regulatory Commission recently held informal talks with several investment banks and institutional investors, signaling an intention to increase the barriers for humanoid robot companies seeking to go public.This move is related to the market performance of Yushu Technology after its listing. The company surged 460% on its first day of trading, but the excitement faded afterward, with its stock price dropping about 50% from its post-listing peak, bringing its market value down to approximately $30 billion. Regulatory authorities are trying to quell the frenzy triggered by this situation.

Research institution Shoal Research released a report stating that bots account for about 60% of HTML content HTTP requests on the Cloudflare network, while humans account for 38.2%. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince previously predicted that bot traffic would surpass human traffic by 2027, and later announced that the growth of agent traffic has already led to bots exceeding human traffic.The report states that AI applications keep users in chat interfaces and summarize content, rather than redirecting them back to the original site. AI crawlers have a much higher crawl-to-return ratio than Googlebot, with ClaudeBot averaging about 4,200 pages crawled per return visit over the past year. Pew research shows that AI summaries have reduced click-through rates from 15% to 8%.The robots.txt and content exchange traffic model are difficult to maintain. Litigation and private authorization are stopgap measures. Pay-per-request is divided into a closed market with keys and open protocols using HTTP 402 and stablecoins like x402 and MPP. Most websites still offer free access or block it.

According to Sifted, the head of the robotics division of the French AI unicorn Mistral is seeking to raise 200 million euros for its new startup, planning to develop robotic AI models based on more comprehensive data training to surpass competitors in data quality.Mistral officially established its robotics division last year.