Alibaba plans to launch a quadruped robot through its Amap unit, entering the consumer robotics market. Amap is also exploring humanoid robots. The quadruped market is predicted to grow from $3.45 billion in 2025 to $11.26 billion by 2032.

AgiBot has spun off its quadruped robot division, AgiQuad, which aims for 500 million yuan revenue by 2026 and 10 billion yuan by 2030. This move supports AgiBot's IPO plans in Hong Kong by 2026, amid competition from Unitree Robotics.

Tesla's China President indicated that the Shanghai Gigafactory could manufacture humanoid robots in the future, aligning with CEO Musk's vision and China's national plan for robot production. Compliance with Chinese standards may lead to regional differences in robot development.

OpenMind’s Fabric Foundation has announced that it is building the infrastructure for a robot economy, focusing on four main pillars: robotic financing, agent payments, data flywheels, and a behavioral framework for robots. The goal is to improve the sustainability and safety of the robotics industry.

Gate News message: On April 7, the AI agent protocol Virtuals Protocol launched an embodied intelligence robotics accelerator, Eastworlds, aiming to help prototype robots in labs quickly move into real-world application scenarios. Eastworlds’ core functions include: building a community of robot engineers to jointly solve complex problems; providing ready-to-deploy robot hardware; and creating Embodied AI Data

The general-purpose robot network Orbion successfully deployed and went live on the BSC mainnet on March 31, with the goal of enabling end-to-end lifecycle management of general-purpose robots for users worldwide. The platform’s native token ORB has opened a 72-hour public subscription, serving as the core credential for governance, payments, and value transfer.

Gate News, on March 25, Payy, a stablecoin startup, completed a $6 million seed round of financing in December last year, led by FirstMark Capital, with participation from Robot Ventures and DBA Crypto. This round of financing was conducted using a SAFE agreement format with attached token warrants. To date, Payy has accumulated a total of $8 million in financing.

Gate News: On March 20th, Web3 embodied AI robotics company PrismaX joined NVIDIA's Inception program. Through this program, PrismaX will gain access to development tools, technical resources, training support, priority infrastructure access rights, and support from a broader ecosystem comprised of builders and investors. The Inception program is a free virtual accelerator initiative launched by NVIDIA specifically designed to help startups in the fields of AI, data science, and high-performance computing (HPC) accelerate their growth.

Gate News bot message, according to the official Gate announcement Gate has launched live trading of Lobster perpetual contracts, settled in USDT, supporting 1-20x leverage. At the same time, it introduces Lobster contract copy trading and trading robot services. Gate has added Lobster unified account lending and isolated margin trading pairs, simultaneously launching Lobster Earn, flexible collateralized lending, and fixed-term collateralized lending features. Additionally, the platform has introduced Lobster Flash Swap, allowing users to exchange Lobster for USDT or other supported tokens, and supports Lobster fixed investment with investment periods including hourly, daily, and other options.

Virtuals Protocol announced the Base Batches 003 plan on March 6, to promote embodied robot development, aiming to support the construction of agent GDP, address structural issues such as identity, permissions, and payments, and facilitate the scalable deployment of robot technology.