# 27 Months. $280M. One Robot Brain. No Proof It Works.

- slug: 27-months-280m-one-robot-brain-no-proof-it-works
- date: 2026-04-02
- category: Robotics

While investors celebrated a new robotics conference in Shenzhen, China was quietly closing 2.6 embodied AI deals every day, with February and March each exceeding 10 billion yuan in financing.

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