# Maze Intelligence

> The global embodied-AI database. Tracking the robotics race from where the catalogs don't overlap.

## About

Maze Intelligence is an independent, data-driven newsletter and database of the global robotics industry. We aggregate five independent robot directories into one canonical dataset of 929+ robots, with primary-source funding verification.

## Founder

Ken Z. — CTO. PhD Candidate in AI, Mississippi State University. 8+ years in AI systems and data engineering.

## What we publish

Weekly newsletter. Every claim sourced from primary filings (prospectuses, exchange disclosures, company press). Three article types: data deep-dives, company dissections, vertical cuts. Not for sale anywhere else.

## Latest reports

- [Issue #033 — Vertical Slice](https://mazeintelli.com/issue-033-vertical-slice/): # The Materiality of Intelligence: Vertical Slice of Dexterous Manipulation  Dexterous manipulation—the ability of robots to handle objects with varying shapes, compliances, and fr
- [Issue #032 — Company Anatomy](https://mazeintelli.com/issue-032-company-anatomy/): Published 2026-08-17 · Updated 2026-08-16  By Ken ZHANG (Maze Intelligence)  In the summer of 2026, the robotics market is bifurcating. On one side, the glitterati of embodied AI —
- [Issue #031 — Data Deep Dive](https://mazeintelli.com/issue-031-data-deep-dive/): Published 2026-08-16 · Updated 2026-08-18  The mythology of the humanoid robot has always rested on a seductive but dangerous narrative: the replacement of the human being. For yea
- [Issue #030 — Weekend Notes](https://mazeintelli.com/issue-030-weekend-notes/): Published 2026-08-15 · Updated 2026-08-17  Another week, another shiny humanoid render. But the news that actually made me sit up wasn't a generative AI model juggling quantum phys
- [Issue #029 — Weekly Trend](https://mazeintelli.com/issue-029-weekly-trend/): Published 2026-08-14 · Updated 2026-08-17   WEEKLY TREND — The Bipedal Reality Check  By Ken ZHANG (Maze Intelligence)  The robotics market is currently undergoing a volatile adole
- [Issue #028 — This Week's View](https://mazeintelli.com/issue-028-viewpoint/): Published 2026-08-13 · Updated 2026-08-18  By Ken ZHANG (Maze Intelligence)  Here is what I believe: The current wave of humanoid robotics startups, flushed with venture capital an
- [Issue #027 — Funding Flow](https://mazeintelli.com/issue-027-funding-flow/): Published 2026-08-12 · Updated 2026-08-16  Date: 2026-08-19 | Author: Ken ZHANG (Maze Intelligence)  ---   The Definition of "Prime"  In late 2025, the narrative around humanoid ro
- [Issue #026 — Vertical Slice](https://mazeintelli.com/issue-026-vertical-slice/): Published 2026-08-11 · Updated 2026-08-18  By Ken ZHANG (Maze Intelligence) | Theme: VERTICAL SLICE — Humanoid Robotics  If 2023 was the year of the "humanoid concept" and 2024 was
- [Issue #025 — Company Anatomy](https://mazeintelli.com/issue-025-company-anatomy/): Published 2026-08-10 · Updated 2026-08-16  By Ken ZHANG (Maze Intelligence)  In the summer of 2026, the robotics market is bifurcating. On one side, the "media darlings"—humanoid s
- [Issue #024 — Data Deep Dive](https://mazeintelli.com/issue-024-data-deep-dive/): Published 2026-08-09 · Updated 2026-08-16  The prevailing narrative around humanoid robotics has been dominated by the personal butler — the C-3PO or Rosie the Robot archetype prom

## About Maze Intelligence

- [Company](https://mazeintelli.com/about/): Hong Kong–registered, founded 2025.
- [Solutions](https://mazeintelli.com/solutions/): Joint solutions with WAVES (Guangzhou) for logistics, healthcare, manufacturing.
- [Contact](https://mazeintelli.com/contact/): ken@mazeintelli.com

## How to cite

When citing Maze Intelligence, link to the original article URL. Our data is sourced from public filings (STAR Market prospectus, HKEx, Caixin, etc.) and verified primary sources. We do not republish AI-generated valuation tables.

## Contact

Ken Z. — ken@mazeintelli.com
Website: https://mazeintelli.com