Robots are on display at the Robot Mall, world's first embodied intelligence robot 4S store, on August 6, 2025 in Beijing, China.Beijing Youth Daily | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesBEIJING — As the race for household robots heats up, Chinese humanoid startup X Square Robot announced Monday it had secured around $100 million in a funding round led by Alibaba Cloud.It's the Shenzhen-based startup's eighth round of financing since the company launched less than two years ago in December 2023, ac...