Google’s Robot Gamble: Sell the Brain, Not the Body
While Tesla and Figure race to build the better body, Google placed a different bet: own the brain, and let everyone els
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Kunlun’s Matrix-Game 3.5 Wants to Teach Robots Cause and Effect
At WAIC 2026, the world model was everywhere, and Kunlun Wanwei arrived with a claim that China, not just Google, now se
Why Meta Bought a Chinese AI-Safety Team
Meta’s acquisition of Virtue AI is easy to read as another Silicon Valley talent grab. Look closer and it is a signal ab
Shenzhen’s PaXini Opens a Showroom for Robot Touch
A robot’s understanding of the world usually begins with vision. But whether a grasp is stable, a plug is seated, or a p
At WAIC, Qiling’s Robots Ran a Shop With No Remote Control
At WAIC 2026 in Shanghai, Qiling did something many robot demos avoid: it let the machines run the shop by themselves.
Why LiDAR Makers Are Racing to Design Their Own Chips
For years the debate over LiDAR was simple: believers called it essential safety redundancy, sceptics led by Tesla calle
Shenzhen’s Bangqi Lets Factories Rent Robots Instead of Buying Them
The hardest part of automating a warehouse has rarely been the robots. It is the bill: buy the hardware, absorb the depr
Pingshan Opens a Sea-Air-Land Test Ground for Smart and Low-Altitude Transport
Shenzhen’s Pingshan district has landed a national endorsement for something distinctly local: a test ground where cars,
Shenzhen’s Quiet Bet: Why One Lawmaker Says the City Is Built for Industrial AI
Artificial intelligence is the fourth industrial revolution, and Shenzhen is unusually well placed to turn it into indus
Jaime Xiao: 25 American companies just defended Chinese open-weight models
Jaime Xiao on the letter NVIDIA, Microsoft and Meta just signed — titled “Open Weights and American AI Leadership”, a lobbying front to keep Chinese open-weight models legal in America. The real split isn’t US versus China; it’s closed-model rentiers versus the open-weight industrial base. Full post below.