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China’s dexterous-hand funding hit 25 billion yuan in the first half of 2026, past all of 2025, with shipments set to climb from over 20,000 units to 70,200, as InTime, Lingxin, Turning Point and Brai
Honor unveiled the Robot Phone in the Greater Bay Area on 12 August, pairing a four-degree-of-freedom titanium gimbal with an on-device agent OS, with pre-orders past 400,000 units and prices from 9,9
Cambricon’s first-half revenue reached 5.996 billion yuan, up 108 per cent, while Moore Threads narrowed its loss to 11.56 million yuan as China’s domestic AI chips ride demand and US export limits in
Unitree Technology has set the terms of its STAR Market debut, raising 4.202 billion yuan with 80 per cent going to R&D, after 2025 revenue of 1.708 billion yuan jumped 335 per cent and net profit top
Hikvision’s 2026 interim report shows a company compounding quietly. First-half revenue reached 46.82 billion yuan, up 11.97 per cent, with net profit attributable to shareholders at 7.90 billion, up 39.57 per cent, and non-recurring net profit at 7.71 billion, up 40.50 per cent. Gross margin rose to 49.97 per cent, up 4.78 percentage points, widening … Read more
On 12 August, SiEngine announced that its self-developed 7-nanometre automotive-grade AI accelerator, the Tiangong 100 (NNA100), has entered full mass production and begun batch supply to OEMs and Tier-1 partners. The chip is a standalone, plug-in accelerator for on-device agent AI, built to give local large models a complete domestic compute base and fix the … Read more
When Gasgoo reported NIO’s latest charging and swap progress, a reader summed up the scepticism: “That is no moat, it could be a trap.” For long-time watchers that reads as fair. NIO has poured more than 20 billion yuan into charging and swap infrastructure, a classic heavy-asset drag. It posted its first quarterly profit in … Read more
On 11 August in Shenzhen, China Changan Automobile Group and Huawei Technologies signed a strategic framework agreement, the centrepiece of a 12 August wave of OEM and supply-chain news. The two sides will explore cooperation in AI products and scenarios, general and automotive vertical large models, digital infrastructure, compute, software and hardware, and will deepen … Read more
On 23 July, Apollo Go received Hong Kong’s first driverless test licence, and on 27 July it began public-road testing on the airport island with no safety driver inside, the world’s first fully driverless project in a right-hand-traffic system. One day later its sixth-generation RT6 appeared on the streets of London, where on 28 July … Read more
On 21 April 2026, RoboSense held its Tech Day in Shenzhen and for the first time laid out a systematic chip roadmap. Two flagship SPAD-SoCs on its new “Genesis” digital architecture debuted: the Phoenix line for monolithic native ultra-high line count, and the Peacock line for all-solid-state high-resolution arrays. Both reach mass production in 2026. … Read more