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Japanese engineers have taken apart a Unitree G1 to study China’s humanoid advances, but Japan lacks the commercial scenes, from entertainment to data centres, that turned Chinese robots into a real i
Industrial autonomous-mobile-robot maker Standard Robots has filed for a Hong Kong IPO a third time, with cash of under 50 million yuan and cumulative losses above 400 million yuan, a snapshot of the
Shenzhen’s BridgeDP Robotics, builder of the RoboCraft AI motion platform, has closed a Pre-A+++ round led by China Mobile’s chain-leader fund, betting that cross-body motion software becomes the oper
From parcel sorting to elderly care, Shenzhen’s embodied-intelligence robots are moving into real production and service scenes, with the city targeting 50-plus scaled scenarios and 100 billion yuan i
🇲🇾 Malaysia, 2026-07: Chinese brands took 8.2% of the market (8.2% excl MG). Perodua and Proton still own 59%, but the China bench is stacking up fast.
At WAIC 2026 the embodied-intelligence zone was again the busiest. Sudu’s booth drew a different crowd: robots stood quietly at a workbench doing plain things, grabbing items, wrapping an object with a cloth using both arms, inserting a part into its hole. No showmanship, but the stability, success rate and generalisation stood out. This is … Read more
As multimodal and VLA models mature, embodied intelligence is racing toward industry. Robots reason better, but in real homes, factories and shops, what decides capability is not only how smart the brain is, but how accurately they perceive the physical world. Navigation, fine grasping and human interaction all rest on reliable three-dimensional vision. Guangxin Technology … Read more
As robots flood factories, homes and public spaces, what decides whether they can actually work is shifting from movement to manipulation. Carrying, inspection and simple pick-and-place are maturing, but on finer dexterous tasks, grasping parts, turning tools, inserting components, robots still struggle. The industry used to rank a hand by parameters, degrees of freedom, load, … Read more
On 6 August, DeepSeek said it plans to raise the pricing of its API services overall in the near term, with a substantial increase expected, and advised users to arrange their usage sensibly. Specifics will follow an official notice. DeepSeek currently runs a peak-and-off-peak schedule. On weekdays, peak hours, Beijing time 09:00 to 12:00 and … Read more
On 9 August, Apple’s China website briefly published a Mac support guide stating that the China-version Apple Intelligence would work with Alibaba’s Qwen large model, which the market read as a sign that Apple’s China AI was finally landing. The document was taken down in under a day, and the site now keeps only the … Read more