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On 27 October the large-model team at D-Robotics published Uranus, a world-model simulation platform, and put the whole stack in public: technical report, inference code, SDK and two versions of the model weights. A hundred early-access slots were opened to teams outside the company. The Shenzhen company, which grew out of Horizon Robotics to build … Read more
The most interesting number in Anthropic’s IPO filing is not the loss. It is 26 per cent. In the registration statement lodged with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on 26 October, Anthropic disclosed that about 26 per cent of its research and development tasks had reached what it calls AL4 automation by August 2026. … Read more
XPeng has signed distribution agreements covering Nigeria, Oman, Kuwait and Albania, taking its global sales network to 83 countries and regions. https://robotbelt.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/18_0-2.png The signing sequence The Albania agreement was signed in Guangzhou on 1 September. The Nigeria and Oman agreements were concluded in Dubai on 21 and 24 September respectively. On 26 October, XPeng completed … Read more
Zhuoyu Technology launched a commercial-vehicle technology brand, Pansing, in Zhuhai on 29 October, alongside disclosed progress with seven Chinese truck and bus manufacturers covering heavy trucks, coaches and light trucks. https://robotbelt.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/16_0-1.jpg The partner list The seven partners are XCMG, Shaanxi Auto, Sinotruk, FAW Jiefang, Foton, Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle and Yutong Bus. Production is already under … Read more
Volkswagen Group has widened an electric-vehicle battery recall to include Audi, taking the global total to 85,402 vehicles. Owners of the affected cars are being advised to limit charging to 80 per cent. https://robotbelt.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/15_0-3.png The expansion According to the German federal motor transport authority KBA database, the group added the Audi recall record on 27 … Read more
Subaru intends to stop selling combustion-engined cars in Europe from as early as 2028 and to sell battery-electric vehicles only in the region. If the plan holds, it would be the first Japanese carmaker to convert an entire regional business to battery power. https://robotbelt.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/14_0-4.png The sequence Subaru plans to begin winding down combustion sales from … Read more
European tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles have not stopped the trade. They have redirected it into a segment the tariff schedule never covered. Sales of used Chinese electric cars to EU customers rose 280 per cent year on year in the first nine months of 2026, reaching 7,900 units, according to data published by China … Read more
Germany’s federal president inspected the state of Sino-German automotive technology in person on 27 October, and the object of inspection was a driver-assistance stack built by a Chinese chip company. Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife visited Volkswagen Group China Technology in Hefei during a state visit to China. Horizon Robotics founder and chief executive Yu … Read more
The three largest political groups in the European Parliament have converged on a rewrite of the EU’s new-car CO2 rules, and the rewrite keeps the internal combustion engine alive past 2035. Negotiators for the centre-right EPP, the centre-left S&D and the centrist Renew reached agreement on 20 October on an amendment that resets the 2035 … Read more
On 28 October, Chen Mingxiu registered Muling Technology in Hangzhou’s Yuhang district. Registered capital was about RMB 1.5625 million. The stated direction is physical recursive self-improvement, the idea that a robot should improve its own learning process through contact with the physical world rather than depend on human annotation and on-site tuning. Chen previously headed … Read more