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Past one million cars, Huawei Qiankun re-architects its autonomous driving for safety

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Seeing more clearly Huawei stays on multi-sensor fusion, recently shipping distributed millimetre-wave radar, high-resolution solid-state lidar, a lidar-vision unit called Limera, and an 896-line dual-path lidar. The point is cross-verification: when one sensor degrades in fog, glare or occlusion, the others keep reading the road. Understanding the world Beyond perception, Qiankun moves to the WEWA … Read more

BeingBeyond’s 500,000-hour bet: a Peking professor’s pure-model path to embodied AI

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Lu’s company, BeingBeyond, just released Being-H0.8, an implicit tactile world-action model trained on 500,000 hours of first-person human video, the largest such corpus among embodied models globally. Its progression tells the story: H0 at 3,000 hours in July 2025, H0.5 at 35,000 hours supporting 30 robot types in January, H0.7 at 200,000 hours in April, … Read more

Embodied data enters the ‘out-of-box’ era: why robot training needs model-ready data

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What ‘model-ready’ means Jianzhi Robotics calls the data it sells ‘Model-Ready Data’, data you can feed straight to a model without rework. It needs three traits at once: high precision, multimodality and diversity. Hand-tracking error of 2-3cm, the industry norm, means the model sees a finger a full digit off, so it grabs through cup … Read more

Unitree’s IPO cleared: the $10k humanoid that ate the competition

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From loss to 600m profit Three years ago the company was loss-making; two years ago quadrupeds were its only revenue. Now humanoids are half the business, with 2025 net profit hitting 600 million yuan. Revenue grew tenfold from 159 million yuan in 2023 to 1.7 billion yuan in 2025, while gross margin rose to 60.4 … Read more

Two Chinese humanoid bets: Unitree’s $10k ‘cyber Wuling’ vs UBTech’s $140k ‘cyber Hermes’

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Unitree’s Fordism Unitree’s playbook is pure cost crushing. Its G1 launched at $13,500, a category-redefining price for a 30-plus-degree-of-freedom biped. Where Boston Dynamics’ Atlas costs millions and Tesla’s Optimus keeps slipping on North American supply chains, Unitree leans on a decade of quadruped volume to self-produce core components at scale. The 4.2 billion yuan raise … Read more

Shenzhen’s Bojiang Robotics wins 200m yuan Hong Kong order for construction robots

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Shenzhen Bojiang Robotics has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with a leading Hong Kong smart-construction firm, marking its move from pilot deployments to scaled adoption in the Hong Kong and Macau market. Under the deal, the Hong Kong firm will purchase construction robots, intelligent equipment and related technical services worth at least 200 million yuan … Read more

LimX Dynamics closes $200m pre-IPO round, Shenzhen humanoid maker now valued at $2.1bn

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The round drew top-tier global capital from China, Europe, the Middle East, North America and Southeast Asia. New investors include IDG Capital, Lens Technology, G.G.G. Group, Redstone VC, Huashan Capital and Hefei Binhu Industrial Development Group. Returning backers such as Nio Capital and Oasis Capital increased their stakes, with UAE’s Stone Venture following on across … Read more

Jaime Xiao: Hong Kong is where the electric century gets financed — Roach mourns the old entrepôt, the supply chain picked a new centre

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Jaime Xiao on why Hong Kong, not the old neutral entrepôt, has become the pricing centre for the smart-car revolution: from CATL’s cells to Hesai’s lidar to Momenta’s driving brain, the EV supply chain has chosen one exchange, and Stephen Roach’s “made in China” lament reads as an indictment he should plead guilty to. Embedded … Read more

At WAIC, Everyone Is Suddenly Racing to Build Robot ‘Touch’

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This year at WAIC, the embodied-AI booths shared one unexpected keyword: touch. Two years ago tactile sensing barely registered; now, from sensor vendors to whole-robot companies, “touch” is on every placard, with some declaring it more important than vision. The race is not just over sensors but over the models, data and even the chips … Read more

Xiaomi Reorganises Around MiMo, Its Base Model, for the Agent Era

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Xiaomi has restructured its AI around the MiMo base model, splitting the technology behind its decade-old voice assistant XiaoAI into three pillars: the MiMo base-model team led by Luo Fuli, the cloud engineering team led by Luan Jian, and the on-device OS capability pushed down into the phone and car teams. The move signals that … Read more