The Belt 
After landing manufacturing and logistics reference customers in Europe, UBTech has started filling in the piece it did not have: a local network. On 22 October the Shenzhen-listed company, trading in Hong Kong as 09880, signed a memorandum of understanding with ChinaEU, an international association headquartered in Brussels, to deepen cooperation in the European robot … Read more
A-share robot names extended their rally through the afternoon of 26 October. Unitree Technology, trading as 688836, jumped more than 18 per cent intraday to a high of RMB 737.50 a share and pushed its market value past RMB 290 billion at the peak. It closed at RMB 672, up 7.69 per cent, for a … Read more
On 12 October, Hangzhou Xinjian Electromechanical Drive answered the Shenzhen Stock Exchange’s first round of questions. A company that spent 27 years on precision transmission had become the most closely watched listing candidate in the humanoid supply chain, because it supplies the screw segment for Tesla’s humanoid programme and the component base for BYD’s cars. … Read more
The financial adviser kept a full diary this spring. On her busiest day she received four government delegations, from Tianjin, Shenzhen, Chengdu and Xiamen. Most were district-level investment promotion officers. A few ran whole prefecture-level cities. Some of them said it plainly. They had no thesis of their own, so they followed whatever the policy … Read more
The quadruped robot market is splitting into two businesses that share a body plan and almost nothing else. Industrial quadrupeds sell for RMB 100,000 to RMB 300,000, against RMB 5,000 to RMB 30,000 for consumer units. Source: OFweek On one side, consumer-grade robot dogs keep getting cheaper and are moving into universities, developers and ordinary … Read more
The punch landed on the back of his head and the streamer went down. He got up, kept broadcasting, and a few minutes later the same machine kicked through a glass display case and collapsed, twitching, on the floor. EngineAI builds the T800 in Shenzhen for combat demonstrations. Illustrative image produced for The Robot Belt … Read more
For 79 days, SK Hynix tried to sell a piece of itself to American public markets. On 23 October it stopped trying, and the share price rose 4.42 per cent. Solidigm was meant to raise USD 10 billion to USD 15 billion on Nasdaq. Source: Sohu Tech At three in the morning that day, the … Read more
On 20 October the 2026 Chery Global Innovation Conference opened in Wuhu. Under the theme Change, the company did not point its cameras at a new model or a specification sheet. It laid out four freedoms: mobility, energy, food and life. Chairman Yin Tongyue was direct about the reasoning. The core value of technological evolution … Read more
Global electric vehicle sales fell 2 per cent year on year to 2.15 million units in September 2026, ending six consecutive months of growth, according to data from UK research firm Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. Europe set a record for a single month, but not by enough to offset clear declines in North America and China. … Read more
Robotaxi has not yet produced an income statement of its own. Elon Musk is already discussing how much money it will make next year. Tesla’s Cybercab is already carrying passengers in Austin. Source: Gasgoo On the 22 October Tesla 2026 third-quarter earnings call, Musk said he expects the robotaxi business to start contributing clearly to … Read more