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Galbot published a full commercial price list for its ET1 biped, and the entry ticket is RMB 79,000. The top configuration is RMB 179,000. In between sits a Pro version at RMB 139,000. Three tiers, one 1.25 metre robot, 32 kilograms with the battery, and a clear statement that the humanoid is now a catalogue … Read more
Hong Kong is preparing to raise the market-cap bar for specialist technology listings, and the timing could not be worse for the fifty-odd embodied intelligence companies already standing in the queue. Public reporting indicates the exchange will open a consultation in the first half of next year on revising Chapter 18C, the regime written for … Read more
The company that sells the chip inside somebody else’s robot raised $400 million on 17 September, and almost none of the money came from China alone. D-Robotics, the Shenzhen robot-computing spinout of Horizon Robotics, closed a Series C of $400 million, about RMB 2.68 billion, with close to 30 investors on the cap table. D-Robotics … Read more
Gasgoo Research used its annual industry report to make ten calls about China’s car industry, and the most useful one for outsiders is a definition. The Chinese formula, according to vice president Wang Xianbin, is fast, good and cheap, and its foundation is scale rather than subsidy. Gasgoo Research presented its 2026 innovation report in … Read more
MG sold about 280,000 cars in Europe this year, up 23 per cent, and passed one million cumulative deliveries there. SAIC’s own read on that achievement is that it is no longer enough, and the group used a Shanghai industry forum on 23 October to explain what replaces it. MG has been the top-selling Chinese … Read more
Schaeffler opened a plant in Taicang on 20 October where humanoid robots assemble the joint modules that other humanoid robots will use. The German drive-technology group calls it closed-loop manufacturing, and it is the first site in its network where robots build robot components at volume. Schaeffler’s Taicang site covers about 7,500 square metres. Source: … Read more
Tesla now has 1.74 million paying Full Self-Driving customers worldwide, and the company still cannot tell its Chinese owners when the software will be fully available to them. The gap between those two facts was the most revealing part of its third-quarter earnings call on 22 October. Tesla’s paid FSD base reached 1.74 million users … Read more
Madrid is set to become the first Spanish city with a paid robotaxi service before the end of 2026, and the company planning to run it is Chinese. WeRide said it has approval for public-road testing and is moving into the final stretch before launching commercial operations in the Spanish capital. WeRide plans to launch … Read more
Mercedes-Benz used its platform slot at China’s flagship connected-vehicle conference to answer a question European boards keep asking in private: whether a German carmaker can still be early in a market now moving faster than its own product cycle. Two of its most senior executives said it can, and that the company intends to be … Read more
Audi has handed its China business to a Chinese national for the first time in the history of the brand’s operations there. Jeff Zhang takes over as president of Audi China from 1 November 2026, the company said on 22 October, replacing Johannes Roscheck, who returns to the Ingolstadt headquarters in early 2027. Jeff Zhang … Read more