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China’s intellectual property office published a design patent on 9 October with an unusually plain product name: embodied intelligent robot. The holder was BYD. The grant itself had issued on 6 October, four days earlier, under registration number CN310247768S. BYD’s design patent CN310247768S shows a two-tone shell with 31 degrees of freedom. Source: OFweek This … Read more
CATL has spent a decade arguing that electric passenger cars can beat petrol on cost. It is now making the same argument about the least forgiving segment in road transport: long-haul heavy trucks. CATL’s Tianxing II pairs an owned 77 kWh pack with a rented swappable pack. Source: Sohu Auto The product is Tianxing II, … Read more
On 19 October the Financial Times ran a commentary that did not bother with diplomatic language. It argued that the car-industry agreement just struck between Paris and Berlin, which stretches the life of the internal combustion engine and shields the legacy car industry, risks pushing the European car industry towards self-destruction. German premium carmakers face … Read more
A team led by Xu Disheng, a visiting scholar at Shanghai AI Lab and professor at Greater Bay Area University, has completed a proof of the three-dimensional Ghys conjecture, working with the lab’s Shusheng-S2 scientific multimodal model. The result has been formally verified by a Peking University team, and the paper is on arXiv with … Read more
Shenzhen is running the national AI Plus programme through its financial sector, and the city has begun organising the supply side of that market by name. On the afternoon of 20 October, the 2026 Shenzhen Finance and Artificial Intelligence Scenario Matchmaking Conference, together with the fifth Xiangmihu Digital Finance Innovation awards, was held at the … Read more
Anyone who has put a window-cleaning robot on glass has thought the same thing. No manufacturer dares print the words never falls, because on a high-rise facade the liability behind those words is not survivable. What the product sells is not cleaning power. It is the promise that a risk has been transferred to a … Read more
Unitree Technology rose more than 20 per cent intraday on 23 October, reaching a high of RMB 624 per share, with the market value returning to RMB 250 billion. Over the previous six trading sessions the stock gained more than 54 per cent. The trigger was a demonstration the day before. On 22 October the … Read more
Chuguang Yueqian has disclosed a seed round of several hundred million yuan, with Chentao Capital, Xiaomi Strategic Investment, BV Baidu Ventures and Xinhe Capital all participating. The company is less than five months old. Its founder carries a specific reputation. Zhang Ying was the core technology lead for Horizon Robotics’ assisted-driving system and is known … Read more
Wherever the money is, the platforms arrive. For China’s robotics startups, they have arrived. OpenAI has been posting robotics roles at a steady clip. As of 23 October the company listed 15 positions, running from robot software and control systems through motors, actuators, PCBs, test equipment and field engineers. The salary ceiling for the robotics … Read more
Fanuc’s share of China’s industrial robot market has fallen from more than 20 per cent at its peak to 9 per cent, according to first-quarter 2026 figures. Over the same period Estun, KUKA and Inovance each held 10 per cent, and Yaskawa was down to 4 per cent. Domestic brands collectively passed 55 per cent … Read more