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On 28 July, the Trump administration unveiled a ban on new categories of Chinese robots and grid-tied inverters, aimed at protecting US manufacturing and reshoring industries the administration expects to grow explosively. The Federal Communications Commission made it formal that afternoon. Imports of advanced Chinese robotic equipment, such as humanoids and quadrupeds with networking functions, … Read more
On 26 July, SHEIN disclosed its post-hearing information pack to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. If the listing goes ahead, it will be the largest cross-border e-commerce IPO in Hong Kong in 2026. Built on a digital flexible-supply-chain model, a dual engine of owned retail and platform, and deep integration of cross-border commerce with industrial … Read more
Unmanned-delivery vehicles are suddenly everywhere in China, and the question for 2026 is whether this is real scale or another bubble pumped up by capital and industry hype. The trigger was not a 2025 technology break but an economic case that finally started to close. Three years ago a single vehicle cost 200,000 to 400,000 … Read more
Standard Robots has filed for a Hong Kong IPO a third time, and the numbers show why the listing matters so much. The industrial mobile-robot maker had under 50 million yuan of cash at April 2026 and had stacked cumulative losses above 400 million yuan. Its first filing in June 2025 lapsed, as did a … Read more
A week after its cheapest-ever model sparked talk of a pricing kill line, DeepSeek announced it will raise API prices. On 6 August the company told its developer platform that pricing would rise soon by a large margin, and users began receiving emails. The message was blunt: keep using after the change and you accept … Read more
🇬🇧 United Kingdom, 2026-07: Chinese brands took 19.1% of the market (14.5% excl MG). Chery, Jaecoo and Omoda combined outsold every carmaker in Britain except Volkswagen, and BYD cracked the top ten for the first time.
Image related to the story. Source: OFweek Robotics On 5 June, Daxiao Robot, with CUHK’s Multimedia Lab and the Hetao institute, released Kairos-HomeWorld, the first world-model framework to do full-house generation with object-level interaction. It breaks the industry ceiling where indoor generation covered only single rooms with no global consistency or operability, generating coherent, physically … Read more
Image related to the story. Source: OFweek Robotics In 2026 the robotics capitalisation wave keeps heating up. Unitree cleared the listing in just 73 days, sprinting toward the first A-share humanoid stock. Leju, DeepRobotics and SharkRobot also accelerated. By rough count, robotics firms in the Hong Kong IPO queue have reached 46, over 10 per … Read more
Image related to the story. Source: LeiPhone AI large models are evolving from a business and product into the infrastructure a company runs on. Past software and hardware firms organised by product; AI was one feature among many. After models arrived, AI moved into product definition, user interaction and service distribution. Globally, the shifts are … Read more
Image related to the story. Source: OFweek Robotics China is crossing from “manufacturing giant” to “smart-manufacturing power,” and industrial software, CAE simulation, fluid dynamics and electromagnetic EDA, is the core bridge. Domestic tools have advanced fast in algorithms and physics modelling, but at the front line of aerospace, chip design and energy, they hit one … Read more