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Five days after Tesla put its production Cybercab into public Robotaxi service, early riders in Austin are split between awe and annoyance. Tesla’s wheel-less, pedal-less Cybercab has joined its Robotaxi fleet for public trials. (Source: CheDongXi) The Cybercab, revealed on 4 September, drops the steering wheel, pedals and mirrors entirely and relies on Tesla’s Full … Read more
China has published its 15th Five-Year Plan for the intelligent-connected new energy vehicle (NEV) industry, laying out the concrete targets that will define the country’s car sector through 2030. China’s newly published roadmap sets 2030 targets for its intelligent-connected NEV industry. (Source: CheDongXi) The plan, issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and … Read more
When notable investor Zhu Xiaohu stepped back from humanoid bets and turned to Harbin Engineering-linked Shihang, the deep-sea robot track drew fresh attention. A different Harbin Engineering spinout, DeepSea Intelligence, is taking the industrial deep-sea route, and it is moving to commercial scale faster. A RMB 500 million vote On 13 August, DeepSea Intelligence announced … Read more
As smart terminals race toward agentic AI, more functions run efficiently and safely on device. An agent can run dozens or hundreds of steps from one sentence, or act before you speak by sensing context and memory. That experience rests on the silicon, and the agent trend is pushing chips to evolve: more performance, less … Read more
On 1 September, Mech-Mind rang the bell on the Hong Kong exchange. The headline is a cornerstone book that reads like a roll call of smart money, led by Baillie Gifford, the Scottish house that backed Tesla and Nvidia, alongside Taikang, Jane Street, BYD’s Golden Link, Invus, Ghisallo, Ruihua, NGS Super and E Fund, who … Read more
At the Aggregated Intelligence Industry Conference on 9 September, Jin Bing, former deputy director of the State Post Bureau’s policy office, cited a striking figure: China’s humanoid exports and manufacturing account for 97 per cent of the global total. A Chinese humanoid robot production line at scale. (Source: Gasgoo) Just years ago the industry proved … Read more
Picture a robot watering flowers in order, holding the spout a few centimetres above each bloom. Getting that right is easy for people and hard for general AI, and a Chinese team behind RoboTracer argues the problem is how vision models represent space. Why general models get lost in 3D RoboTracer drops XYZ coordinates in … Read more
If past years of embodied intelligence were a contest of single-point skills, the clear signal from this year’s World Robot Conference is that competition is moving from one breakthrough to the completeness of a system. Sensors, dexterous hands and data still matter, but a robot that enters a factory, warehouse or home meets shifting position, … Read more
A 9 September Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence roundup of automotive and supply-chain moves led with a milestone for Chinese humanoids: on 8 September, the XPeng group announced the world’s first high-end general-purpose humanoid automated production line, and the world’s first high-end general-purpose humanoid completed automated final assembly and walked off the line on its own. That … Read more
On 29 August, Baotong Technology, a firm built on games and industrial internet, released its half-year report. With both businesses recovering, revenue and profit rose together, but the longer arc is uneven: gaming is volatile, and Baotong’s two main lines have little in common. Baotong Mine-Rhino (Kuangxi) quadruped inspection robot built on a Unitree base. … Read more