Hello Robotaxi CTO: entry window shut, we caught last one

In 2025, Hello (the ride-hailing and bike-sharing platform) formed Zaofu Intelligent with Ant Group and CATL and entered robotaxis with an ambitious target: deploy 10,000 robotaxis by 2027. By then, Pony.ai had already reached single-city profitability, WeRide and Apollo Go were expanding abroad, and Waymo was still growing its fleet. A 2025 entrant looked late. … Read more

FAW Jiefang J6E ships with Zhitu L2-plus ADAS

FAW Jiefang’s J6E large-customer custom edition has begun rolling off the line and into delivery. The strategic model, already well regarded in express-delivery fleets, was tailored to the pain points of leading logistics operators, and its headline feature is a Level 2-plus trunk combined assisted-driving system fromZhitu Technology. FAW Jiefang J6E large-customer custom edition at … Read more

Pool robots wait for a paradigm shift as wireless gains fade

Sales, brand and channel rankings in pool robots are settling fast, but the real technical watershed has barely arrived. Wireless models lowered the barrier to entry and unlocked Amazon, big-box and specialist channels. Early movers built shelf and brand advantages. Latecomers now face not just a product gap but a long channel-validation cycle. Wave Future’s … Read more

Shenzhen Bojiang lands RMB 200m Hong Kong robot deal

Shenzhen Bojiang Robot, a local construction-robotics developer, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with a leading Hong Kong smart-construction company, which will procure building robots, intelligent equipment and related technical services worth no less than RMB 200 million. The deal moves Bojiang from pilot use in Hong Kong to scaled deployment. A Bojiang construction robot operating … Read more

From pitch deck to line: giants cross into embodied AI

Unitree, the “first humanoid-robot stock”, set its IPO price at RMB 150.8 per share with a price-to-earnings multiple of 219.23x, far above the 38.56x industry average, throwing more fuel on the embodied-AI boom. Over the past three months, giants on both sides of the Pacific have been heating the sector too. Tesla installs its first-generation … Read more

China July: Leapmotor tops Great Wall and Chery at home

When July sales landed, one line stood out. Leapmotor delivered 101,300 vehicles globally in July 2026, up 102 per cent year on year and its first month above 100,000. Its overseas sales were 17,000-plus, implying roughly 84,300 domestic deliveries. Leapmotor publishes July 2026 delivery figures. (Source: chedongxi) Leapmotor July global deliveries pass 100,000. (Source: chedongxi) … Read more

Momenta’s HK$5.89bn IPO: a physical-AI bet, not just ADAS

Momenta listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 8 July 2026, raising HK$5.89 billion in its initial public offering. Fourteen cornerstone investors, including Singapore’s GIC, Fidelity, Mercedes-Benz and BYD, took up nearly half the shares on offer, an unusual line-up that put a German luxury brand, a Chinese EV leader and a sovereign fund … Read more