Unitree released a new humanoid, “Superman”, on 17 August, with a 2-metre standing vertical jump and a top speed of 12.66 metres per second on 0.85-metre legs, past the standing-high-jump and running-speed records for any human. The company said the whole machine took just over three months to develop and has room to improve in … Read more
At CVPR 2026 the 3D Gaussian Splatting field stopped chasing prettier renders and started chasing industry. Across eight representative papers, the work closes the pipeline from feed-forward, second-scale generation to GPU-operator rebuilds, noise-robust SLAM and Neural ODE physics, turning 3DGS from a 3D photo album into the physical base of embodied AI and world models. … Read more
Pony.ai showed its fourth-generation autonomous truck in Guangzhou this month and said it plans to operate between 500 and 1,000 self-driving trucks within two to three years. The truck unit started in 2018 from near zero, when a small team bought a Dongfeng rig and rewired throttle, brake and steering themselves. Eight years on, the … Read more
Global humanoid shipments are climbing fast. IDC puts 2025 worldwide volume above 18,000 units, up around 508 per cent year on year, with Chinese makers dominant, and Morgan Stanley has raised its 2026 China forecast from 28,000 to 50,000 units. As the race moves from basic mobility to stable multi-task work in messy environments, tactile … Read more
China has published the world’s first national-level capability-evaluation system covering the full automotive-chip chain. The State Administration for Market Regulation, through the certification and accreditation body CNCA, approved and released five certification and accreditation industry standards that build a structured framework for assessing institutions across the automotive semiconductor sector. China releases the first certification standards … Read more
Storm season is quietly resetting the argument about electric cars and water. When Typhoon White Dolphin made landfall on 9 August, Shanghai recorded close to 300 millimetres of rain and thousands of cars were submerged across several cities. Xiaomi founder Lei Jun used the moment to post a reminder: pay attention to wading ability. Xiaomi’s … Read more
On 17 August, RoboScience released REX G1, a wheeled humanoid general-purpose manipulation robot and its first commercial product, pitched as a next-generation embodied-intelligence productivity partner. Built on the company’s self-developed VLOA general embodied model, Visics, the robot targets logistics, factories, retail and home settings, and is designed to close the full loop from task understanding … Read more
Tencent’s second-quarter results show new AI products cut 10.5 billion yuan from operating profit, while capital spending hit 52.78 billion yuan, up 176 per cent, as it bets on WorkBuddy, the WeChat a
Paul Meade, the Apple veteran who led Vision Pro hardware for seven years, is joining OpenAI’s hardware team after a reorganisation under incoming CEO John Ternus, a sign OpenAI is moving from concept
Anthropic, the Claude maker, could launch an IPO as early as October 2026 at a valuation of 2 trillion US dollars or more, potentially surpassing SpaceX as the largest offering ever, after annualised