On 28 October, Volkswagen Group China held its first technology day in 42 years in China, in Hefei, and formally launched a locally developed integrated technology matrix called VEGA. The matrix covers three core areas, vehicle platforms, the electrical and electronic architecture and advanced driver assistance, designed to work together and respond faster to Chinese … Read more
Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Mazda built a combined 1.02 million vehicles in China between April and September, down 32 per cent year on year and the lowest for the period since 2008. Against the roughly 2.8 million units the four built in the same six months of 2020, six years have erased the capacity expansion … Read more
SAIC Volkswagen’s ID.ERA 8X went on sale this month. The model is a mid-large range-extended SUV and an important entry in the ID.ERA line, combining a range-extender powertrain with technology content in driver assistance, chassis control and the cabin. On the component side, it carries forward Volkswagen’s powertrain and chassis systems while drawing heavily on … Read more
Mobileye Global, listed on Nasdaq under MBLY, reported its fiscal third quarter ended 26 September 2026 on 29 October. Revenue came in at USD 492 million, down 2 per cent year on year. Operating loss narrowed 25 per cent year on year and adjusted operating profit rose 20 per cent. GAAP diluted earnings per share … Read more
Volkswagen Group reported its first nine months of 2026 on 29 October, and the numbers read less like a quarterly wobble than a collective settlement. The group posted an operating loss of EUR 5.86 billion with an operating margin of minus 7.8 per cent, below market expectations. Over the nine months, operating profit was down … Read more
DeepSeek published DeepInfer on GitHub on 28 October, the inference engine that serves DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash. No new model shipped with it. What shipped is the machinery that turns a trained model into a service. The company also disclosed the scale it is built for: a single cluster handling roughly 155 trillion tokens a day. At that … Read more
Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Jae-yong visited the company’s Robotics Experience business promotion office in Seocho, Seoul on 27 October, reviewing the state of humanoid development and how ready the technology is to be sold. The date was not incidental. It marked four years since he took the chairman’s role, and the tour functions as a … Read more
Xpeng disclosed on 28 October that the solid-state battery built specifically for its IRON humanoid has completed small-batch production, and that the robot itself has reached the final stage before formal mass production. The detail came from group vice-president Gu Jie, speaking at the embodied intelligent robot conference held alongside the annual meeting of the … Read more
The most interesting number in Anthropic’s IPO filing is not the loss. It is 26 per cent. In the registration statement lodged with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on 26 October, Anthropic disclosed that about 26 per cent of its research and development tasks had reached what it calls AL4 automation by August 2026. … Read more
XPeng has signed distribution agreements covering Nigeria, Oman, Kuwait and Albania, taking its global sales network to 83 countries and regions. https://robotbelt.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/18_0-2.png The signing sequence The Albania agreement was signed in Guangzhou on 1 September. The Nigeria and Oman agreements were concluded in Dubai on 21 and 24 September respectively. On 26 October, XPeng completed … Read more