Germany’s federal president inspected the state of Sino-German automotive technology in person on 27 October, and the object of inspection was a driver-assistance stack built by a Chinese chip company. Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife visited Volkswagen Group China Technology in Hefei during a state visit to China. Horizon Robotics founder and chief executive Yu … Read more
The three largest political groups in the European Parliament have converged on a rewrite of the EU’s new-car CO2 rules, and the rewrite keeps the internal combustion engine alive past 2035. Negotiators for the centre-right EPP, the centre-left S&D and the centrist Renew reached agreement on 20 October on an amendment that resets the 2035 … Read more
On 28 October, Chen Mingxiu registered Muling Technology in Hangzhou’s Yuhang district. Registered capital was about RMB 1.5625 million. The stated direction is physical recursive self-improvement, the idea that a robot should improve its own learning process through contact with the physical world rather than depend on human annotation and on-site tuning. Chen previously headed … Read more
HyperVolve Intelligent has closed an angel round in the several hundreds of millions of yuan. BlueRun Ventures China led, with SenseTime Guoxiang Capital, Legend Star, Inno Angel and a Tsinghua alumni seed fund participating. Lansong Capital is long-term strategic financial adviser. The company began operating in late August. Two months and no product is, on … Read more
Juqiao Industrial has closed a RMB 100 million Series A led by Ant Group, with existing shareholders Zero-One Ventures, Weihai Gangrong and Qingdao Hexin increasing their positions. Multi-Dimension Capital acted as sole financial adviser. The money goes into production capacity for electronic skin, into tactile and multimodal research, and into applications in robotics, home products … Read more
AgiBot used its innovation day on 29 October to disclose a number that few Chinese robot companies publish. First-half 2026 revenue came in at close to RMB 2 billion, a figure above what Unitree and UBTech reported for the same six months, and comparable to Unitree’s performance across a full nine months. The trajectory behind … Read more
On 23 October Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that Beijing robot company Songyan Dynamics had filed confidentially for a Hong Kong initial public offering aiming to raise several hundred million US dollars. A listing could come as early as next year. Discussions are continuing and size and timing may change. The company … Read more
Two things happened on the same day in different places, and read together they explain more than either does alone. On 23 October JPMorgan published a note titled Tesla Optimus ramp more gradual, selective on humanoid supply chain. Its read on production at the Fremont plant was blunt. Guidance is for 10,000 to 20,000 units. … Read more
INTILION, a European energy storage solutions provider, has signed a memorandum of understanding with CATL covering 3GWh of sodium-ion storage systems over the next five years in the German-speaking market. The deployment covers Germany, Switzerland and Austria, with product going to grid-level peak shaving and commercial and industrial storage. The agreement covers 3GWh of CATL’s … Read more
CATL expects to reach small-batch production of all-solid-state batteries in 2027, the company said on 27 October, responding to an investor question on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange interactive platform about progress at its Hefei sulphide solid-state pilot base. The company said it continues to invest firmly in all-solid-state technology and that its position is industry … Read more