SiCarrier, the Shenzhen state-controlled semiconductor equipment maker that the Chinese press once labelled the DeepSeek of the sector, confirmed on 9 October that it will exhibit at the Bay Area Semiconductor Industry Ecosystem Expo opening in Shenzhen on 14 October. It is the company’s first appearance at a major trade show in nearly a year. … Read more
On 8 October the US Patent and Trademark Office published a Tesla application numbered US 2026/0310299 A1, titled Three-dimensional flexible tactile sensor array with multimodal sensing and scalable manufacturing methods. The applicant address is Austin. The inventor list runs past a dozen names. The first Optimus patent filing in four months. The filing describes conductive … Read more
Shenhao Technology built its business selling inspection robots to power grid operators. This month its subsidiary was named second winner on a central state-owned enterprise’s intelligent compute cluster tender, and the contract is worth more than the company’s entire annual revenue. Two orders in a matter of days total close to RMB 670 million, against … Read more
Galbot published a full commercial price list for its ET1 biped, and the entry ticket is RMB 79,000. The top configuration is RMB 179,000. In between sits a Pro version at RMB 139,000. Three tiers, one 1.25 metre robot, 32 kilograms with the battery, and a clear statement that the humanoid is now a catalogue … Read more
Hong Kong is preparing to raise the market-cap bar for specialist technology listings, and the timing could not be worse for the fifty-odd embodied intelligence companies already standing in the queue. Public reporting indicates the exchange will open a consultation in the first half of next year on revising Chapter 18C, the regime written for … Read more
MG sold about 280,000 cars in Europe this year, up 23 per cent, and passed one million cumulative deliveries there. SAIC’s own read on that achievement is that it is no longer enough, and the group used a Shanghai industry forum on 23 October to explain what replaces it. MG has been the top-selling Chinese … Read more
Tesla now has 1.74 million paying Full Self-Driving customers worldwide, and the company still cannot tell its Chinese owners when the software will be fully available to them. The gap between those two facts was the most revealing part of its third-quarter earnings call on 22 October. Tesla’s paid FSD base reached 1.74 million users … Read more
Madrid is set to become the first Spanish city with a paid robotaxi service before the end of 2026, and the company planning to run it is Chinese. WeRide said it has approval for public-road testing and is moving into the final stretch before launching commercial operations in the Spanish capital. WeRide plans to launch … Read more
Mercedes-Benz used its platform slot at China’s flagship connected-vehicle conference to answer a question European boards keep asking in private: whether a German carmaker can still be early in a market now moving faster than its own product cycle. Two of its most senior executives said it can, and that the company intends to be … Read more
Audi has handed its China business to a Chinese national for the first time in the history of the brand’s operations there. Jeff Zhang takes over as president of Audi China from 1 November 2026, the company said on 22 October, replacing Johannes Roscheck, who returns to the Ingolstadt headquarters in early 2027. Jeff Zhang … Read more