A team led by Xu Disheng, a visiting scholar at Shanghai AI Lab and professor at Greater Bay Area University, has completed a proof of the three-dimensional Ghys conjecture, working with the lab’s Shusheng-S2 scientific multimodal model. The result has been formally verified by a Peking University team, and the paper is on arXiv with … Read more
Wherever the money is, the platforms arrive. For China’s robotics startups, they have arrived. OpenAI has been posting robotics roles at a steady clip. As of 23 October the company listed 15 positions, running from robot software and control systems through motors, actuators, PCBs, test equipment and field engineers. The salary ceiling for the robotics … Read more
The third-quarter results were published and the shares fell 12 per cent the same day, leaving the stock roughly half its May high. The revenue line, oddly, was excellent: up 58.6 per cent year on year. Net profit attributable to shareholders rose 14.5 per cent. The arithmetic between those two numbers is where the story … Read more
On 1 October Boston Dynamics published the dexterous hand design for its next-generation Atlas. Four fingers, 13 degrees of freedom, direct-drive joints, a single actuator type across the whole hand, and dense pressure tactile sensors across fingertips and palm. It can roll small objects between thumb and fingers, flip something inside its palm, and hold … Read more
CATL and Chery registered CATL Chery Wuhu New Energy Technology on 20 October, with registered capital of RMB 1 billion and both companies as shareholders, according to corporate registry data. It is the second battery manufacturing joint venture the two have set up in 2026. The first, Times Chery Hefei New Energy Technology, was registered … Read more
Tesla’s Optimus programme is the most watched robot line in the world and the slowest. Output was a few dozen units a week in the second quarter of 2026 and reached a few hundred a week in August. Management’s target is 1,000 a week by year end against a long-run plan of 20,000 a week. … Read more
Jetta launched the M6 in Chengdu on 22 October at RMB 79,800, RMB 89,800 and RMB 99,800 for the 465 Pro, 555 Max and 555 Ultra trims, putting all three under the RMB 100,000 line. The brand’s slogan for the car is blunt about the target: under 100,000, no compromises. The M6 carries two firsts. … Read more
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together with the ministries of public security and ecology and environment and the market regulator, has published a draft notice on vehicle innovation design and validation testing for public comment. It sets safety boundaries around the design language that has defined Chinese electric cars for five years. The … Read more
Tesla finally showed the new Roadster, and it spent most of the event airborne. The car ran a vertical climb, a mid-air roll and a jump over a line of parked Teslas including the Semi, Cybertruck, Cybercab, Model 3 and Model Y, all staged at SpaceX’s McGregor test site in Texas. The new Tesla Roadster … Read more
The first Volkswagen ID. ERA 5X came off the line at the SAIC Volkswagen plant on 16 October, marking the start of mass production for CMP, the group’s first new-energy vehicle platform developed entirely in China. A second model on the same architecture, the ID. AURA L5, follows at FAW Volkswagen later this year. The … Read more