On 20 August, Nvidia denied a Reuters report that it planned to launch a customised “Language Processing Unit” (LPU) for Chinese customers before the end of the year. “The report on Nvidia’s LPU is wrong. We do not sell an LPU in the China market, nor do we have an LPU product roadmap for China,” … Read more
A quiet migration is reshaping Chinese robotics. By one tally, nearly 40 core autonomous-driving executives and technical leads have moved into embodied AI. The names leaving Li Auto alone lost eight senior people in half a year, most to robotics. Former autonomous-driving president Lang Xianpeng founded Kunlun Robotics, raising three rounds in 90 days to … Read more
On 20 August local time, Uber said its platform had gone live in Dubai with Baidu’s Apollo Go driverless vehicles, operated by UAE firm New Horizon Luxury Transport. Riders choosing UberX or Uber Comfort can now be matched to an Apollo Go, and an ‘autonomous’ option in the app raises the odds. Service starts in … Read more
On 20 August, Harmony IntelliDrive launched its first boxy hardcore SUV, the Xiangjie G9, with prices from 429,800 to 549,800 yuan. Within one hour it took 3,100 pre-orders. Richard Yu called it able to replace a holiday rental and a camper van. The G9 comes in Max+, Ultra, and Ultra+ trims, in five- or six-seat … Read more
At the 2026 World Robot Conference, JD laid out a robotics service strategy: over five years it will build an after-sales repair network across more than 100 countries and create more than 100,000 robot-repair engineer jobs. JD plans ten training and certification centres in China and aims to train over 100,000 repair engineers covering robots … Read more
Unitree’s listing lifted attention on the robot industry, and 2026 is widely called the year of humanoid mass production. Yet behind the conference glow, most industrial robots are still ‘interns’ on the floor, not reliable ‘full staff’. Deployment sits at single-point tests and showcase pilots, moving boxes, loading parts, and simple patrols, while full-line replacement … Read more
On 10 August, Ninebot released its first-half 2026 results: group revenue of 14.36 billion yuan, up 22 per cent, with net profit attributable to shareholders of 1.008 billion yuan, down 18.79 per cent, and ex-non-recurring profit of 969 million yuan, down 26 per cent. By segment, e-scooters in China sold 2.842 million units, up 19 … Read more
At the 2026 World Robot Conference, Schaeffler Embodied Intelligence Robotics (Taicang) showed up for the first time, centring its display on the core parts and subsystems that make a humanoid move. Schaeffler is leaning on decades of automotive and industrial drive know-how. The lineup spans robot high-performance computers, a 48V low-voltage power controller (LVPC), tendon-driven … Read more
At the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, Shenzhen’s AI2Robots brought AlphaBot 2 (Aibao), powered by its newest brain-like embodied model, to make one point: the robot should not just mount the stage, it should clock in for work. On the stand, Aibao makes coffee, ice cream, and cocktails as a genuine on-duty ‘all-round clerk’, … Read more
China now fields more than 400 whole-body humanoid models, over half the global total. In the first half of 2026 alone, 116,000 new companies registered in the humanoid space, up 9.5 per cent year on year. Nowhere is the momentum sharper than in Guangdong, where ten technically distinct humanoid makers have converged into what local … Read more