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China’s Truck Makers Bought a Robot Driver From a Car Company

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Zhuoyu Technology launched a commercial-vehicle technology brand, Pansing, in Zhuhai on 29 October, alongside disclosed progress with seven Chinese truck and bus manufacturers covering heavy trucks, coaches and light trucks. https://robotbelt.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/16_0-1.jpg The partner list The seven partners are XCMG, Shaanxi Auto, Sinotruk, FAW Jiefang, Foton, Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle and Yutong Bus. Production is already under … Read more

Volkswagen’s Battery Recall Reaches 85,402 Cars and Now Includes Audi

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Volkswagen Group has widened an electric-vehicle battery recall to include Audi, taking the global total to 85,402 vehicles. Owners of the affected cars are being advised to limit charging to 80 per cent. https://robotbelt.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/15_0-3.png The expansion According to the German federal motor transport authority KBA database, the group added the Audi recall record on 27 … Read more

Subaru Sold 23,000 Cars in Europe. Soon It Will Sell Only EVs There

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Subaru intends to stop selling combustion-engined cars in Europe from as early as 2028 and to sell battery-electric vehicles only in the region. If the plan holds, it would be the first Japanese carmaker to convert an entire regional business to battery power. https://robotbelt.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/14_0-4.png The sequence Subaru plans to begin winding down combustion sales from … Read more

A German President Test-Drove a Volkswagen With a Chinese Brain

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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

Alibaba’s Second Embodied AI Exit in Six Weeks Is Now a Hangzhou Startup

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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

Two Months Old, Hundreds of Millions Raised, and No Product

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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

Ant Group Led RMB 100 Million Into a Company That Weaves Sensors Into Cloth

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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