A photo said to be Harmony Intelligent Mobility’s 2027 new model plan has leaked online, and it points to a crowded launch calendar across four brands and four quarters. The image lists the 2027 quarterly plans for Shangjie, Zhijie, Xiangjie and Zunjie, 18 models in total. Shangjie puts a 300,000 yuan class H8 in Q1, … Read more
Xpeng has reportedly finished a product line consolidation, shrinking its earlier four lines, F, D, I and G, into just two, G and D. The move lands as China’s carmakers race to focus resources and cut cost in a market where growth no longer lifts every player. Under the old structure, the F line covered … Read more
Lingfang Robotics’ ZERITH Z1 carries 27 degrees of freedom (Source: OFweek Robotics) Six rounds in nineteen months Lingfang Robotics, registered in Hefei’s Bahe district in January 2025, has announced a new A round backed by the Wuxi Guolian Xizhou Fund, Qingke Industrial Investment, Cowin Capital and Hefei Industrial Investment Capital. Across the nineteen months since … Read more
Tesla’s Optimus has scaled output tenfold but remains constrained by its hand (Source: OFweek Robotics) When a product’s output climbs tenfold in a few months, it looks like a breakout is near. But that tenfold started at a few dozen units a week, ends at a few hundred, and targets 1,000 a week by year … Read more
BMW is deploying humanoid robots across its global factories, starting with the Spartanburg plant (Source: OFweek Robotics) A serious push into physical AI At its Capital Markets Day on 30 September, BMW used the physical-AI forum to show humanoid robots, autonomous guided vehicles and robotic arms working together, with the aim of turning that flexible … Read more
Bona Film Group has announced that Sanxingdui: Tales of the Future, a 100-minute feature fully generated by artificial intelligence with no live actors on screen, will open nationwide on 23 October, becoming the first AI-made feature to receive a public-release licence from China’s film regulator. China’s First AI-Made Feature Film Cleared Censors and Opens (Source: … Read more
Since ChatGPT, large language models have split into two camps. General models such as Baidu’s ERNIE, Alibaba’s Qwen and iFlytek’s Spark target the base layer, while vertical models train industry-specific systems on top of general ones for finance, health care, education and transport. China’s Small AI Shops Face a Life-or-Death Choice: General (Source: LeiPhone) Wu … Read more
Hao Dong, an associate professor at Peking University and chief scientist at Shangwei Qiyuan, argues that the dominant training recipes of imitation learning and reinforcement learning each have hard limits, and the industry needs a different frame. A Peking University Researcher Says Data Alone Will Not Teac (Source: LeiPhone) He splits today’s embodied training into … Read more
During the National Day holiday, a batch of workers that do not take breaks showed up on the job, some as mascots and some as real labour. Humanoid robots now appear at DQ ice-cream stores, FamilyMart and Chagee outlets, and at the showrooms of BYD, XPeng and Li Auto. China’s First Batch of Robot Shop … Read more
Shutu Technology has closed a Pre-A round of nearly RMB 100 million, led jointly by CDH Investments’ BaiFu arm and the Kunpeng Fund, a national big-data vehicle, with Guangzhou Industrial Investment and Yihe Capital joining and existing backer Trend Investment following on. It is the company’s third financing in one month. Shutu Robotics Closes a … Read more