A gimbal robot arm is a camera mount that tilts and pans. The author connected one to a Mac mini and let three top models, GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-5.6 Sol, each drive it, with the same instruction: make the robot sweep its full range of motion, however you like. GPT-6 Astra, Fable … Read more
DeepSeek has open sourced a bundle of operator tools and, together with Huawei Ascend, is taking aim at Nvidia’s CUDA lock in. The release centres on TileLang, a language for writing the low level operators that actually run on silicon. TileLang lets developers write chip operators in a compact Python like syntax. (Source: Leiphone) The … Read more
On 23 September, Dongfeng Motor said its general manager Feng Changjun travelled to Shenzhen on 22 September to meet Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei and senior Huawei representatives. The two sides exchanged views on the strategic models they are jointly building, the Yijing X9, the Mengshi X700 and the Lantu Dreamer 9, and discussed deepening cooperation … Read more
Unitree’s Dex5-S offers 22 degrees of freedom at RMB 39,900, squeezing the specialist hand makers it once bought from (Source: OFweek Robotics) A spec-to-price strike On the evening of 21 September Unitree launched the Dex5-S, a five-finger dexterous hand with 22 degrees of freedom, sized 1:1 with a human hand, starting at RMB 39,900. Thumb … Read more
A fast track written in policy In June 2025 a State Council opinion on deepening Shenzhen’s comprehensive reform pilot allowed Greater Bay Area enterprises listed in Hong Kong to list on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange under the rules. That opened a new capital path. Dobot, which landed on the Hong Kong exchange in December 2024, … Read more
D-Robotics’ Sunrise S600 packs brain and motor control on one chip, its answer to Nvidia’s Jetson (Source: OFweek Robotics) The “picks and shovels” model On 17 September D-Robotics (Digua Robotics) closed a USD 400 million Series C. Mirae Asset led, with Meituan strategic, Hefei Guotou, Nanshan Industrial, Jingquan Capital and Cathay Capital following, while Hillhouse, … Read more
AgiBot deployed more than 300 robots across Chimelong’s Spaceship Park in Hengqin, its largest single-site service deployment to date (Source: Leiphone) From a launch event to a shift roster In 2026 one of the hardest questions in embodied intelligence is how to actually land in the real world. AgiBot calls this the “deployment state”: robots … Read more
On 19 August, OpenAI open-sourced Codex Harness, the layer that had long kept its name more promise than practice. For a developer community that had treated harness engineering as private craft, the mood was relief: a best practice once locked inside a few top agent products was now open. OpenAI Open-Sources Codex Harness, and the … Read more
In an AI chip market that refreshes constantly, last generation’s GPU has not fallen in price the way legacy hardware did. ‘The H100 batch we deployed in 2023 now rents for more than it did at launch,’ Stephen Balaban, co-founder and chief technology officer of cloud provider Lambda, said on The MAD Podcast. Why a … Read more
On 28 September, Nasdaq-listed AIxC disclosed it will merge with FF EAI Robotics. Under the signed term sheet, FFAI contributes 100 per cent of its robotics subsidiary’s equity into AIxC at an estimated US$200 million valuation, in exchange for AIxC shares. After closing, AIxC renames to FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem Inc. and changes its ticker … Read more