JingShi Technology says its dexterous hand, VIVA, has for the first time played a real-time four-hand piano duet with a person, a milestone it released with CADA, a music-embodied large model that pairs the hand with a score-following brain. The demo matters because a piano duet is a stiff test for a robot hand. Two … Read more
On 17 September D-Robotics, known as Dagu Robot, closed a $400 million Series C. Mirae Asset led the round, with Meituan Strategic Investment and institutions including Hefei Guotou, Nanshan Venture Capital, Jingquan Capital and Cathay Capital following on. More than twenty existing shareholders, among them Hillhouse, 5Y Capital, Temasek’s Vertex Growth and Aramco’s Prosperity7, added … Read more
On 24 September AgiBot delivered its 20,000th general-purpose embodied robot, the Expedition A3 Ultra, to Chimelong Group at the Hengqin Chimelong Spaceship Park in Zhuhai, and the machine now works alongside other AgiBot robots across the resort. The handover landed on the same day the two firms opened what they call the world’s first large-scale … Read more
On 23 September MiFengPai, a crowdsourcing app for robot training data, launched publicly. Three weeks earlier it was in closed test, with open questions about where tasks came from, how devices were managed, whether real sites opened, how data passed check and how pay was settled. The first rules are now visible. In one month … Read more
On 24 September, according to Fox News, the chiefs of the two leading AI firms warned the United Nations Security Council that fast-moving AI could threaten humanity unless governments and companies keep it under human control. The session came during rising worry about ever more capable systems. Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei said AI holds … Read more
On 22 September in US time, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, and about ninety minutes later OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. Both made low price the selling point. GPT-6 Sol cut input and output tokens per million to 2 dollars and 10 dollars, half the prior GPT-5.6 Sol, and OpenAI called it a … Read more
At the Snapdragon Summit 2026 in Maui on 22 September, Qualcomm unveiled two flagship mobile chips built on a 2-nanometre process, the sixth-generation Snapdragon 8 Super Elite and the sixth-generation Snapdragon 8 Elite. This is the first time the flagship line has shipped two Elite platforms at once and the first use of 2-nanometre in … Read more
On 23 September the Chinese lab DeepSeek made public a paper bearing founder Liang Wenfeng among its more than 130 authors, submitted on 19 September. The paper gives the first full technical account of DSec, short for DeepSeek Elastic Compute, the sandbox platform that trains AI agents at scale. DSec first appeared in the DeepSeek … Read more
According to overseas media, Tesla has begun buying components from China for the humanoid robots it builds in the United States. As the world’s largest maker of humanoid robots, China’s component supply will help Tesla speed up the production ramp of its Optimus line at the Fremont factory in California. The report says that in … Read more
The 200-company warning Zhu Xiaohu, managing partner of GSR Ventures, used a two-hour talk at Peking University’s innovation school to warn that China now has more than 200 robot companies, many able to dance or throw punches, but few running a real business, and that most may not survive ten years. The line lands because … Read more