Image related to the story. Source: LeiPhone Paul Meade, the Apple vice president who led the Vision Pro team, is leaving for OpenAI’s hardware team, according to Bloomberg. The move follows a reshuffle after Apple’s new CEO took over, which left Meade “effectively demoted.” As John Ternus succeeded Tim Cook as Apple’s next CEO, longtime … Read more
Image related to the story. Source: Sohu IT OpenAI’s first AI hardware is perhaps the most mysterious Schrodinger product of the past two years. We still do not know what it looks like, but every few months we get a new answer. First a smart pen, then a lamp, glasses, wearables. After so many rumours, … Read more
Image related to the story. Source: OFweek Robotics PaXini has secured a new RMB 1 billion strategic round, bringing cumulative funding to RMB 3.5 billion, the largest ever in tactile sensing globally, and leaving it far ahead in the embodied-perception race. This round was co-led by a trillion-scale global consumer-electronics and semiconductor giant, BOC International … Read more
YuanChuan Micro’s LPU inference chip. Source: LeiPhone Before Groq’s LPU became famous on the back of Nvidia’s spotlight, Yang Bin, founder and CEO of YuanChuan Micro, had already been sketching an inference chip of his own. LeiPhone has learned exclusively that LPU startup YuanChuan Micro has closed a Pre-A round of several hundred million yuan. … Read more
Image related to the story. Source: LeiPhone A single piece of news lit up both the AI and chip worlds yesterday: Silicon Valley startup Etched has closed $800 million in cumulative funding, pushed its valuation to $5 billion, and landed a $1 billion chip order. The company has been quiet. Founded in 2022 by three … Read more
Sudo Technology’s WAIC debut: from one skill to ten, and the path to scalable general-purpose robotics Two Sudo humanoid robots on display at WAIC 2026. Source: LeiPhone The embodied-intelligence zone at WAIC 2026 is still the most crowded floor in the hall. Robots make coffee, pose for photos and dance. Sudo Technology’s booth draws a … Read more
July sales data from China’s carmakers delivered a quiet shock. Leapmotor, founded in 2015, delivered 101,300 vehicles globally in July, its first month above 100,000, and about 84,300 of those were domestic. Great Wall sold 108,100 in July, with roughly 46,100 domestic. Chery Group sold 276,800, about 74,300 domestic. The result: in the core home … Read more
Roland Berger’s new report, Humanoid Robots 2026: The Convergence Moment of a New Market, reframes the debate. The question is no longer whether humanoids are a bubble. It is who claims a position first if the industry actually takes off. The trigger was not a flashy demo. It was three variables colliding: vision-language models, generative … Read more
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has put its mandatory national standard for L3 and L4 autonomous driving out for public comment. The draft, Safety Requirements for Intelligent and Connected Vehicle Automated Driving Systems, would replace the old voluntary standard and for the first time set a legally binding floor for L3 and L4. … Read more
As the first unified model in the embodied-generation space, U0 has already validated generation quality, data usefulness and engineering efficiency. In the WorldArena benchmark built by Tsinghua, Peking and others, U0 scored first in the world under an anonymous code, and policies trained on its expanded data lifted task completion by 26.3 per cent in … Read more