On 31 August, Unitree released an upgraded firefighting emergency solution, with the slogan robots are made for people, on a mission to serve the public, through fire and water, duty bound. Unitree’s B2 firefighting robot dog carries a water cannon rated for 6 to 7 bar. (Source: OFweek) This is not Unitree’s first move into … Read more
On 22 August, at the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing, the second World Humanoid Robot Games opened and state television turned its cameras to a real tennis court. A humanoid robot faced incoming balls travelling above 50 km/h, judged the landing point within milliseconds, moved its feet, twisted its torso and swung. The ball … Read more
In August 2026 Dyna Robotics released Dyna-2, a robot foundation model pretrained on over 1 million hours of first-person human video, about 170 years of continuous waking experience. Across seven benchmarks the WAM architecture hit 1.55 times the success rate of the prior VLA model. High-precision manufacturing success rose from Dyna-1’s 20 per cent to … Read more
China sits at the pivot from manufacturing giant to smart-manufacturing power, and industrial software, CAE simulation, fluid compute and electromagnetic EDA, is the bridge. Domestic industrial software has advanced fast in algorithms and physics modelling toward self-reliance, yet in aerospace, chip design and energy exploration it hits one core bottleneck: not enough speed, it runs … Read more
On 19 August, per a National Business Daily leak, Xiaomi’s next humanoid robot stands about 1.70 metres, weighs 66 kg and carries 66 degrees of freedom, with half of them in the hands. Xiaomi planned to show it to the public for the first time at the 2026 World Robot Conference opening on 19 August, … Read more
Jieluo Intelligent Equipment (Suzhou) recently held a ground-breaking for its headquarters project in Wuzhong district. The site covers 42.5 mu, about 70,000 square metres, with total investment of RMB 1.2 billion, building a headquarters base to make 2,000 rail-free navigation robots (AMRs) and 500 wafer-smart-storage units a year, pitched at RMB 2.5 billion in annual … Read more
The Delin Cup 2026 AI Startup Contest lays out its rewards first. The champion takes RMB 2 million in cash, unconditional and equity-free, a sum that dwarfs the RMB 300,000 to 600,000 typical of domestic AI contests. Up to 15 finalist teams enter a roughly 4,000-square-metre Delin Residency for ten weeks of deep incubation. During … Read more
Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reports that DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT accelerators in a data centre under construction in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, one of the largest Huawei AI chip clusters known. DeepSeek and Huawei have not commented. The purpose is clear. The chips will run already-trained models, … Read more
World models were the soul of this year’s WAIC conference, and the question running through every session was blunt: how does a model actually understand the physical world and step into it? At a dedicated forum on 19 July, Kunlun Wanwei chairman and chief executive Fang Han declared 2026 the first year of the world … Read more
Two days, three frontier launches, and the fastest overtake took five hours. On 2 September Google and Meta each released a new model: Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google’s third Flash iteration in six weeks, and Muse Spark 1.3, Meta’s fourth Spark in five months. Within hours Meta’s model had overtaken Google’s same-day release on the Artificial … Read more