Most embodied model releases arrive with a video. Poke Robotics, a company founded this year, arrived with an interface instead, publishing RoboAPI and inviting the industry to try it. The company calls RoboAPI an embodied API for the physical world. It ships alongside Poke-Aurora, the company’s own world-action model, and the two are meant to … Read more
At the 140th Canton Fair, a humanoid wearing a black bow tie served drinks from a retail shelf while a second handed coffee to foreign buyers in the VIP lounge. Both were supplied by Guangzhou Zhidong Weilai, the session’s humanoid service partner, running five scenarios at once. The detail worth reading is not the robot. … Read more
At the start of this year, a number of Chinese embodied intelligence companies promised to collect data at the million-unit scale. Most of a year later, several claim to have done it. The models have not visibly improved in proportion, and the reason sits in the segment between collection and training. Yang Shiqi, founder and … Read more
This year’s IROS looked different in a specific way. The demonstrations were harder. Hands threaded beads, seated USB plugs, heat-branded canvas bags, spun pens and balls between their fingers, mixed drinks and took a pulse. Complex contact, long-horizon manipulation and deformable objects have moved from research video to conference floor. What changed underneath the spectacle … Read more
China’s dexterous hand industry shipped roughly 20,000 units last year. On Liu Xin’s account, the great majority of them ended up doing something other than work. They were fitted to humanoids for a few performances, then put away. Liu is founder of Boya Intelligence, a hand company set up in August 2024. He spent most … Read more
A US software company that has never shipped a robot took three months to build a working humanoid. It did not build it in California. It built it in Shanghai, with a partner that already knew how. Meta worked with Fourier Intelligence, the Chinese robotics firm best known for rehabilitation exoskeletons and its GR series … Read more
On 28 October, Volkswagen Group China held its first technology day in 42 years in China, in Hefei, and formally launched a locally developed integrated technology matrix called VEGA. The matrix covers three core areas, vehicle platforms, the electrical and electronic architecture and advanced driver assistance, designed to work together and respond faster to Chinese … Read more
Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Mazda built a combined 1.02 million vehicles in China between April and September, down 32 per cent year on year and the lowest for the period since 2008. Against the roughly 2.8 million units the four built in the same six months of 2020, six years have erased the capacity expansion … Read more
SAIC Volkswagen’s ID.ERA 8X went on sale this month. The model is a mid-large range-extended SUV and an important entry in the ID.ERA line, combining a range-extender powertrain with technology content in driver assistance, chassis control and the cabin. On the component side, it carries forward Volkswagen’s powertrain and chassis systems while drawing heavily on … Read more
Mobileye Global, listed on Nasdaq under MBLY, reported its fiscal third quarter ended 26 September 2026 on 29 October. Revenue came in at USD 492 million, down 2 per cent year on year. Operating loss narrowed 25 per cent year on year and adjusted operating profit rose 20 per cent. GAAP diluted earnings per share … Read more