On 1 August, fourteen carmakers published July sales. The picture splits cleanly between camps. Among new-energy startups, three more than doubled year on year: Leapmotor at 101,300 (up 102 per cent), Zeekr at 35,800 (up 111 per cent) and Arcfox at 23,500 (up 150 per cent). Leapmotor, the sales leader among startups, set a record … Read more
China’s long-awaited mandatory national standard for L3 and L4 autonomous driving has finally got a launch date. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has opened the draft compulsory safety standard for autonomous driving systems to public comment. The standard replaces a voluntary guideline and, for the first time, sets a legally binding floor for … Read more
Great Wall Motor and Chery Group have each been out-sold in China’s domestic market by a younger rival. The July sales sheets, published in early August, hold a striking detail. Leapmotor delivered 101,300 vehicles globally in July, up 102 per cent year on year and its first month above 100,000, making it the first Chinese … Read more
Horizon Robotics has released HSD V2.0, the latest version of its assisted-driving software. The headline change is the addition of a world model and end-to-end reinforcement learning on top of what the company calls a one-stage end-to-end architecture. HSD V2.0 was tested on a 12-kilometre route through Beijing including Sanlitun. (Source: Leiphone) Leiphone joined a … Read more
The embodied intelligence sector has moved from demo videos to live work tests. The first real proving ground is not the home or the coffee shop. It is the warehouse. Figure’s 03 robot sorted nearly 250,000 packages over 200 hours of live streaming. (Source: Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence) In May 2026, Figure live-streamed its Figure 03 … Read more
Huawei’s Harmony Intelligent Mobility Alliance has launched its first MPVs above the million-yuan price point. The Maextro V680 starts at 648,000 yuan and the V800 at 766,000 yuan. A special “Yunshui Tianqing” design package adds 150,000 yuan, taking the top V800 Navigator edition to 1.166 million yuan. The V800 is 5.495 metres long and aimed … Read more
The robotaxi industry has entered a new phase. In 2026, Waymo’s ride volume in San Francisco overtook Lyft at times. In China, Baidu’s Apollo Go completed 3.2 million rides in the first quarter, up more than 120 per cent year on year. Global private investment in autonomous driving reached 23.3 billion dollars in the first … Read more
Li Zexiang is best known outside China as the mentor who discovered Wang Tao, the founder of DJI. Inside the Greater Bay Area, he is something closer to an institution. The article, a reporter’s notebook from Shenzhen News, says his Songshan Lake XbotPark robot base has incubated 287 companies, including 13 unicorns or near-unicorns with … Read more
On 28 July 2026, the United States Federal Communications Commission added advanced foreign-made robots to its restricted-equipment list. The practical effect was to block new Chinese humanoid robots from entering the US market. The gap between the rule and reality is now being filled by rolling suitcases in Shenzhen. Suitcase shopping in Huaqiangbei has become … Read more
Linghou Robotics, a Suzhou-based supplier of core components for embodied intelligence, has raised a Series C round of more than 100 million yuan. The round was led by Chendao Capital, the industrial investment platform linked to CATL, and joined by the Industrial Machine Tool Investment Fund, a fund backed by Henan Information Industry Investment, a … Read more