On 17 July a whistleblower letter wiped more than 12 per cent off Dobot’s Hong Kong shares in a single day. Song Tao, who describes himself as a co-founder and former chief operating officer, accused the collaborative-robot maker of hiding a stake dispute in its A-share prospectus. The claim is specific. Song says a January … Read more
On 28 July BYD confirmed to Chinese media that its humanoid robot product will officially go to work in August, marking the company’s shift from a carmaker into a broader ecosystem technology group. The same day, the 2026 Fortune Global 500 list landed. BYD displaced Tesla as the world’s top electric vehicle seller and became … Read more
China has finally fixed a date. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has opened public consultation on the approval draft of a mandatory national standard covering safety requirements for automated driving systems. It replaces a recommended standard with a legal floor for L3 and L4, and it is scheduled to take effect on 1 … Read more
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology published the 410th batch of its road vehicle production catalogue on 7 August. The filing is a compulsory disclosure rather than a marketing event, which is why the industry reads it so closely. Dimensions, motor outputs, battery chemistry and cell suppliers all appear before a car is launched. … Read more
Five days separated the two events, and nearly ten thousand kilometres. On 27 July Baidu’s Apollo Go began public-road testing with nobody in the vehicle at all on Hong Kong’s airport island, the first fully driverless deployment anywhere in a left-side, right-hand-drive traffic system. On 28 July its sixth-generation RT6 appeared on the streets of … Read more
On 30 July, InnoLight rang the bell in Hong Kong, raising 53.4 billion HK dollars, about 6.8 billion US dollars, with greenshoe. The issue price was 980 HK dollars. Its A-share fell 9.15 per cent that day and the Hong Kong debut closed down 2.04 per cent, breaking issue on day one. Yet the queue … Read more
On 5 August, Estun, China’s leading industrial-robot maker, said it would buy 100 per cent of Estun Cube for 487 million yuan, about 68 million US dollars, in cash through a subsidiary. The deal is a related-party transaction: Cube’s largest outside shareholder is Estun’s own controlling holder, with 39.07 per cent. What makes investors uneasy … Read more
On 30 July, Unitree published its STAR-market prospectus and set a listing date. Within days its closest rival, AgiBot, confirmed it has started the Hong Kong IPO process, though it has not yet named sponsors, filing time or raise size. The two have spent months sparring across shipments, production and now the public market. A … Read more
On 5 August, Bloomberg reported that AISquared, a Shenzhen embodied-AI startup, is weighing a Hong Kong IPO and has hired banks for early preparations, with a listing possibly opening as soon as 2027. The company has not commented officially, and the talks remain fluid. The report lands as China’s humanoid and embodied-intelligence sector hits a … Read more
India’s artificial-intelligence ambition has run into an uncomfortable truth. Two years after Delhi launched its India AI Mission and hosted what it called the largest-ever AI impact summit, the country still has no frontier model of its own and little local AI infrastructure. That leaves Indian firms dependent on American GPUs and, increasingly, on cheaper … Read more