RobotBelt Monthly Auto Tracker β€” United Kingdom β€” June 2026

1. The Ranking Top 20 brands by monthly sales, China-badged brands highlighted in teal. (RobotBelt Monthly Auto Tracker β€” United Kingdom, 2026-06) 2. Three Signals Signal 1 Fact: Chinese brands held 16.5% of UK registrations in June 2026, but 11.6% without MG. Read: MG (wholly SAIC-owned) still does the heavy lifting. Strip it out and … Read more

RobotBelt Monthly Auto Tracker β€” Australia β€” June 2026

1. The Ranking Top 20 brands by monthly sales, China-badged brands highlighted in teal. (RobotBelt Monthly Auto Tracker β€” Australia, 2026-06) 2. Three Signals Signal 1 Fact: BYD sold 18,881 units in June 2026, just 1.2% behind Toyota’s 19,124. Read: For the first time a Chinese brand is effectively level with the long-time market leader. … Read more

RobotBelt Monthly Auto Tracker β€” Thailand β€” June 2026

1. The Ranking Top 20 brands by monthly sales, China-badged brands highlighted in teal. (RobotBelt Monthly Auto Tracker β€” Thailand, 2026-06) 2. Three Signals Signal 1 Fact: Chinese brands took 31.0% of Thailand’s auto market in June 2026 (26.2% excluding MG). Read: Toyota, Honda and Isuzu still hold the podium, but the Chinese block is … Read more

NVIDIA Puts $5 Billion Behind Safe Superintelligence as the Chip Cycle Heats Up

NVIDIA has confirmed a strategic investment in Safe Superintelligence, the lab founded by OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, and opened its next-generation Vera Rubin compute platform to the effort β€” targeting a tenfold increase in SSI’s capacity within twelve months. First Financial reports the deal is worth about $5 billion. SSI, founded in 2024, has shipped … Read more

China Launches an IPv6 Push for Large AI Models, With Shenzhen in the Mix

On 28 July, the Cyberspace Administration of China, together with the cyberspace offices of Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang and Shenzhen and five leading large-model firms, launched the AI Large-Model IPv6 Capability Enhancement Initiative in Xiong’an. The goal is to push generative large-model applications to fully support IPv6, laying the network foundation for the intelligent era. As … Read more

Suzhou Opens a 2026 AI Expo With 400 Exhibitors and Embodied Robots

The 2026 Artificial Intelligence Product Application Expo opens on 30 July at the Suzhou International Expo Center, with nearly 400 hardcore exhibitors gathered under one roof. Beyond domestic large models, the show covers embodied-AI robots across full scenarios β€” a telling sign of where China’s AI commercialisation push is heading: not models alone, but models … Read more

China’s Robot Supply Chain Is Suddenly Drowning in Orders

China’s robot sector is shifting from concept hype to order ramp and profit realisation. Half-year 2026 results show the whole chain β€” from core parts to whole-machine integration β€” taking off at once. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology says that from January to May, industrial-scale robot enterprises booked revenue above 90 billion yuan, … Read more