China’s manufacturing heartland released its nine-month economic data on 26 October, and one line in it deserves more attention than the headline growth figure. Guangdong industrial robot output rose 34.2 per cent in the first three quarters of 2026. Illustration: The Robot Belt (Source: Shenzhen News) Guangdong’s GDP reached RMB 11.109 trillion in the first … Read more
A Nikkei teardown of a low-cost Chinese humanoid has stirred debate in Japanese engineering circles, with veteran roboticists conceding that China’s mass-production logic, not raw component precision, now sets the tempo of the field. The details that stung The engineers were struck less by headline tech than by unglamorous choices. The screw threads felt unusually … Read more
Estun has topped China’s industrial-robot shipment rankings again, and this time crossed a threshold no domestic brand had reached: more than 10,000 robots delivered in a single quarter. According to MIR DATABANK, in the first half of 2026 Estun again led all brands in China’s industrial-robot shipments. In the second quarter it became the first … Read more