China's crewed Moon landing program
China says it aims to land taikonauts on the Moon by 2030, using a plan that calls for two launches and a rendezvous in lunar orbit. The Long March-10 rocket, the Mengzhou crew spacecraft and the…
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Meta–Fourier humanoid prototype Max
Meta has built a humanoid prototype named Max with Chinese robotics company Fourier: about 48 kg, assembled in three months for home-robot research, with a second version already under way. Max is…
Apple Intelligence launch in China
Apple has announced that Apple Intelligence will launch in China with iOS 27.3. A first beta is due November 4, and the full release is scheduled for December. The China launch starts with earlier…
ByteDance makes its foray into embodied intelligence
ByteDance has officially entered the humanoid robot business, moving from robotics investor to operator, and is hiring as it builds out the effort. It is the biggest Chinese internet company to make…
CrowdStrike: Chinese state-linked hackers used AI tools in attacks on 200+ organizations
CrowdStrike says Chinese state-linked hackers targeted more than 200 organizations in just 11 days, using DeepSeek and other AI tools against governments and businesses worldwide. Watch for named…
Neo1: China's 13-foot, 500-kg humanoid for heavy industrial work
NeodraDynam in China has put a model name on its giant humanoid: Neo1, a 13-foot machine billed to lift 500 kg for heavy industrial work. The 500 kg lifting figure is a stated specification rather…
Unitree IPO
Unitree listed in Shanghai in August; after shares fell more than 50% from the debut they rebounded sharply in October, up over 60% in under two weeks as investors bet OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra will give…
XPeng IRON: production line commissioned, mass production promised for year-end
XPeng has commissioned an automated production line in Guangzhou for its IRON humanoid and still promises mass production by end-2026, with a stated target of 1,000 units a month; the robot itself…
Agibot: the suspended IPO
Agibot's IPO has been suspended. The pause is being weighed for how it affects the robot maker's capital plans and sales growth, while the reason for the suspension, any timeline for resuming or…
XPeng: the Yoyo cleared for L4 robotaxi trials across Guangzhou
XPeng's Yoyo has been cleared to conduct L4 robotaxi trial operations across Guangzhou. Public access is initially expanding through invitation codes, and the effort is framed as a step toward public…
AiMOGA's Mobo: a consumer family humanoid, unveiling Oct 21
AiMOGA Robotics scheduled the unveiling of Mobo, its first consumer-grade family companion humanoid, for October 21, 2026 in Wuhu, Anhui, with global preorders set to open the same day. Global…
FCC robotics import ban & the onshoring scramble
The FCC's 2026 ban on new foreign-made advanced robots, widely seen as aimed at China, is now testing US onshoring: makers warn of actuator and rare-earth gaps that could triple costs. Intel said the…
Unitree: the "self-evolving" AI that trains its own humanoids
Unitree is developing a "self-evolving" feedback AI intended to cut the need for manual programming so its humanoid robots can improve themselves; no system name, mechanism, demo or deployment…
Chinese humanoid makers court South Korea's physical-AI market
Chinese humanoid robot makers are accelerating efforts to gain a foothold in South Korea, while Korean industry bets on its own physical-AI programs. The market-entry lane is new; the coverage names…
RoboParty's RP1: the full-stack open-source humanoid for research
Shanghai-based RoboParty has introduced the RP1 (ROBOTO 01), a full-stack open-source humanoid robot with up to 30 degrees of freedom, designed for robotics research. Announced hardware, not shipped:…
FLAIR opens Hong Kong's first Embodied AI hub
Hong Kong has opened its first hub for embodied AI, set up by FLAIR together with HKPC to train, validate and test robots and move them toward commercial deployment. Unitree, Galbot and Robotera are…
LinkerBot: the production-scale shipping claim
DexForce: training humanoids on virtual data
UBTECH Liuzhou humanoid factory
Xinjiang Dadao: first embodied-AI assembly line, completion April 2027
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China's ACP100 SMR: hot testing begins
Manus: the Meta acquisition China unwound ($500M+ re-raise, Cue)
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Fusion race: $10B bill, ENN's H-B groundbreak, UK sprint
Fusion is drawing public money and private capital on several continents: a bipartisan US bill proposes $10 billion for commercialization, Germany launched a milestone-based programme, and Commerce…
China industrial shift: EV makers to humanoids, JD.com's 3 million robots
Model-theft ops: distillation-extraction campaigns (OpenAI × Moonshot)
Robot sports: the humanoid athletics record
The humanoid athletics record as it advances — sprint times, jumps and synchronized routines at the Games — kept apart from industrial deployment.