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Auto · NEW CARS & MARKET SIGNALS7:54Buy an MPV, Get SUV Capability Too? How Does the Gaoshan 7 Do Both?
Buy an MPV, Get SUV Capability Too? How Does the Gaoshan 7 Do Both?
Robotics · INDUSTRYInfineon Opens Shanghai Innovation Hub, Completes Restructuring into Three Business Units
Infineon officially opens its Shanghai innovation space, reinforcing its 'In China, For China' strategy. The company optimizes its structure into three divisions—Automotive Electronics, Power Systems, and Terminal Intelligence—to address surging AI computing and power demands.
Robotics · INDUSTRYAfter Raising Hundreds of Millions, WuJie Dynamics Launches MWA Latent World Model
WuJie Dynamics officially released the MWA Embodied General Brain, a latent space world model based on long-horizon bidirectional physical causal chains, and topped the RoboCasa GR1 TableTop leaderboard. The company recently completed a $200 million angel round.
Robotics · ROBOTICSGenesis AI Unveils Eno: A Non-Humanoid Robot Prioritizing Dexterity Over Human Form
Genesis AI unveils Eno, a non-humanoid general-purpose robot with a foldable torso and advanced dexterous hands. The design prioritizes functional capability over human appearance, targeting industrial and laboratory applications first.
Robotics · ROBOTICSGalbot Unveils AstraBrain-WBC 0.5, a Breakthrough in Humanoid Robot 'Cerebellum' Control
Galbot launches AstraBrain-WBC 0.5, the world's first general-purpose cerebellum foundation model for humanoid robots. With 80.4 million parameters, it becomes the first in its field to reach the GPT-1 scale, addressing the trade-off between agility and generalization in motion control.
Robotics · INDUSTRYAgiBot's 6-Day Factory Deployment Signals Inflection Point for Embodied AI
AgiBot's Genie G2 robots completed over 11,000 tablet quality inspections with a 99.985% success rate in a transparent 6-day factory trial, marking the industry's shift from experimental 'development phase' to scalable 'deployment phase'.
Robotics · INDUSTRYNvidia's Robot Play: Using Unitree to Build a Physical AI 'CUDA'
While Unitree faces regulatory scrutiny, NVIDIA is leveraging its Isaac GR00T reference design to build a 'CUDA-like' ecosystem for embodied AI, turning robot training into a sustainable compute business.
Auto · AUTONOMOUS DRIVINGBehind NIO's World Model Upgrade: Autonomous Driving Competition Shifts From Algorithms to Infrastructure
NIO has fully deployed its NWM 2.5 world model update across NT2 and NT3 platforms, demonstrating that autonomous driving competition is shifting from algorithmic superiority to underlying engineering infrastructure.
Robotics · INDUSTRYLi Auto Unveils AI Strategy, Positioning Itself Beyond Traditional Automaker
At Livis Day, Li Auto unveiled its transition from a traditional automaker to an AI-driven company, showcasing new chips, embodied AI models, and concrete OTA milestones for 2026.
Robotics · INDUSTRYGigaAI Secures RMB 1 Billion in Funding to Bring World Models to Homes and Factories
JiJia Vision has completed a 1 billion RMB B2 round of financing, bringing its total funding to 3.5 billion RMB in just three months. The company is leveraging its "Dual Pyramid" data and algorithm system to deploy embodied AI with world models in both C-end home scenarios and B-end industrial applications.
Robotics · INDUSTRYEmbodied AI’s New Bottleneck: The Rise of a Global Data Production Chain
As Embodied AI companies face a critical data shortage, a new supply chain is emerging. This article explores how human demonstration data, particularly Ego Data from low-cost labor hubs like India, is becoming the key asset in training general-purpose humanoid robots.
Auto · NEW CARS & MARKET SIGNALSSaidou Technology Unveils AIVA Brand and Concept Car, Proposing 'AI Defines the Car' Paradigm
Saidou Technology, a joint venture by Seres, CATL and other investors, launched the AIVA brand and its AIVA Origin Concept car in Beijing. The company outlines a production strategy where AI architecture precedes vehicle design, with the first mass-production model, AIVA ME7, scheduled for release later this year.
Auto · CHINA EVHow Chinese EV Speed Is Reshaping Qualcomm's Automotive Roadmap
At the 2026 Qualcomm Automotive Technology and Partnership Summit, executives stated that China's rapid vehicle iteration cycles and aggressive cost targets are forcing Qualcomm to accelerate its chip development and adopt cockpit-driving fusion architectures.
Auto · AUTONOMOUS DRIVINGRobotaxi and Humanoid Robots: How Is NVIDIA Capturing the Physical AI Market?
At the 2026 GTC Taipei conference, NVIDIA announced the launch of its 32-billion-parameter Alpamayo 2 Super autonomous driving model and an open humanoid robot reference platform based on Unitree hardware. The company also expanded L4 autonomous driving partnerships with Foxconn, VinFast, Uber, and HUMAIN.
Robotics · ROBOTICSOakfruit Robotics Unveils 'Instinct-Driven' Bottom-Up Approach for Embodied AI
Oakfruit Robotics has released its 'instinct-driven' technical route for Embodied AI, adopting a bottom-up approach where robots acquire operational instincts at the foundational level and autonomously emerge with intelligent manipulation through interaction with the physical world.
Auto · NEW CARS & MARKET SIGNALSWilliam Li's ES9 Moment: Premium Push, Profitability, and the Next Breakthrough
NIO has launched the ES9 executive flagship SUV with a starting price of RMB 498,000, aiming to replicate the success of the ES8 and drive profitability as the Chinese auto market faces a severe downturn.
Robotics · RESEARCHX Square Robot’s WALL-OSS-0.5 Enables Zero-Shot VLA Deployment on Its Native Robot Embodiment
X Square Robot has open-sourced WALL-OSS-0.5, an Embodied AI foundation model that achieves strong zero-shot generalization on real robots directly after pre-training, challenging the industry norm that VLA models require post-training for deployment.
Auto · NEW CARS & MARKET SIGNALS14:14Toyota Bozhi 7: HarmonyOS Cockpit, LiDAR and Dual-Chamber Air Suspension Under RMB 200,000
The Toyota Bozhi 7 is positioned with a full-featured HarmonyOS cockpit, LiDAR sensors, and dual-chamber air suspension at a price point below RMB 200,000.
Auto · NEW CARS & MARKET SIGNALS3:10Audi E7X: Can It Claim the 'King of the Road' Title?
42HOW Auto examines whether the Audi E7X can claim the title of the new 'King of the Road'.
Auto · NEW CARS & MARKET SIGNALS3:45Can Volkswagen's ID. AURA T6 Concept Be a Turning Point?
Volkswagen presents the ID. AURA T6 concept car, raising questions about whether this design study can help the automaker regain momentum in the electric vehicle market.