Tencent launched the WorkBuddy Open Platform on September 2, 2026, opening its workplace AI agent foundation to more than 100 partners across hardware, industry applications, and development.
CSEAC 2026 showed that China has moved beyond isolated equipment prototypes into credible, increasingly scaled suppliers of major process tools—but still faces severe bottlenecks in the tools that determine...
Direct Drive’s D1 treats the robot body as a reusable module: units can dock in head to head or tail to tail arrangements, identify the resulting configuration, and update their dynamics and control model.
Somni is a contactless, screen free bedside sleep system that uses environmental sensing plus sound, light and scent to adapt a user’s sleep environment over successive nights.
Zhipu’s September 2 Tmall launch let shoppers buy GLM coding capacity as a prepaid subscription: ¥118/month buys Lite with 10,000 weekly credits, while Max costs ¥1,078 for 140,000.
China’s NHSA created dedicated robot assisted surgery groups in DRG/DIP 3.0 on September 2, 2026, separating selected robot cases from standard procedures.
Unitree’s September 2026 Chengdu move is an announced commercialization loop: pilot produce robots, place them in real use cases, gather data for embodied AI iteration, and build education and application pa...
Ouyang Minggao forecast that global lithium ion battery demand could exceed 5,000 GWh by 2030, with China’s shipments surpassing 3,600 GWh—nearly twice its roughly 1,875 GWh total in 2025.
JD Cloud is building an operator platform for physical AI: it wants AI to learn from and run real logistics, retail and service workflows.
CIOE 2026’s clearest signal is architectural: 800G optics are commercial at scale, 1.6T is entering a major ramp, and 3.2T and faster designs are largely still in sampling or validation.
The Sugon N50 Pro is a 1.69 kg Chinese mobile workstation that the company calls the world’s first laptop with a 64 thread CPU.
Yuejia Dynamics is a Shenzhen embodied AI robotics company focused on four legged and wheel legged machines.