On August 25, 2026, GalaxySpace’s Lingzhi 09 reached orbit aboard a Long March 6C that deployed seven satellites.
More than 20 smartphones are reportedly targeting September 2026, with Huawei’s Mate XT2 scheduled for September 7 and Apple’s foldable iPhone and iPhone 18 Pro models expected on September 9; most specifica...
China’s humanoid robot strategy is expanding from building robot bodies to collecting training data: at least 90 data collection and training centers were reported as operating or under construction.
JD.com’s 7Fresh Coffee opened a 24 hour unmanned shop at Beijing’s Galaxy SOHO on August 16, 2026.
Zhao Tongyang said the December 2025 T800 kick was a real strength test: the robot had reached a claimed 450 N·m of peak joint torque and knocked him down.
Xiaomi unveiled three Xuanjie chips on August 24, 2026: the 3nm O3 phone SoC with claimed 200 TOPS, the 6nm O100 accelerator with 1.22 TB/s bandwidth, and the 3nm D100 for intelligent driving.
XPeng’s robotics unit raised more than $900 million in its first external funding round at a post money valuation above $6.3 billion on August 24, 2026.
XPeng’s robotics unit raised more than $900 million at a post money valuation above $6.3 billion, but the financing validates an industrialization plan—not yet a proven humanoid robot business.
China’s more immediate EUV opportunity appears to be metrology and inspection rather than a complete domestic EUV lithography scanner.
Wenchang is turning its launch site advantage into a broader commercial space ecosystem.
FIRMED replaces one emotion label for an entire video with timestamped labels for recalled emotional peaks, helping models learn from localized events instead of mixed or irrelevant sections.
Ulanqab’s advantage is the combination of 4.2 millisecond fiber latency to Beijing and renewable electricity priced at roughly 0.33–0.36 yuan per kWh—not cheap power alone.