Beyond the chatbot: Shanghai AI summit highlights global race to solve hardware and robotics bottlenecks
Next week’s World AI Conference will focus on tackling fragmented hardware, chip limits, and severe robotic…
China’s Ubtech shifts from factory robots to AI emotional companions in high-stakes gamble
The humanoid robot maker has launched life-sized AI companions, betting that emotional interaction rather than factory…
China’s robotics race pivots from hardware to AI brains as Alibaba and ByteDance place their bets
Coffee-serving robot developed by AI Square Robotics By Da Cheung The race to commercialize embodied AI…
JD.com pledges retraining not layoffs as robots reshape China’s logistics sector
By Qing Qing JD.com (9618.HK) (JD.US) founder and chairman Richard Liu has pledged that the Chinese e-commerce giant will…
Dreame restructures as it rethinks expansion strategy
By Liang Kaier Chinese smart home appliance maker Dreame Technology is overhauling its business structure to…
INTERVIEW: Cainiao rolls out ZeeBot in latest step toward ‘Dark Warehouses’
The newest robotic member of e-commerce giant Alibaba’s logistics arm is notable for its ability to…
Alibaba steps into embodied AI with Qwen-Robot, offering a digital brain to Unitree’s physical brawn
By Da Cheung On June 16, Alibaba (9988.HK) (BABA) released the Qwen-Robot series, marking its first comprehensive foray into…
From Unitree to Moonshot: How Meituan’s DragonBall bets on China’s tech dreamers
By Cheng Manqi and Pei Yutong As money pours into China’s hottest technology sectors, many investors…
Cash burn and chaos: the race to build China’s first truly embodied AI
By Da Cheung The embodied AI industry — a sector focused on giving artificial intelligence physical…
Grounded by reality: why autonomous delivery in China is a marathon, not a sprint
By Da Cheung The hardest part of running a thousand driverless delivery vans isn’t the AI.…
Latest
- Shanghai state funds back AI startup aiming to accelerate nuclear fusion
- ByteDance revamps Seed team structure as it prepares for larger AI models
- Alibaba bets $10.2 billion on AI infrastructure in Hong Kong share sale
- Yangtze Memory IPO: A blockbuster quarter, but three hurdles loom
- InnoLight rides AI infrastructure boom as China spending lags
