16+ hour, 3+ min ago  (201+ words) Elon Musk says robot fights are fun after watching China’s humanoid robot battle TechNode A humanoid robot combat event organized by a Shenzhen robotics company has gone viral, even catching the attention of Tesla CEO Elon Musk. On July 19, Musk…...

18+ hour, 37+ min ago  (90+ words) China develops more than 400 humanoid robot products, accounting for over half of the global total TechNode China has developed more than 400 humanoid robot products, accounting for more than half of the global total, according to data released by the Ministry…...

18+ hour, 48+ min ago  (144+ words) China’s daily AI token calls reach 140 trillion, up more than 1,000-fold since early 2024 TechNode China’s daily AI token calls reached 140 trillion by March 2026, up more than 1,000-fold from roughly 100 billion in early 2024, according to figures cited by China Academy of…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago  (123+ words) Xiaomi introduces Xiaomi-Robotics-U0 for embodied AI and robot generation TechNode Xiaomi on Wednesday unveiled Xiaomi-Robotics-U0, a 38-billion-parameter multimodal autoregressive foundation model for embodied AI. The company said the model unifies four core capabilities within a single framework: embodied scene generation,…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago  (122+ words) Alibaba’s Qwen to be integrated into Apple Intelligence TechNode Alibaba’s Qwen AI model will be integrated into Apple Intelligence, bringing AI-powered experiences to users in China across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS. Without switching between apps, users will be able…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago  (151+ words) Xiaomi updates progress on humanoid robots in auto factory, achieves 98% success rate in some tasks TechNode Xiaomi has revealed the latest progress of its humanoid robot deployed in an automotive factory. Following four months of iteration, the robot’s success rate…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago  (141+ words) SenseTime open-sources SenseNova-Vision unified vision model TechNode SenseTime has released and fully open-sourced SenseNova-Vision, a unified vision model in its SenseNova foundation-model suite. The model is designed to handle object detection, optical character recognition, keypoint localization, image segmentation, depth estimation…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (73+ words) Insta360 unveils vision for AI-powered Cameraman robot on 11th anniversary TechNode In an internal letter, founder Liu Jingkang said the company aims not only to pursue commercialization and efficiency, but also to tackle problems others are unwilling to solve, using innovation to…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (206+ words) DJI launches AP100 parachute system for Matrice 400 enterprise drone TechNode DJI on Wednesday launched the DJI AP100 Parachute, its first parachute system designed for enterprise drone applications. Built specifically for the Matrice 400 drone, the AP100 is priced at 7,488 yuan (about $1,100) and is currently…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (379+ words) In recent years, as generative AI has shifted from model training toward large-scale inference, an increasing number of AI model developers have turned their attention to underlying hardware. Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has launched an in-house AI chip project focused…...