# robotics
Latest news and articles about robotics
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Fei‑Fei Li Says the Next AI Frontier Is Not Language but the World Itself
Fei‑Fei Li told the Cisco AI Summit that AI’s next major frontier is spatial intelligence: models that understand and simulate 3D physical space. Her company World Labs has produced Marble, a “world model” designed for persistent, physically consistent virtual environments with applications from robotics training to therapy, while cautioning that data scarcity and real‑world complexity make general‑purpose robots a distant prospect.
Build the ‘Brain’ for Robots and You’ll Rule AI, Says Yushu’s Founder — A Bold Bet on Robot-Centric Large Models
Yushu Technology’s founder Wang Xingxing argued that the company or group that builds a large-scale AI model tailored to robots will become the leading global AI and robotics firm. The remark underscores a wider industry shift toward embodied, multimodal foundation models that fuse perception and action, but success requires massive embodied data, hardware–software integration and viable commercial deployments.
Chinese Menswear Group Denies Buying Robots from Jack Technology, Quelling Market Rumours
Baoxinio issued a concise investor statement denying that it has purchased robots from Jack Technology, pushing back against circulating market rumours. The clarification illustrates how automation hype and social-media chatter can prompt listed firms to make rapid disclosures to steady investor sentiment. The denial does not preclude future automation projects; it mainly aims to correct the public record and limit speculative market moves.
Shenzhen’s Nanshan Reaches 1 Trillion Yuan — China’s First District to Hit City‑Scale GDP
Shenzhen’s Nanshan district surpassed 1 trillion yuan in GDP in 2025, the first sub‑city district in China to do so. The milestone reflects heavy concentration in software, internet and advanced manufacturing clusters, but also highlights risks from industry concentration, limited land, and external tech‑trade pressures.
China Demonstrates First Direct Link Between Humanoid Robot and High‑Throughput LEO Satellite, Pushing Robot Mobility Beyond Terrestrial Networks
Beijing researchers have successfully linked a humanoid robot directly to a GalaxySpace LEO phased‑array internet satellite, streaming visual data without ground‑based infrastructure. The test demonstrates a practical path for robots to operate with resilient, wide‑area connectivity and underscores China’s advances in commercial LEO broadband technology.
China Tests First Direct Link Between a Humanoid Robot and a LEO Internet Satellite, Paving Way for Net-Independent Field Autonomy
Chinese researchers report the first successful direct link between a humanoid robot and a low‑Earth‑orbit internet satellite, streaming robot vision data without ground network support. The test combines embodied robotics with phased‑array flat‑panel satellite technology, enabling potential autonomous operations in remote or infrastructure‑sparse areas while raising verification, security and dual‑use concerns.
China Puts an Embodied AI on Its Biggest Stage: Galaxy General to Supply Robots for the 2026 Spring Gala
Galaxy General has been designated to provide embodied large-model robots for China’s 2026 Spring Festival Gala, signalling a shift of advanced robotics from labs into mass cultural exposure. The move offers a high-profile marketing and technical proving ground while raising safety, governance and societal-acceptance questions.
Musk Hints Tesla Will Try Selling Humanoid Robot to Consumers by End of Next Year — But Timetables and Technical Hurdles Persist
At Davos, Elon Musk said Tesla may start selling its humanoid robot Optimus to consumers by the end of next year, while predicting more complex capabilities by the end of 2026. The remarks sharpen an ambitious timetable but leave open significant technical, production and regulatory questions; early deployments are likely to target controlled industrial settings before any mass consumer rollout.
China Small-caps Rally as Commercial Space Stocks Skyrocket, Tech and Pharma Slip
Chinese stocks finished higher with ChiNext leading gains after an afternoon rally driven by a surge in commercial space and hardware-related sectors. The move highlights retail-driven rotation into strategic, capital‑intensive industries while leaving semiconductors and innovative drugs under pressure.
China’s Robotics Race Turns Inward: Zhiyuan Spins Off Dexterous‑Hand Unit as Component Competition Intensifies
Zhiyuan Robotics has spun off its dexterous‑hand division into a new, majority‑owned company led by an industry veteran, reflecting a sectorwide pivot from whole‑machine integration to component specialisation. The move, alongside regulatory changes for surgical robots and advances across clean energy and machine tools, signals China’s industrial strategy shifting toward manufacturable, high‑performance subsystems that underpin next‑generation robotics and automation.
Chinese Startup Says It Trained Robots by 'Dreaming' — and Grew to Hundreds of Millions in Revenue
KuaWei Intelligence open-sourced EmbodiChain, a generative simulation pipeline that it says can train robot models entirely on synthetic data and achieve zero-shot transfer to the real world. The company reported annual revenue in the hundreds of millions of yuan for 2025 and expects three- to fourfold growth in 2026, pitching its approach as a scalable, ROI-focused alternative to costly real-world data collection.
Swiss ‘Dexterous Hand’ Leaps Forward: A Robotic Hand That Grasps, Flips and Crawls Its Way to Real-World Tasks
EPFL researchers have developed a modular robotic hand that replicates 33 human grasp types and adds dual‑sided grasping plus autonomous crawling, enabling it to handle oversized objects and reposition itself to process multiple targets. Published in Nature Communications, the device bridges a gap between laboratory dexterity demonstrations and practical applications in industry, service robotics and field exploration, though challenges in sensing, energy and integration remain.