2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (665+ words) In the latest big stock listing, shares in China-founded e-commerce and fast fashion giant Shein are due to debut Tuesday in Hong Kong in a blockbuster initial public offering raising $1.7 billion, in one of the city’s biggest new share sales…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (184+ words) The race was part of China’s World Humanoid Robot Games, an Olympic-style competition now in its second year in Beijing. The event is also a showcase for China’s rapid advances in robotics amid an intensifying technology rivalry with the U....

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (443+ words) By Eduardo Baptista, Tingshu Wang and Alessandro Diviggiano The time was more than seven-tenths of a second faster than the 9.58-second men’s human world record set by Jamaican sprinting great Usain Bolt in 2009. Tiangong Ultra, developed by the Beijing Humanoid…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (854+ words) The wild swings in Unitree’s valuation – soaring to $66 billion at one point and later plunging by $30 billion – have led to questions about whether enthusiasm for AI and robotics has outpaced fundamentals. The post-listing selloff in the company, one of the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (269+ words) The funding round, led by IDG Capital and backed by strategic investors Tencent and Alibaba, values the robotics business at more than $6.3 billion, Xpeng said in a statement. Gaorong Ventures, an early investor in autonomous driving company Momenta and humanoid…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (543+ words) More than 2,000 humanoid robots were participating in the event, the organizer said. The five-day games, now in its second year, are a spectacle demonstrating China’s rapid progress in advanced robotics as the technology race with the U.S. heats up, with…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (745+ words) BEIJING, Aug 22 (Reuters) – It’s been called the Robot Olympics. But unlike the human Olympics, Team China is collecting almost all the medals. Over the past decade, robotic competitions in China have provided a window into the advances of a now-surging sector…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (180+ words) • Shares in Unitree, China’s best-known humanoid robot maker, soared in their Shanghai trading debut, in a landmark moment for the country’s robotics sector, which has become a battleground in the Sino-U.S. tech war. • Global humanoid robot shipments nearly quadrupled…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (250+ words) China kicked off the 2026 World Robot Conference on Wednesday, with companies showcasing the country’s expanding robotics industry as it looks to move the technology beyond demonstrations and into factories and other real-world applications. Organizers say around 3,000 products will be showcased…...