10 Jun 2026
China’s Lifelike Emotional Companion Bots Go on Sale
Chinese robotics company UBTech has begun presales for what it calls the world’s “first full-size, ultra-bionic” humanoid robot designed for emotional companionship. Around 3,000 units have been sold so far.
09 Jun 2026
China can build humanoid robots at scale. The hard part is finding enough buyers
Chinese-made humanoid robots are making waves with their ability to do backflips, direct traffic, and even make coffee as the companies developing them seek ways to expand and dominate the market.
09 Jun 2026
YY Group turns cleaning shifts into AI data for humanoid robots
YY Group (NASDAQ: YYGH) launched a commercial humanoid robotics initiative using Unitree G1 Edu Ultimate B-U4 robots to enhance its AI-native facility management platform.
09 Jun 2026
Robot Climbs 6,200-Meter Chimborazo Volcano Peak, Next Stop Everest
Another significant event has occurred in the world of technology. A humanoid robot named Pemba successfully climbed the peak of the Chimborazo volcano in Ecuador, conquering the mountain at an altitude of 6,200 meters. This was reported by “ Mir24.tv ”.
08 Jun 2026
SpaceX's stock market blast-off could be Musk's biggest gamble yet
It's 07:25 am, 13 October 2024, at Starbase, near Boca Chica on the Texas side of the US/Mexico border, and on the launch pad stands the biggest rocket ever made. Its engines fire and it climbs into the skies over the Gulf of Mexico to cheers and screams in the SpaceX control room. But the launch is not the main event. What goes up must come down – and how it comes down will become a milestone in…
08 Jun 2026
Could humanoid robots be heading for the battlefield?
I've come to an industrial space in a tech-heavy area of San Francisco expecting to see a menacing humanoid robot solider doing something combat-like: the future of land-based warfare, perhaps. Instead, the black shiny faceless Phantom robot is engaged in "free play", manipulating a bunch of coloured kids blocks.
08 Jun 2026
CNBC's The China Connection newsletter: Humanoid robots are great, but they need buyers too
A Lingyi iTech factory in Beijing is ramping up production of humanoid robots for various startups. CNBC | Evelyn Cheng Hi, this is Evelyn, writing to you from Beijing. Welcome to the latest edition of The China Connection — a snapshot of what I'm seeing and hearing from local businesses.
08 Jun 2026
China's NEO Brain Chip Beats Neuralink to First Commercial BCI Sale
China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) approved NEO — a coin-sized invasive brain-computer interface from Neuracle Technology and Tsinghua University researchers — for commercial use beyond clinical trials, making it the world's first invasive BCI cleared for sale, according to MIT Technology Review, Scientific American, and People's Daily reporting on the March 2026 decision…
08 Jun 2026
How China's Unitree Will Dominate Global Robotics
We are witnessing the birth of another Chinese hardware giant. Three years ago, Unitree was a quadruped company. By last year, they parlayed quadruped dominance into creating and leading the humanoid market. This year, their G1 humanoids are finally entering into viable deployments, and three new designs are on the way, including their most-direct Western humanoid competitor.
