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BYD has shown an automatic charging robotic arm for its flash-charging network in the United Arab Emirates, according to Chinese reports published on November 9. The arm handles the whole charging sequence: once a car is parked in the bay, it opens the charging-port cover, picks up and inserts the connector, charges the car, removes the connector and closes the co...

Topstar, a Dongguan-based maker of industrial robots, injection-molding equipment and CNC machine tools, unveiled a full-size bipedal humanoid robot named Star at its TOPS DAY 2026 open day on November 7. The embodied-AI lineup on its Chinese website had listed a wheeled humanoid and a quadruped, but no bipedal model.

According to the company, Star stands 1...

Goke Microelectronics is planning an edge AI chip series for human-machine interaction and embodied robots, called GK6950, which it says will launch next year. The plans were outlined on November 2 in Zhuhai by Ni Yayu, deputy head of the company's digital platform development department and its AI technical lead, at a supply-chain session held alongside the 2026 ...

TokenRhythm, a Chinese AI infrastructure company that runs a multi-model routing platform, released NeoHorse-1.5-Flash Preview on November 5. The company describes it as an agent-native model aimed at task execution and software engineering. It is available only through a limited beta, for which users apply via the company's official WeChat account.

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China Telecom has upgraded TeleAgent, its in-house general-purpose AI agent, to version 3.0. The central change is what the company calls an "agent plus cloud computer" mode: instead of running tasks on the user's own machine, the agent can work inside a cloud environment configured like a real PC. Chinese telecom outlet C114 dated the upgrade November 6, and Chin...