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At the World Robot Conference, Chinese humanoid robots drew attention with demonstrations including table tennis and drumming. However, industry leaders and policymakers are shifting focus from impressive showcases toward commercialization, production scale, and practical deployment.
Tactile robotics is expanding from sensor hardware into datasets, foundation models, and evaluation benchmarks. Research shows touch improves physical reasoning and robot success, but inconsistent sensor formats create major cross-device transfer challenges.
A Chinese-led team from Nanjing University and the National University of Singapore developed 光语芯, an ultra-low-power intelligent vision sensor chip that directly converts light into tokens. The tokens can be fed into an encoder for image recognition.
Xiaomi stabilized in Q2 2026 while expanding its AI strategy across models, chips, and robotics. Its MiMo-V2.5 model led OpenRouter call charts, the Xuanjie chip passed mass verification, and a humanoid robot began factory operations with a reported 98% success rate.
NVIDIA introduces Cosmos 3 Edge, a compact world model designed for on-device robot control. The 4B omni-model includes a 2B NVIDIA Nemotron-based reasoner to support adaptive policies across sensors, environments, and tasks.
China has reportedly allowed ByteDance and Tencent to import 10,000 NVIDIA H200 chips each, according to the Financial Times. Other Chinese companies could receive similar approval, potentially easing access to advanced AI computing hardware.
The FDA has approved Aletta, a robot that can locate a patient's vein, insert a needle, and draw blood without direct human assistance. The system could help address shortages of trained phlebotomy staff.
Waymo has disclosed key details about the high-performance computers installed in the trunks of its robotaxis. The company shared processor specifications, chip architecture, internal components, and hardware suppliers for the first time.
Chinese AI companies are optimising software to handle growing inference demand while access to high-end Nvidia processors remains limited. Domestic chips can support some inference workloads, but complex coding tasks still depend partly on scarce Nvidia capacity.
SMIC reported its first $3 billion quarter, with revenue rising 36.1% year over year and net profit nearly tripling to $479.2 million. The Chinese foundry is also raising wafer prices as US sanctions strengthen demand from China’s captive AI market.