Autonomous fleets
SeeWay.ai wins Beijing smart city contract to build connected vehicle infrastructure
The contract covers 398 intersections in Beijing's Fangshan district.
Cbot
Machine tools
Han's Laser YoY sales up over $1 billion on AI-related orders
The Shenzhen equipment maker says orders grew in several business lines, from circuit-board machines to display lines. It expects nine-month profit to more than double.
Agricultural tech
Robots in agriculture: China lists 55 established use cases
Each had to be in use in at least one real agricultural setting. Objections are open until Oct. 21, before a final list is set.
Displays & panels
China's TV shipments continue to fall with smaller brands edged out
Brands shipped 2.7 million sets in September, 7.5% fewer than a year earlier, RUNTO says.
Displays & panels
Report: Meta will drive AR glasses shipments to double in 2026
Meta is forecast to lead with about a fifth of shipments. The next four, including Beijing's Xreal and Hangzhou's Rokid, are expected to take 53.2%.
Autonomous fleets
CiDi driverless trucks cut China-Vietnam round-trip border route to 8 hours
A local report says each round trip, including waiting at the freight yard, takes about eight hours, against two to three days for human-driven trucks.
Sensors
Q Technology's car camera, lidar sales hit 2026 high while phone business drops
Its phone-module unit sales fell 19.7% year on year in September, which the Hong Kong-listed supplier blamed on weak smartphone demand as memory prices rose.
E-paper
Electronic tags to solve manual price updates at European grocers
One of the stores switching to the Hanshow labels replaces about 1.44 million paper price tags by hand each month.
Autonomous fleets
Baidu to extend self-driving tests to residents of a Hong Kong neighborhood
The new route will open to the public on October 20.
Autonomous fleets
Former aerospace engineer builds robot boats for Taiwan's aquaculture market
EZaquaculture says it has sold more than 98 unmanned feeding boats; startup-accelerator trials found they cut labor about 70%.
Machine tools
Hong Kong-listed optics supplier starts shipping lasers for AI circuit boards
Pangaea expects to deliver at least 500 laser systems, worth at least US$55 million, to one equipment maker by March 2027.
Robotics & embodied AI
Chinese robot-mower maker to buy struggling German manufacturer
LDRobot agreed to spend up to €6 million (about US$6.7 million) on the firm, dating to 1932, to reach more than 1,400 European dealers.