Sensors
Can Seyond LiDAR shipments hit 1 million units this year?
The Nio supplier shipped about 268,900 units in the third quarter, slightly below the second; meeting its full-year forecast needs a similar fourth quarter.
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Autonomous fleets
EACON autonomous driving systems expand to 10+ Chinese coal mines
EACON says more than 600 trucks running its system work coal faces at over 10 open-pit mines, a step beyond clearing rock.
Motion control
Chip-plant robots speed up sales growth at Taiwan’s Hiwin
Hiwin’s revenue rose 24% in the first nine months, led by wafer-handling robots for chipmakers. Orders now stretch into 2027.
Electric vehicles
Lopal inks five-year cathode supply deal with Geely's battery arm
Lopal Tech's framework deal with Geely's Energee is more than twice either of its 2025 deals with CATL and EVE Energy.
Machine tools
State-owned firm steps in after botched Nigerian steel plant contract
A small Fuzhou firm couldn’t handle the export, supplier Zhongzhong says, so a unit of Xiamen ITG Group takes over the US$54.8 million order.
Autonomous fleets
Electric cargo ship tests self-steering on China's Grand Canal
CATL supplied its batteries, motors and controls. A trade weekly says it delivered five ships to a Jining company and signed for 50 more.
Autonomous fleets
Hong Kong set to begin commercial self-driving services
Operators can apply starting within 2026, the Transport Department says, after driverless trials at the airport and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge port.
Logistics automation
KENGIC wins bid for Poland warehouse-automation project
The Shanghai-listed company is set to automate an overseas warehouse hub for a cross-border e-commerce company it won't name. The contract isn't signed yet.
Smart factories
New STEP plant in Anhui: it's all about the ecosystem
The Shanghai robot and elevator-control maker's leased factory in Wuhu will make high- and low-voltage inverters, with room set aside for robots.
Autonomous fleets
Driverless port vehicles start hauling boxes at Guangzhou's Nansha terminal
Westwell's first 20 Q-Chassis vehicles now share a Nansha terminal with human-driven traffic, and the project plans 60 by 2027.
Electric vehicles
BYD looks to long-haul electric trucks for growth abroad
Its 150,000th commercial vehicle was a long-haul electric heavy truck, and BYD is pitching trucks abroad as part of a zero-carbon logistics package.
Public & commercial displays
A Taiwan hospital's screens can now detect vital signs
Fu Jen Catholic University Hospital worked with the AUO group and four other companies on transparent Micro LED displays, including one that checks vital signs.