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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.

E-paper

E-paper tablets end a 16-month slump in China

Online unit sales rose 8.5% in August, research firm RUNTO says, as cheap e-readers made up for a collapse in study notebooks. Sales value fell 29%.

Smart factories

Automation at a Shenzhen manufacturer using Hikrobot STU robots

Robots, conveyor lines and cameras keep finished handsets moving through the factory's warehouse, says Hikrobot, which built the system with Honor.

Stacked bar chart of RoboSense LiDAR units sold per quarter: Q4 2025 about 459,600 (238,400 ADAS, 221,200 robotics and others); Q1 2026 about 330,300, calculated (144,800 and 185,500); Q2 202

Sensors

RoboSense's 2026 LiDAR unit sales already top last year's

The Xiaomi supplier sold about 595,600 units in the third quarter, and its robotics business brought in nearly half its first-half product revenue.

The transport department page dates from June 2021 and puts the Fujian section’s two ends at Fuding and Zhao’an and gives its length as 649 km.

Electric vehicles

Fujian opens a 649-km charging corridor for electric trucks

Its 23 charging and battery-swap stations sit no more than 100 km apart, and it is the first of eight such routes the province plans.

Logistics automation

First ship makes trial call at Shanghai's next automated terminal

A trial berthing at Xiaoyangshan North starts crane tests at a terminal Shanghai International Port Group says will run fully automated and all-electric.

Electric vehicles

Hong Kong: No unapproved driver-assist or driverless vehicles allowed

Drivers in the cross-border scheme risk fines, license loss or losing their car’s eligibility, the transport secretary said in a written reply to a lawmaker.

Driverless trucks running CiDi's system. Photo: CiDi

Autonomous fleets

CiDi retrofits mining trucks to be self-driving

CiDi says shorter shift changes and faster haul cycles lifted August volume 11.7% at a coal mine in Inner Mongolia.

Hikvision

Hikvision leads China's online dashcam market in August

Hikvision topped China's online dashcam sales in August by both volume and revenue, market-research firm RUNTO says.

Automotive displays

Taiwan truck swaps mirrors for cameras

Formosa Automobile says Taiwan is the first place outside Europe licensed to assemble DAF's new-generation XF heavy truck, from imported parts.

a pie with three slices: ASEAN 37.7%, mainland China and Hong Kong 33.3%, and all other markets 29.0% (calculated, hatched).

Manufacturing & contract electronics

Southeast Asia passes China as top market for Taiwan's electronics-making machines

Exports of Taiwan's electronics and chip production equipment rose 44.7% from January through August, and shipments to Southeast Asia more than doubled.

E-paper

Laibao's US$1.3 billion color e-paper tech passes a key manufacturing test

The Shenzhen company switched on the first panels from its new line on schedule. Mass production is still several steps away.