SeeWay.ai wins Beijing smart city contract to build connected vehicle infrastructure
The contract covers 398 intersections in Beijing's Fangshan district.
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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.
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.
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.
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%.
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.
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.
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.
Baidu to extend self-driving tests to residents of a Hong Kong neighborhood
The new route will open to the public on October 20.
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%.
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.
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.
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.
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.