Why it’s nearly impossible to build a robot without China
Building on the country's electric vehicle industry, Chinese companies are making robot parts at a scale and price point others can't match.
Read summary →Latest robotics news and industry updates from China.
Building on the country's electric vehicle industry, Chinese companies are making robot parts at a scale and price point others can't match.
Read summary →Claire chatted to Edward Mehr from Machina Labs about their RoboCraftsman that shapes complex metal parts for the aerospace, defence, and a…
Read summary →In their 2022 book Sinostan, Raffaello Pantucci and Alexandros Petersen saw Central Asia as China’s “inadvertent empire”. If that is true –…
Read summary →We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with…
Read summary →Blockbuster initial public offerings from tech champions such as Anthropic and SpaceX are about to fundamentally reshape global capital mar…
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Read summary →It’s a tale of two nuclear industries. In China, large reactors are coming together at a stunning pace. The country has nearly doubled its…
Read summary →China’s factory gate prices rose by the most since 2022, surpassing expectations, as higher oil costs stemming from the war in Iran help ma…
Read summary →The European Commission has declared its trade and economic relationship with China “unsustainable”, pointing to a daily trade deficit of €…
Read summary →From Sunderland to Spain, Chinese manufacturers are revitalising idle factories and investing where traditional European carmakers are pull…
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Read summary →US President Donald Trump’s drive to reassert US supremacy in Latin America has already squeezed China’s interests in Cuba, Panama and Vene…
Read summary →Given that control over energy reinforces superpower status, the contest of the century has morphed into an intense rivalry between China,…
Read summary →China and Russia have largely moved away from the US dollar in bilateral trade settlement, with most transactions now settled in their own…
Read summary →We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with…
Read summary →China accused the United States of using “invented allegations” to justify its terrorism case against Cuba, after Secretary of State Marco…
Read summary →EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic has called for practical approaches and “meaningful discussion” to tackle the growing trade concerns between…
Read summary →The four MPs hail from across the political spectrum and visited Taiwan as part of a cross-party delegation in May, national broadcaster RN…
Read summary →The Southeast Asian nation's defense chief has set a clear threshold in the South China Sea: any disruption to the country's offshore oil a…
Read summary →The wide-ranging geopolitical rivalry between Beijing and Washington could soon expand into biotechnology, raising the prospect of fresh te…
Read summary →This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of t…
Read summary →One day last October, sitting in the courtyard of his house in China’s Henan province, Dong Hui decided to see if he could hold a pen to wr…
Read summary →We have put together stories from our coverage last weekend to help you stay informed about news across Asia and beyond. If you would like…
Read summary →In 1987, Richard Greenhill, a British photographer who was fascinated by (but had no actual training in) robotics, decided he wanted to bui…
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