CATL bets on RoboParty: China's battery giant enters the humanoid race sideways
The world's largest battery maker takes a stake in a HIT-founded open-source humanoid startup. Not a VC move - an integration play.
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Founders now design for geopolitical fragmentation, not around it - e27 publishes a "3Cs+1" framework
On e27, a founder writes that they stopped trying to scale globally by default. Their new framework - "3Cs+1" - treats geopolitical fragmentation as a first-class product constraint.
Jul 27, 2026 at 10:17 6 6
China ranks second in global compute power as AI servers overtake general-purpose ones
Pandaily reports China's compute power now ranks second globally, and AI servers have overtaken general-purpose servers for the first time. Five sub-sectors shape the next leg.
Jul 25, 2026 at 10:28 11 9
Unitree says the robots' "GPT moment" is still years away - an insider anti-hype call
Unitree, one of the most visible embodied labs in the world, publicly states that the "GPT moment" of robotics is still several years away. An anti-hype signal coming from within.
Jul 22, 2026 at 12:41 16 8
Xpeng promises global humanoid launch in 2027: the Chinese "embodied" race gets a distribution date
Xpeng, better known for EVs, will launch humanoid robots globally next year. The claim itself is common in 2026; the "globally" is the wager - and it lands right in the middle of the embodied-foundation race.
Jul 16, 2026 at 08:48 32 9