AgiBot, China's arguably most-valued embodied intelligence startup, is ramping up efforts to accelerate application of its humanoid robots, as it showcases how these machines are used across industrial, commercial, and household scenarios.

The move followed AgiBot's strategic partnership announcement with Longcheer, a Chinese original design manufacturer, or ODM, of consumer electronics. Under the collaboration, Longcheer placed a framework order worth hundreds of millions of yuan for AgiBot's G2 robots—one of the largest industrial humanoid robot orders in China. Nearly 1,000 units will be deployed in factories of Longcheer.

AgiBot, a key partner of China Mobile, is showcasing its progress toward scaled, industrialized, and commercialized robotics at the latter's ongoing annual global partners' conference in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. A2 is the company's first full-sized humanoid robot designed for scaled deployment, served as a receptionist and guide—capable of autonomous movement and fluent interaction powered by its self-developed large language model.

The company said it has built a comprehensive solution matrix covering security patrols, industrial manufacturing, logistics sorting, guided reception, commercial entertainment, education, data collection, and commercial cleaning.

Yao Maoqing, a partner at AgiBot and president of its embodied intelligence business unit, said the company began product deliveries to overseas customers earlier this year, and it will ratchet up resources to explore markets such as North America, Europe, the Middle East, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia.

AgiBot, China's arguably most-valued embodied intelligence startup, is ramping up efforts to accelerate application of its humanoid robots, as it showcases how these machines are used across industrial, commercial, and household scenarios.

The move followed AgiBot's strategic partnership announcement with Longcheer, a Chinese original design manufacturer, or ODM, of consumer electronics. Under the collaboration, Longcheer placed a framework order worth hundreds of millions of yuan for AgiBot's G2 robots—one of the largest industrial humanoid robot orders in China. Nearly 1,000 units will be deployed in factories of Longcheer.

AgiBot, a key partner of China Mobile, is showcasing its progress toward scaled, industrialized, and commercialized robotics at the latter's ongoing annual global partners' conference in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. A2 is the company's first full-sized humanoid robot designed for scaled deployment, served as a receptionist and guide—capable of autonomous movement and fluent interaction powered by its self-developed large language model.

The company said it has built a comprehensive solution matrix covering security patrols, industrial manufacturing, logistics sorting, guided reception, commercial entertainment, education, data collection, and commercial cleaning.

Yao Maoqing, a partner at AgiBot and president of its embodied intelligence business unit, said the company began product deliveries to overseas customers earlier this year, and it will ratchet up resources to explore markets such as North America, Europe, the Middle East, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia.

HEFEI -- China has achieved a significant milestone in next-generation "artificial sun" technology development, with one of its key subsystems having passed expert review and acceptance procedures on Monday.

The Divertor Prototype of CRAFT (Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology) was developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Plasma Physics. It is one of 19 key subsystems of the CRAFT, a platform on which engineers develop and test key components of fusion energy reactors.

This milestone marks the successful development of the world's largest divertor prototype component with the highest thermal load, independently developed by China.

Testing demonstrated that the component achieves a steady-state thermal load of 20 megawatts per square meter, enabled by its flat plate design which maintains tungsten surface temperatures below recrystallization thresholds.

The divertor, as a key component in steady-state operation of the fusion reactor core, is responsible for discharging fusion products and heat, as well as controlling impurities.

A key innovation of the CRAFT Divertor Prototype is its integrated mixed divertor coating design, which could theoretically increase the tritium breeding ratio by over 3 percent -- thereby facilitating tritium self-sustainability.

Researchers emphasized that this breakthrough marks China's achievement of full self-sufficiency in divertor R&D, establishing a robust technical foundation for future engineering applications in domestic fusion reactors.

Notably, the relevant technologies also hold significant potential for application in aerospace, high-end medical equipment, industrial electronics and new energy vehicles.

The ultimate goal of an "artificial sun" is to create nuclear fusion like the sun does -- thereby providing humanity with an inexhaustible clean energy source and enabling space exploration beyond our solar system.

China has been making remarkable progress in fusion energy, with its Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak continuously breaking world records through ongoing experimental upgrades.

 
China's smart glasses market is believed to be experiencing a breakout this year, driven by rapid adoption of artificial intelligence-powered devices and surging consumer interest, said industry experts.

Hangzhou, Zhejiang province-based smart eyewear manufacturer Rokid announced earlier last month that the company's star product, Rokid Glasses, has already sold 300,000 units. "Sales are no longer a concern this year — our primary focus is now on ramping up production," said Zhu Mingming, founder and CEO of the company.

Yang Kexiao, head of innovative hardware at Shenzhen, Guangdong province-based smart glasses producer Rayneo, also noted a strong uptick in first-half product shipments. First-time buyers accounted for 81 percent of purchases, while the company also saw a 314 percent year-on-year increase in monthly active users, Yang said.

Elsewhere, according to activation data from tech heavyweight Xiaomi, its newly launched AI glasses, released in late June, had surpassed 30,000 active users by July 2.

Data from market consultancy IDC revealed that 494,000 smart glasses units were shipped in China during the first quarter of 2025, a 116.1 percent year-on-year increase.

Globally, IDC forecasts that smart glasses shipments will reach 14.52 million units this year, up 42.5 percent year-on-year. The Chinese market alone is expected to account for 2.91 million units, up 121.1 percent year-on-year.

As a major emerging sub-sector, AI glasses now dominate the smart glasses market, with shipments of AI-powered models surging to 78 percent of total sales in the first half — a sharp rise from just 46 percent a year earlier and from 66 percent in the latter half of 2024, according to data from research company Counterpoint.

"The most significant highlight of the smart glasses industry's development this year lies in the deep integration of large AI models and AR (augmented reality) technology," said Wang Liansheng, an expert at the China Electronics Standardization Association, in an earlier interview with Securities Daily.

Wang added that the next two years will be a critical period for the commercialization of smart glasses, where ecosystem development capabilities will be a key factor determining whether companies can achieve scalable growth.

A research note from Founder Securities also pointed out that the combination of lightweight design and multimodal interaction capabilities is making AI glasses an ideal form factor for AI integration.

"This momentum, coupled with advancements in lens technologies, is driving simultaneous growth in both sales volume and product pricing," it said.

On the AI front, major players are incorporating proprietary large language models into their devices.

For example, Xiaomi AI Glasses feature an in-house XiaoAi assistant; Huawei's Eyewear 2 is powered by its LLM Pangu; while Rayneo's X3 Pro has partnered with Alibaba's Qwen for a custom multimodal AI solution.

Others are leveraging a combination of major LLMs. Rokid Glasses currently integrate multiple models, such as Qwen, DeepSeek, Doubao and ChatGLM. And Skyworth's first full-scenario AI smart glasses similarly support several mainstream models such as DeepSeek, Doubao and Qwen.

Enabled by AI integration, the growing sophistication in voice and image recognition is creating richer human-machine interaction for smart glasses, said Ye Qingqing, an analyst at IDC China.

"Going forward, AI-powered smart glasses are expected to unlock more practical and cost-effective applications," Ye said. "For the AI ecosystem, these glasses represent a highly efficient hardware endpoint, and both industries will mutually reinforce each other's growth."

Chinese scientists have successfully developed a ground-breaking electronic chip and incorporated it into a riderless autonomous bicycle.

The bicycle can detect and track targets, avoid obstacles, self-balance, understand voice commands and even make independent decisions as a result of the chip's simultaneous processing of versatile algorithms and models.

The research achievement, conducted by Shi Luping and his colleagues at the Center for Brain Inspired Computing Research of Tsinghua University, was published as the cover story of Nature Magazine on Thursday.

According to the article, there are two main approaches to developing artificial general intelligence. One is rooted in neuroscence and attempts to construct circuits that closely mimic the brain. The other is grounded in computer science and uses computers to execute machine-learning algorithms.

Shi's Tianjic chip can integrate the two approaches into one hybrid platform, which enables it to accommodate both machine-learning algorithms and brain-inspired circuits.

The first generation of the Tianjic chip was developed in 2015, followed by the second generation in 2017. After continuous improvement, the current second-generation Tianjic chip features even higher performance with much lower power consumption.

"Compared with similar chips in the market, our chip's density is 20 percent higher, at least 10 times faster and its bandwidth has been increased by at least 100 times," Shi said.

"The Tianjic chip aims to provide a more efficient, fast and flexible computing platform for the research of artificial general intelligence, as well as the development of various applications," Shi said.

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 Multinational corporations will continue to scale up their investment in the Chinese market, propelled by the country's thriving landscape of new quality productive forces, a vibrant innovation ecosystem and the steady advancement of a unified national market, said foreign business executives.

They noted that as China ushers in a new era of innovation-driven growth and accelerates the creation of a unified national market, global investors are placing growing emphasis on areas such as digital transformation, supply chain optimization, high-end manufacturing, customized innovation and sustainable growth.

Building a unified national market is essential to unleashing domestic demand potential, facilitating the efficient flow of goods and factors, improving resource allocation and fully harnessing the market's industrial and demand advantages, according to information released by the Research Office of the State Council, China's Cabinet.

Attracted by the promising growth potential of China's unified national market and the country's robust innovation capabilities, Swiss technology company ABB Group plans to further strengthen its presence in China, the world's largest robotics market, through a series of artificial intelligence-driven innovations and new product launches in the coming years.

"As part of our 'local for local' strategy, we will broaden our product portfolio to better serve the fast-changing demands of China's mid-market robotics segment, as well as emerging sectors including electronics, healthcare, logistics and construction," said Marc Segura, president of ABB's robotics division.

The Zurich-headquartered group launched three new robots in China in early July. These new products, manufactured at its $150 million robot factory in Shanghai, address a wide range of automation needs in high-growth sectors including electronics, consumer goods and general industries, from essential material handling to high-end applications like dispensing and polishing.

China is ABB's largest market for robotics deliveries and over 90 percent of ABB robots for Chinese customers are now manufactured locally. This year, the proportion of ABB robotics' domestic suppliers in China is expected to reach around 80 percent, effectively establishing a closed-loop domestic supply chain within the country.

With eight manufacturing sites and an innovation center across China, Eastman Chemical Co, a United States-based specialty materials manufacturer, launched two new lines at its plant in Dalian, Liaoning province, in June, to ramp up the output of its automotive film products.

The US company said this move will play a pivotal role in supporting surging demand for automotive window films and paint protection products in China and across Asia.

"Compared with other markets, the pace of innovation and business model transformation in China is significantly faster, especially in the digital sphere. Chinese consumers are among the most digitally savvy in the world, which continuously drives our teams to keep innovating," said Brad Lich, executive vice-president and chief commercial officer of Eastman.

Data from the Commerce Ministry show that the actual use of foreign direct investment in China's high-tech industries reached 109.04 billion yuan ($14.96 billion) between January and May.

FDI in aerospace equipment manufacturing rose 74.9 percent year-on-year, while FDI in the chemical pharmaceuticals manufacturing sector surged 59.2 percent.

While foreign manufacturers are ramping up investment in high-tech and green industries, companies in the modern services sector are also seizing new opportunities in China's evolving market landscape.

Amid growing demand for flexible office solutions that cater to evolving employee expectations and enhance operational agility, International Workplace Group, another Switzerland-based provider of hybrid working solutions, plans to expand into more lower-tier cities in China with innovative service formats over the next five years.

Marc Descrozaille, CEO of IWG for Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, said that it is important for the group to adapt its expansion strategy to align with the swiftly evolving hybrid work models as they gain popularity in China.

IWG currently operates 140 workspaces across 35 cities in China and has signed agreements for more than 50 new locations in the country, as well as 899 globally in 2024, underscoring its commitment to addressing the rising demand for flexible workspaces.

"Our growth in the Asia-Pacific region has been strong. We are focused on establishing new centers in suburban commuter towns," he said, adding that the group aims to accelerate its expansion in China, especially in second- and third-tier cities, over the next five years to improve accessibility for remote workers and small businesses.

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