World News by Wild Rose

China has been urged to learn from a Pentagon project to assess future warfare but warned to avoid the potential conflicts of interest and other shortcomings of the US defence review. Project Meridian, launched late last month, is designed to identify future battlefield requirements and prioritise investment, with a focus on areas such as artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, directed energy, robotics and biotechnology. In an analysis published on Friday, the Beijing-based think tank Blue...

The Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) opened the city’s first experimental hub for embodied artificial intelligence on Thursday with the participation of seven mainland and Hong Kong companies, including industry leaders Unitree Robotics and Galbot, as the city looks to carve out a role in the global robotics boom. Located at the HKPC Building in Kowloon Tong, the Embodied AI International Applications Hub, housed under the HKPC’s industrial AI and robotics centre, features simulated...

Humanoid robots were seen performing the “Macarena” at the annual CEATEC technology exhibition in Chiba, Japan.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has called a nearly US$1.5 trillion defence budget request “absolutely critical”, warning that whoever falls behind in autonomy, robotics and AI will fall “even further behind” as Washington eyes China’s rapid military modernisation. Speaking at a panel discussion during the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting and Exposition on Wednesday, Hegseth said that Project Agincourt, the Pentagon’s initiative to accelerate drone and autonomous...

Team Icarus of the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Dharwad, has secured fourth place in the ISRO Robotics Challenge–URSC (IRoC-U) 2026 and won a cash prize of ₹2 lakh.

US start-up OpenAI’s latest advances in artificial intelligence may be a tipping point that leads to a breakthrough for the robotics industry as soon as next year, according to the founder of Chinese giant Unitree Robotics. Wang Xingxing, also the CEO of the Hangzhou-based company, said on Monday that OpenAI’s recently released GPT-6 model prompted expectations that a breakthrough could happen “within one or two years”. “It’s possible that, say, a GPT-7 model released next year could directly...

The US Treasury on Wednesday announced its first penalty under rules governing American investment in sensitive Chinese technologies, revealing a US$200,000 fine against the parent of Plug and Play Tech Centre for failing to report an investment in a Shanghai robotics AI company. The Treasury said on Wednesday that Amidi, LLC failed to submit a required notification after its Chinese fund subsidiary invested around US$92,478 in Shanghai Qiongche Intelligent Technology Company Limited, known as...

Hong Kong’s main technology stock benchmark is expanding its number of constituents to 50 from 30 in a major revamp to better represent the fast-growing artificial intelligence and robotics sectors.

German robotics startup RobCo has surpassed a $1 billion valuation as investors rally behind physical AI companies. CEO and co-founder Roman Hölzl joins Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie, Anna Edwards, and Guy Johnson on "The Opening Trade" to discuss before returning to San Francisco. (Source: Bloomberg)

Addressing students in Chittoor, A.S. Kiran Kumar calls space the “fourth frontier” after land, oceans and air, with new opportunities for students, startups and private companies

Tesla Inc. has lined up $30 billion of new loans and credit lines, as the electric-car maker dials up investments in artificial intelligence and robotics.

Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority has rolled out artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic automation at its new support services centre to handle laundry processing and meal production for public hospitals, aiming to boost efficiency and worker safety. The six-storey, 62,000-square-metre centre, which houses the central laundry and food production unit, opened its doors to the press for the first time on Tuesday since beginning operations in March last year. Located in Tung Chung on Lantau Island,...

Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi, global equities CIO at UBS Global Wealth Management, says resilient earnings can drive the next leg higher for stocks as government, corporate and consumer spending support growth. She adds that the AI investment boom may also be underestimated as it expands into robotics and the physical economy. This interview aired Sept. 21, 2026. (Source: Bloomberg)

Chinese chipmaker Hygon Information Technology is set to release a new chip targeting physical-world applications including robotics, expanding from its current focus on data centres, according to Chinese media reports and company information. The product launch, slated for Tuesday, marks Hygon’s move into a new chip category powering machines that interact directly with their environments, as physical artificial intelligence becomes increasingly important. The new chip, an iteration of the...

Humanoid robots fight in cage match in Shanghai

The students of all engineering branches can focus on certificate courses of new technologies from first year itself, M. Satya Prasad said