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POV: You’re thinking of all the dumplings you can buy with the money you made investing in this little startup called DeepSeek before anyone had heard of it.

Jokes aside: We started asiabits so you can read today what the world will talk about tomorrow. Subscribe for free.

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I live in Shanghai and I read this stuff in Chinese every day. If you want to walk one of these factory floors yourself, DM me. https://t.co/azz0YjSLMD

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Unitree's employees own 11% of the company.

At a $6 billion valuation that is $600 million shared between the people who build the robots.

In 2017 seventeen of them could buy in at 1 yuan a share. The price now is about $14.

#Unitree #Robotics #Asiabits

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Europeans are utterly amazed by China's speed .

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Britain Can't Find Warehouse Workers, So It Bought 2,000 Chinese Robots.

So the robot drives under a shelf, lifts the whole rack and carries it over to the one person still standing there.

2,000 of them. 10 UK sites. Tesco, Asda, Next.

#WarehouseRobots #Robotics #Asiabits

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The US Just Banned 85% of the World's Humanoid Robots

The FCC order covers humanoid robots built outside the US, four-legged robot dogs, and power inverters. Machines already installed keep running, and models the FCC already approved can still be sold.

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Full episode: https://t.co/rlMOO96KKS

#China #Shenzhen #EngineAI #HumanoidRobots #Robotics
https://t.co/rlMOO96KKS

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China's first robot cage fight will blow your mind

China just held its first robot cage fight. One fighter lost its head and still won on points.

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Nobody could tell me how much of this is autonomous and how much is a person on a controller. Not even the organizers.

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Full Story:
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US-China: decoupling? No. On AI glass, the US and China join forces. Just over a week ago, Donald Trump sat in the Great Hall of the People, the first US president on a state visit to Beijing in ten years.

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The dominant topic: how far the US and China are really technologically decoupling from each other. This week, the answer came from the glass industry of all places.

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Drone food delivery in Shenzhen. The smart locker is so big I could fit my dog in it.

Full tour: https://t.co/Dhe7vpuL99

#Shenzhen #DroneDelivery #ChinaTech #Meituan #Asiabits

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I booked a robotaxi in Shenzhen like an Uber. No driver. Four seats. Pony AI.

Full 10-min Shenzhen tour: https://t.co/Dhe7vpuL99

#Shenzhen #PonyAI #Robotaxi #ChinaTech #Asiabits

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5,000 robot dogs. 3,000 dual-arm machines. 500 humanoids. China'''s State Grid is ordering 8,500 AI robots in 2026 to take over power-grid maintenance. Sector total: $1.46B. All suppliers Chinese: Unitree, Deep Robotics, AgiBot, UBTech, Fourier. If robots can work live high-volta

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If your company is looking at humanoids — factory, warehouse, or any other robotics — drop a comment below, email us, or get in touch at https://t.co/bW4qc67Ym3.
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We went to Hangzhou to visit Unitree — the Chinese factory behind the viral humanoid robots from this year's New Year's Gala.

1,000 people ask to visit every day. Most get turned away. Here's how we got in — and what we found.
https://t.co/QKZFIzp5NW

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In 2025, China produced 960.8 million tons of steel, a decline for the first time in 15 years (-4.4%).

The reason: the real estate crisis has caused domestic demand to collapse.

In aluminum, however, China continues to grow: 45 million tons (2025), which is 60% of world product

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China and the US hold more than half of the world's billionaire wealth. 1,110 vs. 1,000.

But the city ranking tells the real story. 4 of the top 10 billionaire cities are in China. Shenzhen just overtook Shanghai for #2 behind New York.

Where the billionaires cluster is where t

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We Got Exclusive Access to Tencent's New AI Agent
https://t.co/r2oTyg8UPs