Opinion | How China’s robotics push is clearing path to tech independence

Opinion | How China’s robotics push is clearing path to tech independence

Factories in China installed nearly 300,000 new robots last year, more than the rest of the world combined. This figure suggests that China is building leadership in robotics not merely for industrial efficiency, but as a direct path to achieving independence in core artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The prioritisation of embodied intelligence, or AI-powered robots,…

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Developing | Tech war: Huawei trumpets AI computing breakthrough for China ahead of Xi-Trump call

Developing | Tech war: Huawei trumpets AI computing breakthrough for China ahead of Xi-Trump call

Huawei Technologies unveiled hardware that it said could deliver world-class computing power without using Nvidia’s advanced chips, in a breakthrough that could potentially free the supply chokehold that constrains China’s aspirations in artificial intelligence. The Shenzhen-based telecoms equipment giant said it had developed the “world’s most powerful” supernode computing cluster using local chipmaking processes, providing…

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