Authorities in China’s southern tech hub of Shenzhen have called for leniency towards innovators whose government-funded projects fail or do not pass evaluation. The first policy statement of its kind from the Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission comes as China aims to cement the city’s status as a hi-tech powerhouse and reduce reliance on…
Shenzhen has received a boost to its role in manufacturing humanoid robots after Unitree Robotics set up a new venture to leverage the supply chain and supportive policies of the southern tech hub. Unitree, the country’s hottest robot maker and one of the so-called six Little Dragons based in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou,…
An innovation competition co-organised by China’s fintech giant Ant Group and renowned universities including the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is featuring robotics for the first time, a reflection of rising interest in the technology. The ATEC Championship 2025, hosted by the industry-university-research collaboration platform Advanced Technology Exploration Community (ATEC), has adopted the theme…
Shenzhen – often hailed as China’s Silicon Valley – has pledged to ramp up its investments in talent development with a particular focus on humanoid robotics, part of a growing global competition in tech that will see robots and artificial intelligence (AI) as major battlegrounds. The southern metropolis is gearing up to implement a “comprehensive…