Tesla produced several hundred Optimus robots a week last month, The Information reported, against a stated goal of about 20,000. Anyone budgeting a humanoid pilot for 2027 should plan on a small number of robots, each doing one closely supervised job.
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Gucci is making its newest $1,000 sneakers in China at a factory it picked for technological know-how, ending a 105-year Italian tradition. Chinese supplier capability has already cut into German carmakers' sales in China and now reaches a European luxury house, so far through a single shoe.
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Regulators recalled roughly 4.3 million cars because an emergency release was coloured to disappear. Labels are the fix until 2027, when the hardware has to change.
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KAMA's seven-month count of 237,032 registrations is already past all of last year, but Tesla's 66,376 sales in Korea now put Hyundai third in EVs in its own home market, with Kia still ahead on 85,444.
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The Information reported that China's securities regulator is asking humanoid firms for recurring revenue and narrowing losses before they list. Exchange review materials show 73.6% of Unitree's revenue came from research and education buyers.
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The company will show the Li 6 in Paris and start selling in the fourth quarter, bringing only its battery models because the EU's duty on Chinese electric cars catches the extended-range powertrain that is its business at home.
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The Galaxy TT starts at 129,900 yuan with 800-volt charging on every trim and LiDAR on four of the five, and the launch price came in 16,000 yuan below the presale sticker Geely set for it a month earlier.
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A robot walking itself off a Guangzhou line is a real assembly milestone. XPeng's own timeline still puts mass production at year-end and outside delivery in 2027, the same year Tesla now targets Optimus sales.
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Counterpoint puts five Chinese makers at 86% of the 22,000 humanoids shipped in the first half of 2026. That is the cost curve the Covered List and the new tariffs do not touch while they reprice US bills of materials.
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Xpeng's robotics unit took in more than $900 million at a $6.3 billion post-money valuation, one of eight Chinese carmakers now building humanoids, while the nearest thing to a dated job on a real factory floor belongs to Hyundai.
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Xiaomi says the chip has cleared validation and is headed for commercial use in 2027, without publishing a TOPS rating. The figure product teams should read instead is the 160GB of unified memory it addresses.
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A third of the money is XPeng's own. The rest can demand roughly $1.03 billion back if Dogotix misses its IPO deadline, while the car business loses 1.34 billion yuan a quarter.
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The unit has not sold a robot, and the humanoid it must mass-produce this year exists publicly as a seventh-generation prototype. The eighth generation is the one meant to ship.
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SAMR ordered 2.98 million Teslas fixed with warning stickers and a window-dropping software update. Hidden electronic exterior handles are banned in China from 2027.
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