(Xinhua) Over 500 humanoid robot athletes had their own "Olympic Games", giving glimpses of the future of robotics over the past weekend.  

The inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games, which opened last Thursday, brought together 280 teams from 16 countries and regions for three days of competition in 26 disciplines, ranging from athletics and football to martial arts and service-scenario challenges in the National Speed Skating Oval, a 2022 Winter Olympic venue better known as the "Ice Ribbon".  

"We've been here for like a month. The experience has been really great. The venue is awesome," said Portugal's Ana Carolina Coelho Lopes, who participated in five-on-five football competition.

(China Daily) Forget static displays. At the 2025 World Robot Conference held in Beijing earlier this month, robots traded blows in boxing rings, strategized over games of Gomoku, and meticulously demonstrated intangible cultural heritage crafts. These weren't distant concepts, but dynamic, interactive machines accelerating their integration into the fabric of daily life.

(Xinhua) Chinese selfie-enhancing tech giant Meitu on Monday announced its financial results for the first half of 2025, reporting a total revenue of 1.8 billion yuan (about 252.4 million U.S. dollars) -- a year-on-year increase of 12.3 percent.  

The company recorded an adjusted net profit attributable to equity holders of 467 million yuan, which was a 71.3 percent surge compared to the same period of last year.

(China Daily) Leapmotor has turned a profit for the first time in a half-year period, joining Li Auto as the only Chinese NEV startups to achieve that milestone, after record sales and revenue gains in the first six months of 2025.  

The Hangzhou, Zhejiang province-based company reported a net profit for the January-June period, according to its earnings release on Monday.

(China Daily) CAS Space, a Beijing-based commercial rocket maker, launched the eighth rocket in its Kinetica 1 series on Tuesday afternoon, carrying seven satellites, including a pair built in Mexico, into orbit.  

The rocket lifted off at 3:33 pm from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi Desert and placed the payloads — a synthetic aperture radar satellite, an Earth-observation satellite and five experimental satellites — into preset orbit, the company said.

(Xinhua) Robots that are not only able to run, dance and play soccer but can also sort parts in an assembly line, and even participate in a game of mahjong and caress a piano to create music were once fantasies only confined to science fiction, but they now feature in a reality unfolding at the ongoing World Robot Conference (WRC) in Beijing.

(China Daily) Robots that are not only able to run, dance and play soccer, but also sort parts on an assembly line, try their luck at a game of mahjong and even tickle the ivory were once fantasies confined to science fiction novels, but are now a reality that was unfolded at the recent World Robot Conference in Beijing.

(China Daily) Chinese intelligent automation platform Laiye is doubling down on building digital workforces powered by artificial intelligence agents, as part of its broader drive to enhance productivity, liberate people from repetitive work and bolster enterprises' digital transformation.

(China Daily) China's artificial intelligence-driven drug discovery is accelerating its role as a prominent player in global biotech. Experts and industry insiders said the sector is drawing unprecedented international attention, even though no AI-discovered drug has yet reached the market.  

According to SDIC Securities, the global AI-driven drug market has more than doubled since 2021, hitting $1.76 billion in 2024, with a compound annual growth rate of more than 30 percent.

(China Daily) China launched a group of internet satellites into orbit on Sunday evening, marking the fifth in-orbit deployment of such spacecraft in a month.  

The satellites are the ninth group of low-orbit hardware in China's State-owned internet network.
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