(China Daily) The White House launched an official TikTok account on Tuesday, taking advantage of the short video app's more than 170 million US users to spread the messages of President Donald Trump.  

The new account, @whitehouse, went live on Tuesday evening.  

Trump has a soft spot for the popular app, crediting it with helping him gain support among young voters when he defeated Democrat Kamala Harris in the November 2024 presidential election.  

The TikTok account Trump used for his presidential campaign last year, @realdonaldtrump, has more than 15 million followers.

(China Daily) XPeng posted a record-breaking second quarter in 2025, with deliveries, revenue, and gross margin all hitting historic highs, underscoring the company's rapid scale-up in China's competitive electric vehicle market.  

Total revenue reached 18.27 billion yuan ($2.54 billion), up 125 percent year-over-year, while vehicle deliveries soared 241.6 percent to 103,181 units, setting a single-quarter record.

(Xinhua) With two taps on a screen, soft music plays, and a robotic arm begins to massage. "So comfortable," a guest smiles. "I could lie here all day."  This is no ordinary machine. Developed by Chinese firm AUBO (Beijing) Robotics Technology Co., Ltd, it's a collaborative robot, or cobot, capable of sensing, adapting, and responding to its surroundings. It represents a new frontier in automation: embodied intelligence -- machines that don't just think, but also feel.

(Xinhua) At the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games, the first of its kind globally, which wrapped up on Sunday in Beijing, the much-anticipated robot five-a-side soccer saw Tsinghua Hephaestus from China emerge victorious, defeating the joint team of Germany's HTWK Robots and Nao Devils to claim the championship. China Agricultural University's Mountain & Sea beat Sweaty from Germany in three-a-side soccer final.

(China Daily) In a brightly lit lab in Beijing's Zhongguancun, also known as China's Silicon Valley, a humanoid robot stands amid rows of shelves stocked with a variety of goods, its sleek, metallic frame moving with smooth precision as it navigates the aisles.  

Bending slightly at the knees, the robot reaches for a bag of crisps from a mid-level shelf with its dexterous, multi-jointed hands, its grippers adjusting their pressure to avoid crushing the package.

(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".

(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.
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