What happened: Midea Group, the owner of industrial robot giant Kuka, is the latest Chinese company to pledge heavy investment in AI and robotics – another 60 billion... The planned expenditure on research and development, with a focus on “AI, embodied intelligence and other cutting-edge areas”,...
Cross-source context: Nature highlights although the country’s latest R&D budget proposal is the same as the target set in the 14th FYP, China’s spending on science and technology in absolute... “Today’s 7% represents an absolute annual increment far exceeding that of five years ago,” he says. The Guardian highlights in China, one social media trend hangs on the idea that a life in the US is always one step from disaster, while another in the... Bloomberg highlights jPMorgan Asset Management Portfolio Manager Oliver Cox and Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Analyst Robert Lea discuss how China’s embrace of the open-source OpenClaw program is sparking a...
What to watch next: movement around automation, robotics.