inside-china

Battery cell layout can reduce risk, but it cannot compensate for deeper engineering and integration failures.

China’s robotics ecosystem excels at rotary actuators, but its lag in high-precision planetary roller screws still limits progress toward industrial-grade humanoids.

As global giants dominate simulation, China is quietly building its own stack—cloud-native, AI-driven, and built to scale.

Robotic mowers are forcing LiDAR to shrink, cheapen, and smarten faster than cars ever did, and China’s scale may decide who wins the race.

As China races to dominate AI, its data centers are overheating. Cooling tech is under pressure, and the limits are showing.

While the US focuses on upstream mining and political strategy, China has quietly built an end-to-end rare earth supply chain that the West struggles to match.

Behind the walls of China’s busiest ports, robots now handle what thousands once did. Welcome to the era of fully autonomous logistics.

It learned to drive in America. Now it must unlearn—and relearn—everything to survive the streets of China.

New ‘place of origin’ rules, retaliatory tariffs, and Nvidia’s quiet push to stay in the game mark the latest twist in the US–China tech battle.

Extended-range EVs are solving problems in China that pure electrics can’t but global success is far from guaranteed.

China’s steady supply of drone components helped Ukraine sustain an asymmetric war against a stronger adversary.

Qualcomm’s collaboration with China’s emerging automakers played a crucial role in its transition to a car-grade chip manufacturer

The skateboard chassis cuts new-vehicle development from 36–48 months to about 18, significantly lowering costs and speeding iteration.

Dubbed China’s MIT, Tsinghua’s thriving “Tech Ecosystem” raises whether other Chinese universities can replicate its success.

Most Chinese hardware companies lack the expertise to effectively apply large models, highlighting a gap in spatial intelligence needed for humanoid robots.

In the past two years, China’s eVTOL sector has seen exponential growth, with over 30 new startups emerging amid surging investments.

According to their financial disclosures, Pony.ai reported cumulative losses of $790.9 million as of June 30, 2024, while WeRide’s losses topped $700 million.

Huawei’s new GPU has drawn attention globally. This, combined with other Chinese chipmakers’ efforts, challenges NVIDIA’s GPU market dominance.

Critics doubted Huawei could rival Bosch in automotive. Five years later, Huawei’s Harmony ADS has become a top player in China’s NEV industry, proving skeptics wrong