Shangwei New Materials unveiled the Qiyuan Q1 Explorer Edition at the opening day of WAIC 2026, taking an A' Design Award gold for its new exterior ID. The company billed the Q1 as the world's first personal robot, highlighting human-centric exterior design, compliant/safe human‑robot interaction and an open-source hardware ecosystem; an on‑site demo showed smooth force‑control interaction.

Sources say JERA, Japan's largest power company, has begun studying a potential U.S. listing.

Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization issued measures to accelerate AI+manufacturing, offering targeted grants and subsidies to speed R&D and deployment. Up to 20 mln yuan in support for breakthroughs in core technologies including industrial vertical large models, AI coding models, physical AI, industrial agents, industrial software and industrial internet — with specific aims such as knowledge-graph fusion and text-to-3D parts design. Up to 10 mln yuan for integrated security solutions for industrial models and agents. To lower intelligent-input costs, the city encourages industrial cloud platforms to offer low-code agent development, free trials, token experience vouchers and preferential compute plans; subsidies of up to 40 mln yuan for leasing non-affiliated compute resources for industrial model/agent R&D. Subsidies up to 5 mln yuan each for invoking or privately deploying third‑party models and for purchasing high-quality training corpora for industrial model and agent development.