Bank Indonesia survey: Indonesia retail sales rose 1.3% YoY in August.

Agile Robots CEO Zhaopeng Chen said at the Wave by Vento tech event in Turin on Thursday the company is filming staff performing tasks to capture hand and finger movements to plug a training-data shortfall that is constraining industrial automation. Its "Robot Academy" records these human motions and integrates them with other datasets so robots can repeatedly rehearse actions in simulation. Start-ups across Europe and beyond are pushing humanoid and other robots into factories to lift productivity and cut costs, but adoption remains constrained by insufficient training data, leaving robots unable to complete some basic tasks.

恒生科技指数涨幅扩大至2%，恒生指数现涨1.19%。小米集团(01810.HK)涨超5%，宁德时代(03750.HK)、比亚迪股份(01211.HK)涨超3%。