NVIDIA upgraded its Isaac general-purpose robotics platform and introduced a new humanoid robot reference design, a development framework, simulation workflows and supporting data assets.

At the midday close, China's onshore main futures contracts were mostly lower. Container freight — Europe route — fell about 8%. Lithium carbonate slid over 4%, polysilicon dropped more than 3% and palladium fell nearly 3%. Caustic soda, fuel oil and LPG declined over 2%. On the upside, Shanghai nickel rose more than 3%, red dates, ethylene glycol (EG) and stainless steel gained over 2%, while Shanghai tin and asphalt were up nearly 2%.

PBOC said that, based on primary dealers' demand, the 7-day reverse repo operation on Oct 21, 2026 was zero and it conducted 80 bln yuan of overnight reverse repos.