Nov 3 — At a press briefing on the '15th Five' agenda, the China state planner said the current tech revolution is characterized by multiple, clustered and cross-disciplinary breakthroughs, producing many potential future-industry directions. Beijing has singled out priority sectors for the '15th Five' period including quantum technology, biomanufacturing, hydrogen and fusion energy, brain–computer interfaces, embodied intelligence and 6G. The planner warned development cannot 'cover everything'

Nov 3 — Xiaomi said it won an innovation-breakthrough award at the 2026 World Internet Conference and its robotics unit received a Leading Technology prize, and disclosed two deployment milestones. In a factory trial, a Xiaomi humanoid robot completed an eight-hour continuous run at a central-console side-cover sorting station, meeting full-day production requirements while performing autonomous error correction and system-level coordination; Xiaomi said this constitutes initial production-line capability validation. In a consumer trial, an embodied-base model entered trial operation in Xiaomi youth apartments; using an Agent system built on the Xiaomi-Robotics-1 pretrained model, Xiaomi validated a continuous >30-minute long-range task across three rooms covering 50+ tasks.

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