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What lies beyond familiar frontiers? Investigate emerging tech—like quantum computing and AI—transforming traditional sectors.

Deep Tech

How does automation advance industry? Analyze robotic arms, drones, and AI-driven tools reshaping manufacturing and services.

Robotics

Robotic arms, legs, and lower prices present a challenge to the embattled US company.

Chinese robot vacuums leave Roomba in the dust with arms and legs | KrASIA

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Spotlighting Asia&#039;s next wave of innovations.

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As part of 36Kr’s ongoing partnership with Nikkei, you can read selected content from Nikkei Asia on KrASIA.

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What sets the bar for convenience? Examine on-demand platforms, subscription models, and personalization transforming consumer expectations.

Consumer Services

How do ideas shape industries? Learn how content, design, and digital artistry influence branding, marketing, and cultural impact.

Creative

Where do style and commerce meet? Examine supply chains, sustainable sourcing, and digital trends influencing global fashion markets.

Fashion

How do stores adapt to digital shifts? Explore e-commerce integration, inventory analytics, and omnichannel strategies for modern shoppers.

Retail

Once a niche outdoor brand, Salomon’s shoes have become a coveted status symbol in China.

How Salomon won over China’s middle-class fashion scene | KrASIA

How Salomon won over China’s middle-class fashion scene

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network. Since 2010, 36Kr has been delivering high-quality content focused on China’s innovation and new economy trends. With its extensive traffic and network, 36Kr has built a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities to provide insights into China’s technology landscape.

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Beijing moves to inject public funds into state-owned banks, albeit quietly.

Analysis: Will China face same fate as post-bubble Japan? | KrASIA

Analysis: Will China face same fate as post-bubble Japan?

How are driverless systems redefining mobility? Uncover sensor technologies, regulatory frameworks, and AI driving cars without human intervention.

Autonomous Vehicles

Autonomous Vehicles | KrASIA Archives

Mobility

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Baidu leads Chinese search engines, voice assistants, autonomous driving research, and AI platforms connecting users with information and services.

China’s tech ecosystem serves as a driving force behind the world’s second largest economy, influencing global digital markets.

What guides machine-led insights? Uncover AI applications, language models, and decision-making systems transforming sectors worldwide.

Artificial Intelligence

What powers tomorrow’s roads? Explore EV adoption, charging infrastructure, and battery advances sparking the shift toward sustainable transport.

Electric Vehicles

How is the way we move evolving? Explore developments in autonomous transportation, electric vehicles, and more efficient urban transit.

Baidu's autonomous driving unit Apollo is morphing into an income driver outside of its advertising business.

Baidu thickens revenue stream with Apollo autonomous driving unit | KrASIA

Baidu thickens revenue stream with Apollo autonomous driving unit

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Autonomous driving startup WeRide valued at USD 3.3 billion

WeRide refines autonomous vehicle software, deploying AI-driven solutions that improve road safety, efficiency, and future-ready mobility.

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The Guangzhou-based firm expects to roll out truly driverless robotaxi services without safety operators in China by 2021. Just four months after sealing a USD 310 million Series B round in January, Guangzhou-based autonomous vehicle developer WeRide said on Thursday that it has closed a Series C investment that brings the firm to a USD 3.3 billion valuation, according to a press release from the company.

KEY STAT | Self-driving vehicle developer WeRide bags new funds to explore commercialization | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Self-driving vehicle developer WeRide bags new funds to explore commercialization

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Julianna Wu

Tesla’s electric cars, battery storage systems, and solar energy solutions shape sustainable transportation and power grids.

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New rules would ban overseas transfer of road and landscape information.

China clamps down on auto data collection by Tesla and others | KrASIA

China clamps down on auto data collection by Tesla and others

Trips within Shougang Park, one of the venues for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, will cost RMB 30.

Baidu will charge for fully driverless robotaxi rides in Beijing from May | KrASIA

Baidu will charge for fully driverless robotaxi rides in Beijing from May

When do companies invite public investment? Understand listing criteria, underwriter roles, and regulatory steps defining initial offerings.

The company currently operates in the US cities of San Diego and Tucson. Chinese startup TuSimple (NASDAQ: TSP) kicked off its public listing on Thursday, raising USD 1.1 billion at a market capitalization of USD 8.5 billion. The offering price of USD 40 was higher than the indicated range of USD 35 to 39. It ended the day unchanged.

KEY STAT | Driverless truck developer TuSimple debuts on Nasdaq | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Driverless truck developer TuSimple debuts on Nasdaq

The Middle East’s growing tech ecosystem harnesses the enterprising spirit of innovators from its diverse cultural markets.

How do platforms deliver on immediacy? Analyze ride-hailing, instant deliveries, and gig models meeting consumer needs fast.

On-demand Services

ntel’s Jerusalem-based subsidiary Mobileye announced plans on Monday to launch driverless delivery services by 2023 with autonomous vehicle delivery company Udelv, with commercial operations set to begin in 2023.The company’s Mobileye Drive self-driving system, a unique turnkey solution designed to support a range of autonomous vehicle (AV) applications—robotaxis, consumer passenger cars, and commercial delivery vehicles—will power Udelv’s next-generation electric, self-driving delivery vehicle, Transporter, according to the announcement.

Mobileye teams up with US firm for autonomous delivery service by 2023 | KrASIA

Mobileye teams up with US firm for autonomous delivery service by 2023

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Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem is a melting pot of startups and businesses of all sizes, all vying for rapid growth.

What extends a car’s lifecycle beyond the showroom? Investigate spare parts, performance upgrades, and services fueling the secondary automotive market.

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Singaporean classifieds marketplace Carousell has entered into the online used car marketplace with the launch of its auto sector, which is already accounting for a third of the group’s revenue.The news comes at a time when all eyes are on Carousell, which is on the verge of becoming Southeast Asia's next unicorn after bagging a USD 80 million investment from a consortium led by South Korean tech giant Naver last September. Carousell’s co-founder and CEO Quek Siu Rui told CNBC in an interview last October that the firm is increasing its focus on becoming profitable “in the next three to four years."

Carousell jumps on the automotive e-commerce bandwagon while navigating path to profitability | KrASIA

Carousell jumps on the automotive e-commerce bandwagon while navigating path to profitability

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Stephanie Li

Guangzhou-based WeRide received approval from the California Department of Motor Vehicles on Monday to test driverless vehicles on public roads in San Jose, two and a half months after Baidu was granted a permit to do the same.

WeRide's cars to go fully driverless in California | KrASIA

WeRide&#8217;s cars to go fully driverless in California

Valuation of Didi's self-driving unit: USD 6 billion

Didi, a Chinese mobility platform, connects riders to taxis, private cars, and ride-sharing options, integrating AI-driven route optimization.

Didi

Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing is in the process of raising up to USD 500 million for its self-driving unit, Didi Woya, at a valuation of USD 6 billion, Bloomberg reported, citing an anonymous source.