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Explore East Asia’s thriving tech hubs, global electronics producers, and fast-evolving digital platforms shaping cross-border innovation.

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Once a market favorite, the Yunnan-based teahouse chain faces intensifying competition in China even as its overseas business strengthens.

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

Autonomous Vehicles

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

Mobility

How do goods and people flow worldwide? Examine transport networks, logistics innovations, and policies shaping global connectivity.

Transportation

Once overlooked for its lack of mass production experience, DeepRoute.ai has emerged as a key supplier through tie-ups with GWM and Geely.

China’s assisted driving race narrows to three, and DeepRoute.ai is catching up fast

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.

The latest raise marks a turning point for the startup following early production and logistics setbacks.

Airseekers secures Series A funding after overcoming delivery struggles

KrASIA tracks China’s tech and business stories, alongside key developments across the broader Asia Pacific region.

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Embodied Intelligence

The company’s push into multimodal data collection and reinforcement learning signals its aim to control the full robotics stack.

Linkerbot raises new funding to build a full-stack platform for robot dexterity

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A learning paradigm rooted in human motion capture could offer a stronger path forward.

Is teleoperation holding robotics development back? MindOn Robotics makes its case

Photo of a Robot Era robot sorting and scanning medicine in a production line.

Geely, a Chinese automaker, integrates advanced engineering, EV tech, and international brand acquisitions to expand its global footprint.

Geely

Geely’s corporate venture capital arm led Robot Era’s latest funding round.

Backed by China’s automakers, Robot Era moves to fulfill major orders

What drives global exploration? Discover evolving tourism trends, hospitality services, and the shift toward personalized travel experiences.

Travel

The company says agentic AI will make travel more immersive and personalized.

Bili Q sees potential in agentic AI for travel, and it starts in the hotel room

What drives digital storytelling? Examine content creation, distribution channels, and media platforms connecting audiences worldwide.

Content

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

Creative

What entertains a connected world? Track shifts in film, music, and media consumption, as platforms and audiences redefine cultural experiences.

Entertainment

What happens when viewers join in real time? Explore live streaming platforms, audience interaction tools, and brand opportunities in instant video.

Live Streaming

How do visuals captivate global viewers? Dive into streaming services, production models, and evolving formats defining video engagement.

Video

Group live streaming is becoming a serious business in China.

Changjing Media sees a new industry taking shape in group live streaming

Amigos founder Liu Fang says he isn’t chasing moonshots, only moving fast to get robots into real-world use.

Xiaomi’s former smart driving chief is building Amigos, a rising force in robotics

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

Artificial Intelligence

What grounds digital progress in physical form? Analyze chipsets, sensors, and advanced components driving device performance.

Hardware

The Shenzhen-based startup’s first product is an exploration camera inspired by the “One Hundred Thousand Whys” encyclopedia series.

KidoAI reimagines children’s learning with interactive AI-driven hardware

Whoop’s screenless bands use a subscription model instead of one-time hardware sales.

Meet Whoop, the new face of fitness wearables that ditch the screen

Zettlab is turning network storage into an AI-powered companion for creators and data professionals.