Robotics & Automation (opens original source in a new tab)Robotics & Automation NewsTrends and outlook for actuators: The muscles behind humanoid motionThe humanoid robotics industry is transitioning from prototype development and demonstrations toward structured pilot deployments and early commercial adoption. The new IDTechEx report Materials for Humanoid Robots 2026-2036: Technologies, Players, Forecasts expects 2026-2027 to represent key transition years, with more players moving from pilot testing toward production readiness and early-scale rollout. A major component at the […] (opens original source in a new tab)
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyDark Horse Muka Robotics Charges WorldArena With Only 32 Zhenwu 810E GPUs: LJM World Model Achieves Global Second Place Defining the Breakthrough From Video Quality to Physical LogicMuka Robotics LJM Latent Joint-conditional Model achieves WorldArena global #2 at 89.17 Motion Quality with only 32 GPUs, establishing a dual-expert architecture that prioritizes physical understanding over video generation quality. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·30 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyTencent WorkBuddy Monthly Active Users Exceed Alibais Entire AI Product Portfolio, Pushing DingTalk CEO to Launch Qianwen Office in Just 46 Days: The Desktop AI Office Battle Heats UpWorkBuddy 20.97M monthly visits surpass Alibaba QoderWork 7.88M combined portfolio; DingTalk new CEO Chen Yusen launches Qianwen Office from product consolidation in 46 days as competitive response. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·30 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyTencent WorkBuddy Launches Human-Agent Dual Writing: Office Suite Built Into AI Agent With Real-Time Collaborative Editing Across Word Excel PPT and MarkdownWorkBuddy V5.3.5 with Tencent Docs integration enables box-select-and-edit AI collaboration in Office documents, supporting local Office files and cloud documents with contextual multi-modal intelligence. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·30 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyChinese Tech Companies Used to Benchmark Against America, but the World Model Field Has Broken That Pattern: WAIC Panel Says China Now Leads Without a US Counterpart to FollowAt WAIC 2026, Muka Robotics, Shengshu Technology, EvoPhys.ai, and Chengwei Capital discuss how Chinas world model startups now operate without US analogs, turning the conventional catch-up narrative. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·30 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyFrom Assembly Line to Global Intelligent Manufacturing Center: Dongguan Redefines Itself as AI Hardware Capital With 24,000 Companies and Half of Worlds AI Glasses OutputDongguan produces half the worlds AI glasses with 400K+ units in 2025, 24,000 industrial enterprises, 10K+ high-tech firms, national AI pilot base, and 1-hour supply chain for smart manufacturing. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·30 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)The Hacker NewsRussian Hackers Exploit Microsoft OWA Flaw to Keep Mailbox Access After Credential RotationThe Russian threat actors recently linked to the exploitation of a now-patched vulnerability in Zimbra have been observed exploiting another vulnerability, this time in Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA), to target U.S. and European government entities, as well as the telecommunications, financial, hospitality, and aerospace sectors. The activity, which began on July 22, 2026, involves the (opens original source in a new tab)info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)·30 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)The Hacker NewsFCC Blocks New Foreign-Produced Robots and Power Inverters Over Cyber RisksThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added foreign-produced mobile robots and networked power inverters to its Covered List on July 28. The move generally prevents new models from receiving the equipment authorization required for import, marketing, or sale in the US. Previously authorized models can still be sold, and devices people already own are unaffected. Federal purchases and use (opens original source in a new tab)info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)·30 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)South China Morning PostChina’s Politburo pledges policy support, spending to counteract sluggish growthBeijing has pledged to step up macro policy support and enhance the resilience of capital markets for the remainder of the year, sending signals to stablise growth amid a recent slowdown in economic activity and rising volatility in global markets. After a meeting of the Communist Party’s 21-member Politburo – a major decision-making body led by President Xi Jinping – that ended on Thursday, the party’s upper echelon vowed to accelerate the pace of fiscal spending and speed up the transition... (opens original source in a new tab)Sylvia Ma,Ji Siqi,Xinyi Wu·30 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)The Hacker NewsAmazon Links Debug and Chalk npm Hijack to North Korea’s Sapphire SleetAmazon has tied the September 2025 hijack of the npm packages debug and chalk to North Korea. For ten months, the incident sat in the public record as crypto theft: a maintainer phished through a lookalike npm domain and a wallet-draining script pushed into at least 18 packages carrying more than 2 billion weekly downloads between them. The original Aikido and Wiz reports did not attribute the (opens original source in a new tab)info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)·30 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)CoinDeskEther, XRP flat as chip stocks steady on Samsung's 250-fold profit surgeCrypto's majors barely moved as Asia's semiconductor selloff eased. Most are still lower over the week, with HYPE down 8%. (opens original source in a new tab)Shaurya Malwa·30 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)The Hacker NewsCisco FMC Zero-Day Actively Exploited, Static Credentials Could Expose Sensitive DataThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a newly disclosed security flaw impacting Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of zero-day exploitation. The vulnerability, assigned CVE-2026-20316 (CVSS score: 5.3), could permit an unauthenticated, remote attacker to log (opens original source in a new tab)info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)·30 July 2026
