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28 June 2025

From Cambridge to Suzhou: a Chinese AI start-up’s journey to unicorn status

From Cambridge to Suzhou: a Chinese AI start-up’s journey to unicorn status

In 2007, a Chinese PhD student at the University of Cambridge launched a start-up with a former classmate focused on using speech recognition technology to help foreigners learn Chinese. A year later, Yu Kai and his team returned to China, aiming to draw on the country’s vast market and deep talent pool to propel their […]

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Cloudy with a chance of bankruptcy: US tariffs hurt China’s solar firms

Cloudy with a chance of bankruptcy: US tariffs hurt China’s solar firms

The rain and gloomy skies during the SNEC PV Conference – the biggest in China’s solar-panel manufacturing industry – summed up the mood in the market, whose major players congregated in Shanghai earlier this month for the four-day annual event. The scale was noticeably smaller this year. Several leading companies opted out for a variety

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Chinese firm Dobot develops robotic arm capable of lifting high payload at record speed

Chinese firm Dobot develops robotic arm capable of lifting high payload at record speed

Chinese robotics company Shenzhen Dobot has developed a new product that can deliver a high payload at record speed. The CR 30H series, consisting of three models, is a six-axis robotic arm that can lift as much as 30 kilograms at speeds of 300 degrees per second, the fastest in the industry for such a

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