Optical imaging technologies company New Smart Technology (NSTC) is moving beyond traditional optical and image inspection into semiconductor high-end automated optical inspection (AOI), co-packaged optics (CPO) optoelectronic modules, and unmanned vehicle vision systems, with a clear change in its revenue structure, according to chairman Stone Shih and president Phil Chen.

Tsinghua Unigroup’s former “chip-to-cloud” expansion strategy unraveled after a debt crisis in 2020 and subsequent bankruptcy restructuring. Several projects originating in the group’s earlier era have since entered disposal proceedings, and one of the former group’s largest planned investments has now reached a formal end.

China’s humanoid robot industry is entering a larger real-world test of AI, mobility and performance, with 2,056 robots set to compete in Beijing as domestic makers including Unitree Robotics accelerate development of faster and more capable machines.