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China's UNIUBI AI has unveiled Lingmao, its first four-legged robot, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2026 in Shanghai, and it stole the show! 🤖🐾

On opening day, 15 Lingmao robots performed across two exhibition halls with seven amazing demonstrations. The star moment was the world's first continuous 720° backflip, with two full spins in the air and a perfect landing. The robots also danced together in sync and carried loads up to 1.3 times their own weight.

Lingmao comes with a smart two-brain design, AI-powered joint control, and a battery that supports about 5.5 hours of walking. It also offers open developer tools, so students, researchers and creators can build their own ideas on it.

UNIUBI AI was founded in 2014 and has grown from vision technology into robots that understand the real world. Developer editions start from 11,999 yuan.

A bright and exciting step toward friendly robot companions!

Source: Gasgoo and QbitAI

✨🇨🇳 Smart crosswalks are lighting up Chinese cities!

When evening comes, these LED crosswalks glow brightly in the street. The lights show countdown numbers, friendly reminders, and colors that match the traffic signals: red for wait, green for go. Drivers and walkers can both see the signals clearly after sunset, so everyone knows when to move and when to pause.

It's a bright idea that brings clear signals and extra comfort to everyday crossings.

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Parking Robots Are Moving Illegally Parked Cars in China

Have you ever been blocked in by a car parked in the wrong place? China is trying a smart fix for this problem.

Small, flat parking robots can slide under an illegally parked car, lift it gently, and move it out of the way. No tow truck is needed, and the car is not dragged or taken to a yard.

The robots are usually controlled remotely by an operator or an officer. They use sensors to avoid obstacles and can turn in tight spaces. This makes them useful in crowded lots and busy streets, where waiting for a tow truck can take a long time.

This does not mean towing has ended across China. The robots seem to be used in selected places, mainly to solve double parking problems. Still, it shows how technology can make city life a little easier.

Would you like to see this in your city? Tell us in the comments.

Source: Motor16 and Karapaia reports

🌍 Big news from the UK! A new platform for storing CO2 under the seabed has been installed in Liverpool Bay.

Here are the key facts:

🏗️ The platform is called Douglas CCS. It was installed on 8 October 2026.
🌊 The company says it is the world's first platform built only for capturing and storing CO2 from industry.
📦 CO2 from factories in North West England and North Wales will be sent here and buried deep under the seabed.
⛽ The CO2 will be stored in old, empty gas fields that are no longer in use.
📊 The plan is to store up to 109 million tonnes of CO2 over about 25 years.
🔧 The whole project is about 50% complete, and storage is expected to begin in 2028.

The project also reuses old pipelines and platforms, which helps save resources. It is a big step towards cleaner industry. 🌱

Source: Eni CCUS Holding

🌳🇨🇳 In China, driverless carts are now rolling through parks to serve visitors.

Here is how it works:
👋 You wave your hand, and the cart comes to you.
🥤 You take your food or drink from the cart.
📱 You scan a QR code to pay.

One example is Longlingshan Ecological Park in Wuhan. Carts made by a company called Neolix serve visitors there. You can also call a cart with your phone.

It is a simple, easy way to get a snack while you enjoy a walk in the park. 😊

Source: Blooloop and South China Morning Post

Scientists at MIT have built a tiny robot that swims using real living muscle instead of a motor! 🤖💧

The robot is about the size of a stick of chewing gum. Its body is a thin gel film, only half a millimeter thick, with two little fins. Each fin is covered with a layer of muscle cells that is thinner than a human hair.

Here's the cool part: the cells were changed in the lab so they tighten when light touches them. Shine light on one fin and it flaps. Move the light, and the robot turns. The team guided it through a small water maze this way.

For now, it's a lab project and the researchers control the light by hand. Next, they want to make it swim faster, and one day similar tech could help watch over water environments. Pretty amazing, right? 🌊

Source: MIT News, Advanced Functional Materials



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China Installs One of the World's Largest Offshore Wind Turbines

Dongfang Electric has installed an 18-megawatt offshore wind turbine at a coastal test base in Shantou, Guangdong, China. The rotor is 260 meters wide and covers about 53,000 square meters, roughly the size of 7.4 football fields.

According to the company, one turbine can produce around 72 million kilowatt-hours of electricity a year. That is enough to supply about 36,000 homes. The company also says it can reduce carbon dioxide by more than 59,000 tonnes every year.

Worth noting: this was a test base installation in 2024, and these figures are company estimates. Larger models, such as a 22 MW design, have since been announced.

Sources: Xinhua News Agency, RenewEconomy, Interesting Engineering



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🌏 Since 1950: Which Countries Have Become Richer or Poorer Than China? 🇨🇳

China’s economic journey over the past 70 years has been remarkable! 📈

In 1950, China was among the world’s lower-income economies. Since then, decades of economic growth, industrial development and international trade have transformed the country into one of the world’s largest economies.

A historical map published by Brilliant Maps compares countries’ GDP per capita with China’s over time, using data from the Maddison Project Database. It shows how China’s position has changed compared with many countries around the world. 🌍

📊 What does the map show?

🟢 Countries that have remained richer per person than China.

🟠 Countries that were richer at some point but are now poorer per person than China.

🔵 China’s position in the comparison.

🔴 Countries that have remained poorer per person than China.

Other colours represent additional categories, including countries whose positions have changed over time and places with missing data.

💡 Why is this interesting?

GDP per capita is calculated by dividing a country’s total economic output by its population. It helps compare average economic output per person between countries.

However, it does not mean every person in a country is wealthy, nor does it measure the full quality of life. A country’s total economic size and its GDP per person are two different things.

China’s transformation highlights how dramatically the global economic picture can change over several decades.

🌱 The big takeaway: Countries’ economic positions are not permanent. Long-term growth, investment, education, technology and changes in productivity can reshape the world economy.

What do you think will happen to the global economic rankings over the next 30 years? 🌏💬



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Karl Bushby is back on British soil after 28 years on the road.

The 57-year-old former paratrooper set out from Punta Arenas, Chile, on November 1, 1998. His goal was to get back to his mother's home in Hull without using any motorized transport. The trip, called the Goliath Expedition, covered about 50,000 km across 29 countries.

On Monday, October 5, he swam the English Channel from France. He spent around 20 hours in the water over three days before reaching Shakespeare Beach near Dover. His family and filmmaker Werner Herzog, who is making a documentary about the journey, were there to meet him.

It's not quite over yet. About 400 km remain before he reaches Hull, which is expected in the coming weeks.

Sources: Yorkshire Post, The Daily Jagran, APA/AFP



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Sand cat kittens caught on camera in the wild.

Sand cats, nicknamed the "ghost of the desert," are among the hardest wild cats to spot. They hide in burrows by day and hunt at night, so footage of their young is rare.

Researchers first filmed wild sand cat kittens in the Moroccan Sahara back in 2017. More recently, camera traps in Oman recorded a mother with her cubs in May 2026, and a survey in Qatar also caught a mother with two kittens.

Oman's Environment Authority says the footage shows the cats are breeding successfully in harsh desert conditions. The species is listed as Least Concern, but it is still hard to study.

Sources: Smithsonian Magazine, Muscat Daily, Nautilus, Morocco World News

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