At the 2026 Beijing Yizhuang Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon, "Flash", a robot developed by Honor, won the 2026 Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon Championship with a net time of 50 minutes and 26 seconds. This half-marathon result has surpassed the human world record of 57 minutes and 20 seconds. In terms of the final result, Honor's "Flash" has achieved a qualitative leap compared to the 2 hours and 40 minutes set by 2025 champion Tiangong Ultra, and even exceeded the human half-marathon world record, demonstrating exponential progress in the speed, endurance and stability of humanoid robots.
The HH-200 aerial commercial unmanned transport system, independently developed by the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), has successfully completed its maiden flight, marking new progress for China in the field of large-scale commercial unmanned transport equipment.
The HH-200 adopts a square through-fuselage, twin-engine high-wing and twin-boom design layout. It has a standard cargo hold volume of 12 cubic meters, which can be expanded to 18 cubic meters, with a maximum payload of 1.5 tons, a maximum cruise speed of 310 kilometers per hour and a maximum range of 2,360 kilometers.
Hesai Technology has officially launched the world's first 6D full-color LiDAR ultra-sensitive chip, Picasso SPAD-SoC, alongside the ETX series 6D full-color LiDAR platform equipped with this chip.
The chip achieves pixel-level fusion of 3D spatial data and object color information on a single die, directly outputting native 6D full-color point clouds. Without relying on camera assistance, it can accurately identify key information such as traffic lights, traffic sign colors, and obstacle types. It supports a maximum detection range of 600 meters, far exceeding the mainstream 200–300 meters level available today, providing sufficient response time for high-speed autonomous driving.
On April 20, Alibaba Tongyi Lab officially launched the Fun-ASR 1.5 large speech recognition model. Supporting 30 languages, 7 major Chinese dialects and ancient poetry transcription, the model enables automatic language switching without presetting, with accuracy improved by 56.2%. It can also intelligently add punctuation and standardize numbers and dates, significantly reducing manual proofreading costs.
On April 20, Pony.ai announced that it has launched driverless Robotaxi testing in Dubai, supporting the implementation of Dubai's "Smart Dubai 2030 Vision". According to the vision, 25% of urban trips in Dubai will be completed via autonomous driving transportation by 2030.
