The 10 most promising application scenarios for humanoid robots were announced on Friday at the opening ceremony of the 2025 World Robot Conference in Beijing, including general industrial operations, automotive manufacturing, 3C product manufacturing, and shipbuilding.

A Chinese research institute is set to establish a multilingual plant diversity database for Central Asia's arid zones, creating an open-access platform for plant diversity data that supports cross-disciplinary research and the visualization of biodiversity patterns.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our solar system from another star. Discovered last month by a telescope in Chile, the comet known as 3I-Atlas is only the third known interstellar object to pass our way and poses no

Chinese researchers have discovered a new species of Impatiens in Meishan City, SW China's Sichuan Province, according to the provincial department of ecology and environment. (Journal PhytoKeys)

China has officially launched its first carrier rocket recovery ship, becoming the second country after the United States to possess such a vessel. Boasting a 2,400-sqm recovery deck and a displacement of 17,000 tonnes, the 100-m-long, 42-m-wide ship is expected to be delivered

Beijing on Friday launched the world’s first embodied artificial intelligence (AI) robot 4S store, along with the city's first robot-themed restaurant. The four-story 4S store, currently showcasing more than 100 robots from 40 companies, offers sales, maintenance, parts, and

The Shenzhou-20 crew has spent over 3 months aboard China's Tiangong space station. Recently, they launched a new round of plant cultivation and conducted experiments with the space robot "Xiao Hang." They also installed a new training device for core and upper body exercise.

China aims to promote the innovative development of the brain-computer interface (BCI) industry, targeting accelerated adoption of BCI products across sectors, such as industrial manufacturing, health care and consumption by 2027 and the establishment of a safe and reliable BCI

South China’s Shenzhen has registered over 800 unmanned vehicles for logistics and urban sanitation, with a total operational mileage surpassing 1,800 km. The city aims to expand its fleet of logistics unmanned vehicles to 1,000 by the end of 2025.

The world saw its third-warmest July on record in 2025 with a slight respite from the unprecedented heat of the previous two years, which still reflects the ongoing trend of global warming, said the EU-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service on Thursday.

China’s Lanyue lunar lander for the country's first manned lunar mission on Wednesday successfully completed a comprehensive landing and takeoff verification test at the trial ground for extraterrestrial landing tests in Huailai County, north China’s Hebei Province. This marks

Robotic dogs facilitate preservation of ancient tower in N China's Shanxi. On a summer day at Sakyamuni Pagoda of Fogong Temple, well known as the Wooden Pagoda of Yingxian County, Shuozhou, north China's Shanxi province, visitors were appreciating the ancient structure.

Chinese researchers have developed a hyperspectral camera based on Snapshot Compressive Spectral Imaging (SCSI) tech, which weighs only 850 g and covers a wavelength range from 400 to 1,000 nm. When mounted on a drone, it can precisely scan a 1.5-square-kilometer area in about 10

The world's first 660-MW ultra-supercritical W-shaped flame boiler, part of a two-unit thermal power project, successfully passed a 168-hour full-capacity trial operation on Wednesday in southwest China's Guizhou. With a designed coal consumption as low as 284.01 g/kWh, the

The first self-driving bus route in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, is currently undergoing road tests, spanning 12 kilometers with 7 stations in the Chengdu Future Science and Technology City. Expected to be open to the public in September, the route is run by four

The Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology and the Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites have signed a cooperation agreement to jointly establish a space hospital in the future, aiming to enhance astronauts' health and expand in-orbit medical monitoring and life

A team of Chinese researchers has discovered a new dinosaur assemblage from the Lower Jurassic period in Wuding County, SW China's Yunnan Province, representing the oldest sauropodomorph found in East Asia, according to a recent article published in the journal Scientific

UNESCO announced on Tuesday that a 50-member expedition to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro is in progress to raise awareness about the rapid melting of glaciers caused by climate change. As a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987, Africa's tallest mountain is losing its glaciers

WHO has issued a warning as the chikungunya virus continues to spread across multiple regions, with 119 countries now reporting cases. An estimated 5.5 million people worldwide are at risk of infection.

Chinese scientists have newly uncovered the patterns and drivers of soil microbial communities in alpine grasslands (3,165-4,903m) and deserts (3,150-5,200m) on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Contrary altitudinal distribution patterns have been found between the topsoil bacteria and