3 h. ago China plotting mission to defend Earth from asteroids: top space researcher

China is planning an advanced mission to strike an asteroid and alter its orbit with a spacecraft to mitigate the threat of an impact, according to a top space researcher. If successful, China will become the second country after the United States to achieve this ability. Wu Weiren, the chief designer of China’s lunar exploration programme and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, revealed this “kinetic impact demonstration mission” on Friday, saying it would test the feasibility...

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3 h. ago China designing mission to defend Earth from asteroids: top space researcher

China is planning an advanced mission to strike an asteroid and alter its orbit with a spacecraft to reduce the risk an impact, according to a top space researcher. If successful, China will become the second country after the United States to achieve this ability. Wu Weiren, the chief designer of China’s lunar exploration programme and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, revealed this “kinetic impact demonstration mission” on Friday, saying it would test the feasibility of...

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31 h. ago Chinese Funds Look to Beijing to Engineer Rally That Keeps Going

Chinese Funds Look to Beijing to Engineer Rally That Keeps Going  Yahoo Finance

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1 week ago Chinese humanoid robotics firms adopt Nvidia’s new ‘robot brain’

Chinese humanoid robot makers – including Unitree Robotics, AgiBot, Galbot, Engine AI and UBTech Robotics – have become early adopters of Nvidia’s latest product that enables their machines to have real-time, intelligent interactions with people. The Jetson AGX Thor developer kit and production modules, which Nvidia launched on Monday, are computers designed to power robots across industries including manufacturing, logistics, transport, healthcare, agriculture and retail. Built on an Nvidia...

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1 week ago If Americans Are Lawyers and the Chinese Are Engineers, Who Is Going to Win?

If Americans Are Lawyers and the Chinese Are Engineers, Who Is Going to Win?  Foreign Policy

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2 w. ago Apple’s India push faces hurdle as Foxconn recalls 300 Chinese staff

Apple assembly partner Foxconn has recalled about 300 Chinese engineers from a factory in India, the latest setback for the iPhone maker’s push to rapidly expand in the country. The extraction of Chinese workers from the factory of Yuzhan Technology, a Foxconn component unit, in southern Tamil Nadu state is the second such move in a few months. Foxconn has started flying in engineers from Taiwan to replace staff leaving, people familiar with the matter said, asking not to be named as the...

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2 w. ago Why China’s top engineering academy has sights set on more private

A record high number of private-sector executives and chief scientists have been shortlisted this year to compete for academicianship in China’s top institute for engineering science and technology. Nineteen are included on the newly released candidate list for the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), including Hu Guoping, 48, principal researcher and co-founder of AI specialist iFlyTek; Wu Kai, 57, chief scientist and co-president of battery manufacturer CATL; Lian Yubo, 61, chief scientist of...

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2 w. ago Apple joins RedNote, plane software mastermind leaves US for China: 7 highlights

We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. How the Philippines forced China to adjust historic mission to moon’s far side Chinese space engineers made small but deliberate changes to last year’s historic sample retrieval mission to the far side of the moon to avoid political...

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2 w. ago How the Philippines forced China to adjust historic mission to moon’s far side

Chinese space engineers made small but deliberate changes to last year’s historic sample retrieval mission to the far side of the moon to avoid political friction in the South China Sea, according to a new paper. The Chang’e-6 spacecraft left the Wenchang spaceport on Hainan Island on board a Long March-5 rocket in May 2024, returning to Earth the following month with the world’s first lunar samples from the moon’s hidden side. According to the paper published last month by China’s Journal of...

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2 w. ago Can China’s hypersonic drone carrier bring Nasa’s ‘scissor wing’ dream to life?

Chinese aerospace engineers are revisiting a decades-old, largely abandoned aviation concept – the oblique rotating wing – and transforming it into a potential cornerstone of future warfare: an unstaffed hypersonic mother ship capable of flying at five times the speed of sound and unleashing a swarm of drones behind enemy lines. Drawing inspiration from Nasa’s quirky AD-1 experimental aircraft of the 1970s – a small jet-driven plane with a “scissor wing” that pivoted diagonally across the...

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