BEIJING, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – 31 August 2026 – The 43rd “Baidui Cup” Football Tournament recently came to a close in Beijing. First established in 1984, this youth football tournament introduced a “two‑track” system for the first time this year, with separate Popularization and Competitive Groups. The event attracted a total of 1,481 teams and more than 20,000 young participants, reaching a new high in overall scale in recent years.
The 43rd “Baidui Cup” Football Tournament in progress.
The “Baidui Cup” is one of the longest‑standing youth amateur football tournaments in China, and the only national youth football event that has run continuously without interruption since its inception. This year, the tournament broke new ground by moving beyond the previous format in which teams of different levels competed together, establishing two separate tracks: Popularization and Competitive.
The Popularization Group is open to all young football enthusiasts, championing the principles of “joyful participation and free team formation.” It covers 14 age‑based competition categories, ranging from 6‑year‑olds to high school students. In the 6‑year‑old category, no rankings are recorded and all participants receive awards, with the aim of fostering interest and expanding the grassroots football base. Designed specifically for professional club youth academy teams, sports schools, and school representative teams, the Competitive Group covers 10 age categories from 8 to 17. Through high‑level competition, it serves as a testing ground to improve the selection mechanism for reserve talent.
A representative from the Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau noted that the “two‑track” system marks the Baidui Cup’s transformation from a standalone amateur event into a comprehensive youth tournament system that equally emphasizes participation and excellence, offering a valuable model for refining the youth football competition framework.
During the tournament, Fu Ming, an international referee who officiated at the FIFA World Cup 2026™, took charge of Competitive Group matches and offered this encouragement to the young players: “Win on the condition that you enjoy the game.” Shao Jiayi, the tournament’s image ambassador and head coach of the Chinese men’s national football team, presented awards to the winning teams and encouraged the children to compete with courage.
“The Baidui Cup is Beijing’s very own ‘World Cup’ for its children,” said a post‑80s football enthusiast who had participated in the tournament as a child and now coaches a team. The event has become more than just a competitive stage—it is a summer memory for generations of Beijing residents and a cultural touchstone of the city’s sports identity.
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ZHUHAI, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – 31 August 2026 – The 100-day Countdown to the 16th China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition (Airshow China 2026) was launched on August 28 in Zhuhai, Guangdong. Scheduled for December 7-13 this year, Airshow China 2026 will mark for the official start of its 100-day countdown on August 29.
A commemorative logo marking the 30th anniversary of Airshow China was unveiled at the event.
A commemorative logo marking the 30th anniversary of Airshow China was unveiled at the event. The logo features a three-dimensional, gold-toned “30” as its visual symbol, incorporating tech-inspired aviation and advanced manufacturing elements, complemented by gradient ribbons in blue, purple and magenta. Founded in 1996, Airshow China is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.
Airshow China 2026 will take place this December 7-13, with the official 100-day countdown beginning on August 29.
“Over the past three decades,” said Li Xiaodong, Deputy Secretary-General of the People’s Government of Zhuhai Municipality and Deputy Secretary-General of the Zhuhai Executive Committee of Airshow China, in his remarks at the event, “Airshow China has grown increasingly international, professional and market-oriented, establishing itself as one of the world’s premier airshows. In 2026, Airshow China will continue to benchmark itself against world-class exhibitions and contribute to the development of aviation industry clusters.”
During the World Airshow Dialogue session, aviation industry representatives from home and abroad delved into topics on global industrial-chain coordination, green aviation, the low-altitude economy (also known as advanced air mobility), aircraft engines aftermarket services, and the development of the general aviation industry.
Representatives from peer event organizer International Aviation and Space Salon (MAKS) and major aviation players including Boeing delivered video remarks extending greetings and sharing insights. They voiced anticipation for returning to the upcoming Airshow China with state-of-the-art products and services to foster deeper-going industrial exchanges.
At the subsequent round-table dialogue session, Dai Haibin, spokesperson for AVIC General Aircraft Company, noted that Airshow China has served as an excellent platform for debuting key aircraft and other equipment, among them the AG600 “Kunlong” amphibious aircraft.
Xu Shixin, Chief Operating Officer of Embraer China, observed that the Chinese market boasts huge potential and a well-developed industrial system, unlocking broad opportunities for cooperation in areas such as green aviation and the low-altitude economy. Drawing on its accumulated technological expertise, Embraer stands ready for deeper collaboration on eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft development and the building of a low-altitude transportation ecosystem.
At the event, Zhuhai Airshow International Culture Communication Co., Ltd. inked IP merchandise cooperation agreements with Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhuhai; Alipay (Hangzhou) Digital Service Technology Co., Ltd, and Truly HONEST Investment Limited, among other partners. The cooperation covers product development integrating traditional culture with aerospace technology, AI-powered digital commemorative ticket stubs enabled by NFC technology, and derivative products based on sci-fi intellectual properties.
Over its 30-year history, Airshow China has undergone remarkable expansion: from less than 8,000 square meters at its debut in 1996 to 450,000 square meters at its latest edition. The number of participating countries and regions has jumped from 25 to 47, cementing Airshow China’s status as one of the world’s most influential aviation and aerospace exhibitions.
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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 31 August 2026 – The next generation of microelectronics relies on improvements in transistor switching performance to advance computing power. However, conventional semiconductor technology has hit the physical “Boltzmann limit”, which restricts the energy efficiency of traditional transistors. A research team at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has engineered a novel tunnelling field-effect transistor (TFET) utilising 2D nanomaterials. The breakthrough can offer the fundamentals for energy-efficient computing and next-generation AI chips.
Prof. Jianhua Hao (right), Dr. Zehan Wu, Research Assistant Professor of Department of Physics and Materials at PolyU and the first author of the Research Article in Science (left), and the research team, fabricated ultra-thin heterostructure of 2D bismuth and indium selenide layers using pulsed laser deposition.
The research was led by Prof. Jianhua HAO, Head of the Department of Physics and Materials and Chair Professor of Materials Physics and Devices at PolyU, in collaboration with the National University of Singapore, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Peking University, and the Singapore University of Technology and Design. The findings have been published in the prestigious scientific journal Science.
Conventional transistors rely on thermionic emission of electrical charges, which requires a minimum gating voltage of 60 millivolts (mV). However, the “Boltzmann limit” makes subthreshold swing values below 60 mV decade⁻¹ at room temperature physically impossible, limiting progress in high-performance electronics.
Prof. Hao said, “By adopting quantum tunnelling, our TFET breaks through this boundary, paving the way for ultra-low-power, high-performance integrated circuits essential for emerging AI chips and advanced semiconductor applications.”
Prof. Hao’s team created ultra-thin heterostructure of 2D bismuth and indium selenide alternating layers using pulsed laser deposition. By exercising precise control over the layer structure, the normally semi-metallic bismuth transforms into a semiconductor in 2D form, allowing charge carriers to tunnel efficiently into indium selenide through quantum tunnelling mechanism.
The resulting TFET achieved SS values well below the 60 mV decade⁻¹ limit. Operating at room temperature on silicon substrates, the device required a gate-voltage range of only 160 mV—far lower than the 800 mV originally required.
The device resolved a challenge in experimental TFETs by delivering a high output current alongside an exceptionally high ON/OFF current ratio, which helps drive multiple downstream logic gates and diminish circuit-delay.
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 31 August 2026 – Apical, through PT Sari Dumai Oleo (PT SDO), recently provided free health screenings and treatment to more than 60 residents of Lubuk Gaung, Sungai Sembilan, Dumai, Riau, helping bring basic healthcare services closer to the local community.
Held at the grounds of Pon An Kiong Temple, the initiative provided residents with medical examinations and consultations for common health conditions, including acute respiratory infections, skin conditions and diarrhea. Residents also received cholesterol, uric acid and blood sugar tests to help monitor their health and identify potential risks at an earlier stage.
Apical Dumai Head of General Affairs M. Jaya Budi Arsa said the initiative was intended to make healthcare services more accessible to residents, particularly those living in communities around Apical’s operations.
“We want to provide support that delivers real benefits and responds to the community’s needs. Through this initiative, we hope residents can access basic health services more easily and address health concerns earlier,” Jaya said.
The initiative reflects Apical’s commitment to supporting communities through programmes that address key areas of wellbeing, including health, education and economic empowerment. These efforts are guided by Apical’s 5Cs philosophy — doing what is good for the community, country, climate and customers, and only then will it be good for the company — which underpins the company’s approach to supporting communities around its operations.
Dumai Health Agency Head Dr. Syaiful welcomed the initiative, noting that collaboration between the government, private sector and communities can help expand access to healthcare and encourage greater awareness of preventive health.
“Collaboration among the government, private sector and communities is important to expanding access to health services. We hope this initiative will benefit local residents while also raising awareness of the importance of regular health checkups,” Syaiful said.
The initiative also received positive responses from local residents. Idrus, representing residents of RT 015, said the free health screenings and medical services made it easier for residents to access healthcare, particularly as the activity was held close to their homes.
Through initiatives such as this, Apical, a member of the RGE group of companies founded by Sukanto Tanoto, continues to work with local government and communities to support practical programmes that respond to local needs. Hashtag: #RGE #Apical #community #healthcare #Riau
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About Apical
Apical is a leading vegetable oil processor with an expanding global footprint. Our vertically integrated mid-stream refining and value-added downstream processing makes us an integral supplier that supports the needs of various industries namely food, feed, oleochemicals and renewable fuel, including sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) which enables a great reduction of CO2 emissions.
With integrated assets in strategic locations spanning Indonesia, China and Spain, Apical operates numerous refineries, oleochemical plants, renewable fuel plants and kernel crushing plants. Through joint ventures and strategic partnerships, Apical also has processing and distribution operations in Brazil, India, Pakistan, Philippines, Middle East, Africa, USA and Vietnam.
Apical’s growth is built on the foundations of sustainability and transparency, and motivated by our strong belief that we can contribute to a circular economy for a more meaningful impact, even as we continue to grow our business and deliver innovative solutions to our customers.
HONG KONG SAR – EQS Newswire – 31 August 2026 – A national charging framework for surgical robots was formally established earlier this year, heralding imminent industry-wide volume growth. With payment rules clarified, billing barriers for hospitals procuring such equipment have been removed, opening a window for accelerated installation of domestic surgical robots.
On 28 August, TrueHealth Medical (02697.HK, the “Company”) released its maiden interim results. During the reporting period, the Company booked revenue of RMB 5.671 million, jumping nearly 32 times year-on-year. Gross profit reached RMB 4.363 million, soaring more than 36 times year-on-year, with an overall gross margin of 76.9%, representing an uplift of 9.8 percentage points against the prior-year period. Revenue from surgical robot products stood at RMB 5.16 million, accounting for 91.0% of total revenue, marking the commencement of revenue recognition.
Consumables business grew in tandem, delivering consumables sales of RMB 408,000 during the period, up 135.8% year-on-year. As device installations scale up, profitability from repeat orders has improved, with gross margin rising from 67.1% in the same period last year to 79.9%. Sales coverage has also expanded, shifting from a Beijing-only footprint last year to multiple regions including North and South China. North China emerged as the core delivery market in the period, contributing 57.7% of sales, while South China accounted for 35.8%. Driven by rising device installations, repeat purchases of consumables and geographic expansion, the Company’s overall business has entered a sustainable growth trajectory.
The Company stated in its announcement that the “device plus consumables” business model has been validated by its first batch of post-listing operational data. It will maintain its existing pace for pipeline advancement and ecosystem buildout in H2, retaining confidence in sustained commercial expansion.
TrueHealth Medical specializes in percutaneous puncture surgical robots and has completed the full commercialization cycle from technology development to market validation. All four models of its core products have obtained Class III medical device registration certificates from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA), giving the Company the largest number of approved models among Chinese peers and a comprehensive product portfolio. Its installed base spans nearly 100 medical institutions across major regions, ranking among the industry leaders. The sales system built on distributor networks, benchmark hospitals and clinical training support is fully in place.
While the commercial foundation solidifies, the Company has ramped up R&D investment. R&D expenditure totaled RMB 26.931 million in the reporting period, rising 15.2% year-on-year. Investment focuses on two key areas: expansion of clinical indications and overseas registration.
On clinical indication expansion: R&D spending on core products increased from RMB 7.4 million in the prior-year period to RMB 10.7 million. The pulmonary indication of TH-X MW, the world’s first and only microwave ablation surgical robot integrating precision localization and microwave ablation, received NMPA approval within the reporting period. With this milestone, this globally-first percutaneous microwave ablation surgical robot now covers both liver and lung tumor treatment scenarios. The registration clinical trial for the flagship TH-S1 puncture surgical robot, expanded for retroperitoneal lesions, has enrolled 16 patients. The Company plans to file the registration application in Q4 2026, with NMPA approval anticipated in H2 2027. For overseas registration: CE certification applications for core products were submitted and accepted in January 2026, with certification expected in Q4 2026. Upon obtaining CE certification, the percutaneous puncture surgical robots will be able to enter the EU market, extending the Company’s footprint beyond China.
Additionally, the Company’s forward-looking long-term pipeline, including the organ normothermic perfusion system, follows a clear timeline. The system recently won the bid for the research equipment procurement project of the Yunnan Key Laboratory of Gene-edited Miniature Pigs and Xenotransplantation at Yunnan Agricultural University. This milestone confirms completion of engineering finalization and prototype verification, laying the technical foundation to move from research settings to preclinical studies and eventual clinical adoption. It marks a pivotal transition of TrueHealth Medical’s organ normothermic perfusion system from R&D to industrialization. This cutting-edge technology aligns closely with the 15th Five-Year Plan strategic roadmap in China, which identifies organ manufacturing, life support devices and advanced biotechnologies as prioritized research areas.
Beyond scaling commercial sales, the Company continues to build strategic depth across channels, products and technologies. Three landmark initiatives were finalized in August: a strategic cooperation agreement with Genertec Liaoning Pharmaceuticals to systematically deliver minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment solutions to regional markets via this state-owned enterprise platform, unlocking large-scale hospital adoption; the organ normothermic perfusion system winning the Yunnan Agricultural University tender, bringing the second growth curve into market validation; and a collaboration with the Tianjin Embodied Intelligence Innovation Center to build technical capabilities for surgical robots to evolve from “execution tools” into “intelligent agents”, securing a leading edge for long-term technological advancement.
Policy tailwinds have materialized, and the Company’s commercial flywheel is now gaining traction. In August, TrueHealth Medical was included in the Hang Seng Composite Index, qualifying it for Stock Connect inclusion. Its maiden interim results validate the robustness of its “device plus consumables” business model, laying a solid foundation for sustained commercial scaling ahead. Several key dimensions merit close attention: robust expansion in new installations, consistent growth in recurring consumables revenue, timely roll‑out of clinical indication expansions for pipelines including TH‑S1, overseas market penetration following CE certification, and validation of follow‑on orders for emerging businesses such as organ perfusion systems.
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About TrueHealth Medical Technology Development Co., Limited
A nationally accredited “Little Giant” enterprise (Specialized, Sophisticated, Distinctive & Innovative), Guangdong TrueHealth Medical Technology Development Co., Limited leverages artificial intelligence and robotic control technologies to develop and commercialize intelligent robots for soft tissue puncture diagnosis and organ repair. Its core offerings cover percutaneous puncture navigation and microwave ablation guided systems. The ZhenYiDa® percutaneous puncture navigation and positioning system holds NMPA China-first certification, while the ZhenYiDa® navigation and positioning microwave ablation system is accredited as a world-first innovation by NMPA. The Company undertakes key projects under China’s 14th Five-Year National Key R&D Program, with its products featured in national flagship schemes including high-end medical device roll-out initiatives, AI medical device innovation program and the Catalog of Outstanding Domestic Medical Devices. TrueHealth Medical aims to deploy AI and surgical robotics to advance precision, minimally invasive therapeutic solutions for widespread clinical use.
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 31 August 2026 – Cushman & Wakefield, a leading global real estate services firm, has participated in the RICS China Summit 2026. The firm’s representative speakers at the event included KK Chiu, International Director and Chief Executive, Greater China, Cushman & Wakefield, and Chair, RICS China Board; Cathy Liu, Senior Director, Head of Valuation & Advisory Services, Shanghai; and Chris Yang, Head of Valuation & Advisory Services, Beijing and Head of REITs Practice Group. The expert team attended the event and shared their insights through engaging panel discussions.
The launch of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan marks a pivotal stage in the nation’s transition from “scale growth” to “high-quality advancement,” bringing significant transformation to the real estate and construction sectors. These changes are being driven by four key forces: institutional restructuring, technological revolution, spatial reshaping, and upgraded openness. Under the theme “Global Assets and Technology Reshaping Under the New Landscape of the 15th Five-Year Plan,“ the RICS China Summit 2026 focused on the core objectives of the Five-Year Plan and explored five key areas: policy and top-level strategic planning, technology-driven industry transformation, global asset allocation, capital and asset revitalization, and green, low-carbon transition.
KK Chiu, International Director and Chief Executive, Greater China, Cushman & Wakefield, and Chair of the RICS China Board, was invited to deliver the opening remarks. He said: “This year marks the launch of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan, and is also a pivotal turning point for the domestic real estate and construction industries as they move from scale expansion towards high-quality development and upgrading. During this process, RICS is continuing to promote the adoption of international surveying and valuation standards, guidance on the responsible use of AI, and global sustainability and ESG guidelines. Through close collaboration with leading domestic institutions and enterprises, RICS supports Chinese professionals in contributing to the development and refinement of global standards during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.”
KK Chiu also moderated a panel discussion together with leading industry experts. The discussion examined the industry’s core transformation from “asset holding” to “asset operation + capital management,” and explored implementation pathways for the dynamic optimization of REIT portfolios. Panelists also discussed the impact of different listing platforms on commercial real estate valuations and examined how emerging factors, including land lease renewal policies and the recognition of data assets on balance sheets, are reshaping real estate asset values, in turn helping the industry optimize valuation methodologies and improve operational efficiency.
The handbook examines the localized value transmission mechanisms of ESG performance and is built around the core premise that “green asset value is characterized by multiple pathways and differentiated outcomes, and should be assessed from a full lifecycle and risk-adjusted return perspective.” It establishes a four-dimensional analytical framework covering revenue, costs, valuation and financing, and systematically analyses the mechanisms through which ESG factors influence asset cash flow, risk assessment, capital expenditure, financing conditions and market liquidity. The handbook provides practical reference guidance for investors, asset managers, valuers, rating agencies, financial institutions and industry practitioners.
At the real estate sub-forum, Cathy Liu, Senior Director, Head of Valuation & Advisory Services, Shanghai, Cushman & Wakefield, joined other industry leaders in a panel discussion titled “From Sustainability Performance to Asset Value Enhancement: Pathways to Financial Returns in Green Real Estate.” During the discussion, she noted: “2026 marks the 50th anniversary of the RICS Valuation — Global Standards, commonly known as the Red Book, and is also a critical milestone for the systematic integration of ESG factors into global real estate valuation standards. As ESG becomes fully embedded across the entire investment, operation, financing and valuation chain, how the value of green assets can be translated into observable and measurable financial returns has become a core issue for the industry.”
Chris Yang, Head of Valuation & Advisory Services, Beijing, and Head of REITs Practice Group, Cushman & Wakefield, participated in the REITs panel discussion. During the session, titled “How Financial Instruments Can Drive Asset Value Enhancement: Empowering New Infrastructure, New Energy and GPU Computing Centers through REITs,” he commented: “As an important financial innovation tool, REITs provide an effective capital operation pathway for emerging asset classes such as new infrastructure, new energy and GPU computing centers. Cushman & Wakefield’s professional expertise in asset securitization can help clients seize this historic opportunity.”
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Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) is a leading global commercial real estate services firm for occupiers and investors with approximately 53,000 employees in over 350 offices and nearly 60 countries. In Greater China, a network of 23 offices serves local markets across the region. In 2025, the firm reported revenue of $10.3 billion across its core services of Valuation, Consulting, Project & Development Services, Capital Markets, Project & Occupier Services, Industrial & Logistics, Retail, and others. Built around the belief that Better never settles, the firm receives numerous industry and business accolades for its award-winning culture. For additional information, visit www.cushmanwakefield.com.hk or follow us on LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/company/cushman-&-wakefield-greater-china).
The company says CookingMuse is the world’s first multimodal AI foundation model trained on real kitchen data. Its cooking robots already operate in 13,000 stores across nearly 350 cities.
BEIJING, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – 31 August 2026 – XiangLu Robotics on Sunday unveiled three major new cooking products at the 2026 World Robot Conference, headlined by what it said is the world’s first multimodal AI foundation model trained on data gathered from real kitchens.
The Aug. 23 launch pairs the model — called CookingMuse, or Chuqi — with the 3K Vision Cooking Robot and an embodied cooking robot named RoboCook, the company said. Spanning the understanding of cooking, sensory judgment and embodied execution, the three products lay out a complete technological path for AI to enter real kitchens and solve real problems, pushing robots from “demonstrating capabilities” toward “creating real value” — or, as the company put it, moving AI from “following recipes” to “understanding cooking.” Each represents Xianglu’s latest breakthrough in one of three fields: cooking AI, intelligent robots and embodied intelligence.
The machines already operate at scale. Xianglu said its AI cooking robots cover nearly 350 cities in China and more than 20 countries and regions overseas, deployed with 3,000 brands, covering 13,000 stores, with nearly 600 million customer visits served to date. Its in-house AI recipe-generation system has accumulated nearly one million digital recipes of Chinese cuisine — and entering real kitchens at scale, the company said, has gradually formed its continuously evolving “robot — data — model — robot” loop.
A foundation model for the kitchen
Yang Jiancheng, Xianglu’s founder and chairman, described the multimodal cooking AI foundation as the underlying artificial intelligence system the company built for future kitchens — and the first multimodal cooking AI foundation model anywhere trained on real kitchen data, taking AI from “recognizing cooking” to “understanding cooking.”
By fusing vision, cooking-process data and intelligent decision-making, the system means AI cooking robots no longer merely complete actions under preset programs but begin to understand what is happening to a dish and decide what to do next, Yang said. Xianglu called that a capability leap from “automation” to “intelligence.”
Older machines relied on fixed timing, fixed heat levels, fixed ingredient loading and fixed procedures. But a real kitchen is no standard laboratory: the freshness, moisture content, size and temperature of ingredients — and the state inside the wok — are in constant flux. The truly scarce ability of great chefs, the company argued, is not repeating motions but continuously observing, judging and adjusting as conditions change.
The real problem cooking intelligence must solve, Xianglu said, is not “how to make movements more precise” but whether, when reality changes, the machine still knows what it should be doing now.
On that premise, CookingMuse connects multimodal perception, cooking understanding and dynamic decision-making, so robots look beyond “what dish is this” to understand “what state is this dish in, why did that state appear, and what should happen next.” Judgments once reserved to chef experience — whether sugar has caramelized properly, whether sauce has reduced to the target, whether meat has reached the right doneness — are being converted into capabilities AI can learn, understand and execute, the company said.
More importantly, Xianglu is turning real kitchens themselves into the arena of AI’s continuous learning: robots enter working kitchens and generate real cooking data; the data trains the model; the model’s capabilities return to the robots, which enter still more real kitchens for continuous iteration. The resulting “robot — data — model — robot” loop means Xianglu’s edge no longer comes from any single piece of hardware alone, but from a cooking-intelligence system capable of continuously evolving in the real world.
“Cooking has no standard answer”
“Cooking has no standard answer — children need nutrition, the elderly need less salt, and people away from home miss the taste of their mother’s cooking,” Yang said. “So we let AI walk into real kitchens: to see every second of change in the ingredients, to see master chefs’ decades of experience, and ultimately to see each person’s needs.”
The company hopes, he said, to use technology to break through the limits of space, time, social class and manpower — so that good food is no longer bound by geography, the flavors of generations past can be passed down digitally, and master-level dishes can reach ordinary households. “We hope that one day, no matter where a person is, how old they are, or where they come from, they can more easily get a truly suitable good meal,” Yang said. “Because what robots truly need to see has never been just a dish, but every person.”
The 3K: a cooking robot with eyes
The 3K Vision Cooking Robot, the second of the three products Xianglu globally debuted during the WRC, is the world’s first intelligent AI cooking robot to fuse AI vision with what Xianglu calls its “cooking brain” — in the company’s words, an AI chef that truly understands cooking. It is also the first product equipped with Xianglu’s multimodal cooking AI foundation.
Beyond its intelligent brain, the 3K carries three 40-megapixel global-shutter industrial cameras that capture the wok at 30 frames per second, feeding a large AI model trained on data from millions of dishes, which judges the state of ingredients in real time. With the world-first foundation model and the newly added vision hardware, the company said, an AI cooking robot can for the first time both “see” the changes inside the wok and make autonomous decisions on that basis.
The result, Xianglu said: a sharply lower cooking “failure rate” on complex dishes and lower ingredient costs for restaurant operators. The 3K moves dish quality control from after-the-fact inspection to in-process adjustment, substantially improving back-of-house efficiency and cost control at branded restaurant locations through a higher degree of unmanned operation — which the company called the biggest change the product brings to the industry.
Legacy AI cooking robots ran on preset programs; whenever ingredient size, moisture content or thawing state deviated from the defaults, dish quality fluctuated, and problems often surfaced only once the dish left the wok. The 3K dynamically adjusts heating power, stir-fry duration, stirring speed and seasoning quantities at the millisecond level, intervening in real time during the cook — so that even inconsistent ingredients or a misplaced tray still produce a good dish. Its AI-supervision capability monitors store-level operational anomalies in real time, from ingredient cutting specifications, thawing state and actual quantities loaded, to tray position, calibration and dispensing anomalies, automatically identifying issues, generating reports and pushing them to operations to help stores standardize operations.
In Xianglu’s product evolution, the 3K can smoothly complete a three-step leap: getting eyes, becoming an AI supervisor, and becoming an AI chef.
The company put those capabilities on public display at the WRC, where — on camera — the 3K cleared two live challenges that, it said, traditional AI cooking robots cannot overcome. In the first, “The Disappearing Cup of Water,” two 3K machines stir-fried the same mapo tofu side by side; 100 grams of water not in the recipe was poured in mid-cook, and the system, detecting the change in the wok, re-assessed the sauce-reduction state and held until the wok’s state returned to target before moving to the next step. In the second, “The Wok Hei Is Back,” two machines cooked chili-pepper stir-fried pork side by side — one using meat that had not fully thawed, the other normal ingredients; the 3K recalculated its cooking plan in real time and closed the gap in heat control.
Where people are, hot meals follow
While the foundation model and the 3K are “invisible” technologies hidden in restaurant back-of-houses or built into the products themselves, the third launch of this event from XiangLu Robotics — RoboCook — is a new category consumers can see and touch.
Built around embodied intelligent robots, it pairs a humanoid robot with dedicated cooking robots to link the entire chain from picking and placing ingredients to cooking to serving, letting AI not only understand cooking but enter the real world and deliver a complete meal. The product is a mobile, miniature unmanned back-of-house system: an end-to-end unmanned closed loop running from chilled storage of prepped vegetables through fresh cooking, bowl dispensing and serving, oil-fume treatment and equipment self-cleaning. It supports high-heat stir-fried Chinese dishes, Western pasta and fried rice, among other categories — effectively a small mobile unmanned restaurant that needs no chef, no exhaust ductwork installation and no fixed storefront.
For the first time, RoboCook takes AI from a single piece of back-of-house equipment to the entire arc of commercial operation, with core features including genuinely unmanned running, dual-wok parallel cooking, end-to-end digitization and mobile deployment. For restaurant operators, end-to-end digital management no longer depends on store managers’ rounds or human experience.
More importantly, the company said, dual-wok parallel cooking plus mobile deployment can absorb demand surges in peak dining hours while making real the idea that “wherever people queue for food, a RoboCook can be placed”: ready to use the moment it is towed into position at high-traffic events such as exhibitions, music festivals and sports events; freshly cooked hot meals inside tech parks, office-building clusters and university towns, with employees never needing to leave the premises; ready to sell wherever it stops at scenic spots, campsites and night markets. Compared with manned food trucks and automated food vending machines, Xianglu argued, RoboCook delivers not one AI cooking robot but a complete, mobile back-of-house capability that can rapidly replicate diverse, complex menus.
The launch extends a push that began earlier this month: in early August, Xianglu’s fully automated AI beverage workstation, Xianka Fangzhou, made its appearance inside JD.com’s Seven Fresh Kitchen (Qixian Xiaochu) “24-hour end-to-end robot store,” bringing end-to-end intelligent production into beverage preparation for the first time. RoboCook now carries the same end-to-end unmanned capability from beverages to fresh stir-frying, and from fixed stores to more places, opening what the company calls a new product category — the mobile unmanned foodservice workstation.
From Chinese kitchens to global kitchens, from understanding a dish to seeing every person
What Xianglu presented at this year’s WRC was not just three new products but a cooking-intelligence system that keeps evolving from understanding to sensing to execution, the company said.
“Robots enter real kitchens and produce data; real data enters the model, and the model begins to understand cooking; new capabilities return to the robots; smarter robots enter more kitchens and produce more, and more valuable, data,” Yang said.
On top of that continuously evolving cooking intelligence, Xianglu’s products and use cases keep growing — from commercial AI cooking robots to the 3K and RoboCook, and on to future home AI cooking robots. Product forms and use cases will change, the company said, but the underlying cooking intelligence will not: understanding each brand’s dish-quality standards in restaurants, and different people’s taste, nutrition and dietary needs at home.
At the same time, Xianglu is taking the capability into real kitchens in more countries and regions, where different ingredients, climates, cooking methods and eating habits will become new variables for the AI’s continuous learning. From understanding Chinese kitchens to understanding kitchens around the world, the company said it ultimately hopes to build a cooking intelligence that can continuously learn and understand global cuisine.
But however many dishes robots come to understand or kitchens they enter, technology ultimately still faces real, individual people.
At the launch, Xianglu screened its brand vision film “Seeing”: a middle-aged father who spent years away from home studying and building businesses, years after his mother’s death, uses AI digital technology to recreate, before his own son, the braised pork belly the boy’s grandmother once made. What the machine reconstructed was not just a dish, but a family memory that spans time.
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Where robot mowers fail is rarely the open lawn. It is the narrow passage beside the house, the corner under a tree where satellite reception dies, the front garden the machine cannot reach. Wire-guided mowers need a cable buried around the whole plot. RTK mowers lose their fix under canopies and beside walls.
The Mix 2000 does without both. Its XcanSense system fuses LiDAR with camera vision to map the garden automatically on the first run, with no wire, no antenna, no base station and no boundary walk, and holds roughly 2 cm positioning accuracy in shade, beside walls and after dark.
It passes through gaps as narrow as 55 cm, climbs 25-degree slopes, clears 5 cm obstacles and covers up to 2,000 m² at around 180 m² per hour. Cutting height runs from 30 to 60 mm. It works at 61 dB, carries an IPX6-rated body, and ships with 4G, GPS, a rain sensor, a swappable battery and multi-zone mapping as standard.
“Every robot mower is advertised on the same flat, open lawn,” said Zhanbin Li, founder and CEO of Xcanbot. “We built the Mix 2000 for the garden with a narrow gate, a slope and a big tree. That is most gardens.”
The Mate X shares the stand: a seated mobility robot sold as consumer technology, driving itself to a chosen destination while watching 180 degrees ahead. It appears next at REHACARE International 2026, Düsseldorf, 23-26 September, Booth 1A57-3.
The Mix 2000 launches on Kickstarter later this year. Sign up at launch.xcanmow.com for launch notice and an early discount.
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About Xcanbot
Xcanbot develops consumer robotics for everyday life, including the Mate X smart mobility companion robot and the XcanMow Mix 2000 robot lawn mower.
Largest single-year corporate commitment received by SOSD will support welfare staffing, improved bedding, enhanced nutrition and shelter upgrades for close to 200 dogs in its care.
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 31 August 2026 – V Aesthetics Holdings, the operator of one of Singapore’s largest aesthetics group, has committed S$400,000 over one year to local animal welfare charity SOSD through a dedicated V Aesthetics Holdings Animal Welfare Fund. The commitment is the largest single-year corporate contribution SOSD has received to date.
Dr Ian Tan, Founder and Medical Director of V Aesthetics Holdings and May Ngu, President of SOSD with Mira, a dog under SOSD’s care
SOSD is a Singapore-based animal welfare organisation dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming of dogs. It currently cares for close to 200 dogs across its shelters and foster network, and relies on public support and partnerships to sustain its work.
The partnership, formalised through a Memorandum of Understanding signed on 28 July 2026, will run from September 2026 to August 2027 under V Aesthetics Holdings’ ongoing “Care Beyond Aesthetics” initiative. Funds will be ring-fenced for initiatives that directly improve the welfare and quality of life of dogs under SOSD’s care.
A Meaningful Commitment to Animal Care
The S$400,000 commitment is equivalent to approximately one quarter of SOSD’s FY2025 expenditure of S$1.54 million. The funding is expected to support:
Two contract welfare staff dedicated to daily walking, care and rehabilitation of shelter dogs;
Around 150 elevated beds to improve comfort and reduce prolonged contact with hard shelter flooring;
Enhanced daily meals, including meat and cooked food;
Supplements for ageing dogs and those with chronic conditions; and
Shelter enhancements at The Animal Lodge and Jurong Island to create more comfortable living spaces.
By directing resources to these practical areas, the partnership aims to improve the dogs’ day-to-day comfort, enrichment and overall wellbeing while they await adoption.
A Personal Connection Behind “Care Beyond Aesthetics”
The contribution marks V Aesthetics Holdings’ first major initiative under “Care Beyond Aesthetics”, with further community programmes planned. Animal welfare was chosen as the inaugural cause because of Founder and Medical Director Dr Ian Tan’s personal connection to dogs.
“Animal welfare is personal to me. The first dog I ever adopted was a former breeding dog. Giving him a home showed me how much a second chance can change an animal’s life, and that experience has stayed with me ever since. SOSD gives that same second chance to dogs every day. I hope this fund allows their team to spend less time worrying about financial constraints and more time giving each dog the care, comfort and opportunity for a loving home that they deserve,” said Dr Ian Tan, Founder and Medical Director, V Aesthetics Holdings.
The initiative reflects V Aesthetics Holdings’ broader belief that businesses have a role not only in serving customers, but also in contributing meaningfully to the communities in which they operate.
“We are deeply grateful for V Aesthetics Holdings’ generosity and a commitment of this size changes how we can plan,” said May Ngu, President of SOSD. “A gift of this size goes a long way, but it doesn’t mean our need for public support goes away. Sustaining the shelter and caring for our dogs is an ongoing commitment, and we’ll continue to work hard to get funding for many years to come.”
Supporting Better Daily Care at the Shelter
Animal care in a shelter environment requires consistent attention, structured routines and sufficient manpower. The two additional welfare staff will support more regular walks, play sessions and enrichment activities, complementing the improved nutrition, bedding and shelter resources funded through the partnership.
These daily efforts are especially important for dogs awaiting adoption. By strengthening both the basics and the quality of everyday care, the dedicated funding will enable SOSD to provide a more comfortable, stable and enriching environment for the animals it supports.
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V Aesthetics Holdings
V Aesthetics Holdings is one of Singapore’s largest medical aesthetics group, operating 45 outlets in Singapore and 5 outlets in Malaysia offering medical aesthetics treatments, body slimming and hair restoration. The Group employs around 70 Singapore Medical Council-registered doctors and a team of approximately 250 consultants. Beyond its clinical work, V Aesthetics Holdings runs “Care Beyond Aesthetics”, its ongoing community initiative supporting causes beyond the beauty and aesthetics industry.
SOSD
Founded in 2011, SOSD (formerly known as Save Our Street Dogs) is a volunteer-supported charity dedicated to the welfare of Singapore’s street dogs, rescuing, rehabilitating and rehoming dogs to give them a second chance at life. SOSD currently cares for close to 200 dogs, including those in foster care, and operates shelters at The Animal Lodge and Jurong Island. It is recognised by NParks’ Animal & Veterinary Service as one of Singapore’s official Trap-Neuter-Rehome/Release-Manage (TNRM) Dogs Grant partners.
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 31 August 2026 – WisPaper has introduced TrueCite, a citation verification tool designed to detect and flag AI-hallucinated academic references as concerns grow over fabricated citations appearing in AI-assisted research and scientific literature.
As generative AI becomes increasingly embedded in academic research and writing, a new problem is emerging alongside its productivity gains: AI can produce references that appear entirely credible but do not actually exist. In 2026, growing attention from researchers and scientific publications has highlighted how fabricated and hallucinated citations are making their way into papers and preprints, raising broader concerns about research reliability and academic integrity.
TrueCite is designed to add a verification layer to AI-assisted research. Researchers can upload a BibTeX file to TrueCite, which validates the references against real academic databases and identifies citations that may have been fabricated by AI.
The approach is straightforward: before relying on an AI-generated bibliography, researchers can verify that the cited papers actually exist.
This verification layer is increasingly important as large language models become better at producing references that appear academically plausible. A fabricated citation may contain a convincing author name, journal title, publication year, and paper title — making errors difficult to identify based on appearance alone.
For WisPaper, the growing concern around citation reliability reflects a broader shift in the academic AI market. While the first wave of academic AI tools focused largely on helping researchers search, summarize, and generate content more efficiently, the next stage is placing greater emphasis on whether the information behind AI-generated outputs can be traced and verified.
TrueCite is part of WisPaper’s broader vision for a more trustworthy AI research workflow. Rather than positioning itself as another AI writing assistant, WisPaper is building an AI-native research workspace that supports researchers across literature discovery, deep reading, cross-paper synthesis, research-gap identification, hypothesis development, and academic writing.
Across these workflows, WisPaper places particular emphasis on source traceability and verifiable academic evidence. As AI becomes more capable of producing convincing academic content, researchers need tools that help them distinguish between information that merely sounds authoritative and information that can actually be traced back to real research.
WisPaper believes researchers should not have to choose between speed and academic rigor. Instead, AI research tools should make it easier to move quickly while preserving the ability to inspect, trace, and verify the evidence behind the work.
TrueCite represents one step toward that goal. As academic AI continues to evolve, WisPaper expects verification to become an increasingly important part of AI-assisted research, alongside generation, analysis, and synthesis.
In academic research, a particularly significant risk is not simply an obviously incorrect AI-generated answer, but a convincing one supported by a citation that does not exist. For WisPaper, the future of academic AI will therefore be shaped not only by what AI can generate, but also by what researchers can verify.
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About WisPaper
WisPaper is an AI-powered academic research agent designed as a full-stack research accelerator. It supports literature retrieval, analysis, experiment design, execution, and paper writing within a unified workflow, helping researchers manage complex scientific tasks more efficiently across disciplines. For more information, visit https://wispaper.ai/
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