SHENZHEN, China, Jan. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Pudu Robotics, a global leader in service robotics, today announced the launch of PUDU T150, a Light-payload Industrial Delivery Robot designed for internal material delivery in manufacturing and warehouse environments.

Built for 150 kg payload applications, PUDU T150 emphasizes fast deployment, stable operation, and high cost efficiency. The new model is intended to lower the entry barrier to industrial automation for manufacturers and logistics operators, particularly in 3C electronics, plastic components, and small-item warehousing for FMCG, beauty, and fast fashion industries.

PUDU T150 will be initially available in Mainland China and the Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan regions, and selected high-growth markets, including Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea, and Turkey.

Addressing the Gap in Light-Load Industrial Logistics

As manufacturing continues to evolve toward leaner and more flexible production models, internal logistics automation has become a growing priority. However, many small and mid-sized manufacturers still face significant challenges in adopting industrial robots due to high costs, complex deployment processes, and operational barriers.

Building on its established industrial delivery robots, PUDU T300 and PUDU T600, Pudu Robotics developed PUDU T150 to address this unmet demand. The robot targets light-load, high-frequency transport scenarios where reliability, simplicity, and ease of use are critical, enabling more companies to deploy automation quickly and effectively.

PUDU T150 is available in two configurations:

• a lifting version designed for automated integration and more advanced workflows;
• and a standard version optimized for cost-effective, point-to-point material delivery.

Designed for Fast Deployment and Practical Use

PUDU T150 is designed for rapid, practical deployment in real-world industrial environments.

Unlike traditional AGV systems that rely on site modifications, markers, guide rails, and complex network or API integration—often requiring weeks or months before becoming operational—PUDU T150 works straight out of the box. No environmental changes are needed, and mapping can be completed within 10 minutes directly on the robot, with stable operation achieved in as little as one hour.

The robot also supports multi-robot collaboration without local servers or complex network infrastructure, enabling faster rollout and easier scaling across facilities.

Stable Navigation in Dynamic Environments

PUDU T150 combines VSLAM-based visual localization with dual LiDAR sensors to deliver full 360-degree environmental perception.

Powered by PUDU’s proprietary algorithms, the system supports dynamic map updates and stable positioning, ensuring reliable, long-term navigation even in complex, changing industrial environments. This architecture enables consistent performance in facilities with moving obstacles, layout adjustments, and high traffic density.

Aerospace-Grade Structural Design with One-Piece Integrated Chassis

PUDU T150 is built with aerospace-grade, high-strength materials and features a one-piece integrated chassis, creating a rigid and durable structure for demanding industrial environments. This construction improves resistance to impact and deformation, allowing the robot to maintain stable performance during high-frequency, long-duration operations. With a service life of up to five years, PUDU T150 helps reduce maintenance frequency and lowers long-term costs associated with repairs and component replacement.

Simple Operation for Frontline Workers

PUDU T150 features intuitive, tablet-like operation that anyone can use without training. An onboard touchscreen running PUDU’s self-developed software allows users to issue tasks, switch modes, and adjust parameters quickly and easily.

In addition to on-device control, the robot supports remote operation, enabling users to dispatch and manage tasks without needing to walk to the robot. Integration options include remote call devices, PUDU Link, and open APIs, making PUDU T150 adaptable to different workflows and management systems.

Industrial-Grade Safety and Continuous 24/7 Operation

PUDU T150 complies with the ISO 3691-4 industrial safety standard, ensuring safe and reliable operation under long-term, high-frequency workloads.

To support continuous logistics operations, the robot offers flexible power options, including wired charging, automatic recharging, and fast battery swapping, enabling near 24/7 operation and stable material flow.

Expanding PUDU’s Industrial Delivery Portfolio

With the launch of the PUDU T150, Pudu Robotics further strengthens its industrial delivery portfolio, extending the T-series to cover payloads from 150 kg to 600 kg and offering greater flexibility across a wide range of industrial scenarios.

Designed for fast deployment and streamlined integration, the PUDU T150 enables more manufacturers and logistics operators to adopt autonomous delivery solutions with ease, supporting broader adoption of automation across small and mid-sized operations and accelerating intelligent transformation in the industrial sector.

About PUDU

Pudu Robotics, a global leader in the service robotics sector, is dedicated to enhancing human productivity and living standards through innovative robot technology.

With a focus on R&D, manufacturing, and sales of service robots, Pudu Robotics emphasizes three core technologies: mobility, manipulation, and artificial intelligence. Pudu Robotics has taken the lead in establishing a comprehensive range of specialized, semi-humanoid, and humanoid robotic products in the industry. Currently, PUDU offers four product lines: service delivery robots, commercial cleaning robots, industrial delivery robots and embodied intelligent robots, which are deployed across ten major industries, including food and beverage, retail, hospitality, healthcare, entertainment and sports, industrial facilities, education, and more. To date, Pudu Robotics has successfully shipped over 100,000 units to a variety of markets, with a presence in more than 1,000 cities across 80+ countries and regions worldwide. For more information on business developments and updates, follow PUDU on LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram.

• The Kia EV2 – the brand’s sixth dedicated electric model – debuts at the 2026 Brussels Motor Show
• Compact B-SUV designed to support diverse modern lifestyles, delivering class-above interior space and an emotionally engaging electric driving experience
• Up to 448 km driving range, EV Route Planner, Plug & Charge and bidirectional V2L
• EV3 GT, EV4 Hatchback GT and EV5 GT also revealed, expanding Kia’s electric performance portfolio

BRUSSELS and SEOUL, South Korea, Jan. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Kia Corporation today unveiled the EV2 at the 2026 Brussels Motor Show, marking the global premiere of a compact electric SUV designed to make electric mobility more emotional, intuitive and accessible.

“With the Kia EV2, we are expanding the reach of Kia’s electric mobility to customers who want a compact car that still feels spacious, capable and emotionally rewarding. EV2 reflects our commitment to practical innovation — bringing advanced EV technology, thoughtful design and everyday usability into a model created for the way people live and move in cities around the world.” — Ho Sung Song, President and CEO of Kia

Alongside the EV2, Kia also revealed the EV2 GT Line and introduced the latest electric GT models — EV3 GT, EV4 Hatchback GT and EV5 GT — underscoring the brand’s commitment to both accessible electrification and engaging performance.

EV2: A New Emotional Gateway to Electric Mobility

The EV2 plays a strategic role within Kia’s expanding electric vehicle (EV) portfolio. As the most compact electric SUV in the lineup, it is designed as a gateway model for first-time EV drivers and new Kia buyers, while remaining versatile enough to serve as a primary household vehicle — easy to live with, yet emotionally rewarding.

Kia’s new compact SUV delivers an experience beyond its class thanks to:

• A calm, welcoming cabin atmosphere
• Class-above interior space and flexibility
• Easy, confidence-inspiring urban driving dynamics

Production and Launch Timing

Production of the EV2 will begin in the first quarter of 2026 with the standard-range model, followed by long-range and GT Line variants throughout the year. Market launch timings will be announced closer to the start of sales.

The EV3 GT, EV4 Hatchback GT and EV5 GT are scheduled to enter production in the second half of 2026.

For more information, visit the Kia Global Media Center for more.

SINGAPORE, Jan. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Produced by iQIYI, the historical epic series “The Unseen Qin Empire” was officially announced on January 9. The series brings together director Lü Xing, known for “Burning Ice”, and screenwriter Chang Jiang of “The Advisors Alliance”, and stars Chen Xiao, Zhang Xincheng, Dai Luwa, Dai Xu and Xu Hao, with special appearances by Wang Jinsong and Chen Shu. With film-level production values, the drama uncovers the thrilling, lesser-known stories behind the unification of the six states under China’s first emperor Qin Shi Huang (personal name Ying Zheng). This is not treated as a sealed-off chapter of the past, but as an intense, character-driven retelling engraved in history, and a focused exploration of Eastern classical aesthetics.

The poster presents a newly designed, meticulously researched image of a Qin Dynasty grand hall, highlighting a creative distillation and reimagining of “Qin-era aesthetics” in all their grandeur, order and sharp intensity. Abandoning the lavish, colorful look typical of traditional historical dramas, it adopts a minimalist black-and-gold palette and rigorous architectural composition, aiming to make every architectural line, contrast of light and shadow and ornamental pattern a vehicle for conveying the spirit of that era. It seeks to deliver to global audiences a visual language of “order, power and systems”, translating Eastern historical perspectives into a visual narrative that can be broadly understood, and reflecting a confident, outward-looking cultural dialogue.

“The Unseen Qin Empire” is expected to premiere in late 2026. The release of this international poster is not only the drama’s first public appearance, but also a clear statement that Chinese historical dramas are moving with confidence toward the center of the global stage with a new aesthetic language, deeper thematic ambition and industrial-level production standards, inviting audiences worldwide to explore enduring Qin-era questions of order and civilization.

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Isabella Bai, Founder and CEO of INFIFORCE, has pointed out the core bottleneck of AI industry at the “Not Quite Human: How Humanoids are Changing Work and Home Life” panel during CES 2026, stating that now the hardware is ready but the “humanoid forms” are missing the brain and intelligence, and Chinese tech companies are transitioning from “manufacturing” to “cognitive definition” in the AI era.

INFIFORCE has showcased its proprietary “Causal World Model” and “Hyper-VLA (Vision-Language-Action) Foundation Model” at CES 2026, which tackles the challenges of giving robots the intelligent brain by establishing a complete closed loop of “Perception-Cognition-Decision-Execution,” breaking the boundaries between the virtual and the real to empower robots with a “Super Brain” and the true ability to understand the world, engage in continuous learning, and act autonomously. 

This strategy of deploying one unified “Brain” into diverse bodies has secured the company CNY500 million (USD71.55 million) worth of commercial orders across automotive and healthcare sectors.

“At CES, we see incredible mechanical engineering, but a robot without a causal understanding of the world is just a sophisticated puppet,” said Isabella Bai, Founder and CEO of INFIFORCE. “Our ‘Hyper-VLA’ architecture gives robots the ability to think before they act. By separating the evolution of the ‘Brain’ from the ‘Body,’ we have enabled our FORCE and AstroDroid robots to handle complex tasks today, not ten years from now. The CNY500 million in orders we hold is proof that the market craves intelligence, not just novelty.”

The “Causal World Model” allows robots to predict outcomes and understand physical laws, a missing link to solving the “hallucination” and safety issues in the current AI robotics development. At CES 2026, INFIFORCE also showcased its product matrix:

• AstroDroid: a general-purpose humanoid robot series powered by Jetson AGX Orin for robust computational performance and fully integrated with the Hyper-VLA. It not only possesses dexterous upper limbs comparable to humans but also excels in efficient mobile operational capabilities. The flagship model AD-01 stands 170cm tall with 43 degrees of freedom, and the series is expanding to cover more sizes and models to meet needs for various general application scenarios.
• FORCE: fully autonomous mobile charging robot, that introduces innovative active charging paradigm of “robot finds vehicle,” revolutionizing the traditional “user finds charger” model. It’s equipped with L4-level autonomous driving and multi-robot collaborative scheduling capabilities and is already deployed at scale by leading enterprises such as Sinopec, Wanda, and Intime.
• Hyper-Components: core execution unit and perception module for embodied intelligence, features HyperArm, the lightweight high-degree-of-freedom bionic arm. INFIFORCE’s self-developed core components ensure high-precision execution of “brain” commands in the physical world, achieving ultimate performance with integrated hardware and software.

Founded in 2023, INFIFORCE is a leading AI-driven innovation enterprise dedicated to Embodied AI. Headquartered in Hangzhou with R&D centers in Shenzhen and Beijing, the company brings together executives from Global 500 firms and a top-tier scientific team, with over 75 percent holding master’s or PhD degrees.

As of now, INFIFORCE has accumulated more than 35 invention and utility model patents, along with 20 software copyrights. Additionally, over 30 core technology patents are currently under application, with planned patent exceeding 100 in the future.

“The biggest barrier we need to break is Data, not internet text, but real-world physical data. At INFIFORCE, we built a Data-Model-Body-Scenario Growth Flywheel, with more Scenarios give us more data, which makes the Model smarter, and that then creates better Data. We have the Brain, we have the Scenes, so we can break the barrier,” noted Isabella Bai. “Robots handle the Logic. We handle the Magic.”

For more information, please visit www.elu-ai.com and follow INFIFORCE on social media.

PANAMA CITY, Jan. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Transitioning from late 2025 into early 2026, the crypto market saw a recovery in risk appetite despite ongoing volatility. As market liquidity gradually improved, capital rotated from defensive positions toward high-beta, sentiment-driven sectors, thrusting memecoins back into the spotlight.

Over the past week (December 29, 2025 – January 4, 2026), multiple newly listed assets on HTX recorded impressive gains. Memecoins across BSC, Solana, Base, Ethereum, and TRON ecosystems rallied, marking one of the most representative market trends of the week.

Memecoin Sector: Multi-Chain Rallies Driven by Accelerating Momentum

This week’s top gainers were dominated by memecoin projects, reflecting a sustained capital preference for assets with high consensus and strong virality.

On BNB Smart Chain (BSC), BROCCOLI (CZ’s dog) stood out as the top performer, surging 170% over the week. As an active memecoin project within the BSC ecosystem, BROCCOLI rapidly attracted capital through community-driven dissemination and sentiment resonance. Meanwhile, 4 (FOUR) gained 48%, PALU rose 37%, and Binance Life increased 19%, highlighting a broad-based pickup in the BSC memecoin sector.

The Solana ecosystem maintained its strength. PONKE (Ponke) climbed 104% this week, supported by rising community engagement and expanding trading volume, making it a flagship asset within the SOL memecoin space. BONK (Bonk) advanced 44%, while BOME (Book of Meme) gained 37%, signaling continued development potential for Solana-based memecoins.

Other ecosystems also posted notable gains. On Ethereum, leading memecoin PEPE rose 64%. On TRON, memecoin SUNDOG (Sundog) increased 39% over the week. Within the Base ecosystem, BRETT (Brett) recorded a 43% weekly gain. These moves underscore that both the royal public chains and the emerging Layer2 networks continue to attract capital under the memecoin narrative.

AI Sector: Selective Recovery Led by the Base Ecosystem

While memecoins drove short-term retail sentiment, the AI sector experienced a “structural recovery,” with strength concentrated primarily within the Base ecosystem.

GAMEBASE (Game by Virtuals) surged 60% during the week. As an AI agent gaming framework supported by Virtuals, GAME attracted attention at the intersection of AI, blockchain gaming, and application-layer narratives. Meanwhile, VIRTUAL (Virtuals Protocol) rose 40%, driven by its positioning as an AI and Metaverse protocol focused on virtual interaction. Overall, AI assets exhibited a structural recovery rather than a sentiment-driven surge. While short-term momentum lagged memecoins, AI assets continue to hold mid-term allocation value within broader narrative cycles.

*Disclaimer: The above content is provided for market information and trend analysis purposes only and does not constitute any investment advice. Digital asset prices are highly volatile. Investors are advised to trade rationally and manage risks accordingly.

HTX Listing Strategy: Multi-Sector Coverage with a Value-Oriented Focus

The market performance this week followed a clear “sentiment-first, memecoin-led” pattern. With strong consensus, rapid dissemination, and high volatility, memecoins became the primary short-term destination for capital. At the same time, assets from the narrative-driven sectors such as AI showed selective recovery across specific chains, offering diversified opportunities.

Through high-frequency listing and multi-chain asset deployment, HTX continues to expand listing coverage across core narratives including memecoin and AI, providing users with a broader range of trading opportunities. In 2026, HTX’s asset listing strategy will maintain high sensitivity to market trends while reinforcing a value-focusing philosophy through progressively stricter listing standards. By combining forward-looking deployment in high-growth assets with refined selection, HTX aims to amplify the wealth effect of quality assets and help users capture more deterministic opportunities in the fast-growing crypto market.

About HTX

Founded in 2013, HTX (formerly Huobi) has evolved from a virtual asset exchange into a comprehensive ecosystem of blockchain businesses that span digital asset trading, financial derivatives, research, investments, incubation, and other businesses.

As a world-leading gateway to Web3, HTX harbors global capabilities that enable it to provide users with safe and reliable services. Adhering to the growth strategy of “Global Expansion, Thriving Ecosystem, Wealth Effect, Security & Compliance,” HTX is dedicated to providing quality services and values to virtual asset enthusiasts worldwide.

To learn more about HTX, please visit https://www.htx.com/ or HTX Square , and follow HTX on X, Telegram, and Discord.