SHANGHAI, Oct. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — From October 3 to 4, Assembly Character Toys Brand Blokees exhibited at Wonder Festival Shanghai 2026, featuring nearly 500 products across its two core categories, Blokees Model Kits and BLOKEES WHEELS. More than 90 new products made their debut, highlighting Blokees’ continued expansion across product categories, IPs and consumer segments.

The Blokees Model Kits portfolio covers hero collecting, model kit collecting, animal-themed products and fashion-oriented products, featuring more than 10 global IPs including ULTRAMAN, TRANSFORMERS, Saint Seiya, Evangelion and DC. Products for collectors aged 16 and above were a key focus, with nearly 40 products exhibited across Champion, Champion Lite, Fantastic and Legend series , including more than 20 new products making their debut. Notably, DC made its first commercial appearance in the Legend series.

Blokees continues to expand its product ecosystem. Blokees also exhibited the latest products from its TERRAVENTURE Series and DaaLaMode Series. The TERRAVENTURE Series features animal-themed model kits based on Jurassic World, while the DaaLaMode Series combines assembly, articulation, and fashion play, expanding Blokees’ offerings across different consumer segments.

In the Blokees Wheels category, Blokees exhibited its C, E, and S Series, featuring IPs including Transformers, Ultraman, and Batman. New products based on Cyberpunk 2077, Fast & Furious × Ford and Fast & Furious × Dodge were also exhibited for the first time, further expanding the category’s offerings for vehicle enthusiasts.

Beyond products, Blokees also exhibited winning works from the “Dawn” and “Awakening” seasons of the 2026 BFC Creation Contest. Through BFC, Blokees connects players worldwide through creation and sharing, with the community now spanning 21 countries and regions.

Blokees will continue to strengthen its two core categories and expand its global product and creator ecosystem under its strategy of “Universally appealing, Stepwise pricing, Globally promoting.”

Talent, Product Innovation and Distribution Advance in Tandem to Bring Taiwanese Baijiu to the World

SEOUL, South Korea and BUSAN, South Korea, Oct. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Kinmen Kaoliang Liquor (KKL), which has been honing the craft of kaoliang distilling for more than 70 years, is accelerating its international expansion in 2026 by reaching out to younger consumers, diversifying its product portfolio and expanding into new markets.

KKL has earned accolades at global spirits competitions, invested in bartender training and overseas guest appearances at leading bars, and drawn strong buyer interest at this year’s FHA–Food & Beverage 2026 in Singapore. The show yielded distribution agreements and new customer orders in Malaysia and Singapore, marking tangible progress in Southeast Asia. This October, KKL will join the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) at SIAL Paris 2026, the world’s largest food trade show. For 2027, KKL plans to take part in the Seoul Bar & Spirits Show and host tasting events across Southeast Asia. By advancing on three fronts — talent development, product innovation and distribution — KKL is shifting its overseas efforts from building brand awareness to establishing a lasting market presence.

From Campus to the World’s Bars: Kinmen Kaoliang Cup Builds an International Talent Pipeline

Beyond bringing its products to new markets, KKL is working to put Taiwan’s bartending talent on the international stage. The company’s Kinmen Kaoliang Cup cocktail competition features student and professional divisions, creating a pathway from nurturing emerging talent on campus to industry engagement and international exchange for professional bartenders. In 2026, the top three finishers in the competition’s professional division represented KKL as guest bartenders at leading South Korean bars. Centering their creations on Kinmen Kaoliang Liquor, the trio brought Taiwan’s terroir and contemporary mixology to the international bar scene, giving audiences worldwide a taste of Taiwan’s spirits while showcasing the creative energy of its bartenders.

Their overseas guest appearances are not the end of the journey. After returning to Taiwan, the three bartenders will, for the first time, take their talents on the road as part of the 2026 KK Bar Cocktail Guide—Kinmen Kaoliang Cocktail Guide, making a series of pop-up guest appearances at partner bars across the island. The initiative brings the fruits of international exchange back to the Taiwanese market and invites more consumers to rediscover the distinctive flavors of Kinmen Kaoliang Liquor.

Strong Buyer Interest in Singapore and Exclusive Distributor Secured in Malaysia: From Global Exposure to Commercial Results

At FHA–Food & Beverage 2026 in Singapore, KKL attracted strong interest from international buyers and spirits distributors, securing new orders and partnership leads—an important step in strengthening its Southeast Asian distribution network. Generations ago, many Kinmen residents crossed the seas in search of opportunity, putting down roots and building thriving communities across Singapore, Malaysia and other parts of Southeast Asia. Those deep bonds of kinship, together with a network of Kinmen community associations across the region, now provide a powerful cultural bridge as KKL takes its brand to the world. Word-of-mouth recommendations within these communities, along with local business connections, have greatly accelerated the brand’s expansion into new markets.

Building on its Southeast Asian momentum, KKL is scheduled to join forces with TAITRA and a group of leading Taiwanese food companies as part of a “Team Taiwan” delegation at SIAL Paris, one of the world’s largest food trade shows, this October. The delegation will target opportunities in Western fine dining and premium spirits markets. In 2027, KKL plans to exhibit at the Seoul Bar & Spirits Show, one of Asia’s major professional bar and spirits exhibitions. Building on its existing presence in South Korea and relationships with the country’s bar community, the brand will connect with international bartenders, bar operators, and younger consumers. KKL will also host tasting events across Southeast Asia in partnership with local distributors, deepening its long-term engagement with both the market and consumers in the region.

From Signature Kaoliang Spirit to a Diversified Portfolio: Innovative Flavors for Global Markets

As KKL’s global footprint expands, the distiller is developing innovative products tailored to diverse markets, generations and drinking cultures. Drawing on more than seven decades of kaoliang distilling expertise, KKL has expanded its portfolio beyond its classic Kinmen Kaoliang Liquor. The lineup now includes cask-finished specialty spirits, kaoliang beer, KKL’s own whisky and low-ABV ready-to-drink (RTD) cocktails. With different alcohol strengths and flavor profiles suited to a variety of drinking occasions, KKL is giving consumers worldwide more ways to discover the world of Kinmen Kaoliang—and these innovative releases have already generated a positive response in the market.

According to KKL, international expansion is about more than selling products in more markets. The company is focused on building a lasting and sustainable foundation overseas through talent development, product innovation, and strong distribution networks. Looking ahead, KKL will build on its distilling expertise and continue to expand through international trade shows, distribution partnerships, bartender exchanges, and a diversified product portfolio. The company is committed to helping the world move beyond simply discovering Kinmen Kaoliang Liquor to truly understanding and appreciating it—bringing Taiwanese baijiu, together with Kinmen’s distinctive terroir, craftsmanship and spirit of innovation, to an ever-wider global audience.

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From RPO and Romomo to PartyOS, RoboParty is building an open humanoid robotics foundation for developers worldwide.

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On September 28, 2026, RoboParty publicly unveiled RP1 (ROBOTO 01) at IROS 2026, marking the robot’s global debut.

In January 2026, RoboParty fully open-sourced RPO (ROBOTO ORIGIN), its first open-source humanoid robotics project. To date, RPO has received more than 2,500 GitHub stars. As a developer-oriented open-source humanoid robot, RPO has attracted broad attention worldwide and inspired multiple community builds and reproductions.

Building on this foundation, RoboParty positions RP1 as the world’s first high-performance full-stack open-source bipedal humanoid robot. RP1 is designed for researchers, educators, robotics developers and embodied AI teams, with the goal of providing a humanoid robotics system that can be used, modified, trained and continuously extended in real development workflows.

Kick Me: Putting Dynamic Stability to the Test

At RoboParty’s IROS booth, the “Kick Me” interactive demonstration was one of the most direct ways for visitors to experience RP1’s capabilities.

During the demonstration, visitors could directly apply external disturbances to the robot. When pushed or kicked, RP1 rapidly adjusted its posture and recovered its balance. Unlike demonstrations based only on predefined motions, this open interaction allowed visitors to observe the robot’s dynamic stability and control performance under external disturbances.

The repeated high-intensity interactions also provided a direct test of the robot’s body performance and system-level robustness.

RP1’s dynamic motion and disturbance-recovery capabilities at IROS were supported by PartyOS, RoboParty’s open R&D foundation for humanoid robotics, which integrates the UFO framework.

UFO — short for “A General Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning Framework for Humanoid Control” — is a training framework for discovering humanoid motor skills through unsupervised reinforcement learning. It trains low-level motion policies that allow robots to learn dynamic behaviors without relying entirely on conventional predefined motion trajectories, including skill transitions, disturbance recovery and fall recovery.

Rather than treating motion control as an isolated algorithmic module, RoboParty is integrating the robot body, actuator modules, low-level control and embodied AI algorithms into one system for continuous joint validation. The goal is to ensure that algorithmic capabilities are built on a stable and reproducible humanoid robotics platform.

The IROS demonstration marked an important validation milestone for this technical direction.

Throughout the exhibition, researchers, university faculty and students, robotics developers and industry professionals from different countries and regions visited RoboParty’s booth. Discussions extended beyond motion performance to RP1’s robot body, Romomo actuator modules, motion control, modular design and future open-source plans.

Multiple research teams and developers also discussed the procurement of robots and core components, algorithm reproduction, embodied AI research and open-source collaboration with the RoboParty team.

From Closed Systems to Full-Stack Open Source

With RP1, RoboParty is exploring an alternative path for humanoid robotics.

Today, high-performance humanoid robots are typically delivered as complete products or closed systems. Researchers and developers may be able to use or observe these robots, but the underlying hardware, motion-control systems, simulation environments and software stacks are often difficult to inspect, modify, reproduce or extend.

RP1 is designed to redefine how humanoid robots are developed — from a developer’s perspective.

For RoboParty, “full-stack open source” does not mean releasing only mechanical files or a single software module. In addition to the robot body and core actuator modules, RoboParty plans to progressively open its motion-control systems, simulation environments, SDKs, training tools and PartyOS development foundation.

This will allow developers to participate more deeply in humanoid robotics development, from hardware and low-level control to model training and deployment.

“Humanoid robots should not be closed systems that only a small number of teams can build while everyone else can do little more than watch,” said Yi Huang, founder of RoboParty. “We want RP1 to become an open foundation that developers can access, modify, train and continuously improve. Full-stack open source has been our technical direction since the RPO project.”

RoboParty plans to announce further details of RP1’s open-source roadmap in October 2026, with broader software and hardware releases and a mass-production program to follow later in Q4.

RP1: A High-Performance Open-Source Body for Embodied AI

RP1 is designed to provide a high-performance humanoid platform for dynamic motion, embodied AI model training, validation and deployment, data collection and continuous development.

RP1 delivers peak joint torque of up to 160 N•m. From its in-house-developed Romomo actuator modules and mechanical structure to its real-time motion-control system, RP1 is designed around the requirements of dynamic motion, disturbance recovery and long-term development experiments.

These capabilities were demonstrated live at IROS. During the “Kick Me” interaction, visitors directly applied external disturbances while RP1 adjusted its posture and regained its balance. The robot also demonstrated continuous motion, disturbance recovery and fall recovery. These behaviors reflected not only algorithmic performance but also the coordination of the robot body, actuator modules and motion-control system.

RP1 builds on RoboParty’s broader full-stack open-source roadmap.

RoboParty began with RPO, its fully open-source bipedal humanoid robotics project. Through the development and community adoption of RPO, RoboParty expanded its technical capabilities to cover core actuators, robot bodies, motion control, dexterous manipulation and robotics software systems.

RoboParty subsequently introduced the Romomo actuator modules and its dexterous RP Hand while continuing to build PartyOS.

RPO validated an open-source bipedal robot body, motion-control system and developer workflow. Romomo expanded the technical foundation to cover core actuator modules. RP Hand extended the stack into dexterous manipulation and human-robot interaction. RP1 now brings these capabilities together into a humanoid robotics system designed for research and development.

Based on these capabilities, PartyOS is evolving across humanoid locomotion, perceptual interaction, whole-body manipulation and autonomous intelligent humanoids.

By bringing the robot body, actuators, motion control, perception, manipulation and intelligent software into one coordinated development system, RoboParty is building a full-stack open-source humanoid robotics platform from low-level hardware to high-level intelligence.

Building a Global Developer Community

RoboParty’s team spans robot hardware, motion control, artificial intelligence, systems software and manufacturing engineering. Core team members studied at Tsinghua University’s Yao Class, Peking University’s Zhi Class, Harbin Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Zhejiang University and other leading institutions.

RoboParty has already built a global community of more than 5,000 developers across research, education and maker communities.

As RP1 becomes progressively more open, RoboParty aims to further develop this community into an open ecosystem spanning robot hardware, algorithms, data and applications, enabling more researchers, model-development teams and developers to participate in building and advancing humanoid robotics.

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GitHub: https://github.com/Roboparty/roboto_origin

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PITTSBURGH, Oct. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On September 28, 2026, RoboParty publicly unveiled RP1 (ROBOTO 01) at IROS 2026, marking the robot’s global debut. Building on RPO (ROBOTO ORIGIN), its fully open-source humanoid project launched in January 2026 with more than 2,500 GitHub stars, RoboParty positions RP1 as the world’s first high-performance full-stack open-source bipedal humanoid robot — designed for researchers, educators, robotics developers and embodied AI teams.

At the company’s IROS booth, the “Kick Me” interactive demonstration let visitors directly push and kick the robot. RP1 rapidly adjusted its posture and recovered its balance under these external disturbances, testing its dynamic stability, body performance and system-level robustness. These capabilities were supported by PartyOS, RoboParty’s open R&D foundation for humanoid robotics, which integrates UFO — a training framework that discovers humanoid motor skills through unsupervised reinforcement learning, covering skill transitions, disturbance recovery and fall recovery without relying on predefined motion trajectories.

RoboParty is integrating the robot body, actuator modules, low-level control and embodied AI algorithms into one system for continuous joint validation. RP1 delivers peak joint torque of up to 160 N•m, built on in-house-developed Romomo actuator modules and a real-time motion-control system.

For RoboParty, “full-stack open source” means more than releasing mechanical files. The company plans to progressively open its motion-control systems, simulation environments, SDKs, training tools and the PartyOS development foundation, so developers can participate from hardware and low-level control to model training and deployment.

“Humanoid robots should not be closed systems that only a small number of teams can build while everyone else can do little more than watch,” said Yi Huang, founder of RoboParty. “We want RP1 to become an open foundation that developers can access, modify, train and continuously improve.”

RP1 builds on RPO’s validated open-source robot body and workflow, Romomo actuator modules and the dexterous RP Hand, with PartyOS evolving across humanoid locomotion, perceptual interaction, whole-body manipulation and autonomous intelligent humanoids.

Core team members studied at Tsinghua University’s Yao Class, Peking University’s Zhi Class, Harbin Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Zhejiang University and other leading institutions. RoboParty has built a global community of more than 5,000 developers, and will announce further details of RP1’s open-source roadmap in October 2026, with broader software and hardware releases and a mass-production program to follow later in Q4.

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GitHub: https://github.com/Roboparty/roboto_origin

Website: https://roboparty.com/

XI’AN, China, Sept. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — An international exchange event in the “Global Civilization Dialogues: Rendezvous with the Orchid” series recently took place in Xi’an. The initiative was held under the guidance of China International Communications Group (CICG) and the Publicity Department of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, and organized by the Orchid Awards Secretariat, the China Center for International Communication Development (CCICD), and the Publicity Department of the Xi’an Municipal Party Committee.

The Orchid Awards is an international cultural prize founded by CICG to recognize foreign individuals and institutions dedicated to strengthening cultural ties between China and the rest of the world. Over 20 guests—among them final-round judges and participants in the Third Orchid Awards, along with social media creators from Cambodia, Germany, Brazil, and the UK—joined a four-day immersive tour of the ancient capital.

The delegation’s first stop was the Xi’an Museum, whose “Ancient Capital Xi’an” exhibit presents a rich trove of relics spanning the Zhou, Qin, Han, and Tang dynasties through the Ming and Qing—charting the history of a city that served as a capital under 13 dynasties. Guests lingered over the displays, absorbing the depth of Chinese civilization.

They then headed to the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor and its Terracotta Warriors. Each figure bears a distinct face, and the craftsmanship is remarkable—a vivid portrayal of the Qin army and a valuable source of physical evidence for studying the era. The underground formation left a lasting impression on Chinese and international visitors alike.

After revisiting ancient history, the delegation proceeded to local tech firms to observe China’s manufacturing innovation up close. At LONGi, they learned about the company’s latest strides in solar and energy storage, including industrial applications of AI and solar-powered green hydrogen. They next toured the exhibition hall at BYD’s Xi’an R&D center, learning about the company’s history, global footprint, and core electric vehicle technologies—and seeing firsthand the advances in China’s electric vehicle industry.

During their stay, guests are also scheduled to participate in the “Orchid • Encounter the Millennium-Old Ancient Capital” International Cultural Salon and visit industrial and cultural sites including the Aiju Grain and Oil Industrial Group and the Chang’an Twelve Hours cultural district. These visits offer further opportunities to explore how Xi’an is preserving its heritage, supporting industrial innovation, and opening up to the world—and to use cultural exchange as a bridge for telling China’s story and Xi’an’s story, deepening mutual understanding between China and other nations.

Since the Orchid Awards was inaugurated, the series has traveled to Beijing, Guangzhou, Dunhuang, Chongqing, Chengdu, and Harbin. Through site visits and face-to-face discussions, the Xi’an stop gives international guests an immersive taste of China’s millennia-old cultural heritage—and a firsthand look at the country’s modern vitality. It provides a forum for deepening cultural exchange between China and the world.