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Honda, the Japanese automaker, recently demonstrated a robotic hand engineered for precision and strength. This presentation at CEATEC 2026 in Japan introduced technology allowing individuals to perform physical work remotely. The Honda Avatar Robot features a multi fingered hand and an assistance system for user control.

ModelBest has released the next generation of its small multimodal family, shipped as a 35B-A3B version and a 1B version under the MiniCPM name. The larger one is the first mixture of experts model in the line, and the company says it runs on a phone using about 3GB of memory while decoding at more than 13 tokens per second.

Huawei has confirmed that the image sensor inside its XMAGE Z10 camera module was designed in house by HiSilicon, its chip design unit, closing a question that earlier coverage of the module had left open. The disclosure came at the company's 2026 Kirin media briefing, held at its Lianqiu Lake research centre in Shanghai, where a semiconductor executive also detailed the security features of the Kirin 9050 mobile chip.