A rare four-horse chariot rock carving has been discovered in the Helan Mountains of Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, marking the first finding of its kind in the local area and filling a long-standing archaeological gap, according to a press release that the local rock art management office sent to the Global Times on Sunday.
Landing a slender arrow in a pot 1.5 meters away, and staying upright under hundreds of newtons of pulling force - the pot-throwing, tug-of-war and weightlifting events added at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games have pushed humanoid robots toward two opposite extremes: precision and power.
On a summer day, cheers erupted as clusters of children watched robots race across a soccer pitch, battling it out in playful matches, at a science center in Jiaxing, east China's Zhejiang Province. At a nearby workbench, nine-year-old Zhang Qihang was busy assembling a robot of his own. "Building robots is awesome! I can let my imagination run wild," he said, beaming with excitement.
On the evening of August 12 at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, the Yale Whiffenpoofs finished their scheduled program before returning to the stage for an encore featuring three Chinese songs: the traditional folk tune "Jasmine Flower," the popular hit "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" and "Let the World Be Filled with Love."
I have spent my whole life working with decorative patterns. A decorative pattern is a language, with its own grammar, rhythm and emotional expression. It is both decorative and symbolic, and it carries the aesthetic spirit of a nation and the cultural atmosphere of its times.
Joint research by Chinese and international scientists have found that the rate of long-term Antarctic mass loss has slowed, driven by sea surface temperature anomalies in the remote tropical warm pool, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Thursday, citing a statement released by the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Archaeologists at the Jizhong ruins site in Shaoxing, East China's Zhejiang Province, recently unearthed a large number of tinned iron armor plates and semi-finished pieces dating to the Wu period of the Three Kingdoms (220-280), roughly the middle Roman Empire era, according to the Shaoxing Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. These discoveries represent the earliest known tinned iron artifacts in China to date, as well as the earliest tinned iron production remains found anywhere in the world, proving that an organized, systematic craft industry for tin-plated ironwork existed at that time.
China North Industries Group Corporation (NORINCO Group), a state-owned defense company, is set to showcase its Fuxi special-purpose humanoid robot, which can conduct all-weather reconnaissance, intelligent patrols and operations in hazardous areas, while allowing human operators to remotely control the robot's movements in real time.
With the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games (WHRG) set to open on Saturday in Beijing, organizers have unveiled a dedicated "Robot Home" to ensure that the mechanical athletes are fully charged and competition-ready.
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek officially unveiled the official version of DeepSeek V4 Pro on Thursday, featuring significantly enhanced agent capabilities and support for the Responses Application Programming Interface (API) and Codex integration.
