TECO Showcases Complete TJM Series Robotic Joint Modules at Taiwan Expo in Japan

AVerMedia Technologies and Stereolabs, an Ouster company, announced NVIDIA JetPack 7.2 support across all Stereolabs ZED X GMSL cameras and AVerMedia's NVIDIA Jetson carrier boards, giving robotics and edge AI developers a faster path from development to production. The collaboration pairs AVerMedia's Jetson carrier-board and Board Support Package engineering with Stereolabs' unified ZED X driver architecture, letting AVerMedia adapt the hardware-specific device tree and generate drivers for the JetPack and Jetson Linux versions customers require. The companies said the unified workflow lets hardware development and software releases progress in parallel, shortening validation cycles, while Stereolabs focuses on camera firmware, ISP performance and ZED SDK capabilities and AVerMedia handles carrier-board integration and validation. NVIDIA JetPack 7.2 introduces Jetson agent skills that optimize memory usage across the software stack, freeing memory for vision processing and AI workloads on smaller footprints and lowering total cost of ownership, and it adds official Yocto support for reproducible production images on Jetson Orin and Jetson Thor platforms. Ihsane Debbache, VP of Engineering at Stereolabs, said anchoring platform-specific integration work with AVerMedia lets both teams develop in parallel, and Alex Liu, Vice President of AVerMedia, said the combination helps customers reduce integration risk and deploy more capable AI vision systems faster. Ongoing support and transition to NVIDIA JetPack 7.2 will be available through AVerMedia's support form.

Dechang Shares disclosed at its 2026 semi-annual results briefing that first-half operating revenue reached 2.31 billion yuan, up 11.7% year on year, while net profit attributable to shareholders of the listed company was 33.5884 million yuan, down 69.67% year on year. Revenue in both of the company's main business segments maintained growth, with auto parts revenue at 337 million yuan, up 19.93% year on year, and home appliance revenue at 1.973 billion yuan, up 13.20% year on year. The sharp decline in net profit was mainly affected by exchange rate fluctuations, with an exchange loss of 56.5935 million yuan in the reporting period, compared with an exchange gain of 9.2783 million yuan in the same period last year, while a year-on-year decline in the main business gross margin also squeezed profit margins. The company said its automotive motor business added five new designated projects during the period, with a full life-cycle value exceeding 800 million yuan. Domestic steer-by-wire motors have entered mass production, motors supporting overseas autonomous driving projects have been delivered, and multiple new intelligent chassis products are under development. Some models of robot dexterous hand joint motors have completed verification, preliminary finalization, and achieved small-batch delivery. The private placement registration approval has been obtained for nearly a year, and the company said the project has already been started with self-owned funds and will be advanced at an appropriate time within the validity period of the approval.

Rivian Automotive plans to equip its first R2 vehicles with LiDAR and its internally developed RAP1 autonomy computer for employees by the end of 2026, while customer deliveries are now expected to begin in 2027, according to Electrek. The timeline marks a shift from the company's earlier communications, as Rivian introduced the third-generation RAP1 chip last December, rated at 1,600 sparse INT8 TOPS, and said at the time the technology would arrive in late 2026. The R2 launched in June without the new hardware, though a production-ready-looking R2 equipped with LiDAR was later spotted near Rivian's Irvine headquarters. Rivian VP of Investor Relations Chip Newcom said production of the RAP1 system will initially focus on the R2, with employees receiving the technology first before the rollout expands to customers in 2027, leaving the late 2026 target technically intact but initially applying only to employees. Rivian SVP of Autonomy and AI James Philbin said the rollout is expected to begin toward year-end, initially reaching early-adopter customers with R1 Gen 2 vehicles and later Gen 2 hardware revisions, including fleets Rivian classifies as Phase II and Phase III, with the company aiming to extend the technology across its full Autonomy+ fleet later next year. Separately, Lucid Group and Bolt have entered a strategic partnership to develop and launch autonomous mobility services across Europe, jointly developing an autonomous driving system-ready vehicle platform designed to support SAE Level 4 autonomous mobility, while France has begun testing two vehicles to evaluate Tesla's Full Self-Driving system after the Netherlands' road authority RDW provisionally approved it for Dutch roads in April.