AI Glasses Drop Cameras: Lens and Metalens Sourcing
Smart glasses are cutting camera configurations to save weight and power, shifting the load to lenses, waveguides and coatings as metalens finds its niche.
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Humanoid Robot Sales Hit 7,000 Units in 2025: IFR Figure
The IFR's first humanoid sales figure lands near 7,000 units in 2025, mostly for data generation, while Chinese suppliers signed a 2,000-unit arm order.
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Silicon Photonics: On-Chip Isolator and Fiber Combiner Standard
Laser annealing produced an on-chip optical isolator inside a silicon photonics flow, and China began writing a standard for industrial-laser fiber combiners.
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Uncooled Infrared Detector Capacity: Fujirui CNY 425M Raise
Fujirui plans a CNY 425 million raise for uncooled infrared detector and satellite laser lines. Detector capacity is where infrared capital is going.
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ECOC 2026: 6.4T NPO, 2nm DSP and 448G PAM4 Sourcing
ECOC 2026 showed 6.4T near-packaged optics, 2nm DSP and 448G-per-lane signalling, while retimed pluggables still ship in the greatest volume.
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Infrared Lens Shift: A White-Light OEM
Huaguo Optics made white-light lenses for Canon and Panasonic; infrared is now its mainstay. What the migration means for infrared lens buyers.
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Co-Packaged Optics: Open CPX 1.0 Explained
Open CPX 1.0 defines 6.4 and 7.2 Tbps co-packaged sockets, while Huawei replaces 48,000 800G pluggables with 5,500 optical engines.
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Precision Optics Capacity Grows in China
Forecam redirects about CNY 110 million into precision optical components and aerospace lenses, while a CNY 200 million camera-parts plant is built.
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Photonics in China’s 15th Five-Year Plan
Photonics is named as a standalone industrial base in China's 2026-2030 electronics plan, with CNY 14.16 billion in fiber-laser revenue reported.
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CIOE 2026: Optics Suppliers Move to Systems
At CIOE 2026 three Chinese optics suppliers repositioned around integrated systems rather than discrete elements. What it changes in your sourcing brief.
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Smart Pet Devices: Subscription Real Cost
A pet camera at USD 48-54 against a USD 184 list, USD 6.99/month AI alerts and a EUR 5-13/month tracker plan: how to model the real cost.
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Camera Robots: China Sourcing in 2026
Unitree's USD 4,000 quadruped, Beni's USD 4.6M crowdfund and Dreame's service-robot previews: how to qualify China's consumer robotics wave.
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