Honor Robot Phone Launch
Honor put a motorized camera arm on a regular-looking phone and started selling it in China yesterday. The device, simply called the Robot Phone, costs 9,999 yuan for the 12GB and 512GB version, roughly $1,500, with a higher 16GB and 1TB model at 12,999 yuan. Pre-orders opened immediately after the Guangzhou event, and full sales begin August 18. For now the phone stays in China.

SK Hynix Factory Tour Korea
South Korea’s hills once stood where steel skeletons now climb toward the sky. On a July morning last month, a small group of visitors stepped onto ground that crews had flattened from mountains. What rose around them was the first section of what SK Hynix calls the largest memory factory complex on Earth. Walls already reached halfway up a structure planned to match a 50-story apartment tower. Six cleanrooms will stack inside that single building, connected floor to floor. Production is set to begin in February.

Heart X1 World's Largest Electric Aircraft First Test Flight
The Heart X1 rolled down the runway at Plattsburgh International Airport in upstate New York on August 12, 2026, and climbed into the air on battery power alone. Twenty-seven minutes later the aircraft touched down again after reaching 1,100 feet and delivering more than one megawatt from its electric motors. The entire flight, taxi to landing, used roughly five dollars of electricity.