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date: 2026-06-11
subject: "NDRC unwinds Meta-Manus | Galbot 1-year humanoid run | AutoFlight first overseas eVTOL cert"
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**NDRC completed the unwind of Meta's Manus acquisition**, with Meta barring Manus staff from internal data systems since early June and ending data sharing, finalizing the April 2026 ruling that rescinded the December 2025 deal for Butterfly Effect valued at up to $2 billion, as founders Xiao Hong, Ji Yichao and Zhang Tao weigh raising roughly $1 billion from outside investors to buy the company back. **Galbot marked one year of autonomous pharmacy operation**, with co-founder Zhang Zhizheng saying the humanoid robots handle nighttime picking, while its Space Capsule retail format now runs in more than 100 stores across over 20 cities. **AutoFlight secured Indonesia's Validated Type Certificate** for its 2-ton V2000CG unmanned cargo eVTOL from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, covering an aircraft with 200 km/h cruise speed and 200 km range.

# 1. Top Stories

- **NDRC's foreign investment security review completes the unwind of Meta's roughly $2 billion Manus acquisition.** —  Meta has barred Manus and its staff from Meta internal data systems since early June and ended data sharing between the two companies, ITHome reported relaying Bloomberg. The operational separation completes the April 2026 ruling by the FDI security review office under the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China's top economic planner. That ruling ordered the parties to rescind Meta's December 2025 agreement to acquire Manus parent Butterfly Effect for a reported up to $2 billion (about 13.6 billion yuan). CCTV News, the main state broadcaster's news arm, framed the ruling as a strike against "bath-style going overseas" restructuring, the practice of stripping Chinese identifiers after taking U.S. investment. Manus founders Xiao Hong, Ji Yichao and Zhang Tao are weighing raising about $1 billion (about 6.8 billion yuan) from outside investors to buy the company back, per a May Bloomberg report relayed by ITHome. [ITHome](https://www.ithome.com/0/962/969.htm) [Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/27/china-blocks-meta-takeover-manus-ai-agent-developer)

- **Galbot logs one year of autonomous humanoid pharmacy operation, with Space Capsule retail format in 100-plus stores across 20-plus cities** — Beijing-based humanoid robotics company Galbot (Galaxy General) said its smart pharmacy has passed one year of unattended overnight operation, what it calls a world record for humanoid robot continuous autonomous work. The Beijing Daily, a Beijing municipal newspaper, reported the milestone, relayed by ITHome. Galbot co-founder Zhang Zhizheng said the robots handle nighttime picking, allowing the pharmacy to stay open without human staff overnight. The Galbot Space Capsule, a fully autonomous humanoid-operated smart retail format, is deployed in more than 100 stores across more than 20 cities, with the first store in Beijing's Haidian district and a stated target of 1,000 stores nationwide in the coming years. China News Service reported separately on June 10 that Galaxy General is also running a humanoid in a convenience store in Beijing's Zhongguancun tech hub, with Galbot public relations representative Chen Si telling the agency that the new embodied-model robots can plan tasks in real time across varied scenes rather than execute preset trajectories. [ITHome](https://www.ithome.com/0/963/007.htm) [China News Service](https://www.chinanews.com.cn/cj/2026/06-10/10638023.shtml) [state-affiliated]

- **AutoFlight V2000CG cargo eVTOL receives Indonesia's Validated Type Certificate** — Shanghai-based AutoFlight (Fengfei Aviation) said June 11 that Indonesia's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) issued a Validated Type Certificate (VTC) for the 2-ton unmanned cargo eVTOL, ITHome and Securities Times reported. An eVTOL is an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft that lifts off without a runway. A Validated Type Certificate is an importing country's recognition that an aircraft already type-certified in its country of origin meets the importing country's airworthiness standards, the precondition for commercial operations there. The V2000CG has a 2,000 kg maximum takeoff weight, 200 km/h cruise speed and 200 km range, and is the only ton-class-or-above eVTOL holding all three airworthiness certificates from China's Civil Aviation Administration (CAAC), which licenses Chinese aircraft and operators. Securities Times described the VTC as the world's first eVTOL "international visa," the gateway document required for any imported aircraft to begin commercial service in Indonesia. [ITHome](https://www.ithome.com/0/962/896.htm) [Securities Times](https://stcn.com/article/detail/3955560.html) [state-affiliated]

- **Long March 5 lifts Communications Technology Experiment Satellite 25 to orbit from Wenchang, the 650th flight of the Long March series** — A Long March 5 carrier rocket lifted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site on Hainan at 15:30 Beijing time June 11 carrying Communications Technology Experiment Satellite 25, Jiemian News reported relaying CCTV News. The satellite entered its designated orbit and is intended to verify multiband, high-data-rate satellite communications technology. The mission was the 650th flight of the Long March family of carrier rockets, China's main launch vehicle series. [Jiemian News](https://www.jiemian.com/article/14572775.html)

# 5. Robotics & Autonomous Systems

- **TMTPost frames factory acceptance criteria for physical AI, not robot capability, as the durable competitive moat in industrial AI** — TMTPost reported that 79% of organizations are engaging with physical AI but only 4% have reached scaled deployment, citing the April 2026 Capgemini Research Institute survey of 1,678 executives across 16 countries. The article argues that the binding constraint is not whether a robot can do the task but the absence of contractual acceptance criteria that define what "delivered correctly" means on the production line. Vendors who codify those criteria into procurement contracts hold a moat harder to replicate than any model, the piece said, citing the July 2021 fire at British online grocer Ocado. A collision involving three robots affected less than 1% of the grid network but drove about £35 million (about $44 million) in lost revenue and £10 million (about $13 million) in uninsured damage. The piece points to UBTech Walker S Lite at Geely's Zeekr smart factory, which ran at roughly 20% of human throughput in a 21-day pilot; the follow-on Walker S1 raised handling speed about 25%, after which UBTech booked more than 500 units of letter-of-intent orders from automakers. It also cites Figure 02 at BMW's Spartanburg plant, which logged more than 1,250 operating hours loading over 90,000 sheet-metal parts during X3 assembly. [TMTPost](https://www.tmtpost.com/8024220.html)

- **Leiphone's CVPR 2026 conference recap places embodied intelligence at the center of the computer vision research mainstream** — The CVPR 2026 academic conference received 16,092 paper submissions and accepted 4,071 for a 25.3% acceptance rate, Leiphone reported from Denver. The share of papers on vision-language and multimodal large language models grew by 5.7 percentage points year over year. At least three of the five award-winning papers are tied to embodied intelligence applications, including Best Paper "D4RT" from Google DeepMind, University College London and Oxford, which reconstructs 4D dynamic scenes roughly 300 times faster than prior methods. NVIDIA and Tesla pushed robot commercialization on the exhibition floor. NVIDIA senior researcher Jim Fan's GEAR team paper NitroGen, trained on 40,000 hours of video across 1,000-plus games, was framed as a route to generalist cross-skill, cross-embodiment agents. Leiphone characterized this year's CVPR as computer vision shifting from "passive perception" to "active understanding and action." [Leiphone](https://www.leiphone.com/category/ai/dvz76xNimms03Mgz.html)