Meta partnered with a Chinese robotics company and, with Fourier, completed a prototype called Max in about three months. Meta’s robotics vice president stayed at a Shanghai factory for around two months.
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Partnership: U.S.-based Meta partnered with a Chinese robotics company.
Prototype timeline: Max was completed in about three months.
Executive stay: Meta’s robotics vice president stayed at a Shanghai factory for around two months.
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Zeen creative social app launch for folding-physics zines
Zeen is a creative social app that lets users build and share zines using real folding physics and a mobile-friendly editor. It is positioned as an alternative to digital zines that lack hands-on experience.
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Launch: Zeen app introduced for creating and sharing zines with folding physics.
Feature: Mobile-friendly editor enables building zines from the ground up.
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Playground – new demo videos and platform support
Playground adds three demo videos showing vault, climbing, jumping, sit, and ultra-hard standing on a vaulting wall. The interface works on PC and phone. More scenes are still under construction.
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Video 1: vault, climbing, jumping, get up
Video 3: ultra-hard standing on vaulting wall
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Shenzhen districts for hardware development locations
Shenzhen districts are mapped for hardware work. Nanshan hosts showrooms and design teams. Huaqiangbei offers same-day component pickup.
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Nanshan: showrooms and design teams where ideas are shown and refined.
Huaqiangbei: almost every part you need, allowing same-day component grabs.