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Not Price Alone: Two Inflection Points Behind China’s Robot Vacuum Rise Over iRobot

Liang-rong Chen

Tech Taiwan
Jan 02, 2026
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Happy New Year everyone,

This is the first newsletter of 2026.

In the final days of 2025, Meta acquired Manus AI, a Singapore-based company, in a deal rumored to be worth US$2.5 billion.

Many readers may recognize the name. Manus, a general-purpose AI agent startup, briefly went viral in March 2025 during a closed beta of its product, earning lavish praise…

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