On Nov. 14 in Binzhou, Shandong, COMAC’s CE-25A completed its first piloted intelligent flight. COMAC said the test lasted 57 minutes and 46 seconds, including 16 minutes and 38 seconds in the air over 60.4 kilometers. The 19-seat, 10-ton electric aircraft is being developed to transport-category rules, and China’s aviation regulator has accepted its type-certificate application.
At its DTC 2026 conference on Nov. 13, TCL CSOT CEO Zhao Jun said gaming monitors with inkjet-printed OLED screens reached mass-production shipments this year after 13 years of R&D. The company's 29.5 billion yuan t8 printed-OLED plant in Guangzhou has topped out and is scheduled to light its first panels next May and reach mass production in the fourth quarter of 2027.
Boston Dynamics' November 9 demonstration uses a wheeled humanoid as a research platform, not a commercial product.
Mitsubishi Electric said on Nov. 10 that, with help from Japanese carrier KDDI, it built "Liqutenna," an antenna that uses tap water to send and receive signals. An 800 MHz prototype connected to mobile devices in KDDI's indoor test environment with no difference in performance from a typical metal antenna. Mitsubishi calls it a telecom-industry first and is aiming it at shops, restaurants and historic buildings where metal antennas are hard to place. No launch date or price has been announced.
Xinhua reported on Nov. 11 that China Mobile and partners used 230-gigabaud technology to send a real-time 1.6 Tb/s signal on a single wavelength over 960 km of standard G.652.D backbone fiber, the company's longest such run. It hints that existing fiber could be upgraded just by swapping equipment, but vendors, error rates and a commercial timeline weren't disclosed.