TIME's Best Inventions 2026 Revealed: Unitree Leads; Lenovo, Honor, TCL, and Ant Listed as AI Is Everywhere

TIME magazine has announced its 2026 Best Inventions list, featuring 300 official inventions and 100 special mentions. Unitree's GD01 manned mech and founder Wang Xingxing appear on the cover. The Unitree GD01 is the world's first mass-produced transformable manned mech, standing about 2.7 meters tall, weighing about 500 kilograms with a rider, and starting at 3.9 million yuan. Honor's Robot Phone is the only Chinese phone on the list, Ant Afu is the only Chinese AI app, and Alipay AI payment is the only payment service worldwide to make the list.