So get this, Tesla hopes to light up homes across the UK.

Good morning. This is The Marketplace Morning Report, and we're live from the BBC World Service. I'm Leanna Byrne.

So Elon Musk's electric car company, Tesla, is planning to enter the UK electricity supply market.

Best known as one of the world's biggest makers of electric vehicles,

it also has a solar energy and battery storage business. The BBC's James Graham has more.

According to a filing from the UK energy regulator OffGEM, Tesla Energy Ventures applied for a

license to provide electricity to British homes last month. Tesla already operates a power supplier

in Texas. If approved, it would allow Tesla to take on the big firms that dominate the UK energy

market as soon as next year. The application comes as industry data showed a steep drop in Tesla's

car sales across Europe. In July, year-on-year sales were down 60% in the UK and 55% in Germany.

James Graham there. Meanwhile, China is all in when it comes to robotics. In the last 12 months,

the government's given $20 billion in subsidies to the industry. And as of 2024,

Chinese officials said the country holds two-thirds of all robot patent applications worldwide.

Right now, the world's most cutting-edge machines are on show in Beijing at the World Robot Conference.

So let's hear from Tom Van Dillon, who runs the tech consultancy, Greenkern.

So what kind of robotics are we talking about here?

I think overall it's a bit like walking into a sci-fi movie kind of halfway through.

And, you know, it goes all the way from robotic dinosaurs to robot bees.

At its core, it is all about kind of adding value to whatever businesses these robots want to support.

For the robot bees, actually, it's mostly about measurements.

So you can put them into dangerous areas and have them check air quality with nearly like centimeter precision.

They can get into areas of factories that are normally inaccessible, dangerous to get to.

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