
🤖 What if you could open up a humanoid robot —
and hold every part that makes it see, think, and move?
May 26 · Shanghai · The components, the engineers, the technology —
plus live humanoid robots and robot dogs on the floor.
All in one room.
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📌 What to Expect
10+ leading Chinese embodied intelligence component companies
8 of them showing hardware live — not slides
Morning tech talks · Afternoon industry forum · All-day floor
📍 Alibaba Center Hongqiao · T2-6F · Shanghai
📅 Tuesday, May 26, 2026 · 09:30 — 17:00
🗣 Working language: English (with simultaneous interpretation)
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🚗 China is doing to humanoids what it did to EVs — faster.
In 15 years, China turned electric vehicles from concept to
50%+ market penetration. Along the way, it built CATL, BYD,
Huichuan Technology — trillion-yuan companies most foreign
analysts didn't see coming.
Humanoid robots are next. And the cycle will be shorter.
· 2023 — MIIT roadmap: mass production by 2025, scale by 2027
· 2024 — Humanoid robots listed as flagship future-industry equipment
· 2025 — "Embodied intelligence" enters the Government Work Report
Meanwhile, deployment has already begun:
UBTECH humanoid robots are now training in BYD factories.
BYD is hiring its own embodied AI team.
The validation field for robots is shifting —
from demo stages to actual factory floors.
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💎 Why components matter more than whole robots
A decade ago, foreign analysts dismissed Chinese EV as
"swap engine for battery." They underestimated the battery,
the powertrain, the motor, the thermal management.
They missed the trillion-yuan supply chain.
Today, the same mistake is being made with humanoids.
The real industrial variable isn't whether a robot looks human —
it's whether it can work reliably in a human world.
The next CATL of the robotics era might be a Chinese
joint-module company you've never heard of.
The next Huichuan Technology might be a Chinese motion-control
startup that's been quietly shipping for years.
You can't pick the winners from outside the country.
You have to come see who's actually shipping hardware.
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🛠 What's on the floor — 8 Chinese hardware leaders
· Daimon Robotics — a sense of touch in its fingers
· YIMU Intelligence — data collection and practice notebook
· Arfysica Innovation — mind remote / neural plug-in
· Sight Tower Robotics — nerve endings on a robot's skin
· DOBOT — collaborative arms where intentions become motion
· Ti5 Robot — joints, muscles, and tendons
· MetoAk — not just seeing, but understanding
· Daisch — IMU sensors (the robot's "inner ear")
Every product is on a table. Every founder or CTO is in the room.
Bring your toughest engineering questions.
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🎤 4 conversations worth flying for
❶ Is tactile sensing the next battlefield?
Zhang Dong · Partner & CBO, Daimon Robotics
"Touching the Future of Physical AI——The Infrastructure for Dexterous Intelligence"
❷ Can your mind control a robot directly?
Jin Hui · VP, Arfysica Innovation
"Brain-Computer Interfaces Meet Embodied Intelligence"
❸ Manufacturing World Models: The Frontier Layer of Physical AI
Linda Hong Cheng · Founder & CEO, Lychee Labs
(Oxford AI Scholar · Clarendon Award)
Moderating "Manufacturing World Models: The Frontier of Physical AI"
with Dennis G. Zelazowski (CEO, 3DNA),
Yingchen Liu (Feagine Robotics),
Qiyang Hou (Energy Storage × AI),
Ping Yuan (Shanghai Metals Market)
❹ How does the supply chain unlock embodied AI?
Green Harmonic × Ruyi Power × YIMU Intelligence
Where are the real bottlenecks — execution, decision,
or perception?
🏛 On-site: senior representatives from Maqiao AI Innovation
Pilot Zone — Shanghai's flagship embodied intelligence
district — sharing firsthand insights on China's technology
policy direction and Shanghai's industrial roadmap.
Opening remarks: Zhao Lili · Chairman,
Maqiao AI Innovation Pilot Zone (Shanghai Government)
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👤 Who'll be in the room
· Founders / CTOs / CMOs of China's leading embodied AI companies
· Researchers from US-based Physical AI labs
· 800+ international builders from the muShanghai residency
· Senior observers in EV, energy storage, and manufacturing
· Robot and Robotic Dog!
The kind of access that usually takes months — in a single day.
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💡 Who should come?
· Engineers and CTOs sourcing components from China
· Investors looking for the next supply-chain winners
· Researchers asking "what comes after AI?"
· Industry observers documenting China's manufacturing edge
· Builders curious about hands-on hardware they can actually touch
· Anyone wondering what robots they'll share life with in 5 years
If you're not sure whether this is for you — it is.