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Major robotics forum kicks off in Shanghai, highlighting China’s major tech advances
Humanoid robot Xiao Qi (left) answers customer questions at the opening of Beijing's first robot restaurant on August 23, 2025.
The 2025 China Robot Industry Development Conference kicked off in East China's Shanghai on Monday, bringing together enterprises, researchers, and industry associations to discuss frontier technologies in robotics, artificial intelligence (AI) and industrial innovation in a bid to promote high-quality development of the country's robotics industry while contributing China's expertise to the global innovation.
Industry insiders said that China's accelerated drive to cultivate new quality productive forces will usher in enormous growth opportunities supported by the continuous advancement of technologies and national policies promoting AI and humanoid robots.
AI-powered boom
The deep integration of AI with the real economy is a key driver for advancing new quality productive forces, Siasun Robot and Automation Co, based in Shenyang, Northeast China's Liaoning Province, a participant at this year's conference, told the Global Times on Monday, adding that robots will integrate emerging technologies such as AI and big data to advance toward greater intelligence.
In the first half of 2025, the company launched its Embodied Intelligence Research Institute - a milestone that signals the full-scale rollout of embodied-AI technology and the start of "robotics+AI" convergence innovation, according to the company's half-year report.
The company aims to establish a general-purpose intelligent-robot platform that can be applied across industrial manufacturing, healthcare and service sectors, enabling reliable autonomy in complex environments and accelerating large-scale commercial adoption, it added.
"The rapid rise of humanoid and bionic robots benefits from China's AI boom over the past two years. National support and policies have spurred many new companies in this space - most founded within the past three years. Our company marks its third anniversary this year," Zhang Chengcheng, senior business manager of Chinese robotics startup Noetix Robotics, told the Global Times.
"This is the pivotal moment. The industry views 2025 as the inaugural year for humanoid robots' commercial rollout," Zhang said, adding that the firm is promoting bionic humanoid robots for market use.
Noetix Robotics' main products include bipedal humanoid robots and bionic humanoid robots. Bionic humanoid robots are capable of displaying various facial expressions and engaging in natural interactions with humans. "For facial micro-expression algorithms, we develop them in-house and continuously iterate. For large language models, we build our own domain-specific ones while also leverage domestic general models such as Doubao," said Zhang.
PaXini Tech, a Shenzhen-based company specializing in advanced tactile technology and humanoid robotics, told the Global Times on Monday that as the robotics industry faces challenges such as scarce high-quality empirical datasets, absence of tactile modality data, and inconsistent data quality, the company established the world's largest embodied intelligence data factory - Super EID Factory - which constructs a billion-scale, full-modal embodied intelligence training dataset through globally leading data acquisition methodologies.
The facility is expected to generate nearly 200 million high-quality, multi-modal embodied intelligence training data entries annually, the company said.
China's robotics industry has seen remarkable growth. The output in the first three quarters of 2025 surpassed the full-year figure in 2024, the China Securities Journal reported. In the first three quarters of this year, the industry's revenue grew by 29.5 percent year-on-year. Output of industrial robots reached 595,000 units, while service robot production hit 13.5 million sets, both surpassing the full-year totals for 2024.
Many local governments have also rolled out major plans as well. In February, Beijing, which boasts a congregation of leading universities and tech startups, issued a detailed action plan for embodied intelligence. By 2027, the city is expected to deploy robots in more than 100 scenarios across sectors such as manufacturing and logistics, especially taking up jobs that are dangerous, repetitive, or labor-intensive, it said.
The recommendations for the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30) adopted at the fourth plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China emphasized achieving greater self-reliance and strength in science and technology and steer the development of new quality productive forces.
Key global driver
Globally, China is accelerating innovation and shaping international standards through the integration of embodied intelligence, AI, and manufacturing, positioning itself as a major driver of the global robotics ecosystem.
At the recent 138th China Import and Export Fair held in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province, a dedicated robotics zone was once again featured, showcasing robots that serve all aspects of production and daily life, with overseas orders continuing to rise.
According to the International Federation of Robotics' September report, China remained the world's largest robot market in 2024, representing 54 percent of global installations. A record 295,000 industrial robots were deployed nationwide, the report said.
"As robotics in China continue to expand to new markets, there is no sign that demand will decline. There is still a lot of potential in Chinese manufacturing for 10 percent growth on average each year until 2028," the report added.
In China, robust policy support, a strong talent pool, vibrant market demand, corporate innovation, and sustained research and development investment have provided solid foundation for technological breakthroughs, driving digital transformation and rapid development in sectors such as renewable energy and AI, Kim Jong-moon, chief representative of the Korea Innovation Center (KIC China), told the Global Times recently.
"In the future, these achievements will support China's high-quality development, enhance its global competitiveness and contribute more 'China wisdom' to global technological progress," he said.
Source: Global Times
