A foreign visitor interacts with a humanoid robot during the Eighth Western China International Fair for Investment and Trade in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality, May 21, 2026. [Photo/Xinhua]
China's robotics industry is rapidly expanding beyond laboratory concepts to become a crucial driver of economic development, industrial upgrading and consumer transformation.
Driven by a 10-trillion-yuan ($1.47 trillion) new consumer "blue ocean" market, domestic companies are accelerating efforts to integrate physical artificial intelligence into daily life. Unitree Robotics, a leading global shipper of quadruped and humanoid robots, has been actively exploring product and channel development for the general public to bring embodied intelligence to real-world scenarios.
"AI is entering industries, cities, and the lives of ordinary people at an unprecedented speed," said Wang Xingxing, founder of Unitree Robotics. "We opened our first national direct-sale store in Beijing's Wangfujing earlier this year not just to sell products, but to allow more people to closely interact with, experience and understand robots."
Wang made the remarks at the Wangfujing Forum in Beijing. He noted that just like personal computers 30 years ago, robots are becoming essential secondary development tools for tech enthusiasts, while also entering family scenarios as educational mediums that allow children to access top-tier university lab technologies.
