Happy Technology Lights Up AI Life! 36Kr's "Future+ Interview Room" Debuts at AWE!

An intelligent speaker understands your emotions even better than your significant other. When your voice sounds tired, it will automatically turn down the volume and play white noise. An intelligent air conditioner will automatically turn on the dehumidification mode in humid weather and use cartoon clouds to indicate the temperature difference between indoors and outdoors. When a sweeping robot encounters a wooden floor, it will switch to the silent mode, and when it detects a carpet, it will automatically increase the pressure for deep cleaning. An intelligent refrigerator will recommend breakfast combinations based on the remaining quantity of eggs and milk, and when fresh fruits need to be replenished, the fresh-keeping compartment will automatically light up with orange light...

The in-depth integration of artificial intelligence and home appliances has given modern home appliances more warmth and is bringing more happiness to people. How is AI reshaping the way people interact with home appliances, from cold metal boxes to breathing life butlers? What kind of evolution will smart home appliances achieve in the future? What kind of perception revolution lies behind these evolutions? What other expectations can people have for smart home appliances?

From March 20th to 23rd, 2025, as one of the three major global exhibitions in the home appliance and consumer electronics fields, the China Household Appliances and Consumer Electronics Expo (AWE) will be held at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. This AWE focuses on "AI Technology, AI Life", showcasing the latest technological breakthroughs of AI in the home appliance and consumer electronics fields in a scenario-based manner, intuitively demonstrating the improvement of AI on the quality of life, and promoting the popularization of "AI Life".

At this AWE, 36Kr will, in the dual roles of an industry observer and an innovation connector, lead five embodied intelligence enterprises to create the first "Robot Featured Exhibition Area" at AWE, concretely presenting the extension of AI from cloud computing power to the physical world and human life. Meanwhile, a "36Kr Future+ Interview Room" will be set up in the exhibition area to comprehensively interpret the "Happy Technology" empowered by AI technology in the form of "video interviews + live exhibition tours".

01 On-site Report: 36Kr Creates the First Robot Featured Exhibition Area at AWE

With the breakthrough development of AI technology, embodied intelligence, as the integration of artificial intelligence and robots, allows AI to enter the physical world from the digital world and people's real lives by endowing AI with a "body". The "Mechanical Grandma" in a floral cotton-padded jacket can sing and dance on the Spring Festival Gala stage. Intelligent robotic dogs can go to the vegetable market to buy groceries on their own. Delivery robots can knock on hotel doors to deliver takeaways. Embodied intelligence is becoming the core driving force in the fields of smart life, intelligent manufacturing, and commercial services.

36Kr has been tracking and reporting on the latest trends in AI technology for a long time and is a witness and promoter of the development of the embodied intelligence industry. To deeply showcase the great advantages and market potential of embodied intelligence technology in the home appliance industry, 36Kr has joined hands with five robot enterprises, Cyan, Elephant Robotics, Gaoqing Electromechanical, Yunji Technology, and Keenon Robotics, to jointly create the "36Kr Future+ Robot Exhibition Area". At that time, humanoid robots, bionic robots, collaborative robotic arms, commercial robots, etc. will make a collective appearance at AWE.

Cyan

Cyan was established in Shanghai at the end of 2023, focusing on the design and development of general embodied intelligent robots. With the goal of creating a unique general humanoid robot brand, the company is fully developing a general humanoid robot platform and building an application ecosystem for humanoid robots. Cyan will bring its Orca I humanoid robot to the 36Kr Featured Robot Exhibition Area. The Orca I humanoid robot was released in 2024, integrating high-precision perception modules and achieving technological breakthroughs in multiple dimensions such as body design, motion control, natural language dialogue, and two-arm operation.

Elephant Robotics

Elephant Robotics was established in Shenzhen in 2016. It is a new high-tech Chinese enterprise focusing on robot R & D and production, platform software development, and intelligent manufacturing services. Upholding the vision of "Enjoy Robots World", Elephant Robotics starts from the fun of life and work efficiency and has multiple independently developed robot products covering consumption, education, and commercial use. At AWE 2025, Elephant Robotics will bring three major series of products, the Mita Planet bionic robot pets, lightweight six-axis collaborative robotic arms, and end-effectors.

Gaoqing Electromechanical

Gaoqing Electromechanical was established in Guangzhou in 2022. It is a technology company focusing on the R & D and application of mini humanoid robots. Starting from scientific research, education, and personal DIY, Gaoqing is committed to creating a cost-effective and high-performance humanoid robot platform for each developer to promote technology popularization and industry development. At AWE 2025, Gaoqing Electromechanical's star products, Mini π & Mini Hi, will be on display at the 36Kr Featured Robot Exhibition Area.

Yunji Technology

Yunji Technology was established in 2014, focusing on the R & D and application of AI and embodied intelligence. It has served more than 30,000 hotels, hospitals, factories, apartments, buildings, etc. in more than 40 countries and regions around the world. At AWE 2025, Yunji Technology will bring its newly invented service robot, the composite polymorphic robot UP. Through the "1+N+AloT" model, the UP robot can achieve all-day, multi-scenario, multi-functional, and multi-task collaboration, realizing end-to-end closed-loop services for "scenario intelligent agents".

Keenon Robotics

Keenon Robotics was established in 2010. As a globally well-known leading enterprise in embodied service robots, it provides service robot products and complete solutions. Keenon Robotics will bring three robot products, the small-scenario floor cleaning elf C20, the high-end delivery robot T10, and the building delivery robot W3, to participate in AWE 2025 and will be on display at the 36Kr Featured Robot Exhibition Area, injecting intelligent momentum into multiple scenarios such as commercial cleaning, hotel services, and food delivery.

02 Live Exhibition Tours + Video Interviews: Comprehensively Interpret the "Happy Technology" Empowered by AI Technology

Today, with the in-depth reconstruction of the lifestyle by artificial intelligence and Internet of Things technology, smart home appliances that provide more personalized and humanized services have deepened people's perception and experience of happiness. Therefore, 36Kr will create a "Future+ Interview Room" at the AWE Expo. Through the form of "live exhibition tours + video interviews", it will integrate and disseminate the latest industrial information on smart home appliances and interpret how AI+AIoT technology is reshaping the aesthetics of contemporary family smart life.

The live exhibition tour section takes "Technology Reconstructs Life Scenarios" as the main narrative line. A senior technology observer from 36Kr will lead the audience on an immersive museum tour along three main lines: smart home, green energy, and personalized consumption, in an innovative form of "scenario-based guided tour + in-depth dialogue". The audience will pass by the booths of well-known technology and home appliance enterprises such as Huawei, Fotile, Hisense, Ecovacs, and AfterShokz. The senior technology observer from 36Kr will visit each enterprise around three aspects: technological innovation, scenario reconstruction, and industry trends, deeply analyzing the R & D logic behind each enterprise's products and vividly presenting the unobtrusive technologies to the audience.

The audience will be able to learn:

• How does Huawei's intelligent central control system achieve "one-key collaboration" of cross-brand devices through the HarmonyOS distributed architecture and ensure that the elderly and children can operate it without obstacles? Compared with traditional whole-home smart solutions, which technologies have broken through the ecological barriers?
• Traditional projectors have the problem of insufficient brightness when watching movies during the day. How does Hisense's laser TV solve this problem? Compared with OLED TVs, what innovations does the rollable screen have in terms of space utilization?
• Chinese stir-frying produces a large amount of oil fumes that spread quickly. How does Fotile's range hood solve this pain point through technology? Compared with traditional top-suction range hoods, how much has the oil fume escape rate been reduced?
• For the problem of carpet hair entanglement in multi-pet families, what is the efficiency difference between the spiral rubber brush design of Ecovacs X3 PRO and traditional brushes?

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In the video interview part, the "36Kr Future+ Interview Room" will create three types of videos: news, opinion, and interview. While covering the hot topics, it will invite industry leaders and guests to share their cutting-edge views around hot topics such as the development and changes of the industry ecosystem, personal insights, and future development trends, combined with product displays, etc., to help the audience efficiently obtain the essence of industry information.

From "mechanical" operation to "fully automatic" intelligence, the development of Chinese AI home appliances is on the rise. As an industry observer and a participant in the technology field, 36Kr has accompanied the development and growth of Chinese technology enterprises. On March 20th, welcome to Booth 3E81, Hall W3, Shanghai New International Expo Centre - the "36Kr Future+ Robot Exhibition Area" to witness the changes and possibilities brought by "Happy Technology" to people's lives with 36Kr. The live content of the "36Kr Future+ Interview Room" will also be broadcast live simultaneously on the 36Kr video account, the 36Kr Douyin account "Kr Finance", and the 36Kr PC/APP Future Live Room. Welcome to watch.

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