The Greater Bay Area International Makers Summit and Maker Faire Shenzhen 2025 Held in Shenzhen | Latest News

On November 15th, the Greater Bay Area International Makers Summit and Maker Faire Shenzhen 2025, themed "AI Without Borders, All Things Reborn," was held at the Vanke Cloud City Design Commune in Nanshan, Shenzhen.

In 2012, Chaihuo Maker Space introduced the Maker Faire event to Shenzhen. This year marks the 14th edition of Maker Faire Shenzhen.

Enterprises, scholars, and makers from all walks of life participated in the conference.

The summit included 2 innovation forums, 1 live event of makers' super - evolution, 145 displays of cutting - edge technology applications, and 29 industrial innovation and interactive experience workshops. The event gathered technology leaders, pioneer makers, industry experts, and university teams from more than 30 countries around the world, and showcased nearly a thousand hardware projects of AI technology in fields such as intelligent manufacturing, smart agriculture, smart cities, and culture and entertainment.

The themes of the two innovation forums were "AI Without Borders, All Things Reborn" and "Robot System Integration and Reference Design - Embodied Intelligence Developers' Forum." Lei Hao, the developer relations manager of NVIDIA, and Wu Dan, the person in charge of the AI robot product line of Seeed Technology, and others gave keynote speeches.

In the 145 exhibition areas, the exhibitors included well - known international technology companies and innovation platforms such as Raspberry Pi, Hugging Face, Arm China, and SweetPepper Robotics. There were also a large number of excellent maker teams and the innovative forces of 18 domestic and overseas universities, including East West University in Bangladesh, Sangamner College of Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Duke Kunshan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the University of Nottingham Ningbo China.

Attendees gathered around the robots.

Ye Yu, the general manager of Chaihuo Maker Space and the curator of Maker Faire Shenzhen, said that the biggest highlight this year is that the in - depth integration of AI and hardware has moved from concept to scenario - based implementation. Makers have promoted the popularization of edge - side AI through modular hardware and open - source collaboration.

Notably, there were a large number of robot application projects in the exhibition areas, and embodied intelligence became the focus of innovation. These projects show that AI is moving from the "cloud" to the "physical" world and is closely integrated with mechanical control and environmental interaction. For example, the desktop robot Reachy Mini launched by the well - known open - source collaboration platform Hugging Face is equipped with two dynamic antennas, can rotate itself and turn its head, and each eye has a small display screen, allowing the development, testing, deployment, and sharing of AI applications. It is suitable for individuals and educators.

In addition, many projects related to open - source hardware and 3D printing were also displayed at the exhibition. For example, the FDM 3D printer Centauri Carbon 2 launched by ELEGOO can support four - color printing, and its 350°C hot end is compatible with more high - temperature materials. Its price during the Double Eleven promotion was 1996 yuan. The highly - anticipated desktop CNC product Makera Z1 appeared at the booth of Beijing Creation Era Technology Co., Ltd. This product weighs about 17 kg and has a repeat positioning accuracy of up to 0.01 mm. It was launched on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter on October 28th, with a price of 899 US dollars per unit, and the crowdfunding amount is currently nearly 5.8 million US dollars.

There were multiple workshops this year for various people to participate in.

At the "Live Event of Makers' Super - evolution," 15 heavy - weight innovation ambassadors from multiple countries discussed in depth how AI can be effectively implemented in scenarios such as medical diagnosis, industrial automation, smart agriculture, and enterprise operations in a low - power and high - efficiency way, bringing convenience to people in remote and developing regions around the world.

Pan Hao, the founder of Seeed Technology & Chaihuo Maker Space and the initiator of Maker Faire Shenzhen, said that the new generation of makers has stronger self - confidence and is more willing to make changes. The core value of the summit is to provide a stage to gather the rich creativity of makers and their unwavering maker spirit, and jointly promote the "super - evolution" practice of global makers.