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Xuhui Venue Guide WAIC 2026
WAIC 2026 will kick off in Shanghai from July 17 to 20. This year's conference features three major zones and four venues: the Expo Center follows the "Axis of Applications", the Zhangjiang Venue serves as the "Core of Technology", while Xuhui West Bund is positioned as the "Shore of Life", bringing smart terminals and AI applications directly into daily life.
In the past two years, everyone was talking about how large the model parameters are and how high the rankings are, but what ordinary people really want to know is: when can these smart AIs get into my phone, be worn on my body, and stay by my side? Xuhui West Bund gives a very practical answer — don't wait, come here, and experience the future life first-hand.
The 1st floor of Xuhui West Bund International Convention and Exhibition Center covers nearly 10,000 square meters, gathering over 100 enterprises and more than 200 products; among them are 57 domestic debuts and premieres, plus 64 consumer-grade AI products that you can directly touch and test; over the 4-day event period, more than 30 forums will be held intensively.
Next, we will walk you through this entire floor in Xuhui from three perspectives: "visiting the exhibition, experiencing applications, and attending forums".
I. Visiting the Exhibition: From Screen to Body, Walk Through the "Dawn of Creativity — Future of Smart Terminals" Route
The core narrative of the Xuhui exhibition area is "human experience", laid out along the visitor flow of "from the screen, to the device, and then to the human body", spanning virtual content on the screen, smart terminals at your fingertips, wearable devices close to your body, and companion robots. The nearly 10,000-square-meter hall is divided into four major zones, just follow this logical path to explore.
Zone A | Future Entertainment & Digital Perception
This zone focuses on "the world behind the screen". AIGC videos, AI music, virtual humans, along with AI social interaction, emotional companionship, and immersive experiences are all gathered here. Leading enterprises including Shengshu Technology, Yingmu Technology, Bilibili, VAST, and Tencent will showcase their latest achievements — if you want to see how AI composes songs, generates videos, and creates virtual humans to chat with you, this is the perfect spot to visit.
Vidu
Zone B | Future Terminals & Lifestyle
Moving from the screen to your daily life, this zone features a wide range of AI smartphones, educational hardware, health devices, and smart life products. HONOR, NetEase Youdao, iFLYTEK, Lumimind, and Qutang Technology all bring their latest-generation products. A smartphone, a learning display, a compact health device — AI quietly integrates into your everyday life in these subtle ways.
HONOR Robot Phone
Zone C | Smart Wearables & Embodied Intelligence
Taking it a step further, AI is now attached to your body. AI glasses, wearable devices, and robots capable of providing services and companionship are all located in Zone C. Rokid, Li Weike, Xinmu Technology, United Imaging Intelligence, and Xinyan Robotics make their joint appearance. Put on the glasses, call the robot, and the futuristic experience is right there on you and by your side.
Xinyan Robotics Bubbo 1
Zone D | Public Energy Hub
Tired from walking around? Zone D is the "charging station" for the entire floor. New product launches, theme roadshows, competitions, talent exchange events, and interactive performances all take place here: robot bands perform live, digital humans take the stage for shows, with non-stop activities turning the exhibition tour into a wonderful performance experience.
Soul Gear Robot Band
🔥 Several must-see debut and premiere highlights, match them to your interests:
● AI PC / Smartphones
🆕 HONOR · Robot Phone: The world's first embodied smartphone with a built-in retractable 4-DOF titanium alloy robotic gimbal.
● Consumer-facing Robots
🆕 Xinyan Robotics Bubbo 1: The first AI robot with active intelligence, Bubbo 1 is equipped with core capabilities including multi-modal perception, long-term memory, and emotion understanding, providing proactive emotional companionship in daily life scenarios.
🆕 Andun · Xiao'an Traditional Chinese Medicine Robot: An intelligent interactive health terminal designed specifically for offline health service scenarios, which visually generates reference constitution analysis, and outputs daily health tips for daily routines and dietary therapy, making traditional health guidance processes more standardized and intelligent.
Multiple service and companion robots covering household and daily life scenarios will also be exhibited on site.
● AIGC / Large Models / Platforms
🆕 Yingmu Technology · Hyper3D Rodin: The world's leading AI 3D generation platform that can produce million-polygon models in 4 seconds.
🆕 NetEase Youdao · Lobster: China's first 100% fully open-source desktop-level AI agent.
🆕 Shengshu Technology MotuBrain: A world action model launched by Shengshu Technology for the physical world, positioned as a general-purpose brain for embodied intelligent robots.
In addition, Aishi Technology, Wondershare, and VAST will showcase their latest AIGC creation platforms and multi-modal generation products on site.
● On-device Intelligent Devices & Wearables
🆕 Xinmu Technology Monet AI Glasses: Focusing on imperceptible all-day wearing and native audio recording, the entire device weighs only 14.9g. It is equipped with an imperceptible wake-up AI assistant that automatically records conversations, and generates meeting minutes, summaries, and to-do lists with one tap.
🆕 Ant Smart Glasses: An agent-driven operating system paired with glasses, supporting scan-to-pay and city tour guide functions.
🆕 Tribute to the Unknown BleeqUp 4-in-1: Smart glasses that integrate high-definition AI sports camera, open-back Bluetooth earphones, AI intelligent editing, and sports data fusion.
Rokid · Leji AI Glasses: Supports calling multiple large AI models, with the overseas version already integrating Gemini; also equipped with the YodaOS operating system.
🆕 Weiguang Technology Xuanjing L3 Series: Evolvable personal AI glasses. The local on-device large model enables real-time translation and voice summarization, with data processed locally to ensure privacy; paired with an AR module, it can be upgraded to AR glasses supporting navigation, teleprompter, and visualized knowledge display.
Enterprises including Lumimind, Qutang, Quzhi, Shengshiji, Xingyi Technology, and Li Weike will collectively showcase consumer-grade on-device AI hardware and lightweight AR/VR glasses products.
WAIC 2026 Xuhui Venue Exhibitor List
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II. Experiencing Applications: Debut of AI Variety Show, Obstacle-Crossing Robot Dogs, This Is Your Hands-On Experimental Field
This year, Xuhui West Bund turns the entire riverside area into a real-world canvas for the "Tech Romance Festival", removing all experience barriers to let you create things, operate robots, and develop IPs by yourself. From the exhibition venue to the riverside walkway, technology is no longer an aloof exhibit, but a romantic part of your daily life.
Music Creation Universe: The Debut Stage for Young AI Music Creators
🎵 China's first youth AI music variety show, bringing your self-created songs to the stage
Don't just be an audience in front of the screen. WAIC YOUNG "Music Creation Universe" Youth Music Variety Show directly brings outstanding works from the AIGC music creation competition to the offline stage at VASEST, West Bund Dream Center. Top music stars will perform as guest singers on site, the digital host "WAVE" will run through the entire event for interactive engagement, and children from a school for blind children will also bring a chorus performance of "Hearing the Light". Here, young talents who excel at leveraging AI truly stand on their own highlight stage.
Maker Live Zone: Watch Robot Dogs Cross Obstacles, Attend AI Courses from Top Tech Companies, Explore the Youth Creator IP Market
🤖 Watch robot dogs navigate obstacles independently
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