First Preview of the Top 10 Highlights of the 2026 Global Pioneer Developers Conference & International Embodied Intelligence Skills Competition!
To thoroughly implement the spirit of the keynote speech delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping at the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High-level Meeting on Global AI Governance, implement the relevant work arrangements of the *Opinions on Developing New Quality Productivity* issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council, fully roll out the "AI +" initiative, and accelerate the regular deployment and application of humanoid robots, embodied intelligent terminals and products in real production and living scenarios, the 2026 Global Pioneer Developers Conference & International Embodied Intelligence Skills Competition will be held from October 23 to 25 in Pudong, Shanghai.
The conference continues the theme of "Developers, Find, Find, Find", and is organized in accordance with the overall framework of "1 Competition, 1 Opening Ceremony and N Developer Events". Focusing on the goal of "Real Machine in Real Scenarios, Practical Training in Real Scenarios", it adheres to the principle of integrating competition with conference, promoting research through competition and driving industrial development through conferences. It will continue to polish Shanghai's brand as a "City of Developers", build a closed industrial loop of "Training - Competition - Industry - Finance", further enrich the embodied intelligence application spectrum, drive the formation of 10,000-unit-scale mass deployment capacity, and contribute to the construction of Shanghai as an international science and technology innovation center.
Highlight 1: Significantly increase total factor productivity! Robot capabilities are disassembled into reusable operation skill packages
Where does new quality productivity grow? It lies in every effective operation of robots. Targeted at upgrading traditional industries with digital and intelligent technologies, this competition disassembles robot capabilities into reusable operation skill packages, fully covering real application scenarios including loading and unloading handling, welding, precision assembly, quality inspection, energy inspection, security patrol, supermarket retail, express sorting, elderly care and wellness, fire fighting, emergency search and rescue, cultural tourism guide, and science and education training. In the multi-dimensional high-value scenarios of the competition, embodied agents will act as a new type of workforce and be transformed into multi-dimensional productivity.
Enterprises are most concerned about "how much the operation efficiency is improved after AI implementation, what the operation stability is, and whether the input-output ratio is cost-effective", and the measured data can be viewed intuitively on site. Embodied intelligence is expected to break through the efficiency bottleneck and become an important carrier for the development of new quality productivity. The application achievements in real scenarios will be presented on site, waiting for you to visit!
Highlight 2: Thousands of robots appear on the same stage, presenting the full panorama of the embodied intelligence industrial chain
Complete machine and humanoid robot enterprises such as Unitree, Fourier Intelligence, National Geospatial Information Center, Ubtech, Keenon, JAKA, Kepler, RoboParty, Aurora Intelligence, Twilight Zone, together with core component manufacturers and scenario application enterprises, will make a joint appearance. The exhibits cover complete machine products, as well as various component modules such as dexterous hands, joint modules, reducers, and force tactile sensors. The site will not only demonstrate the whole process of humanoid robot operation, walking and manipulation, but also simultaneously showcase the latest iteration achievements of embodied intelligence components.
The three-day conference fully presents the industrial chain from core components to complete machines, from prototype R&D to mass production and landing, realizing the panoramic display of "visible technology" and "usable industry".
Highlight 3: Developers empower to double efficiency! Industry experts guide you to operate real machines on site
How do robots shift from "demonstration and performance" to "stable operation"?
The GDPS 2026 developer series of events invite leading frontier embodied intelligence enterprises and top manufacturers to carry out practical training. Participants can operate real machines from leading manufacturers such as Unitree on site, and fully tap the application efficiency of robots through workshops and real scenarios. Through various AI practices such as embodied intelligence, FDE, and intelligent agents, human creativity and AI execution capabilities collaborate in a more efficient organizational mode, improving production efficiency and activating organizational innovation momentum. With thousands of machines operating collaboratively on the same site, you can intuitively see how the efficiency improvement rate is converted into real ROI and production capacity benefits through one practical operation.
Highlight 4: The industry sets questions, science and technology provides answers, and thousands of scenarios temper the capabilities of real machines
This competition sets up 9 key tracks and 23 competition events, and builds a real-scenario practical training space. Scenario providers such as Yanfeng Automotive Interiors, Inzoi Information, Shanghai History Museum, Shanghai Institute of Quality Inspection and Technical Research, Bailian Group, STO Express, China Life Property & Casualty Insurance, Tianyi Digital Life Technology, Zhejiang Qiushi Research Institute, and Goertek will bring the real demands of production lines, service industries and public sectors to the competition venue to practically test the job operation capabilities of robots.
More than 10,000 robots have settled in Zhangjiang AI Innovation Town, and the human-machine ratio on site has reached a new high! More than 1,000 participating teams compete on the same stage. The event will scientifically evaluate the real operation success rate, efficiency improvement rate, safety and reliability, and economic feasibility of robots, promote the creation of hundreds of high-value application scenarios, and move towards the mass deployment scale of 10,000 units. This is not a performance show on the exhibition booth, but a practical test facing the front line of the industry.
Highlight 5: Open source sharing, on-site brainstorming. More than 100 top domestic and foreign open source communities gather in Shanghai
Open source is transforming from a technical choice to a new type of infrastructure for industrial development. The conference specially sets up a special session for open source and developer communities, with more than 100 top domestic and foreign open source communities and institutions participating in co-construction.
The conference specially invites Robin Bender Ginn, Executive Director of the OpenJS Foundation, Ibrahim Haddad, former Strategic Vice President of the Linux Foundation, the Co-founder and CEO of Lovell AI, and Jeanine Banks, former President of Google Developer Relations, to share industrial development trends and cutting-edge technology practices around themes such as open source of embodied intelligent software and hardware, profit space of the robot industry, artificial intelligence and open models and the future of software, and robot technology inspired by human infant cognition. Top communities including Amazon User Group Shanghai Community and Volcano Engine Developer ADG Community will participate together to provide implementable and referable open source collaboration solutions for developers and enterprise technical managers.
Highlight 6: First release and debut of achievements and standards, with industry models and application scenarios unveiled grandly
This conference will centrally carry out the first release and debut of industry models and application scenarios, and centrally showcase industry innovation achievements.
The Coopas Industry Benchmark Series Release Forum focuses on building evaluation scales and evaluation benchmarks for large models in vertical fields, establishing a quantifiable and comparable evaluation paradigm for the industry.
The conference will also grandly release the three major models and scenario benchmarks of "China Mobile · Spatiotemporal Intelligence", including: geophysical scenario, which relies on spatiotemporal representation technology to realize surface remote sensing change detection and terrain refinement, empowering wide-area applications such as natural resource mining areas; park governance scenario, which builds a large-area real-time reconstruction model with centimeter-level precision, providing the whole chain capability from static reconstruction to dynamic deduction for park governance; intelligent workshop scenario, which builds a spatiotemporal intelligent indoor perception system, realizing functions such as real-scenario twin, simulation deduction and time series prediction, providing a complete closed loop of perception, understanding, planning and execution for the workshop production line VLA.
Highlight 7: Cross-border presentation of AI talents. AI Talent Show builds a human-AI co-creation stage
Do you want to realize your long-pending creative ideas with the help of artificial intelligence?
The conference specially sets up the "AI Talent Show" session, publicly recruiting contestants from the public to show their AI creative works on stage, and the winning programs will appear at the main venue carnival. Five groups of AI talent show programs will be staged in turn, and the audience is not just spectators, but can also experience it on site. Five groups of programs, five creative gameplay, the scene is full of wonderful moments. Ordinary people create original songs with the help of AI, the "Mojia" robot band performs Chinese-style music, and mechanical fighting performances will also appear... The next innovation miracle may be born here!
In addition, the conference will host the only national award dinner of Forbes China that focuses on "non-human subjects" in the same period. The award-winning subjects are humanoid robots and AI digital characters, arranged with two links of "list release + closed-door dinner": in the first half, "non-human subjects" come on stage to receive awards, and humanoid robots, AI digital characters and enterprise founders appear on the same stage; in the second half, high-standard closed-door exchanges are carried out, with six types of guests conducting cross-border discussions.
Highlight 8: Dialogue with the Supernova AI Developer Group, sparking ideological collisions
The competition of artificial intelligence technology is shifting from paper research to industrial implementation, young entrepreneurs and rising academic stars will have a dialogue on the same stage to collide cutting-edge ideas!
This conference coincides with the 1024 Programmer's Day. The developer group with an average age of under 30, composed of founders and CEOs of enterprises such as Moushen Intelligence, Yuance Future, Junao Panshi, Jiajie Vision, and Moqi Intelligence, covers multiple embodied intelligent technical routes such as world model, VLA, VLM, and end-to-end. The guests will carry out exchanges and discussions on hot topics such as "World Model or End-to-End Embodied Large Model" and "How Embodied Intelligence Goes Out of the Laboratory and Realizes Mass Production and Landing", share practical engineering experience and entrepreneurial thinking, and bring an ideological collision on technical routes with implementation reference value.
Highlight 9: On-site practical training of AI tools to improve efficiency, human and machine co-shape the industrial ecology!
When humans have software and hardware intelligent agents as collaborative partners, how do humans and machines carry out organizational division of labor?
Developer activities such as conference forums and Workshops fully demonstrate the new production mode of human-machine symbiosis. FDE frontline deployment engineers promote the extensive implementation and customized docking of AI technologies across thousands of industries. Under the background of the organizational intelligence industry, intelligent agents are like employees, with exclusive "identity identifiers". In the era of artificial intelligence, we will discuss how to lead the new AI "colleagues" to work collaboratively. The answer to how human-machine symbiosis transforms from concept to organizational practice may be revealed at this conference!
Highlight 10: Enter Zhangjiang Science Hall, get the full BOM list of embodied intelligence in one stop
More than 200 industrial chain enterprises gather at the conference, fully presenting the BOM (Bill of Materials) of embodied intelligence, and solutions and technical resources can be connected on site.
At the perception level, self-developed chips support 3D vision modules, and bionic tactile components have achieved mass production; at the execution level, multi-degree-of-freedom dexterous hands complement the precision operation capability; at the transmission level, planetary roller screws have achieved an annual production capacity of millions of sets; in the structure and connection link, high-durability wiring harnesses and wireless recharging solutions for quadruped robots are exhibited... You can get all key robot components in one stop on site. Industrial opportunities are right in front of you, you are welcome to come to the site for docking and cooperation!
"Embodied in Real Scenarios, Labor is the Most Glorious" — The 2026 Global Pioneer Developers Conference & International Embodied Intelligence Skills Competition sincerely invites developers, entrepreneurs from all over the world and all people from all walks of life who care about artificial intelligence and embodied intelligence to visit, and jointly participate in this industrial practical event!
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