2025 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit concludes, with Chinese firms' Embodied AI taking center stage

This photo taken on Nov. 6, 2025 shows a venue of the 2025 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit in Wuzhen, east China's Zhejiang Province. The 2025 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit kicked off here on Thursday, with a focus on building a community with a shared future in cyberspace, according to its organizers. Photo: Xinhua

The 2025 World Internet Conference (WIC) Wuzhen Summit came to an end on Sunday, with Chinese companies' breakthrough in embodied artificial intelligence (AI) stealing the spotlight of the event.

Smart Strategy Science and Technology Development Co showcased its latest all-terrain intelligent vehicle system, powered by AI agents, including land-based vehicles, robotic dogs, medium to large-sized drones, and unmanned boats.

"The system provides decision-making support for emergency rescue, reducing operational risks and boosting efficiency," Zhou Tongyuan, assistant of general manager of the company told the Global Times on Saturday at Wuzhen.

The company's vehicles and robotic dogs were displayed at the Light of Internet Expo (WICEXPO), a signature event of the summit.

"Robotic dogs can substitute for human workers in hazardous tasks. Additionally, they are equipped with 5G relay stations to enable data transmission from disaster areas, facilitating remote command and control," said Zhou.

Chinese robotics start-up Noetix Robotics introduced its bionic humanoid robot Xiaonuo at the WICEXPO. "Featuring 32 degrees of freedom in its head for rendering micro-expressions, Xiaonuo can be widely applicable in university research and serve as an interpreter at museums," Zhang Chengcheng, senior business manager of Noetix Robotics, told the Global Time.

Equipped with algorithms for speech and facial recognition powered by AI, the robot enables natural conversations. The robot has been mass-produced for universities, museums, sanatoriums, livestreaming platforms, and animation companies, said Zhang.

WIC participants noted that with Chinese AI models leading the global open-source ecosystem, AI terminal products are proliferating, making consumers' "AI+" experiences increasingly tangible.

Industry-specific LLMs are driving China's AI into a new development phase, with AI agents as the core force of industrial transformation, they said. China's AI technologies are landing in diverse scenarios, integrating with manufacturing, services, and other sectors, becoming a major engine for high-quality development.

According to a report released at the WIC Wuzhen Summit, China's AI innovation has continued to advance over the past months, with computing infrastructure upgrading steadily. Chinese AI LLMs are shifting from "heavy training" to "heavy inference," with reinforcement learning and knowledge distillation ramping up inference efficiency.

China has become the world's largest holder of AI-related patents, accounting for 60 percent of the global total, according to a report released by the Chinese Academy of Cyberspace Studies at the 2025 WIC on Saturday.

During the summit, representatives of Hangzhou's ''Six Little Dragons'' - Game Science, DeepSeek, Unitree Robotics, DEEP Robotics, BrainCo and Manycore Tech - provided insights for the country's tech development.

Wang Xingxing, founder and CEO of Unitree Robotics, currently a global leader in humanoid robotics, said that AI is fueling accelerated growth across the robotics sector.

"The embodied AI field feels like a 'dream' lately - many science fiction scenes are becoming reality, and this pace will only quicken. AI is bringing embodied intelligence closer. Next year or the year after, robotics surprises may outshine this year's," Wang said.

"Spatial intelligence will be the major field after large language models, which will be a key infrastructure for robots in the physical world," said Manycore Tech chairman Huang Xiaohuang.

STAR.VISION, a Chinese AI-driven satellite company, unveiled its Lunar AI Robot at the expo, which is set for a 2029 landing on the moon via the Chang'e-8 mission to verify humanity's first lunar surface "scan-to-pay" function, the Global Times learned.

In November 2024, Oman's homegrown satellite and AI Company Oman Lens LLC, in collaboration with STAR.VISION, successfully launched Oman's first satellite - OL-1 - Oman's first internationally registered satellite under the UN's International Telecommunication Union.

"We now have one satellite, but we have our Chinese partners. In the future, we are aiming to launch more than 200 satellites," lbtihal Al Saadi, an Al innovation specialist at Oman Lens, told the Global Times on Sunday. "I'm really impressed by the overall environment of the Wuzhen Summit" Al Saadi said.