At the 26th China International Industry Fair in October 2026, Mech-Mind founder and CEO Tianlan Shao said advanced manufacturing is the next focus for embodied intelligence. He said AI is reshaping the full R&D-to-operations chain and moving manufacturing from experience-driven to data-driven, while the company's "eye-brain-hand" robot solution serves nearly 50 countries and regions.
On October 13, JD Industrial released an industrial world model at the 26th China International Industry Fair, targeting manufacturing, equipment maintenance, logistics and quality inspection scenarios, and pushing industrial AI from centralized analysis to on-device real-time decision-making.
Axera Semiconductor unveiled its AX8860 series high-compute AI chips, featuring a 16-core Arm Cortex-A55 CPU and proprietary NPU with 256 TOPS mixed-precision compute, up to 128GB LPDDR5X memory, 6nm process, PCIe 5.0 support, and multi-chip scaling up to 1024 TOPS. It also launched the A256S module and showcased Yuanxi inference cards and servers. On the Qwen 27B model, the chip's prefill speed is 25% faster than NVIDIA DGX Spark, and system pricing is close to half of DGX Spark's.
On October 12, at the 26th China International Industry Fair, the errand robot “Danbao,” equipped with a pure-vision end-side brain, was officially released, with Fudan University postdoctoral researcher Zhang Tianzi saying the technology lets robots operate without pre-built maps by using visual perception alone to achieve real-time spatial understanding and autonomous decision-making on an end-side chip drawing less than 20 watts. The team is adapting the system for delivery, inspection, and commercial cleaning robots.
During an interview at the 2026 China International Industry Fair, the president of Hikvision's industrial X-ray unit said the company unveiled a high-precision 3D AXI system for semiconductor packaging inspection, achieving sub-micron measurement, 3D image reconstruction and defect analysis for advanced packaging and lab failure analysis. He noted that X-ray combined with AI has been applied to foldable-screen hinge inspection and meat fat detection, and future equipment will evolve into intelligent robotic tools.
On October 12, 2026, Shanghai launched a new-generation smart manufacturing initiative at the opening ceremony of the 26th China International Industry Fair. The plan outlines four major projects and 19 key tasks, with goals including full coverage of smart factories among key manufacturers, 500 advanced smart factories, and 8,000 humanoid robots deployed in factories by 2028.
At a media preview of the 26th China International Industry Fair on October 11, Leju Robotics announced it will debut a scenario-based solution centered on a universal humanoid body and universal dexterous hands, covering research, commercial service, and industrial sectors. The mature deliverable solutions include the Kuafu robot guide and Taskor industrial deployment, with industrial solutions already ordered by over 10 leading customers including FAW and Hisense.