At the fifth Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou, Boweitong, a Binjiang-based company, and Unitree jointly unveiled a full-size humanoid robot for substations. The robot can manually operate 6kV high-voltage equipment in distribution rooms, marking their second collaboration after a firefighting robot dog; it relies on Boweitong's embodied intelligence operation platform for end-to-end autonomous operations and backend monitoring.
At the fifth Global Digital Trade Expo in September 2026, Memo released Physical-WAM, billed as the world's first physics-aware physical-world action model, and RoboTwin-Phys, described as the industry's first physical drift evaluation benchmark. The former builds a perception-prediction-generation-correction loop through PhysLens, PhysDream, and PhysAct, while the latter adds 13 types of physical perturbation factors to address data gaps and the absence of evaluation standards in embodied intelligence.
The "Lingjing Constellation", a space-based AI infrastructure jointly developed by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation and Zhejiang Province, made its global debut at the 5th Global Digital Trade Expo. With a planned total investment of about 30 billion yuan, the first 9 satellites are scheduled for launch in Q1 2027, with a future goal of 1,000 satellites in orbit for all-weather real-time Earth observation.
On September 25, Ruixin officially launched mass production of the Gaoguang D35, the world's first RISC-V architecture dataflow physical AI chip, at the 5th Global Digital Trade Expo. The chip features a dataflow architecture and fully self-developed RISC-V cores, supports 128GB memory and chiplet configuration. Ruixin also signed cooperation agreements with leading enterprises covering smart parks, smart transportation, healthcare, and embodied intelligence.
During the 5th Global Digital Trade Expo, DIAGENS hosted a Medical AI Industry Festival in Hangzhou, where Song Ning and Kevin Kelly discussed the future of medical AI. Song compared the shift to the move from printing shops to Office software, introducing DIAGENS' iMedImage foundation model that allows radiologists to train their own AI assistants. Both agreed AI will not replace doctors, as human empathy and judgment remain irreplaceable. Kelly also addressed AI-era education reform, saying companies will become schools and lifelong learning is key.
At the 5th Global Digital Trade Expo on September 24, 2026, Unitree Robotics founder Wang Xingxing gave a speech titled "From Mechanics to Intelligence: The Evolution of Embodied Future," outlining the company's robot technology progress: its robot foundation model now supports real-time action generation from voice commands, enabling long-sequence continuous tasks with anti-interference capability. He proposed replacing manual development flows with autonomous AI closed loops to address scarce real-world data, and predicted embodied intelligence will see its own "ChatGPT moment," with the current core bottleneck being millimeter-level mismatches between AI models and the physical world.
Rokid's second-generation full-featured AI glasses with a display made their global debut at the Global Digital Trade Expo, introducing the world's first multimodal meeting-minutes feature that combines microphone audio and camera image recognition to generate complete meeting notes.
On Sept. 23, the fifth Global Digital Trade Expo opened in Hangzhou, featuring an industry forum where speakers said large language models and AI agent technologies are overturning traditional cybersecurity defense paradigms. Cyber confrontation is shifting from human-centered operations to autonomous AI-agent decision-making, narrowing the window for human intervention. Wu Shizhong, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said systemic endogenous risks have exceeded external attack risks.
On September 23, during the 5th Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou, the inaugural Global AI for Sustainability Best Practice Competition was officially launched. Organized by NIRA, WEC, and Belgian think tank Etion, the competition features five tracks aligned with UN SDGs and invites global submissions of AI-powered sustainability cases from September 23, 2026 to March 31, 2027.