“ Focusing on cutting-edge technology, real-world manipulation and scenarios, promoting smart technology exchanges with developers and ecosystem co-creation.
On October 23-25, the 2026 Global Developers Pioneers Conference held the opening ceremony of the International Competition for Physical and Intelligent Skills at the Pudong Zhangjiang Science Center in Shanghai.
The event also brings together academic, industry and capital-intensive stakeholders to explore a viable pathway for smart technologies to move out of laboratory prototypes into real workplaces.
At present, physical intelligence is in the key window of technological breakthroughs to the industrial landscape, where the three are deeply intertwined: model transformation, intrinsic engineering, real-world applications. In the industry, there is no shortage of demonstrations of brilliant effects, but there is still a shortage of robot products capable of stable operation in unstructured environments, with commercial closed-loop capabilities.
The event will leave a lot of the agenda to the intersection of viewpoints, machine modeling and supply and demand pairing, facing all kinds of engineering challenges brought by the physical world, building a dialogue platform for scientific research institutions, enterprises, developers, linking technological R&D, product generation to the entire chain of industrial locations, and will also embrace valuable experiences at the thought and practice level for Zhangjiang's physical and intelligent industrial ecosystems.
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Technically, technology is coming to the forefront: pioneering ideas in the industry
On the afternoon of October 23rd, Shenzhen Intelligent Body, a pioneering platform for new and upcoming Intelligent Body, was held in the Zhangjiang Science Hall, where the event brought together representatives of governments, academia, industry, and capital on topics such as world models and VLA routes, physical world Scaling Law, robotic memory capabilities, and other topics.
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At the event, many industry and research experts from different application dimensions shared themes.
In the Core 1V1 Technology Dialogue, the Head of the School of Computing at Peking University hired Vice-Professor Lu Zhongqing, founder of BeingBeyond, Vice-Director of the School of Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation for Intelligent Robots at Peking University, Professor Liu Zhou, Chief Scientist of Shanghai New Intelligent Body and Intelligent Technology Limited, to conduct an in-depth conversation around the world model and the two mainstream technology routes of VLA.
The two experts explored the boundaries of the current large model's capabilities in the field of robotics, focusing on the value of System 1 brain models, touch feedback in physical interaction, while exchanging the advantages of human first-person video, real-machine interaction, simulation of three-dimensional data generation, real-machine evaluation problems; Luzong concluded that the short-term industry will be based on vertical landing models, and that large-scale landings of general models will still require longer cycles of technological development.
Following the theme-sharing sequence, guests from capital, universities, and industry thought through multi-dimensional output practices from capital empowerment, human base, intrinsic innovation, flying robots, basic models, and physical base models.
The Chairman of the Party Committee of Pudong Innovation Investment Development Ltd., Chairman of Pudong Group, Chen Jingsheng, shared about how to launch state-owned investments with strategic capital, patience capital that empowers AI innovation. He shared Pudong Innovation's full lifecycle fund and direct investment layout, outlined early investments, research projects prior to investing in 0-to-0, investing in top talent plugged-in investment logic, proposed to move the investment gateway to the front of the industry, relying on seed funds, training mechanisms, etc., and helping hard technology entrepreneurship projects across the Death Valley.
Zhejiang University is seeking a tenured professor, the chief scientist and general manager of Zhejiang Human Robot Innovation Center, to collaborate with developers on the topic of innovation, to share the challenges of real-life scenarios of human robots, and to develop ideas to synthesize the multi-scenario application base of the Zhejiang Human Robot.
He is the co-founder and chief scientist of Microsoft Intelligent Flight Technologies Limited, and has worked with flying robots to explain the path to the realization of general-body intelligence as a carrier. He has worked on technologies such as agile brains, multi-modal perception, generalized reasoning brains, distributed cluster brains, agile flight operations of five modules, dismantling the flying-body intelligence technology system, demonstrating end-to-end autonomous flight, complex environmental cluster collaboration, flying hand-to-hand operations, and more.
Li Yi, founder and CEO of Weiyang Open, developed an innovative concept of the physical base model (LPM) around the paradigm evolution of AI from the digital world to the physical world, dissected the shortcuts on existing large-language models in the physical state model, and articulated the LLM+LPM dual-layer System 2 core architecture.
The co-founder and chief executive officer of Non-Syntech, Wang Seung-soo, brought the theme of emulating human-generic innovation to share, cutting from the paradigm of robot-operated execution, reflecting on the limitations of the widely adopted brush vision + trajectory control brushes in the industry.
He is also the co-founder and CEO of Lovell AI.
Jeanine Banks, Professor of Practice in Interactive Media Business (IMB), NYU Shanghai Gabrielle Chou, and three other guests gave speeches on the technological trajectory of general large-scale modeling with physical intelligence, cognitive robot innovation and industry trends, and the development of the Chinese-American AI innovation ecosystem from a global perspective.
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Afterwards, the two round-table forums at the venue pushed the idea of the platform to a climax.
The first roundtable focused on the physical world of Scaling Law could be established in the field of robots, co-founder of Co-operative Zero-Dimensional Robotics Limited, head of body-control algorithms, Han Chen Liu, founder and CEO of Facebook Mind Smart Technology Limited in Shanghai, Liu Xiaoping, algorithm researcher at Beijing Excellent Vision Technologies Shares Limited, participated in the research.
Guests debated whether the scale-scaling laws that have been verified around the digital world can be replicated in the physical robot scene. It was noted that large language models rely on bulk text to achieve a leap in capacity, but the dynamics of physical interaction scenarios, the high cost of data acquisition, the simple stacking of model parameters and simulation data, do not necessarily lead directly to the simultaneous improvement of real-machine performance.
The second roundtable on memory and robot continuous evolution was hosted by Yu Yu, co-founder of Shanghai Shenzhen Intelligent Technology Limited; Wang Wang, vice president of sales of Beijing Dynamics Technology Group Shares Limited; Wang Wang, vice president of Beijing Beta Unlimited Intelligent Technology Limited; Wang Wang, co-founder and chief technology officer of Ningxi Quang, Zhejiang Automation Technology Limited; and Huang Jing, CEO of Suzhou Jiangxi Automation Technology Limited.
On the ground, industry practitioners combine first-line project delivery instances, analyzing real-world failures such as failures to remember, failures to remember, mistakes to remember, memory disturbances, differentiation of consumer-level scenarios, industrial product line scenarios for differentiated claims to memory systems, exchange of views on topics such as unified interfaces of memory modules, high-quality industrial scenarios for plagiarism, standardization of hardware-level physical data representations.
Guests at the event believe that a stable, controllable memory system is the underlying basis for long-term autonomous evolution of robots and the reuse of historical work experience.
The entire forum on the 23rd, faced with the clash of different technological perspectives, presented the multi-reality challenge of moving from the laboratory to the real workplace.
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Ask the World, See the Future: The Four Great Co-living Places Workshop Inspired by War
On the morning of 24 October, four workshops were held in parallel. In contrast to the main forum, the four communities focused more on real-world thinking, the integration of technological landings with supply and demand, robotic development, intelligent model brains, real-world business scenarios, real estate industry visits, and the entire chain from technological research to industrial landings.
Workshop 1 is a small, powerful developer workshop.
The event jumped out of the product demonstration logic and delivered the loose-powered miniature robot to developers in the field, with the main goal being how the church developers will complete the second development of the robot. During the event, the Noetix SDK ecology, controller capability technology sharing, and instant access to the field propositional coding and real-machine modeling link will be conducted.
Enterprise technicians toured the deactivation zone to provide technical support, developers completed development tasks on site, completed the deactivation process in half a day, completed the developer's technical learning thesis, coded the deactivation process and completed the complete development process.
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Workshop 2 is the next stage of a physically intelligent brain
Workshop 2 focused on the pioneering model directions of world models, visual-touch integration, and exploring the pathways to achieve machine-building perceptual intuition in the physical world. The four guests shared, respectively, around the geometrically bound world model landings, Sim-to-Real perceptual operational integration, touch-to-device data-sharing model systems, robot developers' application of ecological demolition technology blocks.
The workshop also suggested the need to promote model research to match the real needs of the industry, allowing robotics to perform tasks from a single point, upgrading to long-range task execution, cross-scenario generalization, cross-body migration and self-correcting errors, and the gradual depletion of replicable, combinable, verifiable robotic skills systems.
Workshop 3 is about robotics: five real-life scenario developers conversing.
The event revolves around the real-life proposition of robotics addiction, where robots, zero-dimensional robots, Sota Infinite, such as body robots, intelligent technology, and industry representatives share, covering production, manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, retail, healthcare, emergency relief, and dismantling the real business pitfalls of the five races.
The roundtable focuses on how robots can really climb, analyzing the huge engineering gap between the demonstration and the standardization of the rooftop. The site unlocks the real needs list of the five main racetracks, building a dialogue corridor for scenic needs with technical developers, implementing industry issues, and integrating developers with solutions.
Workshop 4 in Chang'an City Walk
As an on-site industry visiting event, the participants visited Zhangjiang AI App Store, Robot Future Experience Center, Zhangjiang Nan Fitness Smart Factory, the trip went from the end of the AI product consumption experience to the end of the Fitness Smart Manufacturing, immersed in the current state of operation of Zhangjiang Fitness Smart Industrial Vehicles, intuitively sensing the local industrial chain support and space layout.
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From Demo to Jobs, Developers are at the heart of industrial change
Through the two-day event, it can be observed that this series of activities by GDPS developers reflects the important transformation that the smart industry is experiencing: the focus of industry competition, which is gradually moving away from internal algorithms in the laboratory to engineering practice in the real physical world.
This year's event, a keynote speaker + four live venues event, was both a crossover of ideas and a new starting point for industrial practice. I look forward to the industry continuing to hand the speakers over to developers, continuing to build an exchange of ideas, real-world interaction, a public platform for supply and demand matching, allowing all kinds of innovative ideas to be tested in the physical world, and driving more robots from the platforms to the workplace.