We go where intelligence becomes physical.

The process felt slow to me as a customer; I did not conduct a timed, same-order comparison with an employee. But that may be exactly why this is interesting.

I stepped inside a Unitree experience store in Shanghai to see its humanoid and quadruped robots up close. Online, the story is often a remarkable movement: running, jumping or balancing. Here, it was also about people encountering a product in person.

Day one in Hangzhou brings together booths, robots, visitors and hands-on interactions. The exhibition makes it possible to see several approaches in a short visit, but each demonstration has its own selected conditions.

In Zhangjiang Science City, Pudong, Shanghai, AI research, startups, robotics, product testing, commercialization and public-facing applications are beginning to concentrate in the same geography.