Xinhua reported on September 3, 2026 on a wave of embodied-intelligence robots moving from labs to real production, highlighting applications spanning equipment manufacturing, aerospace, agriculture and healthcare.
A surgical robot developed via HIT's advanced technology research institute has completed 15,000 abdominal surgeries with operation precision at the sub-millimeter level, controlled by a doctor at a console. The institute has incubated 42 enterprises in training and spawned 32 new enterprises from HIT, with one surgical-robot firm named to MIIT's list of next-generation AI surgical-robot technology challengers.
In a northern hub port, Yantai Port uses AI to monitor key equipment around the clock, cutting fault-diagnosis time by 70% and raising operational efficiency by 15% with zero safety accidents, shifting from manual inspection to intelligent early warning - a concrete example of AI driving industrial 'smart' transformation.
Image: Unitree G1 humanoid robot, an example of China's AI-enabled hardware. Source: Wikimedia Commons (CC0).
