2026 Global Developer Pioneer Conference and International Embodied Intelligence Skills Competition opens in Shanghai

China News Service, Shanghai, October 23 (Reporters Zheng Yingying and Xu Jing) The 2026 Global Developers Pioneer Conference and International Embodied Intelligence Skills Competition opened in Shanghai on the 23rd. At the opening ceremony, the top ten real-life tracks of the competition were released, including automobile loading and unloading, precision identification and stacking, energy and power inspection, smart commercial retail, and silver age companionship and guardianship.

Gan Xiaobin, deputy director of the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, said that Shanghai has a strong industrial foundation and aggregation of innovative resources, making it an important highland for the development of China's embodied intelligence industry. This competition has established a good platform for technological innovation, supply and demand docking and industrial cooperation.

Zhang Ying, deputy secretary-general of the Shanghai Municipal Government, said that the development of Shanghai's artificial intelligence industry is moving from technology and product aggregation to large-scale implementation of scenarios. In the first half of 2026, the scale of Shanghai's artificial intelligence regulated industry exceeded 330 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 22.6%. Behind the growth of artificial intelligence is the accelerated opening of real scenarios, the continuous occurrence of technical verification, and the accelerated release of industrial value.

Zhang Ying said that the total number of artificial intelligence talents in Shanghai currently exceeds 330,000. "We have thoroughly developed the ecosystem to allow developers to start businesses and innovate in Shanghai with peace of mind."

Embodied intelligence is currently entering many scenarios such as factories, warehousing, and public services. Whether it works well in real scenarios needs to be measured using scientific evaluation methods. Fan Kefeng, deputy director of the China Electronics Technology Standardization Institute, said that the institute, in collaboration with industry, academia, and research units, has built the "Quest" EIBench embodied intelligence evaluation system, which is oriented toward embodied intelligence data, algorithms, models, and robot systems to evaluate real task performance, cross-scenario adaptability, and safety levels.