Tao Wei
Throwing, falling, spinning...... On the stage of the Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Snake, a group of Hangzhou Yushu Technology robots played with handkerchiefs and "twisted" their bodies.
同期，萬里之遙，零下四十攝氏度的南極冰原，一隻合肥造六足機器狗正穩定負載高達70公斤的科研設備，於複雜地形自由穿行。
It is called "Lenovo Morningstar IS", which is jointly developed by Lenovo Shanghai Research Institute and Hefei Industrial Base, and is equipped with a multi-modal perception system to analyze environmental data in real time, and provide real-time warning of risks such as ice cracks to protect the safety of polar scientific expeditions.
Lenovo Morningstar IS six-legged robot dog. Courtesy of Lenovo Group
Thousands of miles apart, the "stage" is very different, and they together prove the industry's assertion: the inflection point of intelligent robot technology is emerging.
About 000,0 years ago, early Homo sapiens, which marked a new stage in human evolution, was characterized by a surge in brain volume, which allowed for complex thinking and social behavior. Nowadays, the rapid development of AI technology has also forged human-like "brains" for robots.
As a result, the industry consensus is becoming clearer and clearer - intelligent robots have "walked" to the crossroads of laboratory and marketization.
In a sense, first-mover cities such as Hangzhou and Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen have "heavy-positioned" intelligent robot industry, and this year's government work report also mentions "embodied intelligence" for the first time, which is the projection of decision-making under this consensus.
力爭進入全國頭部的智慧機器人產業集聚發展城市，產業規模居全國前五，爭創國家級未來先導區……3月30日，2025中國(合肥)智慧機器人產業發展大會上，合肥也明確了智慧機器人產業的發展願景。
It is the vision, but also the "ambition". Just as Hefei chose to reinvest in the new energy vehicle industry, its output jumped to the top two in the country in just a few years. Can Hefei's intelligent robots be the same as new energy vehicles, and once again complete the "corner surpassing"?
Hefei "Bottom Gas"
——The "Heart-Valley Linkage" Behind the Creation of "Homo Sapiens"
"Entering the national head of the intelligent robot industry agglomeration and development city", the main screen of the conference jumped out of this line of words, and the word "head" that was enlarged and bolded was very eye-catching.
This detail also seems to reflect the city's "confidence" in the development of the intelligent robot industry.
At this time, dozens of kilometers away, Hefei Xinqiao Airport, Anhui Changhang Future Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. developed security patrol robots and EOD robots are patrolling on the post, cooperating with the airport's own security system.
"Hefei has many universities and research institutes such as the University of Science and Technology of China and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and has made remarkable achievements in robot-related fields and has cultivated a large number of talents." Wang Junchun, chairman of the company, devoted himself to the artificial intelligence industry in his early years, and his core technical team is from Hefei.
"Hefei also has a good manufacturing base, such as automobiles and home appliance industries, which have used industrial robotic arms to build a supply chain upstream of robots." When it comes to Hefei's "confidence", Min Yuheng, a post-00 Tsinghua graduate, also has his own understanding.
Min Yuheng is the founder of Hefei Zero Power Robot Co., Ltd. The company has developed ZERITHZ1 that can dance and mimic human boxing, as well as fold clothes and arrange fruit...... Proper "up to the hall, down to the kitchen".
As the above two people said, "imagination" in research and development and "imaging" in manufacturing reflect the good "genes" of Hefei's intelligent robot industry.
On the R&D side, Hefei has 26 R&D platforms and many are carrying out scientific research around the intelligent robot ontology, involving limbs, multi-dimensional torque, flexible tactile sensors, large and small brains, control system dynamics algorithms, etc., all of which are the core cutting-edge technologies of the industry.
On the manufacturing side, Hefei has intelligent robot enterprises, as well as humanoid robot integration enterprises (such as Anhui Lingdong General), "brain" enterprises (such as iFLYTEK), "cerebellum" enterprises (such as Zhongke Shengu), core component enterprises (such as Lianbao Technology) and other components, scene application enterprises, etc.
"Hefei has initially formed an integrated pattern of R&D and manufacturing of brain-cerebellum-core components-ontology, and is one of the few cities in China to complete the full-chain layout of the intelligent robot industry." Cheng Yu, deputy director of the Hefei Municipal Development and Reform Commission and executive director of the International Advanced Technology Application Promotion Center (Hefei) (hereinafter referred to as the "Guoxian Center"), said.
In addition, the most recognizable "confidence" of Hefei is the "base" of institutional and mechanism innovation that drives urban scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation.
As the two major driving engines in Hefei's "Y" city innovation strategy in the new era, Silicon Valley and Guoxian Center of USTC have been established in 2022 years, which are respectively committed to creating an innovation ecology and linking high-end industrial resources, aiming to realize the construction of the industrial system from "single-point breakthrough" to "system operation".
At the 2025 China (Hefei) Intelligent Robot Industry Development Conference, "Heart Valley Linkage" made its debut, and the two sides jointly established the first intelligent robot industry ecological alliance in Hefei to promote the collaborative efforts of "government, industry, academia and research funds" and promote the coordinated development of "chain master enterprise + science and technology innovation platform + industrial cluster".
"'Heart-valley linkage' is to make scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation achieve seamless connection, so as to solve the chronic disease of 'seeing each other and seeing each other' in science and industry." Wu Hailong, chairman of the board of directors of the Silicon Valley Service Platform Company of the University of Science and Technology, said.
2025China (Hefei) Intelligent Robot Industry Development Conference. Courtesy of HKUST Silicon Valley
Hefei "play"
From Funding to Services
3月30日，在2025中國(合肥)智慧機器人產業發展大會現場，當合肥“6128”工程政策PPT畫面在螢幕上切換時，台下鴉雀無聲，與會人士專注聆聽並頻頻拍照記錄。
In response to this, a week before the meeting, Sun Dandan, head of the Intelligent Robot Division of the Guoxian Center, found that the number of participating companies increased sharply from the expected 300 to more than 0. Even so, there was a temporary "extra seat" at the venue that day.
The above scene confirms the fact that Hefei made a timely move to meet their expectations.
To a certain extent, responding to the expectations of enterprises is also a construction of the "ecological rainforest" of the urban industry.
設立100億元未來產業基金，三年內投入20億元建設公共服務平台體系，每年再拿出1億元專項資金補貼智慧機器人企業研發成果……真金白銀的資金投入是其一。
However, intelligent robot companies with high technology density, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, are more interested in a city's ability to serve innovation. At the meeting, Hefei released the "8" action plan: strive to open the supply chain catalog of 0 vehicle supporting enterprises within one year, provide public services and technical research for 0 enterprises, open up 0 multi-modal brains of Huawei and iFLYTEK, form common service capabilities, and promote the implementation of 0 major scenarios.
"That's what we want." A business person attending the meeting said that Hefei plans to build a public service innovation platform, covering modules such as special processing of complex structures, precision machining and testing of key components, and relying on the intelligent manufacturing advantages of Lianbao Technology to build a small-scale pilot platform, which will greatly reduce the innovation cost of small and medium-sized enterprises.
It should be pointed out that whether it is the implementation of the "vehicle-machine-human" collaborative plan, or the promotion of the development and generalized application of "embodied brain", Hefei wants to create an inclusive service support ecology for the intelligent robot industry with metaphysical common ecological construction.
The sea is inclusive, and there is tolerance. "Companionship is not a big package, but a 'second R&D center' for enterprises in a technical no-man's land." Cheng Yu described it like this.
Service innovation, Hefei not only has the top-level design of policies, but also a platform for aggregating resources.
"HKUST Silicon Valley is a good platform." Min Yuheng said that although the company has only settled in the China Vision Park of HKUST Silicon Valley this year, it has received support in terms of financing and other aspects, and HKUST Silicon Valley has also actively helped the zero power to connect with Hefei Big Data Company to solve the needs of enterprises in terms of computing power.
"Through HKUST Silicon Valley, we have achieved a real link of resources, including publicity and vision creation business." Also holding the same view is Zhu Bao, founder of Anhui Rudong Technology Co., Ltd. The "Gaia" learnable brain-like model and chip developed and promoted by his company is a new type of artificial intelligence model and chip that measures its performance indicators by intelligence.
"The core of USTC Silicon Valley is to gather resources and build a platform, which is to dig the 'pool' of the industry wider, extend the service chain, and cultivate more good seedlings of science and technology enterprises." Wu Hailong said that the Silicon Valley service platform company of HKUST should become a "big model" for serving scientific and technological innovation and entrepreneurship.
The core area of the Silicon Valley of the University of Science and Technology is in the Anchuang Valley. Courtesy of HKUST
Hefei "Range"
-- Scene "Penetration" with the city as a testing ground
An intelligent robot conference makes people seem to see the "future".
In the interactive exhibition area, the intelligent delivery integrated coffee robot makes a cup of coffee in an average of 70 seconds, and can also deliver it to the office building; When you laugh, it laughs, and when you cry, it also cries, regardless of the technology, the multi-modal interactive expression head can realize the accurate recognition and real-time simulation of human facial expressions; The hand of the Lingbo robot can be accurately held, and it is easy to hold eggs and cans......
The scene is the best "teacher" of technology. Anchoring industrial innovation, Hefei takes a city as a testing ground to make the innovation of "Corico gas" have "pyrotechnic gas".
Take the intelligent robot industry as an example. Last year, Hefei released the country's first intelligent robot "super scene", for the national science and technology enterprises, universities and institutes, etc., released integrated application scenarios, and sincerely invited the science and technology team to become a partner of Hefei's intelligent robot industry with good technology and good products.
Therefore, in this city, to Luogang Park, visitors can enjoy robot intelligent escorts and driverless traffic guides; Walking into the campus classroom, children can feel the joy of education in the customized science education robot......
Of course, it is not easy to get intelligent robots to "hold hands" with the scene.
日前，合肥的一個工地上，焊接機器人揮舞著機械臂，精準地完成每一道焊縫。“鋼鐵俠”怎麼進了工地？這得益於合肥市場景公司“百企服務”行動。
The hour hand is dialed back again, and at a communication and exchange meeting on the application of scene application of the construction project of the Hefei Key Engineering Bureau, the construction enterprises generally reported that the steel structure welding of the bridge has been dependent on manual labor for a long time, and there are pain points such as low efficiency, large safety hazards, and health hazards in the operating environment. Taking this as a breakthrough, Hefei Market View Co., Ltd. cooperates with relevant units to systematically sort out the needs of the whole life cycle of construction, and at the same time, through the screening of the ability enterprise database, expert consultation and industrial chain collaboration, finally let the professional welding robot in the industry take the "post".
“通過場景服務公司，我們遴選百家高成長企業，為企業定製化打磨一批場景解決方案。”在吳海龍看來，服務科創企業，“找場景”和找人才、找資金同樣重要。
2025All kinds of intelligent robots in the interactive exhibition area of the China (Hefei) Intelligent Robot Industry Development Conference. Photo by Tao Wei of People's Daily Online
Wu Hailong's sentence is a concrete expression of the "penetration" of the scene in the city of Hefei.
It is reported that focusing on cultural tourism, education, medical care, venue science popularization, performance, public safety and other fields, digging deep into the pain points of scene applications, Hefei plans integrated scene solutions, and promotes intelligent robots to take the lead in real scenes. In addition, Hefei will build a "5" intelligent robot industry ecological layout, that is, to build 0 intelligent robot industrial parks, 0 intelligent robot technology service industry clusters, and set up 0 typical robot application demonstration areas.
From this level, Hefei is using a city as a testing ground to accelerate the improvement of technology generalization capabilities and open up a transition channel for the intelligent robot industry to "grow from the scene".
And the "penetration" of this scene is, to a certain extent, a new paradigm for Hefei to cultivate new quality productivity.