Chinese megacity Shenzhen aims at becoming the forefront of the global artificial intelligence and robotics industries.
The city has rolled out three major action plans, which outline measures to accelerate its adoption of AI, strengthen its smart computing capacity to support local AI businesses, and establish a global lead in robotics.
Other Chinese cities are also emerging as rival centres of innovation. The eastern city of Hangzhou has attracted huge attention due to the success of local AI start-up DeepSeek and humanoid robot maker Unitree.
Shenzhen wants to increase the market value of its AI terminal industry to 1 trillion yuan (US$137 billion) by 2026, fostering at least 10 leading AI terminal businesses, and raising the output of local AI terminal makers to more than 150 million units.
AI terminal industry includes a wide range of AI-driven devices, from smartphones to smart-home products and industrial systems.
Source: South China Morning Post
