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China's Physical AI Ecosystem Shifts From Model Competition to Embodied Deployment
Industry19 MAY 2026Source: TMTPost (钛媒体), SCMP China Tech, TMTPost (钛媒体)

China's Physical AI Ecosystem Shifts From Model Competition to Embodied Deployment

Tianjin's robotics cluster quietly swept a Beijing half-marathon competition while Zhiyuan Robotics crossed 10,000 units in mass production and Baidu's Create 2026 declared the AI industry has moved from model capability to agent task execution—three simultaneous signals that China's physical AI…

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