Overview

• The four-story Robot Mall in the E-Town district displays over 100 humanoid machines from more than 40 domestic manufacturers under a sales, service, spare-parts and surveys framework.
• Robotic units at the mall are priced from about 2,000 yuan up to several million yuan to target both consumer and industrial markets.
• Visitors can interact with mechanical waiters, chess-playing companions, robotic pets and life-size animatronic figures and dine in a robot-run restaurant.
• The mall opened on August 8 alongside the five-day World Robot Conference and leads into the inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games from August 14 to 17.
• China has invested over $20 billion in robotics subsidies this year and is finalizing a one trillion-yuan fund to support its AI and robotics industry.