Chinese robot makers’ lament: if we only had a better ‘brain’, and more data
Chinese robotics companies lack both sufficient data and a good “brain” to improve the interaction of their products with the physical world, according to industry insiders at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), which concluded on Monday in Shanghai. The most critical challenge for the embodied AI industry was to “link hardware, data, models and real-world scenarios into a closed-loop iterative system”, said Wang Xiaogang, co-founder of SenseTime and chairman of its robotics...
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Published: 20 July 2026
Source: SCMP Tech (HK/CN)
Category: News
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 21 July 2026
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