Binhai robots impress at World Intelligence Expo

The exhibition zone of Deepinfar. [Photo/WeChat account: tjbhxqfb]

The 2026 World Intelligence Expo opened to the public on May 30. The embodied AI section drew the biggest crowds, where robots from Binhai New Area, Tianjin, showcased cutting-edge technologies.

Binhai has fostered industry players such as Atomrobot, Deepinfar, Wybotics, and LONYU Robot. In 2025, the area produced over 10,000 industrial robots and more than 600,000 service robots. Atomrobot leads the domestic high-speed parallel robot market, while Deepinfar is a benchmark in underwater robotics. Several  companies are now entering the humanoid robot sector.

Besides these Binhai-based companies, Unitree — which signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area on May 27 — attracted huge interest at the expo.

According to Zhang Huanxi, secretary-general of the Tianjin Robot Industry Technology Alliance, Binhai's robot industry includes three highly promising features: dominance in industrial and special-purpose robots, a cluster of hidden champions, and rich downstream application scenarios.

The latest data show 18 robot enterprises above the designated size in Binhai, producing 42 billion yuan ($6.20 billion) in output value in 2025.