[Fee meeting]
Forum on Intelligent Robot Science and Technology
| Time | Agenda |
| Opening Ceremony | |
| Moderator: Weijia Tan, Secretary-General of the Shenzhen Robotics Association | |
| 09:00-09:15 | Opening Remarks Distinguished Guests: Provincial and Municipal Government Representatives (TBC); Xinyu Wu, Deputy Director of Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars Recipient, IEEE Fellow; Yi Pan, Member of the National Academy of Medicine and Biological Engineering (USA) and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Dean of the School of Computer Science and Control Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic University, Chairman of Shenzhen Robotics Association; Roland Bleinroth, President of Messe Stuttgart. |
| 09:15-9:30 | Keynote Report: Driving Industry Transformation: Strategic Outlook for the Global Robotics Market Susanne Bieller, Secretary General of the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) |
| 09:30-09:40 | FAIR plus 2026 Launch Ceremony |
| 09:40-10:00 | Unveiling Ceremony Joint Release Ceremony of the Shenzhen Robotics Industry Development White Paper (2025) and the “Robot+” Application Innovation Scenario Research Report, and the Launch Ceremony of Kyland Technology’s General Electronic Architecture for Intelligent Robots |
| 10:00-10:05 | Joint Launch: Launch Ceremony of the 1st National Safety and Emergency Rescue Robot Competition |
| Main Forum (Morning Session) | |
| 10:05-10:10 | Remarks Su Song, Former Director, Divisions II and III, Department of Information Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) |
| Moderator: Tianmiao Wang, Honorary Director, Robotics Institute, Beihang University; Founder, Zhiyou Yare Innovation Platform; President, Zhongguancun Zhiyou Research Institute | |
| 10:10-10:35 | Keynote Speech: Intelligent Unmanned Systems and Equipment: From Brain-Inspired Intelligence to Biomimetics Lei Guo, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Lantian Distinguished Professor, Beihang University; Dean, Institute of Aerospace Biomimetic Intelligence; IEEE Fellow |
| 10:35-11:00 | Keynote Speech: Intelligent Transformation and Upgrading of Manufacturing Industry from the Perspective of Manufacturing Trends Xin Chen, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering; Professor of the School of Electromechanical Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology; Director of the National Technology Innovation Center for the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area; Director of the State Key Laboratory of Precision Electronic Manufacturing Technology and Equipment jointly established by the Ministry and Guangdong Province |
| Moderator: Panfeng Huang, Dean of the School of Astronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University; National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars Recipient | |
| 11:00-11:25 | Keynote Speech: AI-Enabled Robotics for Logistics and Surgical Automation Applications Yunhui Liu, Lee Quo Wei Professor of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Director, T Stone Robotics Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Director, Hong Kong Centre for Logistics Robotics |
| 11:25-11:50 | Keynote Speech: Physical Agents: The Next Wave of Artificial Intelligence Zhengyou Zhang, Chief Scientist, Tencent; Director, Tencent Robotics X Lab and Futian Laboratory; ACM Fellow; IEEE Fellow |
| 11:50-12:30 | International Dialogue: Moderator: Yalei Bi, Director, Industry Development Center, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Executive Vice Chairman and Secretary-General, Shenzhen Robotics Association Panelists: Patrick Schwarzkopf, Managing Director, VDMA Robotics + Automation Association, Germany; Jyrki Latokartano, Chairman, Finnish Robotics Association; Head of Robotics Laboratory, Tampere University, Finland; Bongki (Scott) Choi, Vice President of International Business Development, Samsung SDS, South Korea; Alex Dantas, Founder, Circuit Launch, USA; Jacques Eone, President, Cameroon Robotics Association; Founder and CEO, Sparte Robotics; Anca-Georgiana Rusu, Executive Director, Swiss Robotics Association; Head of Robotics Industry Ecosystem Network, EPFL, Switzerland; Djit Laowattana, Founder, Institute of Robotics, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand. |
| Main Forum (Afternoon Session) | |
| Moderator: Guanglin Li, Director, Institute of Integrated Technology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
| 13:30-13:50 | Keynote Speech: Intelligent Micromanipulation Robotic Systems for Organoid Regeneration Huijun Gao, Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology; Director, Institute of Intelligent Control and Systems; Foreign Member, European Academy of Sciences; Changjiang Scholar; National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars Recipient; IEEE Fellow |
| Moderator: Li Zhang, Deputy Secretary-General, Chinese Society of Instrumentation | |
| 13:50-14:10 | Keynote Speech: Advancing Robots Toward General Intelligence through Tactile and Dexterous Manipulation Intelligence Yu Wang, Founding Director, Robotics Institute, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Dean and Chair Professor, School of Engineering, The Greater Bay Area University; Changjiang Scholar; National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars Recipient; Chief Scientist, National 973 Program; IEEE Fellow; Chairman and Chief Scientist, Daimon Robotics |
| 14:10-14:30 | Keynote Speech: Trustworthy Embodied Intelligence: From Collaborative Manipulators to Humanoid Robots — Safety, Standards, and Scalable Deployment Peichao Liu, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Dobot Robotics |
| 14:30-15:10 | Roundtable Discussion: Technological Breakthroughs, Convergence, Reliability, and Cost Reduction in Robotics Hardware Moderator: Jie Zhao, Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology; Director, Robotics Institute; Changjiang Distinguished Professor; Leader, Expert Group for the Ministry of Science and Technology’s Key Special Projects on Intelligent Robots under the 13th and 14th Five-Year Plans; Deputy Chief Scientist, National Major Project on “Intelligent Manufacturing Systems and Robotics” Panelists: Wei Xi, Director of Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center, Midea Group; Deputy Director of the National Key Laboratory for High-End Heavy-Duty Robotics; Yidong Chen, Vice President and Chief Expert, Zhaowei Group; General Manager, Dexterous Hand Company; Tianling Chen, Vice President of Supply Chain, Sunday Robotics, USA; Yongkun Wang, Founder and CEO, Standard Robots (Wuxi) Co., Ltd.; Junqi Zheng, President, Shanghai Robotics Industry Technology Research Institute; Director, National Robot Testing and Evaluation Center (Headquarters); Shikai Chen, Founder and CEO, Slamtec; Zhaokui Zhu, Head of the Small and Specialized Robotics Industry Cluster, Hikvision Group. |
| 15:10-15:30 | Keynote Speech: Title TB Jichao Jiao, Vice President, UBTECH Robotics; Dean, Research Institute, UBTECH Robotics |
| 15:30-15:50 | Keynote Speech: Smart Materials Enabling “Warm” Humanoid Robots Shiwu Zhang, Deputy Dean, School of Engineering Science, University of Science and Technology of China; Executive Dean, Institute of Humanoid Robotics |
| 15:50-16:10 | Keynote Speech: Beyond the “Coffee Moment”: Humanoid Robots Enter the Era of Commercial Services Kui Jia, Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Founder, DEXFORCE TECHNOLOGY |
| 16:10-16:50 | Roundtable Discussion: Embodied Intelligence with AI Brains: The Future Driven by Foundation Models Moderator: Jiaxing Zhang, Chief AI Scientist, China Merchants Group; Director, Lion Rock AI Laboratory Panelists: Qian Wang, Founder and CEO, X SQUARE ROBOT; Jincheng Xu, Founder and CEO, Pacini Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.; Hao Zhao, Assistant Professor, Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University; BAAI Scholar; Jiayu Chen, Chief Scientist, Forcai Intelligence; Assistant Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor, Department of Data and Systems Engineering, The University of Hong Kong; Director, Agentic Intelligence Lab. |
