The APC 2026 Intelligent Partner Conference was successfully held, marking the beginning of a new era of embodied intelligent productivity

Yuan Sheng Plan Launch Ceremony April 17, 2026, Shanghai, China — The global embodied intelligence industry has reached an important moment. The 2026 Intelligent Yuan Partner Conference (APC 2026) is held in Shanghai, with over 2,500 partners from more than 30 countries and regions attending. Deng Taihua, founder, chairman, and CEO of Intelligent Yuan, delivered a keynote speech, officially releasing the XYZ curve and productivity realization framework of the embodied intelligence industry to the industry for the first time. He systematically elaborated on the evolution path of the embodied intelligence industry from the development stage to the deployment stage, officially launching four new ontology products, six AI models, and seven productivity solutions. He also publicly unveiled the AIMA (AI Machine Architecture) full-stack ecological technology system for the first time, announcing the comprehensive opening of a new era of embodied intelligence productivity under the "One Body and Three Intelligences" technical architecture. At the conference, the "Yuan Sheng" Intelligent Yuan Ecological Development Plan was launched simultaneously. Deng Taihua announced that Intelligent Yuan will invest over 2 billion yuan in the next five years to support scientific research and academic innovation, talent education and training, ecological partner development, and community operation. Xie Shaofeng, chairman of the National Humanoid Robot Standardization Committee and president of the Open Atom Open Source Foundation, Pu Yapeng, deputy director of the Shanghai Economic and Information Commission, and Yuan Guohua, secretary of the party committee and chairman of Shanghai State-owned Capital Investment Co., Ltd., participated in the launch ceremony. Yuan Sheng Plan Launch Ceremony The conference, themed "Together to Start a New Era of Embodied Intelligence Productivity," gathered partners from the global industrial chain and numerous ecological collaborators to witness Chinese embodied intelligence companies leading the global competition landscape in embodied intelligence. Leading the Industry for Three Years, Redefining the Full-Stack Architecture of Embodied Intelligence "Only by achieving One Body and Three Intelligences can robots be like humans, not only physically developed but also mentally agile; not only able to speak well but also able to work efficiently," Deng Taihua pointed out the core of Intelligent Yuan's product strategy at the beginning of his speech. What is One Body and Three Intelligences? "One Body" refers to a stable, reliable, high upper limit, and low-cost ontology, which is the physical carrier of embodied intelligence; "Three Intelligences" includes: motion intelligence as the basic intelligence, responsible for the actuator function of the physical carrier; interaction intelligence as the advanced intelligence, serving as the emotional value entry and providing service productivity; and operational intelligence, also an advanced intelligence, serving as the labor value engine and providing labor productivity Deng Taihua admitted that Zhiyuan's concrete interpretation of "full stack" is "one body and three intelligences." In terms of technology stack planning, Zhiyuan insists on hardware modularization and software componentization, focusing on the research and development of large and small brain AI, which occupies 3/4 of the company's R&D personnel and over 3/4 of R&D expenses. "We position ourselves as a company of embodied intelligent foundational models because AI needs a body, so we have created a corresponding ontology to define the ontology with AI," he emphasized. From 300,000 yuan in 2023 to over 60 million yuan in 2024, and then to last year's revenue exceeding 1 billion yuan, Zhiyuan is not only the fastest robot company in China to surpass 1 billion in revenue but also the fastest AI company to do so. Deng Taihua stated that this year's revenue target continues to maintain several times growth, with good performance in the first quarter. Zhiyuan took only three years to expand from Shanghai to the global market, from one product to a full ecosystem layout. Zhiyuan not only runs fast but also runs steadily— the company's overall investment strategy maintains saturated R&D investment, continuously enhancing product competitiveness, supporting rapid growth in market shipment volume and revenue scale, with losses narrowing in profit margins, ultimately relying on scale to dilute unit R&D costs, thus achieving sustainable profitability. For a vast array of products, scale is king, and scale means shipment volume and revenue. Zhiyuan founder, chairman, and CEO Deng Taihua delivers a keynote speech. Entering a New Era to Create Productivity: Deng Taihua: 2026 is the "Deployment State" Year Deng Taihua pointed out: "2026 is the year of the deployment state, where embodied intelligence officially transitions from 'development state' to 'deployment state,' moving from 'can act' to 'can do.' When robots can work autonomously and independently create value, they become the true productivity of the physical AI world. The value of this industry will increase as the working capabilities of robots improve and the landing scenarios continue to enrich, driving the continuous increase in deployment scale." Deng Taihua emphasized: "Zhiyuan's goal is not just to create robots with excellent ontologies but to turn them into reliable productivity units that can be cross-industry, scalable, and deployed in all scenarios." XYZ Curve: The First Industry Definition of the Embodied Intelligence Industry Development Framework The most important moment of the conference—Deng Taihua attempted to define the XYZ curve of embodied intelligence development and the productivity realization framework for the first time in the industry, providing the sector with a clear evolution coordinate and timeline, drawing a complete roadmap from technological exploration to value creation. The X curve (2022 to 2025) represents the development and trial period, completing the critical leap from prototype to mass production. The first humanoid robot was released in 2023, completing the verification of technical feasibility; by 2025, 5,000 units will be mass-produced, transforming robots from "exhibits" to "products," and robots will be able to "move." The Y curve (2026 to 2030) represents the deployment growth phase. In March 2026, ZhiYuan Robotics will roll off the production line with ten thousand units, achieving top-level hardware consistency and scalable delivery capabilities. Interactive intelligence and operational intelligence will be scaled up, and the data flywheel in the deployment state will drive productivity to continuously approach human levels. ZhiYuan designates 2026 as the "Year of Deployment," taking the lead in entering this phase. The Z curve (2030 and beyond) represents the deployment popularization period, marking the emergence of embodied intelligence—robots will fully surpass human productivity in key areas such as manufacturing, logistics, and services, with extreme advantages in learning efficiency and evolution speed. Collective intelligence will begin to emerge, unlocking trillion-level market potential. First release of the embodied intelligence XYZ curve to the industry ZhiYuan's 358 Macro Plan: Validating the XYZ Curve with Real Development At the conference, Deng Taihua announced ZhiYuan's 358 macro plan, which serves as a full validation of the XYZ curve through ZhiYuan's actual actions. ZhiYuan is steadily advancing its industrial layout based on the XYZ development curve, having traversed the X curve in three years and achieved its first billion in revenue; in five years, it will promote the Y curve, completing the deployment of ten thousand units in the first batch of deployment scenarios and successfully crossing the hundred billion revenue threshold; in eight years, it will welcome the Z curve, collaborating with global ecological partners to achieve large-scale 1 to N promotion. At this point, the entire industry will collectively welcome the moment of intelligent emergence of embodied intelligence. Deng Taihua stated, "By the third stage, how much revenue ZhiYuan generates is no longer important. What matters is that we will witness a historic moment of leap in human productivity. The industry will succeed, productivity will advance, and each of us will be a beneficiary." Peng Zhihui: The Turning Point of Embodied Intelligence Productivity Has Arrived At the conference, ZhiYuan co-founder, president, and CTO Peng Zhihui re-examined the embodied intelligence productivity revolution from the perspective of token economics. He proposed, "The task space of embodied intelligent agents spans the digital world and the entire physical world. A robot that continuously operates in the physical world consumes tokens at every moment. Who is the largest token consumer in the AI era? It is not chat software, not code assistants, and not image and video generators—but embodied intelligent agents." From perceiving the world to empowering industries, Peng Zhihui further elaborated that the turning point of embodied intelligence productivity is not due to a sudden breakthrough in a particular technology, but rather because three elements—intelligent large models, reliable entities, and data flywheels—have matured simultaneously for the first time within the same time window. Large models solve the problem of understanding the world, the robot entity has crossed the threshold of reliable execution, and real deployment has begun to form a data flywheel Co-founder, President, and CTO of Zhiyuan, Peng Zhihui Four New Ontology Products, Six AI Large Models, and Seven Productivity Solutions Unveiled Ontology Product Matrix: New Products Make a Splash The four new ontology products launched at this conference point to a clear direction: robots are no longer just stage props for showcasing technology, but true productivity units entering production scenarios. The flagship product Expedition A3 has been released this month and is defined as the most comprehensive full-size humanoid in the industry this year. The core advantages of A3 include: the highest power-to-weight ratio in the industry, achieving higher mobility and flexibility in full size compared to half size; dual battery packs support hot-swapping, allowing continuous operation for 8 to 10 hours without battery replacement; modular structural design that can be separated and combined, supporting free customization of IP images; the industry's first full-size humanoid robot natively supporting interactive intelligent deployment mode. Another major product, Lingxi X3, will be launched at the end of this year. This is the first new modal humanoid interactive service terminal that combines intelligence, anthropomorphism, fun, and safety, redefining the product standards for humanoid robots. Spirit G2 Air is extremely lightweight, matching human joint movements, and supports human-machine integrated data collection mode; G2 Max has greater load control and is an expert in industrial handling and de-stacking. The Kuto D2 series of quadruped robots will also be launched this year, covering large, medium, and small specifications. The D2 series features adaptive dynamic balance, full-scene environmental understanding, autonomous task planning, real-time anomaly handling, and natural language interaction capabilities, extending embodied intelligence from indoor to all-terrain, capable of independently completing complex tasks, targeting core scenarios such as logistics handling, industrial inspection, security emergencies, firefighting rescue, and special operations for large-scale implementation. Three Types of Intelligence with Six Major Models: Continuous Iterative Breakthroughs AI capability has always been a top priority for Zhiyuan. The six AI models to be launched this year will significantly enhance the motion intelligence, interaction intelligence, and operational intelligence within the "one body, three intelligences." In terms of motion intelligence, two foundational models will be introduced: a full-body motion control foundational model that supports sensory control integration (achieving adaptive motion control through environmental perception), and a generative motion control foundational model (real-time generation of any action through multimodal interaction without pre-arrangement). In terms of interaction intelligence, based on the already widely applied WITA large model, the first end-to-end embodied multimodal interaction large model, WITA Omni 1.0, will be released in the third quarter. This model retains information on conversational emotions, context, tone, environment, etc., achieving natural anthropomorphic emotional interaction expression, supporting interruptions, corrections, and interjections The largest investment in operational intelligence and the highest density of algorithm talent. Recently, Zhiyuan has released the GO-2 model that integrates large and small brains, the action world model GE-2, the open-source dataset AGIBOT WORLD 2026, the simulation platform Genie Sim 3.0, and Genie Studio 2.0. In the third quarter, the GO-3 model will be launched, integrating the ViLLA architecture and world model architecture, with planning and reasoning capabilities for complex tasks. The data scale will reach tens to hundreds of times that of GO-2, aiming for significant breakthroughs in success rate, generalization, and long-term task handling, thereby raising the model ceiling for the entire industry in operational intelligence. Seven productivity solutions implemented: The industry shifts from "selling robots" to "delivering results" The seven productivity solutions are the most convincing proof of this conference — not concepts on PPT, but real products that have been normalized and deployed in line. These solutions can be summarized into three main directions: industrial manufacturing (including 3C precision parts loading and unloading, industrial handling and de-stacking, logistics sorting), commercial services (including store navigation and guidance, chain restaurant guidance, retail service stations), and special operations (including security inspections and commercial cleaning). Each solution has been validated in the real production lines and scenarios of leading enterprises: the Longqi Nanchang production line has been deployed for over a month, Fulin Precision and SAIC factories are operating normally, logistics sorting has been running for half a year and has started overseas replication, the deployment cycle for security inspections has been shortened from months and weeks to days and hours, and the cleaning solution has accumulated thousands of units shipped, with a target of over six thousand units this year, especially as overseas cleaning labor costs are high, indicating significant growth potential. Zhiyuan's seven solutions focus on real scenarios in diverse industries, promoting embodied intelligence from technical demonstrations to large-scale deployment with standardized and replicable capabilities, effectively releasing the value of industrial productivity. Peng Zhihui stated: "The real watershed of embodied intelligence is not just the entry of AI models into the physical world, but the beginning of products entering real workflows. The industry is shifting from 'selling robots' to 'delivering results.'" Zhiyuan Spirit G2 deployed in the Longqi Nanchang production line AIMA full-stack ecological development platform, investing 2 billion yuan in ecological construction over five years The large-scale promotion of deployment requires an extremely easy-to-use development platform. Zhiyuan has released the AIMA (AI Machine Architecture) full-stack ecological development platform, with a fully open "1+3+X" architecture. Among them, Lingqu OS is a natively adapted open-source operating system for embodied intelligence, providing optimal performance for the entire link of embodied intelligence; Lingchuang platform is an action content creation platform that supports Zero-Shot/Few-Shot action learning; Lingxin platform is a customization platform for intelligent agents, allowing robots to have ever-changing personalities; Genie Studio serves as a one-stop development platform, significantly lowering the development threshold. At the same time, Zhiyuan announced the launch of the Yuan Sheng Ecological Plan: over the next five years, it will invest no less than 2 billion yuan to support scientific research and academic innovation, talent cultivation in education, ecological partner development, and developer community operations, aiming to assist thousands of partners in growth, cultivate a large-scale developer community, and promote technological innovation and commercial implementation. Global Ecological Network: Leading Global Industrial Development Data is the core production material for embodied intelligent innovation and development, and it is also the main bottleneck in current industrial development. At this conference, Zhiyuan launched the world's first physical AI data network, the "Hive Data Co-Creation Initiative," which is built on three pillars: systematic collection, standardized links, and large-scale supply, to construct a multi-dimensional and extendable data ecology, with an expected annual data capacity of tens of millions of hours. In addition, Zhiyuan has created the first global robot rental network platform, "QingTian Rental," utilizing the RaaS model to lower the deployment threshold for customers, promoting the large-scale commercial implementation of embodied intelligence through on-demand usage and value-based payment. With the motto "Global machines are rentable, global data can be co-created," Zhiyuan is laying the infrastructure for the globalization of embodied intelligence, unlocking trillion-level industrial potential. Deng Taihua emphasized at the press conference that Zhiyuan always promotes the layout of the embodied intelligence industry with a global perspective, adhering to a globalization path of open-source technology, open ecology, and win-win industries. The global rental network is launched, opening a new era of RaaS; investor Huang Xiaoming attended the launch ceremony. Starting with the End in Mind: Co-Creating a New Era of Human Productivity From Token economy to integrated three intelligences, from XYZ curve to 358 macro plan, from thousands of units offline to the implementation of seven major productivity solutions, the 2026 Zhiyuan Partner Conference is not only a product, strategy, and planning launch event but also a declaration of China's embodied intelligence industry stepping onto the global competitive stage. "Stay true to the original intention, start with the end in mind," Deng Taihua emphasized at the end. Zhiyuan's mission is to create unlimited productivity with intelligent machines—through scientific creation, theoretically infinitely expanding the base of "humans" (including robots), providing unlimited productivity; the vision is to become a leading global enterprise and build a universal robot industry ecology. "We do not require exclusivity in all our partnerships, no monopolization, and no requirement for either/or choices; everything is open to the entire industry. If others emerge based on the capabilities of the Zhiyuan system and promote industrial development, we welcome that. If the industry succeeds and productivity advances, we all benefit!"