On May 12th, the first Hong Kong Embodied AI Industry Summit and the 2026 Zhiyuan Partners Conference (Hong Kong) was held in Hong Kong. Various robot and robot dog products, including the Lingxi X2, Yuanzheng A3, and Jingling G2, were collectively unveiled.
At the event, Peng Zhihui, Co-founder, President, and CTO of Zhiyuan Robotics, delivered a speech: "To achieve industrial implementation, we have, based on the 134 paradigm, for the first time in the industry defined the X, Y, and Z curves for the development of the embodied intelligence industry."
He stated that, specifically, the X curve represents breakthroughs in foundational technology, enabling robots to "move like humans" and enter a phase of development and growth. This curve drove the rapid industry development over the past three years, with growth driven by early-adopter demand coming quickly and fading just as fast. "It has now entered a stable phase, with marginal efficiency gradually diminishing," he noted.
Peng Zhihui further explained that the Y curve is driven by the automation of development tools and data flywheels, advancing from basic intelligence to high-level intelligence. The goal is for robots not only to move like humans but also to work and interact like them, achieving real commercial value. "As operational capabilities improve, industrial value and deployment scale continue to grow, with a ceiling far higher than that of the X curve," he added.
"The Z curve involves physical-world deployment forming a data flywheel, combined with breakthroughs in deep learning models, achieving a transition from quantitative to qualitative change and ushering in the next milestone in the embodied intelligence field. We look forward to robots achieving effects similar to large language models, where their work outcomes are indistinguishable from humans, realizing flexible production effects. This is our definition of the moment of intelligence emergence," he remarked.
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