Accompanied by the beautiful Liangshui River, crossing the "landmark" Wenbo Bridge in Yizhuang, Beijing, and running on the "internet famous check-in spot" Paulownia Avenue... In April 2025, the world's first humanoid robot marathon will start running in Yizhuang. In this competition, 12000 half marathon runners and nearly 20 national humanoid robot enterprise teams will run more than 20 kilometers together, making all walks of life feel the new trend of "technology+sports". Robot "horse running" is the epitome of the rapid development of humanoid robots in China. As an innovative product that integrates cutting-edge technology, humanoid robots are standing at the forefront of the changing times. They can drive the development of other industries, promote economic growth, enhance international competitiveness, play an important role in many fields such as industry, family, and elderly care, and even reshape the global industrial development pattern. The humanoid robot industry in China "runs" up and down, steadily walks and runs under various road conditions, and jointly builds a personal intelligent robot innovation center in the country and local areas. After only half a year, the running speed of humanoid robot "Tiangong" has jumped from 6 kilometers per hour to 10 kilometers per hour, and the maximum speed can reach 12 kilometers per hour. The upgrading speed is amazing. The Innovation Center is collaborating with research institutes, universities, leading companies in the industry, etc. to jointly research and create in the fields of ontology development, embodied brain, embodied cerebellum, embodied dataset, etc In the opinion of Xiong Youjun, the general manager of the Innovation Center, the development speed of humanoid robots has been very fast in recent years after several iterations. I think the trend of humanoid robots has arrived. "Recently, the" Research Report on the Development of the Humanoid Robot Industry (2024) "released by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology pointed out that after years of development and technological iteration, driven by the huge potential market demand and the deep empowerment of artificial intelligence technology, the application scenarios in production and manufacturing, social services, special operations and other fields are constantly being explored, and the industrial chain is accelerating construction and optimization. Humanoid robots have entered a critical development period of technological breakthroughs and preliminary application trials. Xu Xiaolan, Chairman of the China Electronics Society, believes that new technologies represented by artificial intelligence are in a period of innovation explosion, especially the effect of empowering robots with artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly evident. By fully tapping into the application needs in industries such as industry, agriculture, services, special industries, and home services, it can stimulate new consumption, stimulate new industries, expand new employment, and form new quality productivity. In recent years, the humanoid robot industry in China has developed rapidly and made important breakthroughs in technology. In terms of policy environment, relevant departments have issued multiple policies to lead and promote innovation in humanoid robot technology and industrial development; Local governments have also actively followed up and introduced relevant policies based on their own actual situation, providing strong support for the humanoid robot industry. In November 2023, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Guiding Opinions on the Innovation and Development of Humanoid Robots", which comprehensively promotes the layout of the humanoid robot industry by improving top-level design. It proposes to establish a preliminary humanoid robot innovation system by 2025, achieve international advanced level of complete machine products, nurture and develop a number of new businesses, models, and formats, and achieve the development goals of the industry's comprehensive strength reaching the world's advanced level and becoming an important new engine of economic growth by 2027. At the local level, as an important gathering place for the robotics industry in Beijing, Beijing Yizhuang has established a national and local joint construction intelligent robot innovation center, with more than 140 robot ecological enterprises and an output value of nearly 10 billion yuan, forming a complete robot human industry chain system covering core components, complete machines, and applications; Shanghai proposes to adopt the "manufacturing innovation center+key enterprise" approach to layout the humanoid robot manufacturing innovation center, accelerate the creation of humanoid robot products and general artificial intelligence models with international influence; Anhui Province has established two provincial-level platforms, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Humanoid Robots and Anhui Province Humanoid Robot Industry Innovation Center, focusing on the comprehensive and full chain technology layout of "brain cerebellum limb evaluation" for humanoid robots; Zhejiang proposes to build artificial intelligence characteristic industrial parks according to local conditions and develop future industries such as humanoid robots. According to third-party data, there are currently over 700000 robot related companies in China, with a number of domestic humanoid robots such as Ubiquitous and Xiaomi appearing one after another. To stand firmly on the "highland", we still have to overcome three obstacles to make great progress in the development of China's humanoid robot industry and grasp the core competitiveness. However, we are still facing challenges such as lack of technical reserves, insufficient capital supply, and decentralized industrial layout. At the level of core technological innovation, there is still room for improvement in the mechanical structure and key components of humanoid robots in China, such as the power density of high-precision servo motors and precision reducers, and the performance of high-end sensors, which may have an impact on the performance of humanoid robots. On the other hand, Jiao Jichao, Vice President and Executive Director of the Research Institute of Ubiquitous, believes that the development speed of humanoid robots benefits from technological innovation and reserves, especially in the fields of chip research and development, artificial intelligence and other underlying technologies and innovative technologies. Artificial intelligence+humanoid robots are the key to the current technological integration and also the direction we need to further break through. Currently, Tesla OpenAI、 Companies such as Amazon and NVIDIA are participating in the research and development of humanoid robots, and there is a trend of strong alliances among major companies. Industry insiders point out that although domestic humanoid robot companies actively invest in research and development, they still need financial support in research and infrastructure construction. In addition, the high hardware costs of humanoid robots make it difficult for companies to sustain their operations on their own, which can also increase their operational pressure. Some industry insiders interviewed believe that across the country, there are humanoid robot industries distributed in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other places. Each region is making every effort to develop the humanoid robot industry based on its comparative advantages in universities, leading talents, strategic scientists and industrial chains. However, there are also problems such as scattered layout of some industrial links, lack of leading enterprises to drive, and difficulty in exerting agglomeration effects. Currently, various regions are using various methods to solve these problems. Beijing Yizhuang has established a 10 billion yuan government investment guidance fund to support enterprise innovation and development. It has successively landed the National Robot Testing and Evaluation Center (Headquarters) Beijing Evaluation Center, the first full category robot exhibition center "Robot World" in China, and the first humanoid robot incubation base in Beijing, gradually forming a good industrial chain. Shanghai relies on the national and local joint construction of humanoid robot innovation centers to organize technological breakthroughs, create a technological foundation for humanoid robots, promote data collection and scene openness, and bring ecological space for humanoid robot innovation. Adopting multiple strategies to accelerate the application and landing of humanoid robots is one of the industries with great potential and prospects in the world's technology field. In recent years, it has been rapidly iterating, increasing investment in supporting technological innovation and research and development, and accelerating the landing of application scenarios, which will effectively promote the acceleration of industrialization. We need to further promote breakthroughs in underlying technologies and expand the application market Jiao Jichao believes that through policy guidance and financial support, promoting the deep integration of industry, academia, research and application, building a bridge between technological innovation and industrial application, can accelerate the demonstration application of humanoid robots in industrial manufacturing, medical care, home services and other fields, help form a good industrial ecology, and achieve mass production. In terms of industrial chain development, Ma Ning, Deputy Director of the Robotics and Intelligent Manufacturing Industry Bureau of Beijing Economic Development Zone, believes that creating a good industrial ecology is the foundation of innovative development. For example, Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone is promoting the formation of an industrial pattern with humanoid robots as the focus, system integration enterprises as the leader, and the coordinated development of the main body and component enterprises through a specialized service mechanism of "one team, one plan, one platform, one set of policies, one fund, and one batch of projects", and multi-level measures to maximize policy effectiveness. Some interviewed experts and industry insiders also suggested further promoting cooperation between enterprises, universities, and research institutions, establishing industry education integration laboratories, leading universities to carry out innovation and entrepreneurship talent training for humanoid robots, and jointly carrying out technology research and development and talent training. Actively attract overseas talents and provide a better research environment in education, healthcare, innovation protection, and other areas. (New Society)