The future is here | Follow the Mayors on a Robot Tour: Who's the Star of the Show?

In Ningbo, east China's Zhejiang Province, smart manufacturing is less about futuristic displays and more about integrating new tools into established production systems.

At a globally oriented smart-manufacturing company in Ningbo, robots not only write Chinese calligraphy and dance to music, but can even perform household chores. Streams of data from touch sensors, robotic-arm movements, and video feeds are continuously fed back into model training to further improve their capabilities.

Experience the future with the mayors attending the 2026 Global Mayors Dialogue · Ningbo as they discover in real time what these humanoid robots can do!

(Intern Liu Yinian also contributed to the story)