Robot "Gardener" starts work in Beijing to create a unique industry pathway of "Events + Orders"

As one of the activities in the Robofuture event series, the Landscape & Water Smart Robot Expo and Project Pitching Month was held at Nanhai Zi Park in Beijing. Reporter Fu Tian 摄

(China News Service, Beijing, March 30) (Sun Yanping) Nanhai Zi Park in Beijing has welcomed a group of robot “gardeners.” The reporter learned today from the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (abbreviated as “Beijing E-Town,” also known as Beijing Yizhuang). As one of the Robofuture event series activities, the Landscape & Water Smart Robot Expo and Project Pitching Month focuses on three major application scenarios—landscape maintenance, water governance, and interactive entertainment—bringing together more than 30 products from 18 companies nationwide for centralized demonstration of the technologies and application scenarios of landscape & water smart robots. A relevant person in charge from Beijing E-Town said that excellent products will receive support in the form of procurement orders, helping more landscape & water robots land and be applied in real projects, and providing a “Yizhuang solution” for ecological governance nationwide.

Promoting robots into end-to-end operational scenarios

By moving the competition venue from the laboratory to real park settings, Beijing Yizhuang organizes this event driven by real needs. Through three formats—static exhibitions, on-site operational demos, and project pitching—it provides an all-in-one platform for industry technical exchanges, achievements showcases, matching between supply and demand, and capital empowerment.

A cleaning robot cleans up in the park; robotic dogs patrol, conduct inspection checks, and keep watch at designated locations; ecological patrol robots complete tasks such as patrols, equipment inspections, and biological monitoring through autonomous navigation and voice interaction; grass-cutting robots work in an orderly manner on the lawns. On the water surface, an unmanned surface-cleaning patrol boat tours to collect garbage, while flying life buoy rings and underwater rescue detection boats can provide real-time protection for emergency rescue operations. In areas where visitors rest and gather, service robots provide intelligent reception and answer questions, and unmanned vending vehicles provide selling services such as ice cream and beverages. In the park scene, all kinds of robots such as AI water-saving robots, smart maintenance flower boxes that do not require irrigation, and intelligent pest-condition lure-and-detection reporting instruments are put into application and displayed.

The event is not only a showcase of technology, but also a “trial run” for orders. In this event, 13 participating companies introduced innovative breakthroughs in their product plans and application prospects. An expert review panel composed of technology, industry, and investment & financing experts provided on-site comments and guidance, offering professional support such as optimization suggestions and demand matching for project implementation and industrialization development. At the same time, the companies will receive opportunities for exposure in large-scale events in Beijing Yizhuang, such as the Yizhuang Humanoid Robot Half Marathon. After a month-long on-site application trial and use, they will further expand and roll out in parks within the district.

Bo Ya Gong Dao brought two innovative products to the exhibition. Among them, the single-load garbage capacity of its intelligent cruising water-surface cleaning unmanned boat reaches 50 kg, and its cleaning efficiency exceeds 15 mu/hour. It can achieve normalized, round-the-clock unmanned guard and maintenance cleaning. The company’s deputy general manager and operations director Fu Yuhan said, “This exhibition has built a communication and matchmaking platform, allowing more people to see the real value of intelligent unmanned boats in improving water-area cleaning efficiency and ensuring operational safety.”

Ku Wa Technology brought two cleaning robots. A relevant person in charge in the Beijing area of the company, Xu Xiaoxiao, said that the company uses a self-developed “world model” brain to coordinate and manage the work of equipment with different physical forms. “We hope to showcase practical, ready-to-use capabilities in real landscape and water governance scenarios. We also hope to meet more strategic partners in fields such as urban management, landscaping, and property management, and to deepen together the ‘AI city services total package’ business model, jointly accelerating the rollout of ‘RoboCity (robot ecological city)’ in Beijing.”

“Landscape and water robots are a strong necessity for enterprise customers. 2026 will be the first year of the golden growth period in this field. Customer orders in the landscape robot and water robot directions are relatively clear at present.” Cui Min, vice president of investment at Mushi Venture Capital, said.

Holding this event by E-Town is another important practice in building the robot industry ecosystem. Relying on the overall AI-in-city construction plan for the whole area, E-Town will in the future deploy robots in parks within the district, such as Bo Da Park, Tong Ming Lake Park, and pocket parks, and also roll out in stages extending to Nanhai Zi Park. The core will include scenarios such as intelligent inspections, water-surface cleaning, greenery maintenance, and companion-tour services. It will build a unified dispatch and management platform, helping robots efficiently solve pain points in landscape maintenance, and upgrade the experience of enjoying the parks. By empowering smart city park construction with technology, it will create a smart landscape benchmark model that can be replicated and promoted.

Building a characteristic industrial path of “competition + orders”

“We hope to achieve ‘selecting the best through competitions, promoting usage through exhibitions, and driving production through orders,’ and to build a complete chain of ‘technology validation—scenario adaptation—market transformation,’ so that excellent robot products can truly ‘win in competitions, be used, and land on the ground.’” A relevant person in charge from Beijing E-Town introduced that this “competition + orders” model is becoming a distinctive path for Beijing Yizhuang to cultivate new-quality productive forces.

It is understood that Beijing Yizhuang has already gathered more than 300 advantage companies such as Zhitong Precision, Xinghai Tu, Yunji, and Benmo Technology. It has set up innovation platforms such as the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center. Covering the whole industrial chain including core components, complete machine manufacturing, system integration, and scenario solution services, it has formed an industrial ecosystem characterized by “leading enterprises driving, small and medium enterprises collaborating, and innovation platforms providing support.”

Promote production by promoting use through competition, and promote industrialization by promoting production through use. Looking to the future, Beijing Yizhuang will continue to deepen the main line of “competition-driven, scenario empowerment, and platform support.” In terms of the competition system, it will continue to run events such as the World Robot Conference and the Beijing Yizhuang Humanoid Robot Half Marathon, improve the Robofuture event matrix, and continuously enhance industrial influence. In scenario development, it will deeply implement the embodied intelligence social experiment program, and continuously release application demand in areas such as industrial manufacturing and household services, create a batch of high-value scenarios, and accelerate robots’ empowerment across thousands of industries. In terms of platform support, relying on leading enterprises, universities and research institutes, and innovation platforms, it will strengthen efforts to tackle key core technologies, consolidate a data foundation, improve the standards system, and continuously enhance industrial foundation capabilities and the modernization level of the industrial chain, providing support for the high-quality development of the robot industry. (End)

(Editor: Wen Jing)

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