QINGDAO -- Leading Chinese experts and academics gathered in the coastal city of Qingdao in east China on Nov 1 for the 2024 Chinese Automation Congress, highlighting emerging technologies including embodied artificial intelligence (AI).

The congress, sponsored by the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), brings together nearly 20 academicians and 300 experts to discuss topics covering embodied AI, industrial internet, brain-computer interfaces, and intelligent robotics.
The event features 10 keynote speeches and 46 parallel sessions on industrial large models, smart manufacturing, optimization of unmanned systems, and intelligent healthcare.
"The combination of automation and AI is forming a new type of productivity. Our future is being reshaped by AI and automation at a speed and complexity never seen before," said Zheng Nanning, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of the Chinese Association of Automation.
The Intelligent Science Achievement Exhibition at the conference displays domestic innovation achievements, including intelligent production lines, robotic dogs, humanoid robots, and motion capture drones, demonstrating China's latest advances in automation technology.
Middle school and primary school students also take a part in the congress, presenting their works on extending science.
"Among the top participants of the congress, the most cutting-edge or the most challenging subject now should extend to what we call embodied intelligence, which covers a comprehensive ability of us humans to handle complex problems, including various abilities, perceptions, responses and adaptabilities," said Li Shaoyuan, vice president of Qingdao University of Science and Technology.