China Targets Robot and Metaverse Industries

At the Shanghai Global Investment Promotion Conference 2024 held on March 29, Shanghai city government released opportunities for 10 key industry chains and segments to attract global investors. They cover big models, humanoid robots, metaverse, wide bandgap semiconductors, biomanufacturing, large aircraft, large cruise ships, commercial aviation, new materials and hydrogen energy.
 
With Shanghai's large number of innovation-driven enterprises in intelligent chip technology, nearly 100 basic big models and industry-specific large-scale models have been released in the city, along with large-scale intelligent computing clusters, big model testing and verification centers and around 40 investment and financing institutions.
 
Leveraging its industrial bases in Xuhui district, the city is cultivating professional incubation platforms for big models, providing innovative enterprises with services such as computing support, language data, testing and evaluation and financing services. Additionally, officials said humanoid robots are helping establish Shanghai as an industrial cluster with global influence, accelerating breakthroughs in key robotics fields such as electrically driven joints and dexterous hands.


​Source: China Daily