More than 300 related enterprises have gathered in Beijing's Yizhuang, with the robotics industry chain scale exceeding 10 billion yuan. Why are so many robotics companies clustering here? Two notable events in 2025 left a strong impression: in April, the world's first humanoid robot half-marathon was held in Yizhuang; in November, the finals of the inaugural China (International) Robot Debating Championship took place in Yizhuang. These two competitions represented both "physical" and "intellectual" challenges.
"It was less like a competition and more like a scientific experiment and technical verification," explained Cai Jizheng, Director of the Robotics and Intelligent Manufacturing Industry Bureau of the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area. Humanoid robots integrate advanced technologies such as embodied intelligence, high-end manufacturing, and new materials. Their core technological directions include the "brain" (perception, cognition, decision-making), the "cerebellum" (motion control), and the "body" (hardware). "Through a dense schedule of events every month, we aim to promote technology through competition and gather energy through contests."
For companies "voting with their feet," policy is the primary attraction. In August 2025, Yizhuang released the "Ten Policies for Embodied Intelligent Robots": issuing 100 million yuan in "data vouchers" annually, reducing costs with "prototyping vouchers," and providing sales subsidies for humanoid robots, among other robust measures covering the entire chain from data and scenarios to R&D and sales.
More crucial is the availability of application scenarios. In February 2025, a unique recruitment notice—the "Beijing Yizhuang Nine Benchmark Scenarios Opportunity List for Robots"—was released by the robot "Tiangang." It formally and comprehensively opened up the scenario resources of Yizhuang New City, releasing application opportunities for over 10,000 embodied intelligent robots, valued at nearly 5 billion yuan, within two years. This includes demand for over 1,000 humanoid robots.
The opening of scenarios goes beyond just a list. Cai Jizheng noted that, using Yizhuang New City as a base, Yizhuang is implementing an embodied intelligence social experiment plan, allowing robots to learn in the real world. "So far, over 40 real-world scenarios such as supermarkets, pharmacies, hotels, and warehouses have been opened, generating a batch of million-level, high-quality autonomous embodied intelligence datasets."
Yizhuang has been designated Beijing's only Future Industry Incubation Base for Humanoid Robots. It has built the city's first flexible and agile robot manufacturing platform, established its first humanoid robot pilot verification platform, and allocated 250,000 square meters for the Beijing Robotics Industrial Park. It has also supported the landing of a 10-billion-yuan robotics industry fund and is creating embodied intelligent robot 4S stores.
By building platforms, gathering factors of production, and establishing an ecosystem, Yizhuang has basically formed an industrial chain covering core components, complete machine manufacturing, system integration, and scenario solutions. It has created a "1+6" industrial system comprising "core components + humanoid, industrial, special-purpose, medical, collaborative, and logistics robots."
"We will continue to strengthen future industries like embodied intelligence," said Kong Lei, Secretary of the Working Committee of the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area. The goals for the next two years are clear: by the end of 2027, Yizhuang aims to establish no fewer than 10 benchmark intelligent scenario complexes, promote the application of 100 vertical models, and gather 1,000 core enterprises in the artificial intelligence industry chain.