On Oct 29 at the World Expo Center in Shanghai, Zhiyuan co-founder, president
and CTO Peng Zhihui introduced Worken, a metric for physical-AI value defined as
effective intelligent work hours to quantify robots' autonomous output. At the
same event, Xinhua China Economic Information Service and the China Academy of
Information and Communications Technology’s Shanghai Industrial Innovation
Center published the 2026 Embodied Intelligence Industry Innovation Report,
which sets an industry development framework and a leading-company evaluation
model; Zhiyuan was named a leading company and Worken and related deployment
case studies were included.
