The 2026 World Physical AI Conference and Yushu Partner Ecosystem Conference
were held in Hangzhou. Yushu Technology chairman, general manager and CTO Wang
Xingxing announced the World Physical AI Competition, offering an annual prize
pool of tens of millions of yuan. The contest is open to global teams and
individuals and will run eight tracks: mobile locomotion, athletics, combat,
dexterous manipulation, manufacturing, sports events, multimodal interaction and
eldercare, aimed at concentrating global innovation and accelerating
breakthroughs in physical AI.