Under the theme "Intelligent Partners, Co-Create the Future", the much-anticipated 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) grandly opened in Shanghai on July 17th.



Inside the bustling Expo Exhibition Hall, High Torque’s humanoid robot Mini Pi, nicknamed "Little Bottle", was customized into an Yili-branded robot and performed dynamic street dances for visiting audiences.

Another robot "Bean Pod", equipped with stretchable long legs, shuffled briskly through the crowd and attracted countless onlookers.

These humanoid robots drew continuous crowds for interaction and sparked extensive industry discussions on integrated solutions combining embodied AI and traditional physical brands.

As a core practitioner of embodied intelligence, High Torque Robotics has participated in WAIC for consecutive years.

This year, we brought Mini Pi series humanoid robots and competition-verified open-source robotic arms, with live demonstrations including stable walking, dynamic dancing, real-time vision tracking and drag teaching.

Throughout the exhibition period, our booth maintained steady visitor flow, received widespread media exposure, and attracted numerous enterprise partners for on-site business communication and cooperation negotiations.

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A Turning Point: A Milestone for Embodied AI x Traditional Enterprises

The opening keynote of WAIC 2026 delivered clear industry guidance, which highly matches High Torque’s customized IP co-branded robot project with Yili.

The conference called on all practitioners to seize the historic opportunity, deepen open innovation, boost AI technological breakthroughs and scenario-based industrial landing, accelerate the digital and intelligent transformation of traditional industries, and enable artificial intelligence to empower all sectors of society.

The customized Yili co-branded humanoid robot is a typical practice of AI empowering physical consumer industries, marking a key milestone for the deep integration of embodied intelligence hardware and offline consumer brands.

Thirty years ago, the integration of internet and traditional industries ignited the digital economy revolution and reshaped global industrial chains.

Today, we are standing at a new critical inflection point: "AI+" is expanding from digital virtual space to the physical real world.

The cooperation case of High Torque × Yili has set a replicable benchmark for deep fusion between embodied intelligence and mature physical enterprises.



Yili, a time-honored national dairy brand with 30 years of offline industrial accumulation, joins hands with High Torque, which provides complete robot hardware and human-computer interaction capabilities.

The collaboration turns abstract AI technology into tangible robot carriers with exclusive brand IP, building natural emotional interaction channels between brands and consumers.

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Verified Commercialization & IP Customization Capabilities

Large-scale landing of co-branded IP robots relies on a reusable, highly adaptable robot platform with complete interactive capabilities.

High Torque’s Mini Pi plus adopts a full cross-layer modular architecture, with detachable modular joints, arms and head units that support rapid replacement of customized appearance shells matching brand IP images.

The Yili IP customization is far more than simple shell replacement — we realize unified coordination of motion logic, voice dialogue and visual tracking to deliver a consistent and complete IP character experience.

Our self-developed joint modules, full-body motion control algorithms and multi-sensor perception system provide solid underlying technical support to vividly restore various IP image characteristics.

This "Modular Platform + Custom IP" solution has been fully verified in multiple mature commercial scenarios.



For brand events & commercial performances: Our robots have served as reception robots at Weibo Night, exhibition display units at World Humanoid Robot Competition, and interactive dance performers at toy carnivals, evolving from static display props into full-process interactive marketing carriers.

For education scenarios: Covering children’s AI enlightenment to K12 general education, robots convert abstract programming theories into intuitive interactive experiences, becoming standard teaching equipment for computational thinking training.

For cultural tourism & science museums: Multiple customized IP appearances including lion dance figures and Greater Bay Area cultural roosters have been launched, exploring a new path for dynamic display of cultural IP via humanoid robots.

We help all types of brands and cultural IPs gain vitality through vivid robot interaction.

Thanks to the modular hardware design, different IP roles can be quickly switched by replacing outer shells, enabling a single hardware platform to adapt to dozens of IP images and application scenarios.

This model greatly reduces customized development costs and project delivery cycles, forming High Torque’s core development logic for humanoid robots: high performance, low deployment cost and full open-source technical support.

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Industry Summary & Future Vision

WAIC 2026 is not merely an exhibition booth for High Torque, but carries milestone significance for the whole embodied AI commercial ecosystem.

High Torque is committed to building underlying robot infrastructure, making high-performance, low-cost and fully open-source humanoid platforms accessible to global developers, brand merchants and education users.

From international top robotics conferences and university research labs, K12 teaching classrooms and commercial exhibition halls, to this landmark IP cooperation with Yili, High Torque continues to fully open our hardware platforms and technical resources to the whole industry.

Though the exhibition has come to an end, the transformation trend of "AI+" expanding from digital space to physical scenes will keep advancing.

High Torque sincerely invites traditional physical enterprises, brand operators, educational institutions and global developers to cooperate with us to build a win-win industrial ecosystem, and jointly promote the large-scale landing of humanoid robots in production and daily life.

Our long-term vision: To put a humanoid robot in every person’s hands.