Hefei in Anhui launches robot-run stores in commercial districts
Source Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror
People shop at an embodied intelligence robot store at Leijie Street in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province, Aug. 26, 2026. Four embodied intelligence robot stores equipped with wheeled humanoid robot shop assistants have officially opened in several cultural, tourism and commercial blocks in Hefei. The robot shop assistants are able to automatically recognize, grab and deliver merchandise to customers. (Xinhua/Zhou Mu)
A robot grabs a bottle of electrolyte water and delivers it to a customer at an embodied intelligence robot store at Leijie Street in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province, Aug. 26, 2026. Four embodied intelligence robot stores equipped with wheeled humanoid robot shop assistants have officially opened in several cultural, tourism and commercial blocks in Hefei. The robot shop assistants are able to automatically recognize, grab and deliver merchandise to customers. (Xinhua/Zhou Mu)
A robot grabs a bottle of electrolyte water from the shelf at an embodied intelligence robot store at Leijie Street in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province, Aug. 26, 2026. Four embodied intelligence robot stores equipped with wheeled humanoid robot shop assistants have officially opened in several cultural, tourism and commercial blocks in Hefei. The robot shop assistants are able to automatically recognize, grab and deliver merchandise to customers. (Xinhua/Zhou Mu)
A robot grabs a bottle of electrolyte water from the shelf at an embodied intelligence robot store at Leijie Street in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province, Aug. 26, 2026. Four embodied intelligence robot stores equipped with wheeled humanoid robot shop assistants have officially opened in several cultural, tourism and commercial blocks in Hefei. The robot shop assistants are able to automatically recognize, grab and deliver merchandise to customers. (Xinhua/Zhou Mu)
A robot works at an embodied intelligence robot store at Leijie Street in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province, Aug. 26, 2026. Four embodied intelligence robot stores equipped with wheeled humanoid robot shop assistants have officially opened in several cultural, tourism and commercial blocks in Hefei. The robot shop assistants are able to automatically recognize, grab, and deliver merchandise to customers. (Xinhua/Zhou Mu)
A robot grabs a bottle of electrolyte water and delivers it to a customer at an embodied intelligence robot store at Leijie Street in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province, Aug. 26, 2026. Four embodied intelligence robot stores equipped with wheeled humanoid robot shop assistants have officially opened in several cultural, tourism, and commercial blocks in Hefei. The robot shop assistants are able to automatically recognize, grab, and deliver merchandise to customers.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
