TARS Chen Yilun: From the 'China Magnetic Effect' to Embodied AI Solutions Tackling the 'Last Mile' of Industrial Intelligence

Chen Yilun, founder and CEO of TARS, spoke at the September 17 'Meet the Future in Shanghai: Multinational Enterprises' Shanghai Tour' promotion event, saying embodied AI cannot stay in the lab and must go onto real production lines to face the harshest testing. He reviewed TARS's three-stage leap in Shanghai across foundation models, hardware, and large-scale deployment: its self-developed AWE embodied AI foundation model won a 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference 'SAIL Star' award, its self-developed 21-degree-of-freedom quasi-direct-drive DexHand dexterous hand, and the A1 robot received a Guinness World Record in March 2026.