The Computing Power Battlefield Behind AI Device Innovation: How Cloud-Edge-Device Collaboration and Super Nodes Support Embodied AI Robots

At the CEIC exhibition, embodied AI robots demonstrated progress from single actions to multi-step tasks, relying on cloud-edge-device collaborative scheduling: motion control and safe obstacle avoidance stay local, task understanding and complex planning are handled by the edge or cloud, and super nodes accelerate multi-chip collaborative inference through high-bandwidth interconnects. At the CGC conference, GCC released 10 industry consensus outcomes, 9 group standards and technical specifications, and awarded AIDC certification to 14 intelligent computing data centers under the first batch of 7 organizations, with a cumulative IT power scale of about 1.45 GW.