Elite Robots' Cao Yunan Discusses Physical AI Deployment Challenges and Solutions at WAIC 2026

At the "Intelligent Trends Forum" at WAIC 2026, Cao Yunan, Chairman of Elite Robots, delivered a speech titled "Optically Connected Intelligence: The Strategic Outpost of Physical AI," noting that physical AI deployment faces four bottlenecks: data, models, execution, and scale. The company's self-developed "Yuanqi Primo" solution enables on-site cold start with a small number of samples, keeps sensitive data resident locally, and evolves through federated intelligence; it has already achieved scaled deployment in optical communications manufacturing. Its Suzhou super factory is expected to be completed and put into operation by the end of 2026, and the company has accumulated millions of robot operation trajectories and hundreds of millions of force-tactile sensor sampling data points.