Four unresolved questions for the embodied AI industry after WAIC 2026

The Paper's technology desk interviewed several supply-chain founders and buyers in the embodied AI exhibition area at WAIC 2026, and identified four unresolved questions for the industry: whether the same robot can be general-purpose across tasks; whether the remaining 1% of failures in real-world scenarios can be solved; why deployment scenarios are concentrated in pharmacies and shelf picking; and whether the path from industrial to home is unavoidable.