Embodied AI Glossary中文Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute
上海期智研究院AdvancedA Shanghai research institute led by Andrew Yao that has incubated embodied-AI companies such as RobotEra.
The Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute was founded in 2020, led by Turing Award winner Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, who also directs Tsinghua University's Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences. It is based at AI Tower in the West Bund Smart Valley in Xuhui, Shanghai, and is a new-style research institute backed by the Shanghai municipal government, covering frontier fields including AI and robotics. In embodied AI, it showed its own humanoid robot, nicknamed Xiaoxing, at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, where Yao proposed that AI's next major challenge would be “embodied AGI.” The institute co-incubated the humanoid-robot company RobotEra (founded August 2023) together with Tsinghua's IIIS; RobotEra's founder, Jianyu Chen, is an IIIS assistant professor and a principal investigator at the Qi Zhi Institute.
ExampleRobotEra, co-incubated by Tsinghua's IIIS and the Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute, is the institute's best-known embodied-AI project.
- Also called
- Qi Zhi Institute
- Related
- RobotEra · Tsinghua University Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences · Embodied AGI · Humanoid Robot · World Artificial Intelligence Conference
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- 2026-09