The 2025 World Robot Conference (WRC), held in Beijing, showcased emerging development trends in embodied intelligent robots, with a focus on cognition, decision-making, and safety, according to Xinhua News Agency. Qiao Hong, President of the World Robot Cooperation Organisation (WRCO), presented a report titled 10 Trends of Embodied Intelligent Robots 2025 during the event’s opening ceremony.
Co-hosted by the Chinese Institute of Electronics and WRCO, the five-day conference features forums, exhibitions, competitions, and networking, with over 200 robotics companies worldwide unveiling their latest innovations.
The WRCO report underscores embodied cognition driven by the integration of physical practice, simulators, and world models, alongside the importance of multimodal large models to improve decision-making. It covers key areas including embodied intelligent control, AI-powered robot design, software-hardware consistency, robot manufacturing, and the use of large-scale, high-quality datasets.
Additionally, the report highlights advances in robot swarms, human-robot collaboration within an interdisciplinary open community, and the critical focus on safety assessment and ethical development for embodied intelligent robots.
