{"id":488767,"date":"2026-06-21T18:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T18:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/488767\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T18:30:16","slug":"will-chinas-ai-powered-agribots-repeat-its-ev-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/488767\/","title":{"rendered":"Will China\u2019s AI-powered agribots repeat its EV success story?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Chinese agricultural machinery does not rank globally, the shift to embodied intelligence amid the current tech revolution<\/a> may reshape this status quo, said Zhao Feng, founder of Shenzhen-based robotics firm GrainCore Dynamics.<\/p>\n

With its artificial intelligence capabilities and strength in mass production, Zhao said, China was well-positioned to overtake in agricultural robotics \u2013 in similar fashion to its rapid progress in new energy and electric vehicles (EVs) after lagging behind in combustion-engine cars.<\/p>\n

Chinese agriculture \u201cmay appear to have a serious ageing problem, but within this crisis lies opportunity\u201d, Zhao said, noting that globally, only China possessed both the AI technology and the manufacturing capacity for robotics production at scale.<\/p>\n

\u201cThink of it like the early days of Chinese carmakers<\/a> trying to catch up with BMW and Mercedes \u2013 after 30 years we still hadn\u2019t closed the gap on their century-old technological edge,\u201d he said. \u201cBut then new energy vehicles gave us a short cut and we leapfrogged them in just 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

GrainCore Dynamics is among China\u2019s first companies focusing on integrating embodied intelligence into agriculture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Chinese agricultural machinery does not rank globally, the shift to embodied intelligence amid the current tech revolution…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,607,245101,245099,147267,64989,245100,57646,111,139,245098,69,6358,145,1430,245097,245102],"class_list":["post-488767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-china","tag-china-national-machinery-industry-corporation","tag-china-rural-science-and-technology","tag-chinese-academy-of-social-sciences","tag-food-security","tag-graincore-dynamics","tag-ministry-of-education","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-no-document","tag-nz","tag-shenzhen","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-wu-haihua","tag-zhao-feng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}