From October 17 to 18, Nankai University hosted the International Conference on the Cooperation and Integration of Industry, Education, Research and Application——Intelligent Technology and New Quality Productive Forces Session on Jinnan Campus. More than 150 experts, scholars, faculty members and students from the US, the UK, Germany, Singapore and China attended the event. Fang Yongchun, Vice President of Nankai University, joined the forum online and delivered opening remarks.

In his remarks, Fang Yongchun noted that embodied AI is an emerging frontier at the deep convergence of AI and robotics technology, and is becoming a key driver of intelligent technology development and new quality productive forces. He expressed hope that the conference would provide a platform for international exchange and collaboration, strengthen connections between basic research, frontier technologies and industrial applications, promote the translation and practical application of research outcomes, and contribute to the accelerated development of new quality productive forces.

Professors Zhao Xin and Zhang Xuebo of Nankai University’s College of Artificial Intelligence served as co-chairs of the conference. During the event, renowned scholars from the universities including the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nanyang Technological University, the National University of Singapore, the University of Surrey and Imperial College London, together with experts from industry, delivered nine keynote presentations. The presentations shared the latest research findings in frontier areas including embodied perception and control, intelligent communications and security, bio-inspired autonomous search, wearable robotics, and cross-scale dexterous manipulation. 

The conference was hosted by Nankai University. In response to major needs in the development of intelligent technologies and new quality productive forces, it focused on frontier areas such as embodied AI and robotics technology, bringing leading experts from academia and industry around the world to Tianjin to discuss key scientific questions and pathways to industrial application, and to promote deeper integration of industry, education, research and application.

（Edited and translated by Nankai News Team.)