With a few precise movements, a robot picks up ingredients, skewers them and hands over a tanghulu — hawthorn fruit coated in a brittle sugar shell. Music fills the air as two robots perform together on electronic keyboards. A robot completes delicate needle-threading tasks. These scenes, captured at the 2026 Zhongguancun (ZGC) Forum held from Wednesday to Sunday in Beijing, highlight the theme of “Integrate Technological and Industrial Innovation” and showcase China’s rapid technological advancement, as well as how frontier technologies ...