The 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit, opening on Nov. 2, will bring technology leaders and companies to the historic water town as Tongxiang firms expand AI applications from commercial cleaning and autonomous delivery to industrial control and data-center cooling. For Tongxiang, long associated with the annual internet conference, the summit is a chance to demonstrate how local companies are commercializing AI technologies for customers at home and abroad. Ahead of the event, reporters visited seven Tongxiang-based companies working in robotics, intelligent vehicles, synthetic data, industrial automation, logistics and computing infrastructure, according to Media OutReach Newswire.
Singapore Changi Airport earlier this year placed a fourth order for commercial cleaning robots from CenoBots, a Tongxiang-based company whose machines are used in airports, supermarkets, hospitals, factories and warehouses. CenoBots has sold products in more than 40 countries and regions, with customers including Changi Airport, British retailer Tesco, the University of Minnesota and pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk. This year, the company supplied about 600 autonomous cleaning robots for Tesco Express stores across the United Kingdom. "Cleaning robots are appearing in more and more settings," said Shen Jizhong, CenoBots' co-founder and vice president. "It is much like electric vehicles becoming a familiar sight on the roads — a trend that is gathering pace." The company has expanded its research, development and production facilities in Tongxiang from approximately 3,000 square meters to more than 20,000 square meters, with local malls, hospitals and sports venues serving as long-term testing sites.
While CenoBots focuses on service robots, TEEMO is developing vehicle platforms for autonomous mobility. The company makes drive-by-wire skateboard chassis and core components for autonomous vehicles used in last-mile delivery, patrols and logistics. Its standardized chassis can be equipped with different vehicle bodies for specific uses. One strategic customer, autonomous delivery-vehicle maker Zelos, was selected for all lots in China Post's centralized procurement program for 7,000 autonomous delivery vehicles. TEEMO's customers span the United States, the Middle East, India and Russia. "In some overseas markets, distances are long, populations are dispersed and last-mile delivery is difficult to staff," said Zhang Yongjian, the company's director of operations. "Autonomous delivery vehicles have strong potential there, and overseas business will become an important growth driver for us."
Other Tongxiang companies are concentrating on the data and perception systems that allow machines to function in physical environments. Dayan Technology, founded in Tongxiang in May 2025, provides synthetic-data and toolchain services for autonomous-driving and humanoid-robotics companies. Its wearable devices record human movement and interactions with objects, including a haptic glove that captures hand gestures and contact force, and a multi-camera headset that records a user's visual field and body posture. Dayan said its tactile-perception model can process touch signals in milliseconds, helping robots learn how firmly to grip an item and apply force without causing damage. Freetech develops intelligent-driving systems and 4D imaging radar for passenger and commercial vehicles, with its technology selected for hundreds of vehicle programs. At its Wuzhen manufacturing base, an in-house AI system reads customer orders and calculates components needed for each production line, increasing overall efficiency by more than 20%, the company said.
Beyond mobility, Shuhan Technologies provides on-premises industrial AI for chemical plants, energy facilities and wastewater-treatment systems. At a coal chemical plant with annual capacity of 1.2 million metric tons, Shuhan said its system reduced raw-material consumption by 6%, generating more than 176 million yuan (about $26 million) in annualized economic benefits and reducing carbon emissions by more than 500,000 metric tons. SENAD targets logistics bottlenecks with autonomous loading and unloading robots and a multimodal logistics model called Robot Insight.
Tongxiang's AI sector also includes companies addressing infrastructure needed to run increasingly powerful computing systems. SynthCool develops two-phase liquid-cooling systems to address heat generated by powerful processors. "Heat dissipation is infrastructure," said Zhu Zhijiang, SynthCool's general manager. The technology uses the latent heat of vaporization to remove heat, supporting dissipation of more than 3,000 watts per chip and heat flux above 250 watts per square centimeter. Under comparable cooling requirements, the system requires approximately one-third of the flow needed by conventional single-phase water-cooled cold plates. The implications are significant: as AI computing demands surge globally, Tongxiang's firms are positioning themselves as suppliers of critical components across robotics, autonomous systems and data-center infrastructure, demonstrating how a single Chinese city can build a diversified AI ecosystem with export potential.
