Shenzhen is living 10 years ahead in the future 🤯
Humanoid robots.
Self-driving taxis.
Food delivered by drones.
And all of it in a single afternoon.
We took our EuroTech Federation delegation across the border from Hong Kong into Shenzhen.
I've been following China's robotics ecosystem for years.
But seeing it in person hits differently.
Here's what we experienced:
🤖 LimX Dynamics: developing humanoid robots and embodied AI systems that bring intelligence into the physical world.
🌍 51WORLD: building digital twins, simulation environments and synthetic data infrastructure for physical AI.
🚕 Pony.ai: experiencing autonomous driving technology firsthand.
🚁 Drone food delivery: watching autonomous logistics move beyond PowerPoint presentations and into everyday life.
🏢 Tencent: visiting the headquarters of one of China's biggest technology companies.
The craziest part?
None of this felt like science fiction.
It felt normal.
And that's perhaps the biggest difference.
In Europe, we're incredibly good at research, engineering and developing breakthrough technologies.
Shenzhen shows what happens when that talent meets a deeply connected ecosystem of hardware companies, manufacturers and ambitious founders.
The distance between an idea and a real product can suddenly feel much smaller.
As we just launched the European Robotics House and are obsessed with robotics and physical AI, this was easily one of the highlights of the trip.
Huge thanks to Hong Kong Talent Engage, Felix CHAN, Grace Lau, Sandy Tsang, the whole team and our hosts in Qianhai for opening these doors.
We left Shenzhen knowing that we were only scratching the surface.
To be continued 🚀
#EuroTech #Shenzhen #PhysicalAI #Robotics #Startups
Humanoid robots.
Self-driving taxis.
Food delivered by drones.
And all of it in a single afternoon.
We took our EuroTech Federation delegation across the border from Hong Kong into Shenzhen.
I've been following China's robotics ecosystem for years.
But seeing it in person hits differently.
Here's what we experienced:
🤖 LimX Dynamics: developing humanoid robots and embodied AI systems that bring intelligence into the physical world.
🌍 51WORLD: building digital twins, simulation environments and synthetic data infrastructure for physical AI.
🚕 Pony.ai: experiencing autonomous driving technology firsthand.
🚁 Drone food delivery: watching autonomous logistics move beyond PowerPoint presentations and into everyday life.
🏢 Tencent: visiting the headquarters of one of China's biggest technology companies.
The craziest part?
None of this felt like science fiction.
It felt normal.
And that's perhaps the biggest difference.
In Europe, we're incredibly good at research, engineering and developing breakthrough technologies.
Shenzhen shows what happens when that talent meets a deeply connected ecosystem of hardware companies, manufacturers and ambitious founders.
The distance between an idea and a real product can suddenly feel much smaller.
As we just launched the European Robotics House and are obsessed with robotics and physical AI, this was easily one of the highlights of the trip.
Huge thanks to Hong Kong Talent Engage, Felix CHAN, Grace Lau, Sandy Tsang, the whole team and our hosts in Qianhai for opening these doors.
We left Shenzhen knowing that we were only scratching the surface.
To be continued 🚀
#EuroTech #Shenzhen #PhysicalAI #Robotics #Startups
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EuroTech just landed in Hong Kong. 🇭🇰🚀
1,200+ hackathon applicants.
20 of us in Hong Kong.
One insane week ahead.
Together with HKTE, we brought some of Europe's brightest young founders, engineers and hackers to the other side of the world.
And every second was just insane and full of learnings.
In our first 48 hours, we went from learning Cantonese opera to exploring medical robotics labs, meeting AI founders and discovering an entirely new innovation ecosystem.
Some highlights from day one:
🤖 Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks (HKSTP): diving into the local startup ecosystem and the incredible medical robotics research coming out of CUHK.
🧠 Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park (HSITP): meeting founders building everything from AI-powered drug discovery to new hardware products.
🌏 Northern Metropolis: discovering Hong Kong's ambitious plans to connect research, talent and industry across the border.
🌆 The Peak: because sometimes you need to see the skyline to understand the scale of this city.
What struck us most?
Hong Kong is much more than a global financial hub.
It's positioning itself as a gateway connecting international talent, world-class research and the manufacturing power of the Greater Bay Area.
And the people here are genuinely excited to build those bridges.
Huge thanks to Hong Kong Talent Engage, Felix CHAN, Anna Au, Grace Lau, Sandy Tsang and the teams at HKSTP - Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, HSITP Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park, Cyberport Hong Kong and the FinTech Association of Hong Kong for such an incredible welcome.
The delegation:
Clément Sporrer, Nicolas Bigeard, Farhan ali, Adrian Käser, Marie-Louise Heß, Aleksandr Gorbunov, Alba María Téllez Fernández, Marina Barannikov, Nikhil Rane, Rayan El Idrissi, Stanislas Michel, Ulaş Mısırlıoğlu, Muhammad Moiz, Cem Araz, Batıkan Bora Ormancı, Vladislav Yakunin, Sunatullo Saidzoda, Amirkhon Abdunbabiev, Mirzobehruz Shaidov
Next stop: Shenzhen.
Time to see what happens when AI meets the world's hardware ecosystem. 👀
#EuroTech #HongKong #Startups #ArtificialIntelligence #Robotics
1,200+ hackathon applicants.
20 of us in Hong Kong.
One insane week ahead.
Together with HKTE, we brought some of Europe's brightest young founders, engineers and hackers to the other side of the world.
And every second was just insane and full of learnings.
In our first 48 hours, we went from learning Cantonese opera to exploring medical robotics labs, meeting AI founders and discovering an entirely new innovation ecosystem.
Some highlights from day one:
🤖 Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks (HKSTP): diving into the local startup ecosystem and the incredible medical robotics research coming out of CUHK.
🧠 Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park (HSITP): meeting founders building everything from AI-powered drug discovery to new hardware products.
🌏 Northern Metropolis: discovering Hong Kong's ambitious plans to connect research, talent and industry across the border.
🌆 The Peak: because sometimes you need to see the skyline to understand the scale of this city.
What struck us most?
Hong Kong is much more than a global financial hub.
It's positioning itself as a gateway connecting international talent, world-class research and the manufacturing power of the Greater Bay Area.
And the people here are genuinely excited to build those bridges.
Huge thanks to Hong Kong Talent Engage, Felix CHAN, Anna Au, Grace Lau, Sandy Tsang and the teams at HKSTP - Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, HSITP Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park, Cyberport Hong Kong and the FinTech Association of Hong Kong for such an incredible welcome.
The delegation:
Clément Sporrer, Nicolas Bigeard, Farhan ali, Adrian Käser, Marie-Louise Heß, Aleksandr Gorbunov, Alba María Téllez Fernández, Marina Barannikov, Nikhil Rane, Rayan El Idrissi, Stanislas Michel, Ulaş Mısırlıoğlu, Muhammad Moiz, Cem Araz, Batıkan Bora Ormancı, Vladislav Yakunin, Sunatullo Saidzoda, Amirkhon Abdunbabiev, Mirzobehruz Shaidov
Next stop: Shenzhen.
Time to see what happens when AI meets the world's hardware ecosystem. 👀
#EuroTech #HongKong #Startups #ArtificialIntelligence #Robotics
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We secured over €1.5M in robotics hardware
Now we are hosting Europe's biggest robotics hackathon on October 16-18 in Zürich at the European Robotics House
tonight is the deadline, if you want to join 🔥
Real robots. Real hardware. 36 hours to ship.
🤖 Unitree G1
🤖 AgiBot humanoids & quadrupeds
🤖 Mobile bimanual robots
🤖 Robot arms
🤖 Dexterous hands
🤖 Sensors, compute & more
The kind of robotics stack most founders would need a seed round to assemble.
For one weekend, it's yours.
50 cracked engineers.
€1.5M+ in hardware.
36 hours.
Zurich.
Build a team. Pick a machine. Ship something that moves.
With the European Robotics House hosted by EuroTech Federation, ESRA - European Student Robotics Association, Edelweiss Innovation & Intelligence Institute (EIII) and our partners coprod Inc., Hugging Face, AgorAI, and BuilderBase, we want to see what happens when exceptional builders stop waiting for access to hardware.
Applications close TONIGHT.
If you've been waiting for an excuse to build in robotics / physical ai / perhaps SI now 😅:
This is it.
See you in Zurich. 🤖🇨🇭
#Robotics #PhysicalAI #EmbodiedAI #ArtificialIntelligence #Hackathon #Zurich #HumanoidRobotics #EuroTech
Now we are hosting Europe's biggest robotics hackathon on October 16-18 in Zürich at the European Robotics House
tonight is the deadline, if you want to join 🔥
Real robots. Real hardware. 36 hours to ship.
🤖 Unitree G1
🤖 AgiBot humanoids & quadrupeds
🤖 Mobile bimanual robots
🤖 Robot arms
🤖 Dexterous hands
🤖 Sensors, compute & more
The kind of robotics stack most founders would need a seed round to assemble.
For one weekend, it's yours.
50 cracked engineers.
€1.5M+ in hardware.
36 hours.
Zurich.
Build a team. Pick a machine. Ship something that moves.
With the European Robotics House hosted by EuroTech Federation, ESRA - European Student Robotics Association, Edelweiss Innovation & Intelligence Institute (EIII) and our partners coprod Inc., Hugging Face, AgorAI, and BuilderBase, we want to see what happens when exceptional builders stop waiting for access to hardware.
Applications close TONIGHT.
If you've been waiting for an excuse to build in robotics / physical ai / perhaps SI now 😅:
This is it.
See you in Zurich. 🤖🇨🇭
#Robotics #PhysicalAI #EmbodiedAI #ArtificialIntelligence #Hackathon #Zurich #HumanoidRobotics #EuroTech
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1,200+ applicants.
17 selected.
3 cities.
One unforgettable dive into the heart of China’s tech ecosystem. 🇪🇺🤝🇨🇳
We just wrapped our European startup delegation to Hong Kong, Shenzhen & Guangzhou — bringing some of Europe’s brightest entrepreneurial and technical minds into the Greater Bay Area.
These 15 builders were selected from 1,200+ applicants to the EuroTech Federation x Hong Kong Talent Engage Hackathon and received flight tickets + accomodations, food and an insane trip to experience one of the most exciting technology ecosystems on the planet.
And what a week.
We explored opportunities for Europe × China collaboration, met founders, investors and ecosystem leaders, discovered the latest developments in hardware, AI and fintech, and went deep into Shenzhen, arguably the world’s manufacturing and hardware capital.
There is something fundamentally different about seeing this ecosystem in person.
An idea becomes a prototype in a day
A prototype can become a product in a week
And a product can move toward production at a speed that is difficult to understand until you experience it firsthand. You can literally hold it in your hands after lunch 🤯
But the biggest takeaway wasn’t just technology.
It was the people, relationships and possibilities that emerge when ambitious builders from different parts of the world spend time together.
A huge thank you to everyone who joined and made this delegation what it was:
Clément Sporrer
Nicolas Bigeard
Farhan ali
Adrian Käser
Marie-Louise Heß
Aleksandr Gorbunov
Alba María Téllez Fernández
Marina Barannikov
Nikhil Rane
Rayan El Idrissi
Stanislas Michel
Ulaş Mısırlıoğlu
Muhammad Moiz
Cem Araz
Batıkan Bora Ormancı
Vladislav Yakunin
Sunatullo Saidzoda
Amirkhon Abdunbabiev
Mirzobehruz Shaidov
And a special thank you to the secretary of labor and welfare Mr. Chris Sun as well as HKTE Felix CHAN, Sandy Tsang, Grace Lau and so many more for making this trip possible.
Europe has incredible talent.
The Greater Bay Area has incredible speed, infrastructure and manufacturing depth.
Imagine what becomes possible when we connect the two.
This trip may be over.
The collaborations are only getting started 🚀
#EuroTech #Startups #GreaterBayArea #Shenzhen #HongKong
17 selected.
3 cities.
One unforgettable dive into the heart of China’s tech ecosystem. 🇪🇺🤝🇨🇳
We just wrapped our European startup delegation to Hong Kong, Shenzhen & Guangzhou — bringing some of Europe’s brightest entrepreneurial and technical minds into the Greater Bay Area.
These 15 builders were selected from 1,200+ applicants to the EuroTech Federation x Hong Kong Talent Engage Hackathon and received flight tickets + accomodations, food and an insane trip to experience one of the most exciting technology ecosystems on the planet.
And what a week.
We explored opportunities for Europe × China collaboration, met founders, investors and ecosystem leaders, discovered the latest developments in hardware, AI and fintech, and went deep into Shenzhen, arguably the world’s manufacturing and hardware capital.
There is something fundamentally different about seeing this ecosystem in person.
An idea becomes a prototype in a day
A prototype can become a product in a week
And a product can move toward production at a speed that is difficult to understand until you experience it firsthand. You can literally hold it in your hands after lunch 🤯
But the biggest takeaway wasn’t just technology.
It was the people, relationships and possibilities that emerge when ambitious builders from different parts of the world spend time together.
A huge thank you to everyone who joined and made this delegation what it was:
Clément Sporrer
Nicolas Bigeard
Farhan ali
Adrian Käser
Marie-Louise Heß
Aleksandr Gorbunov
Alba María Téllez Fernández
Marina Barannikov
Nikhil Rane
Rayan El Idrissi
Stanislas Michel
Ulaş Mısırlıoğlu
Muhammad Moiz
Cem Araz
Batıkan Bora Ormancı
Vladislav Yakunin
Sunatullo Saidzoda
Amirkhon Abdunbabiev
Mirzobehruz Shaidov
And a special thank you to the secretary of labor and welfare Mr. Chris Sun as well as HKTE Felix CHAN, Sandy Tsang, Grace Lau and so many more for making this trip possible.
Europe has incredible talent.
The Greater Bay Area has incredible speed, infrastructure and manufacturing depth.
Imagine what becomes possible when we connect the two.
This trip may be over.
The collaborations are only getting started 🚀
#EuroTech #Startups #GreaterBayArea #Shenzhen #HongKong
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Hai raggiunto la fine 🎉