As the leading annual event in China's home appliance and consumer electronics industry, the China Home Appliance and Consumer Electronics Expo (AWE2026) will grandly kick off in Shanghai from March 12th to 15th. The theme of this exhibition is "AI Technology, Smart Future", with a total exhibition area of 170000 square meters, gathering 1200 exhibiting companies. For the first time, it innovatively adopts the "one exhibition, two zones" model, aiming to comprehensively present the latest innovative achievements in the industry, build a high-end platform for global technology exchange and business cooperation, and inject strong impetus into the high-quality development of China's consumer electronics industry. It is worth noting that AWE2026 has established the Shanghai Oriental Hub International Business Cooperation Zone exhibition area for the first time, forming a dual venue linkage with the New International Expo Center exhibition area of "high-precision leading and life oriented landing". Xu Dongsheng, Vice Chairman of the China Household Electrical Appliances Association, stated that the two exhibition areas collaborate and have their own focuses, jointly building a comprehensive terminal development ecosystem. Among them, the exhibition area of the New International Expo Center covers an area of 140000 square meters, focusing on the construction of the "AI+" ecosystem, presenting new scenarios of human, car, and home ecology, smart life, and showcasing cutting-edge innovative achievements in AI home appliances, AI hardware, and other fields, making the vision of technology empowering life within reach. The exhibition area of the Oriental Hub International Business Cooperation Zone covers an area of 30000 square meters, focusing on global innovation forces, showcasing cutting-edge technological achievements, and demonstrating the new growth potential and infinite possibilities of the consumer industry. Relying on the location advantage of a 15 minute direct connection to Pudong Airport from the Oriental Hub, the exhibition has achieved "convenient entry and return of overseas exhibits" and "immediate viewing of overseas visitors upon disembarking", greatly improving the convenience of international exhibitions and further strengthening AWE's global influence, helping China's consumer electronics industry deeply integrate into the global innovation network, and building a solid "bridge" for Sino foreign scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation. This exhibition is dedicated to creating an "ideal reception room" for global new product launches, technical exchanges, and business negotiations, and striving to build a "world-class stage" that insight into industrial innovation trends and gathers top resource elements. By promoting deep collaboration between upstream and downstream enterprises such as terminals, chips, and operating systems, the exhibition will effectively promote the construction of an integrated and all scenario ecosystem. Against the backdrop of "Robot+" being included in the national strategy, artificial intelligence accelerating deep scene based landing, and embodied intelligence becoming the core focus of global technological competition, embodied intelligent robots will debut for the first time in AWE2026 with a heavyweight posture. As a trillion level application scenario, household scenarios are becoming a key battlefield for the large-scale landing of embodied intelligent robots, and AWE2026 is undoubtedly the core window to witness this new industry trend and understand future technological trends. What cutting-edge explorations and surprises will this technological feast bring to people's livelihoods? From the new experience of smart homes, to the technological empowerment of the silver economy, and to the landing of innovative technologies in people's livelihoods, more industry innovations and exciting highlights that are close to life and serve the people are about to be presented. Let's look forward to it together. (New Society)