Hitch Open 联合创始人 Allen Yang 做客「创见播客」：从 AI 竞速到机器人乒乓，探讨具身智能的技术突破与商业落地。感谢 Lydia 的深入采访！从机器人竞技走向机器人经济，还有哪些门槛？ youtube.com/watch?v=7-ISnanS… #HitchOpen #具身智能

Hitch Open co-founder Dr. Allen Y. Yang joined Xinhua’s discussion on humanoid robots in everyday life. At Hitch Open, we focus on testing AI in real-world environments—a key step toward useful robots in our homes. #HitchOpen #PhysicalAI #Robotics

We’re teaming up with JOYX to bring Physical AI into real-world use. Verified robot training data meets @HitchOpen’s robotics platform and standardized interfaces—building capabilities for real commercial environments. #PhysicalAI #Robotics

🏁 Congrats @AIRacingTech — P3 at the @IndyAChallenge, Laguna Seca, behind Purdue and PoliMOVE. Their 1:28.301 broke the circuit's autonomous lap record. They owned it about ten minutes. Nobody stays ahead for long in this field. Berkeley, Hawai'i, UCSD, CMU 🐻 #HitchOpen

#HOPE Ping-Pong Final at the World Humanoid Robot Games | Beijing 2026 youtu.be/kPpCV0WPdcI?si=7BEh… via @YouTube

#Tsinghua iPingPong takes on the Hitch Open Ping-Pong Embodied AI Challenge. Aug 22–26 · National Speed Skating Oval "Ice Ribbon", Beijing An official event of the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games. #HOPEAIChallenge #WorldHumanoidRobotGames #EmbodiedAI

Final day of #WAIC2026 — and the busiest spot in the hall was still our table. Four days, open to close, zero scripts. Suits, kids, pros, amateurs, and international guests who came just to test HOPE for themselves. Phones outnumbered paddles three rows deep. The expo is over. HOPE's next match is already on its way. #HOPE #HitchOpen

The toughest exam HOPE faced at #WAIC2026: Prof. Yike Guo — Provost of HKUST, foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering — personally served his trickiest spins. The crowd chanted "Go, robot!" And a professional player, drenched in sweat, put it best: "Good enough to be my training partner." When the people who understand AI best come to test you — that's the highest compliment. #HOPE #HitchOpen

The youngest challenger at #WAIC2026 could barely see over the table. HOPE — the world's first fully autonomous ping-pong humanoid, no remote, no script — quietly softened every shot for her. "Would you like a robot to play with?" "It would make me so happy!" #HOPE #EmbodiedAI #HitchOpen

Today at #WAIC2026 we launched the Physical-Intelligence Joint Innovation Center, together with Caohejing Development Zone and Shanghai's humanoid-robot incubator — the world's first Robotics Co-Working Space, and Hitch Open's first permanent research base in China. It delivers not desks, but arenas, robots, motion-capture, compute — and opponents. #HitchOpen

At #WAIC2026, Turing Award laureate Richard Sutton — the “father of reinforcement learning” — argued that AI is entering the “Era of Experience”: true intelligence grows from real-world interaction. This week he visited our HOPE booth. HOPE, an AI ping-pong robot that perceives, decides and swings in real time against a human, is that idea made physical. #HitchOpen

Another packed day at the HOPE booth, #WAIC2026. 🏓 Crowds from open to close, taking turns to rally against our AI ping-pong robot. #HitchOpen

Founder off-duty at #WAIC2026 — even robot builders can't resist the cute ones. 🤖💛 #HitchOpen

At #WAIC2026, UN Under-Secretary-General & UNDP Administrator Alexander De Croo visited Hitch Open to try HOPE, our AI autonomous ping-pong robot. He asked how it works (“Does the ball have a sensor?”), picked up a paddle himself, and called it “magical.” No remote, no presets — it reads, decides and swings in milliseconds. 🏓 #HitchOpen

CCTV-2: the 2026 World AI Conference — “AI Partners, Creating the Future” — opens TOMORROW, July 17. HOPE, the autonomous ping-pong robot, will be right there on the floor. 🏓 👉 app.cctv.com/special/m/livev… #WAIC2026 #HitchOpen

Behind the scenes 🎬 Our robots are getting their reps in before the big debut. Perception → decision → swing, tuned frame by frame. HOPE AI Challenge goes live at #WAIC2026 on July 17. 🏓 #HitchOpen

Robots that play ping-pong — fully autonomous, no remote control. HOPE (Hitch Open Ping-Pong Embodied) AI Challenge makes its global debut at #WAIC2026, July 17–20 in Shanghai. 📍WAIC · Shanghai Expo Hall, public display area at the North entrance (1F). Come rally with a robot. 🏓🤖 #HitchOpen

At the 2026 Global Digital Economy Conference in Beijing, Crystal Tang and Dr. Allen Y. Yang took the stage to share a vision for the next frontier of AI: defining the “AlphaGo Moment” for Physical AI. The next breakthrough in AI won’t be measured by performance in virtual environments alone—it will come when intelligent systems can reliably perceive, decide, and act in the complexity of the real world. We believe open competition, real-world validation, and global collaboration are essential to accelerating this future. #HitchOpen #PhysicalAI #EmbodiedAI #GlobalDigitalEconomyConference