Future Silicon Valley of the World” to focus on robotics and advanced mobility solutions
The Yangtze River is known to be one of the longest rivers in Asia. Along its banks lies the provincial city of Wuhu in Anhui Province. “Wuhu” is home to China’s biggest government-owned car exporter, Chery International, having sold almost one million vehicles last year and being the first-ever Chinese automaker to export five million vehicles.
During a recent summit organized by the giant Chinese carmaker, it was revealed that it had big plans for the future particularly for robotics and advanced mobility solutions, not to mention making its home city the “Future Silicon Valley of the World.”
Other than the company’s key executives, this was divulged to us by the city’s own mayor, Xu Zhi.
“We’re making the city more eco-friendly. We’re eyeing to attract more investors and talents who will further boost our technology,” he shared.
While Silicon Valley in the United States remains a global leader in technology, potential future Silicon Valleys are emerging in other parts of the world. These are Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou corridor, and cities like Tokyo, Beijing, and Seoul. These places are recognized for strong innovation, a large pool of talent, and robust venture capital.
Now, Wuhu is aspiring to be one through its key technology driver, Chery.
In a statement, Omoda and Jaecoo, together with its mother company said:
“As the global industrial landscape undergoes profound restructuring, technological innovation is being endowed with a new mission—its core value has transcended individual product breakthroughs to focus on building a systematic ecosystem that integrates technology with users, scenarios, and society.”
With this, the 2025 AIMOGA Global Launch was held in Wuhu, marking a milestone moment as AIMOGA—the mother company’s unique and advanced robotics technology.
Here, it showcased its innovative intelligent technology and the forward-looking vision for the future of mobility ecosystems.
“We’re thinking of alternatives for cars in the future since they pose many problems, like traffic and many others,” the company’s president, Zhang Guibing.
“Before, robots used to be side-events. Now, we are officially launching them. In the future, they can be your personal assistants, they can even be your sales managers,” he even jested.
“They can sometimes even be better than people.”
Furthermore, they added that by developing an intelligent ecosystem powered by the dual engines of “Automobile + Robotics,” the company is fostering an open, collaborative, and innovation-driven global technology ecosystem—delivering systematic innovation solutions to support global industrial transformation.
“We see this as bigger than the car industry,” he shared, predicting sales of about 20 to 30 billion units in the near future.
These robotics, like AIMOGA Mornine, a female humanoid robot can be used in both as an automotive personnel and an ecosystem+robotics personnel.
Guibing also outlined the company’s future blueprint, “deeply integrating intelligent vehicle and robotics technologies, and progressively introducing a series of robots and robotic dogs designed for marketing, education, companionship, industrial, and household service scenarios.”
According to them, AIMOGA has set a clear five-year development roadmap: by 2030, the company aims to exceed 90,000 units in robotic dog sales and 40,000 units in humanoid robot sales, striving to enter the first tier of the global robotics industry.
This ambitious target reflects AIMOGA’s confidence as an independent business unit and underscores the parent company’s strategic determination “to position robotics as a core growth driver for the future.”
Per reports, the technology has successfully achieved a leap from L2 (collaborative level) to L3 (assistive level) intelligence—a crucial step toward realizing the brand’s vision of becoming a true “human assistant.”
To the uninitiated, Chery is operating in over 120 countries and regions, and the potential of this kind of technology is boundless.
“This extensive global infrastructure provides AIMOGA with a unique foundation for international expansion.”
It has already become the world’s first humanoid robot to achieve full software and hardware EU certification and has entered over 30 countries and regions, including Malaysia, Indonesia, the UAE, and South Africa.
With this in mind, this small city in one of the biggest bodies of water in the world indeed has a vast potential to be one of the leading technological realms globally.
