Chinese auto-parts and electronics maker Joyson Electronics used the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) to move beyond cars and into the fast-growing field of humanoid and embodied robots.
According to reporting carried by Yahoo Finance and the Indonesian outlet Tirto, Joyson Electronics — listed in Shanghai and Hong Kong under the tickers 600699.SH and 0699.HK — announced what it calls an "embodied AI core component portfolio" at the conference. "Embodied AI" refers to artificial intelligence that operates through a physical body, such as a robot, rather than living purely on a screen.
The headline pieces of the portfolio are a dexterous robotic hand and a solid-liquid hybrid battery. Tirto describes the broader announcement as a suite of robotic component solutions, of which the hand and the battery are two named examples.
A dexterous robotic hand is one of the hardest parts of building a useful robot: fine finger control is what lets a machine grip, manipulate, and handle objects the way a person can. The solid-liquid hybrid battery points to Joyson's other bet — that robots will need power sources that borrow from both traditional liquid-electrolyte cells and newer solid-state designs.
The sources provided do not include specifications, pricing, launch dates, performance figures, or customer names for any of these components, so those details remain unstated.
Why it matters: a large, publicly traded supplier positioning itself to sell the "picks and shovels" of humanoid robotics — the hands, the batteries, the building blocks — is a signal that embodied AI is shifting from research demos toward an industrial supply chain that other companies can buy from.