“Hello there!” On Shanghai Yangpu’s Fuxing Island, a panda robot dog wagged its head, extended a front paw, and greeted several gathered cosplayers. Beside it, a humanoid robot danced to the music among the crowd, twisting up and down with full dynamism.
This was the scene at Xiaohongshu (RED) LAND 2026. A group of “silicon-based islanders” welcomed the players landing on the island with full energy. From October 2 to 6, Xiaohongshu’s mega offline IP “RED LAND” landed on Shanghai Yangpu’s Fuxing Island for its second consecutive year. This edition gathered over 160 renowned game and anime IPs, with the exploration area growing from 80,000 to over 100,000 square meters.
Beyond the familiar games, anime, and trendy play, the island’s humanoid robots and robot dogs also appeared on site, becoming a focal point of popularity.
The robot “working squad” goes on duty
Inside Qingyixuan · Café on Yinhe East Street, humanoid robots turned “waiters”—greeting guests, delivering coffee, clearing tables, cleaning the bar… busy with gusto. For them, this was an on-duty training in a real work scene and a comprehensive “big test” of performance.
The neighboring exhibition area was equally lively. The “Guochao (national-trend) tech performance squad” of humanoid robots and quadruped robot dogs debuted together, with tai chi, Jeet Kune Do, ethnic dance, and ballet taking turns on stage; many robot dogs even changed into panda and lion-dance “skins,” their movements all the more adorable. From “Martial Arts · Jeet Kune Do” and “Tai Chi” to “Shengshi Huan’ge” and “Cangqiong Huan,” the sense of technology and the on-site atmosphere were maxed out together.
Moreover, during the float parade, the robots and robot dogs interacted and greeted players along Adventurer Avenue, adding an unexpected “silicon surprise” to the procession.
The “silicon islanders” resident on Fuxing Island
The robots’ appearance at RED LAND 2026 was no impromptu “performance show.” This April, the 2026 Shanghai Fuxing Island Embodied-Intelligence Real-Scene Space Experiment & Training Platform officially launched; seven smart robots received the first batch of “Global Maker Island Silicon Islander Certificates” on site, officially gaining their “identity proof” to operate within Fuxing Island’s real-scene space. These robots come from multiple enterprises including Shanghai Sudu Technology, Zhiyuan Innovation (Shanghai) Technology, and Shanghai Daxiao Infinity Robotics, and will complete training tasks in real scenarios such as coffee delivery, urban river patrol, and market guiding.
In June’s spring training camp, dozens of maker teams gathered on Fuxing Island, training in groups and jointly pursuing the innovation pact of carbon-silicon symbiosis. The robots they built turned into diverse roles such as inspectors and shopping guides, shuttling through building outdoor areas and old factories by the Huangpu River, “bumping into” citizens unexpectedly. It is understood that the training relies on Fuxing Island’s real urban scenes, building a high-precision spatial-data and perception-facility system, connecting the full flow of data supply—collection—backflow, and comprehensively supporting robots’ real-scene training, technical validation, and algorithm iteration, continuously consolidating embodied-intelligence real-scene training capacity and empowering future scenario innovation and urban-spatial intelligent governance.
A small island’s industrial blueprint
Fuxing Island’s robot experiments are rooted in Shanghai’s strategic deployment of “deepening quantum urban spatial-intelligence construction” and “advancing Fuxing Island future-city innovation experiments.” Yangpu District lists embodied intelligence as the top of the six key “AI+” tracks in its “Yangpu District Action Plan for Deeply Advancing ‘AI+’ (2026–2028),” explicitly proposing to develop quadruped and humanoid robot bodies and push breakthroughs in the industrialization of core components.
From “silicon trainees” to “silicon islanders,” from lab training to adventure-island interaction, Fuxing Island is using real urban space to provide embodied intelligence with a complete chain from technical validation to scenario landing. When robots deliver a cup of coffee in a café and wave to players in the float parade, this only closed inland island on the Huangpu River seems to reflect a future city vision of “friendly symbiosis between carbon and silicon bases.”
Text: Tang Shunjia Photos: Wang Ziliang, Wang Xiuyuan Editor: Chen Lu Some images are file photos.
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