en.Wedoany.com Reported - The world's first offline AI application store, MetAI Hub, officially opened on May 11, 2026, in the Zhangjiang Artificial Intelligence Innovation Town in Shanghai, China. With a total area exceeding 2,000 square meters, it brings together over 500 cutting-edge AI products across 80 major global categories, covering scenarios such as educational robots, health smart assistants, intelligent office equipment, and pet smart companions. Ordinary consumers can experience and freely purchase these products up close. According to information released by the Shanghai Municipal Government's official platform, the store has already gathered thousands of continuously updated new global AI products, aiming to make cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology truly "tangible."
The nearly 2,000-square-meter physical space is divided into six major functional sections: the Good Product Space, the Robot Interactive Experience Zone, the Maker Zone, the Moli Showcase, the Smart Sensing Experience Zone, and the AI Health Space. Each of the six sections has a distinct role: the Good Product Space places AI products into authentic home settings for trial use; the Robot Interactive Experience Zone gathers humanoid robots, quadrupedal robot dogs, and desktop-level intelligent machine tools, encouraging consumers to operate them hands-on throughout; the Maker Zone is equipped with professional devices like 3D printers and laser engraving machines, providing full support from design to prototyping for independent developers and startup teams; the Moli Showcase serves functions for new product launches and industry exchanges; the Smart Sensing Experience Zone centrally displays over 300 AI gadgets from 10 major global categories; and the AI Health Space integrates large models with 3D rapid scanning technology to build a closed-loop digital health management system from detection to intervention.
The store's operator, Yuanmeng Intelligence, led the overall project planning. Zhao Tongyang, Founder and CEO of Yuanmeng Intelligence, stated that the goal of the AI application store is to make AI the underlying operating system for urban operations and daily life, rather than a showcase of isolated technological prowess. The team aims to build a sustainable, replicable, and scalable paradigm for AI implementation. On the opening day, the AI application store simultaneously completed B-end ecosystem signings covering five major sectors: home, city, sci-tech innovation, cultural tourism, and business. It also jointly launched ecosystem co-construction projects with over ten enterprises, including Indiegogo, Huayuan Computing, Yuhetian Group, Zhuoyide Robot, Lexiang Intelligence, and Chongke Intelligence.
The Zhangjiang AI Innovation Town already possesses a solid foundation of industrial supporting facilities. According to Yu Yong, Chairman of Zhangjiang Group, the Moli Community has already gathered over 300 artificial intelligence enterprises, and the AI Town overall has clustered over 500, covering a full-stack industry chain from intelligent computing chips and foundational large models to vertical models and intelligent terminals. The establishment of the AI application store adds a physical display and validation node facing end consumers for this enterprise cluster. Startups can place their products directly in the store for testing by real users, potentially shortening the product validation cycle from concept to market from 6 months to 3 months.
The store has set up a Geek Creative Space for the maker community, providing sci-tech innovators with low-cost means of production and a real-world testing environment. The operator has already initiated ecosystem collaborations with over ten enterprises, covering multiple links such as chips, algorithms, hardware, and content, promoting direct upstream and downstream industry chain connections within the physical space. According to the long-term plan announced by the operator, the store will adopt the modular MetAI Box as its core format, gradually achieving integrated online and offline operations to help more Chinese AI products reach overseas markets. The AI Health Space deployed within the store has already taken the lead in implementing non-contact vital sign detection capabilities; when a consumer stands in front of the mirror-like device, the system can instantly collect over ten physiological indicators and conduct a risk assessment.
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