China Merchants Guanyi and UBTECH Forge Strategic Partnership to Establish a Smart Elder Care Benchmark

Experiencing the Warmth of Health and Elderly Care, Paying Tribute to a Better Life with Quality. On December 28, 2021, Phase II of Shekou China Merchants Guanyi Home and the China Merchants Subdistrict Elderly Service Center were officially unveiled. The event featured plaque-unveiling, launch, and move-in ceremonies, alongside the inaugural Shekou Senior Garden Expo. Leaders from the Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the Civil Affairs Bureau, and relevant departments of the Nanshan District Government, representatives from various subdistricts, the Consul General of France in Guangzhou, as well as representatives from industry associations, partner organizations, and media outlets, were invited to attend.

 Group Photo of Attending Guests and Representatives

At the launch ceremony, China Merchants Shekou’s subsidiary, China Merchants Guanyi, entered into a strategic partnership with UBTECH Robotics to build a digital-intelligence ecosystem for health and elderly care. Leveraging UBTECH’s professional expertise in artificial intelligence and robotics, the collaboration aims to address market demands in the health and elderly care sector by creating a benchmark project characterized by model and technological innovation—the Phase II of Shekou China Merchants Guanyi Home. This initiative will provide seniors with services such as assisted exercise, intelligent companionship, and autonomous delivery, while advancing the application of intelligent robots in scenarios including medical assistance, health monitoring, disease screening, elderly companionship, daily care, and dementia care.

China Merchants Guanyi has partnered with UBTECH Robotics, a leading enterprise in artificial intelligence and humanoid robots, for the first time. This collaboration integrates China Merchants Guanyi’s industrial resource advantages with UBTECH Robotics’ core technologies, products, and proven applications in the field of intelligent robotics, aiming to provide more efficient, convenient, and human-centric services for the elderly in their later years.

Leveraging the Shekou China Merchants Guanyi Home, China Merchants Shekou has partnered with the Nanshan District Civil Affairs Bureau, Zhaoshang Subdistrict, UBTECH Robotics, and other enterprises to co-establish Shenzhen’s first “four-tier elderly care service network” that provides comprehensive coverage across subdistricts, communities, residential compounds, and home-based settings. This network operates under a unified brand, unified planning, and unified management by a single company within a designated area, thereby promoting high-quality development of elderly care services and contributing to Shenzhen’s goal of establishing a benchmark for public well-being characterized by “dignified and supported aging.”

UBTECH’s Large Humanoid Service Robot Walker Welcomes Guests at China Merchants Guanyi Home in Shekou

UBTECH Robotics possesses core technologies in artificial intelligence and robotics, including high-performance servo drives, mechanical transmission, motion planning and control, computer vision and perception, intelligent voice interaction, SLAM and navigation, human-computer interaction, hand-eye coordination, and the Robot Operating System Application Framework (ROSA). The company has secured more than 2,600 patents worldwide. Leveraging intelligent robots as its platform and AI technology as its core, UBTECH has implemented practical applications across various industries, including AI education, commercial services, intelligent inspection, smart epidemic prevention, smart logistics, and smart elderly care.

China Merchants Guanyihe and UBTECH Robotics will also explore the potential of hard technologies in medical elderly care, smart management, and smart communities, carrying out more technical pilots around the needs of different scenarios, such as the application of new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics in diseases including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and stroke. As both parties deepen their cooperation, more smart health and elderly care products will facilitate industrial upgrading in the construction and operation of cities, industrial parks, and communities.

 Address by Di Qian, Administrative Director of China Merchants Shekou and Chairman of China Merchants Guanyi

Di Qian, Administrative Director of China Merchants Shekou and Chairman of China Merchants Guanyi, stated that Phase II of Shekou China Merchants Guanyi Home is not only an innovative initiative to implement a four-tier elderly care service network through government-enterprise collaboration, but also provides a secure and comforting home for those who contributed to the reform and opening-up to enjoy their later years.

 Group Photo of Representatives from China Merchants Guanyi and UBTECH Robotics

As a partner, Xiong Youjun, Chief Technology Officer of UBTECH Robotics, also believes that this collaboration is of great significance. “This marks a key breakthrough for UBTECH Robotics in the field of smart elderly care, representing both the expansion of our cutting-edge technologies into practical application scenarios and our innovative practice in addressing major societal challenges.”

In 1979, Shekou in Shenzhen sounded the clarion call for China’s reform and opening-up. In 2021, once again in Shekou, Shenzhen, Chinese original technological forces represented by UBTECH Robotics persisted in investing in the research and development of key core technologies in artificial intelligence and robotics, facilitating the intelligent transformation of elderly care services and promoting the high-quality development of the silver economy, thereby leveraging innovative technology to address major societal challenges and meet critical social needs.