Hong Kong Hard‑Tech Companies Enhance Canton Fair Presence As Veterans And Newcomers Expand International Networks

At the 139th China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair), Hong Kong‑listed firms were increasingly prominent, with many presenting robotics and other advanced technologies. This visibility corresponds with the ongoing momentum in Hong Kong’s technology listings, as an expanding cohort of tech companies refines the market’s composition.

Both established exhibitors such as Yadea Holdings and Skyworth Group and more recent participants including Elephant Robotics and UBTech showcased substantive technological offerings, using the Canton Fair platform to broaden their international partnerships. Robotics emerged as a focal theme, and the service‑robot pavilion drew significant attention from overseas buyers. Elephant Robotics’ booth demonstrated machines that prepare ice cream and coffee and offered massage and cupping experiences, illustrating the company’s “one robot, one store” concept. The ice‑cream robot, for example, completes a transaction from scan to delivery in 40 seconds, supports 12 specialty flavors, occupies less than 1.5 square meters and integrates a cloud management system for remote inventory, sales and device monitoring to enable continuous, low‑labor operation.

Yadea’s display featured more than ten new electric two‑wheelers and electric motorcycles, attracting sustained interest from international procurement delegations. A highlighted model employs fast‑charge technology that can increase battery level from 10% to 80% in 20 minutes and delivers a 66‑kilometer range; a ternary‑lithium variant reaches speeds of 80 km/h with a range of 120 km.

Companies that have filed for Hong Kong listings also presented advanced robotics lines. Visionox exhibited a full‑stack, self‑developed robotics portfolio, including the MAXHUB X7 industrial quadruped robot and an AI language‑controlled manipulator equipped with OpenClaw. Visionox’s vice president explained that the quadruped, powered by twelve in‑house motors, offers substantially improved payload and endurance, achieving up to 11 hours of unloaded operation and more than six hours when carrying 40 kilograms, demonstrating deployable commercial capability. The OpenClaw‑equipped manipulator simplifies robotic deployment by enabling voice commands for tasks such as on‑line sorting by shape or color, removing the need for complex programming and lowering the barrier to adoption.

UBTech presented a pool‑cleaning robot and the Tiangong Walker for the education market, noting that the platform exposes motor, sensor and motion‑control interfaces and provides comprehensive development guides and sample code to support embodied‑intelligence research and secondary development.

Several of the showcased technologies have already gained traction overseas. Yadea reported robust demand from Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian buyers despite regional airspace disruptions, with Vietnam and Indonesia cited as markets where electric two‑wheelers are in short supply amid rising fuel prices. Elephant Robotics stated that overseas revenue now exceeds 50% of total sales, with products distributed to more than 100 countries and regions; the company has led China’s collaborative‑robot exports for eight consecutive years, achieved 31.7% revenue growth in 2025 and ranked first globally in collaborative‑robot shipments. Elephant Robotics’ Nova series operates stably across dozens of Chinese cities and in airports, high‑speed rail stations and libraries in the United States and Europe, recording 500,000 cups served without failure in unmanned beverage and retail deployments. Examples include humanoid‑style picking and packing in unmanned supermarkets, a 24/7 Coca‑Cola unmanned beverage station in Europe and unmanned beverage kiosks on Swiss motorways; in Singapore, a robot‑centric smart food cart offers unmanned fried‑chicken and fries service with a repeat‑customer rate above 62%.

Visionox’s MAXHUB A3 robotic arm, introduced at the previous Canton Fair, has delivered notable sales growth over the past six months and has been applied to complex factory tasks such as unordered sorting and accessory‑box packing in the company’s own facilities. Line changeover and debugging require only two to three days and no coding, enabling ordinary workers to perform data collection and offering small and medium enterprises a flexible automation option. In vocational education and research, the A3‑based “AI+ Teaching Experiment Platform” integrates a full AI teaching and development environment with mainstream frameworks and toolchains preinstalled, supporting the entire workflow from data annotation and model training to inference deployment and lowering the threshold for robotics learning and development.

Underpinning these product and technology advances, Hong Kong‑listed companies are accelerating globalization and expanding overseas operations. Skyworth described the Canton Fair as a concentrated expression of its upgraded globalization strategy. In 2025 the group recorded RMB 18.335 billion in overseas revenue, representing 26.0% of total sales and a year‑on‑year increase of 16.3%. Skyworth’s North American expansion, supported by exclusive Philips brand licensing, has secured placement in major retail channels, while Southeast Asian markets have advanced through dual‑track shelf and interest‑based e‑commerce strategies. The company has established five overseas R&D centers, 16 manufacturing bases and 30 marketing subsidiaries and has upgraded its 2026 globalization approach to a dual focus on “technology export and localized ecosystems,” including a strategic cooperation with Panasonic to lead high‑end TV operations in Europe and North America.

UBTech reported accelerated global expansion in 2025, with commercial robots incorporated into overseas store standards by leading domestic new‑energy vehicle manufacturers and strategic partnerships formed with listed companies, key laboratories and industry clients to explore embodied‑intelligence applications in urban robotics and industry services. The company also cited collaborations with strategic customers in more than 50 countries to advance customized intelligent robot products and solutions. Elephant Robotics reiterated that its global footprint and export leadership validate its overseas strategy and provide a foundation for deeper internationalization.