{"id":250464,"date":"2025-12-25T07:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T07:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/250464\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T07:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T07:23:08","slug":"chinas-ai-toy-boom-huawei-jd-com-ubtech-make-big-push-into-growing-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/250464\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s AI toy boom: Huawei, JD.com, UBTech make big push into growing sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/huawei?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Huawei Technologies<\/a> in late November sold more than 10,000 units of its <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/artificial-intelligence?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">artificial intelligence<\/a> toy, Smart Hanhan, in the first week of its release, as similar smart playthings seize a growing share of consumer spending worldwide.<a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/shenzhen?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shenzhen<\/a>-based Huawei\u2019s AI-powered emotional support plush toy, which costs 399 yuan (US$57), provides a user with interactive companionship via movement recognition, voice and touch. For example, when a user asks Smart Hanhan to count sheep, it often adds playful comments or cheekily refuses to follow exact instructions.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The toy was designed to be compatible with other Huawei devices that run HarmonyOS 5.0 or later versions of the company\u2019s mobile operating system. It also runs Huawei\u2019s intelligent voice assistant, Xiaoyi, to provide natural conversation.<\/p>\n<p>One buyer on <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/jdcom?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">JD.com<\/a>, who declined to be identified, posted a comment that the toy\u2019s features were \u201cstill a bit limited\u201d, but added that it was expected in a first-generation product.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Smart Hanhan marked the latest foray by Chinese technology companies into the growing global AI toy market.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This market is projected to be worth US$60 billion by 2033, from US$18.1 billion in 2024, according to research firm IMARK Group. It said the AI toy trend was \u201cparticularly strong\u201d in North America and Asia, where \u201chigh internet penetration and smartphone usage facilitate online purchases\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huawei Technologies in late November sold more than 10,000 units of its artificial intelligence toy, Smart Hanhan, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,130243,289,290,130240,1793,130242,8473,381,130244,58132,18,10979,5218,19,17,26609,130245,130241,130246,82,130247],"class_list":{"0":"post-250464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-toy","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-askci-consulting","13":"tag-beijing","14":"tag-bubblepal","15":"tag-bytedance","16":"tag-china","17":"tag-chinese-ai-toy-sector","18":"tag-chinese-companies","19":"tag-eire","20":"tag-harmonyos","21":"tag-huawei","22":"tag-ie","23":"tag-ireland","24":"tag-jd-com","25":"tag-meng-uu","26":"tag-ropet","27":"tag-smart-hanhan","28":"tag-technology","29":"tag-ubtech-robotics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115779010787335927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}