AIsland offers tangible solutions to reinvent industries and revolutionize lives

Mobile robots meet and greet you on your way to work, smart streetlights illuminate your way home and unmanned stores allow you to grab a late-night snack - a quick tour of Shanghai's AIsland is like a sneak peak of what city life could look like in the future.

As its name suggests, the 66,000-square-meter AIsland is home to some pretty enterprising undertakings: to turn abstract AI ideas into prototypes, and potentially into tangible solutions to reinvent industries and revolutionize lives.

Construction of the dedicated hub was first proposed in April 2018, just months after the Shanghai municipal government published its goal to build itself into a world-class AI center.