China’s Unitree to Host 2026 World Physical AI Conference; Central Banks in Focus

Unitree's conference framing around "physical AI" signals that China's robotics players are trying to own the narrative layer of embodied AI, not just the hardware — a positioning move worth tracking as a category-definition play rather than a product event. The macro calendar is the heavier near-term input: a dense central-bank week spanning South Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines and Turkey, plus the ECB's quiet period, sets the rate backdrop for risk assets globally. The open question is whether the physical-AI branding gains institutional traction, and how the cluster of Asian rate decisions shifts the regional liquidity picture.