At a recent tech conference in Beijing, the intelligent breeding robot "Jier," a brainchild of Xu Cao's team at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, made waves with the debut of its latest embodied AI iteration. This cutting-edge robot boasts autonomous navigation capabilities and excels in precise hybrid pollination, equipped with advanced functions such as stamen identification, positioning, pollination execution, and phenotypic data acquisition. During its on-stage demonstration, the robot swiftly pollinated a single tomato in less than 10 seconds, with a single dip of its pollen brush capable of supporting approximately 50 pollination operations.

Agricultural experts have harnessed biotechnology to refine crop morphology, ensuring the stigma of the stamen is readily accessible for robotic pollination. This innovation builds upon the team's prior achievements in August 2025, when they successfully merged biotechnology with artificial intelligence to engineer crop flower shapes conducive to robotic manipulation. This breakthrough led to the development of the world's inaugural autonomous navigation hybrid pollination breeding robot, marking a significant milestone in agricultural automation.