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Photos: Inside GMIC Beijing 2016, ‘The CES of China’

  • The Global Mobile Internet Conference & Expo

    TechRepublic was on the ground for GMIC Beijing 2016 on April 28 to May 2. Check out our photos of the booths and products from some of China’s biggest technology giants. One of the most prominent themes: robots.

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  • "The CES of China"? -- Yes and no

    GMIC Beijing is sometimes called “The CES of China.” But, while CES is mostly a hardware show, GMIC is weighted more toward internet companies. Still, that doesn’t mean there wasn’t some excellent hardware, including the hottest product of the show.

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  • Hover Camera stole the show

    Hover Camera was the biggest hit of GMIC Beijing 2016. Read the full story on ZDNet: AI-powered selfie drone takes 13MP photos and 4K video, wows GMIC Beijing 2016

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  • MQ Wang shows off the Hover Camera

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  • Our up-close look at Hover Camera

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    Sharp's RoBoHon is part robot, part smartphone

  • RoBoHon can project images

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  • The Turing Robot made an appearance

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  • Turing OS is also an open source AI platform

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  • This robot couldn't shake an error message

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  • AI Speech wan't to power robots

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  • Sense wants to bring more sensors to AI and robots

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  • Baidu is the Google of China, including self-driving cars

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  • Tencent is the Facebook of China

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  • Alibaba is a Chinese ecommerce powerhouse

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  • Sina Weibo is the Twitter of China

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  • Cheetah Mobile is a global powerhouse in smartphone apps

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  • Xiaomi's Ninebot is a $300 Segway competitor

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  • Xiaomi had a huge presence, including this display of its TVs

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  • Xiaomi's water testing pen

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  • Tesla had a large booth that was very popular

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  • Attendees spent a lot of time sitting in the Tesla vehicles

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  • Qualcomm made its case to Chinese companies to use its chips

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  • There was a huge line to try the HTC Vive

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  • HTC Vive was the VR champ of GMIC Beijing 2016

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  • The VR Zone was a hot stop, as many people wanted to try VR

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  • VR startups also cropped up

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  • This looks like a VR headset, but it's an eye massager

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  • Honor phones teamed with Angry Birds for booth launches

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  • Honor is Huawei's brand for general consumers

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  • Google was a surprise vendor

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  • Who doesn't want a selfie with a chipmaker?

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  • Some of China's top tech executives spoke

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  • The 2008 Olympic park was only steps away

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Jason Hiner

Jason Hiner is Editorial Director of CNET and former Editor in Chief of TechRepublic. He's co-author of the book, Follow the Geeks.