"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.

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

MQ Wang shows off the Hover Camera

Our up-close look at Hover Camera

Sharp's RoBoHon is part robot, part smartphone

RoBoHon can project images

The Turing Robot made an appearance

Turing OS is also an open source AI platform

This robot couldn't shake an error message

AI Speech wan't to power robots

Sense wants to bring more sensors to AI and robots

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

Tencent is the Facebook of China

Alibaba is a Chinese ecommerce powerhouse

Sina Weibo is the Twitter of China

Cheetah Mobile is a global powerhouse in smartphone apps

Xiaomi's Ninebot is a $300 Segway competitor

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

Xiaomi's water testing pen

Tesla had a large booth that was very popular

Attendees spent a lot of time sitting in the Tesla vehicles

Qualcomm made its case to Chinese companies to use its chips

There was a huge line to try the HTC Vive

HTC Vive was the VR champ of GMIC Beijing 2016

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

VR startups also cropped up

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

Honor phones teamed with Angry Birds for booth launches

Honor is Huawei's brand for general consumers

Google was a surprise vendor

Who doesn't want a selfie with a chipmaker?

Some of China's top tech executives spoke

The 2008 Olympic park was only steps away