The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is partnering with tech giants to offer on-site Artificial Intelligence (AI) laboratories at its expanded Shanghai campus, which welcomed more than 300 students for the new term earlier this week.The campus in Zhangjiang Science City is also expected to expand its intake next year, when the university’s medicine and engineering programmes launch there. Its computing and data science school opened a base in Shanghai in mid-January.The university signed memorandums of understanding with 17 Hong Kong and mainland Chinese companies, including Unitree Robotics, BrainCo and AgiBot, on Sunday to open joint labs specialising in AI and fintech at the campus.
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HKU partners with tech giants to offer AI labs at expanded Shanghai campus
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has established on-site artificial intelligence (AI) laboratories at its expanded Shanghai campus. This initiative is a result of partnerships with tech giants, with HKU signing memorandums of understanding with 17 Hong Kong and mainland Chinese companies, including Unitree Robotics, BrainCo, and AgiBot.
Kristen CheungSouth China Morning PostFiled 2026-09-02 · 00:30 GMTLean · Center-RightRead · 1 min
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The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has established on-site artificial intelligence (AI) laboratories at its expanded Shanghai campus. This initiative is a result of partnerships with tech giants, with HKU signing memorandums of understanding with 17 Hong Kong and mainland Chinese companies, including Unitree Robotics, BrainCo, and AgiBot. These joint labs will specialize in AI and fintech. The expanded campus in Zhangjiang Science City welcomed over 300 students for the current term. Future expansion is planned for next year with the introduction of HKU's medicine and engineering programs. HKU's computing and data science school had previously opened a base in Shanghai in mid-January.
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HKU signed MOUs with 17 Hong Kong and mainland Chinese companies, including Unitree Robotics, BrainCo and AgiBot, to open joint labs specializing in AI and fintech.
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The HKU Shanghai campus welcomed more than 300 students for the new term earlier this week.
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The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is partnering with tech giants to offer on-site artificial intelligence (AI) laboratories at its expanded Shanghai campus.
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The campus in Zhangjiang Science City is expected to expand its intake next year when medicine and engineering programmes launch there.
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