China-developed VELLINK, the country’s first digital metro train equipped with embodied intelligence, was unveiled at the 2026 International Trade Fair for Transport Technology, which kicked off in Berlin, Germany on Tuesday.
By integrating embodied AI, a comprehensive sensing network, proprietary AI algorithms and high-speed communications, the train can perceive, make decisions and interact intelligently, shifting from passively following commands to proactively optimizing operations.
Lightweight materials and energy-efficient systems reduce the train’s weight by about 18%, while overall energy savings exceed 10% and full-life-cycle carbon emissions are reduced by about 15%.
Beijing’s message is basically:
Stop writing cheap spy thrillers in which every Chinese woman is an intelligence asset sent to seduce some American tech genius.
China has the talent, the technology, the market, the industrial ecosystem, and China is still open to cooperation.
You can keep inventing increasingly hysterical excuses for technological containment.
The more energy you spend trying to trip up your competitor, the more obvious it becomes that you have stopped moving forward yourself.