The industrialization of embodied intelligence is advancing rapidly. Autonomous agents including robots and low-altitude aircraft demand robust all-weather environmental perception. As the core foundation of sensing, intelligent optics runs through the full industrial chain covering hardware devices, optical modules, fusion systems and vertical applications, forming the backbone of the perception-decision-action loop. Complex urban airspace, construction sites, ports and other unstructured environments face multiple challenges including turbulent airflow, drastic light changes and positioning interference. Single-mode imaging solutions fail to deliver sufficient safety redundancy for autonomous operations, driving urgent demand for multi-source optical fusion technologies such as multispectral cameras, LiDAR, event cameras and thermal imagers.

Progressing from fundamental hardware to real-world deployments, the Smart Optics for Embodied AI Forum conducts in-depth discussions across four core layers: optical sensing equipment, miniaturized imaging modules, edge multi-sensor fusion systems and industrial vertical applications. Dialogues focus on self-developed multi-modal optical hardware, compact industrial optical modules, edge AI perception architectures and digital twin collaboration frameworks, alongside cutting-edge technologies including cross-scale environmental monitoring, dynamic route safety evaluation and multi-agent collaborative mapping. Key practical scenarios include low-altitude inspection, smart construction, port surveillance, logistics transportation and emergency response.

Uniting research institutes, optoelectronic manufacturers, robotics and low-altitude economy enterprises, the forum builds an integrated industry-university-research exchange platform to tackle universal bottlenecks such as robust optical perception, low-latency edge computing and adaptability to extreme environments. It speeds up the standardization and commercialization of optical sensing technologies and facilitates coordinated development of the intelligent unmanned systems ecosystem in the Greater Bay Area.