HKUST and Suzhou CalmCar Electronics Technology (CalmCar) signed a strategic settlement on June 3, 2026 to ascertain the Physical AI Innovation Center in Hong Kong (HKUST; ACN Newswire). The middle pursues full-stack bodily AI analysis spanning chips and techniques, foundational fashions and knowledge, privateness and security governance, and functions in autonomous driving, robotics, and good manufacturing. Prof. Guo Song, a Chair Professor in HKUST’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, will direct it; HKUST highlights a Physical Alignment method that upgrades generative video fashions into interactive world fashions, shifting AI from seeing the world to performing on it. CalmCar serves as an preliminary trade take a look at mattress, and the launch created an Industry-Research Alliance and a Capital Alliance with tutorial, chip, and funding companions (Gasgoo; Hong Kong Business).