# Chingmu Signs Global Partnership With Hitch Open to Supply Motion Capture for Physical AI Events

> Chingmu signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Hitch Open at the 9th China International Import Expo.

- Published: 2026-11-07T13:44:45+00:00
- Section: Partnerships
- Author: News Desk
- URL: https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-11-07/chingmu-hitch-open-motion-capture-partnership
- Source: [FinancialContent Business Page](https://www.financialcontent.com/article/firstpublisher-2026-11-7-chingmu-and-hitch-open-form-global-partnership-to-advance-physical-ai)

## Key takeaways

- Chingmu signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Hitch Open during the 9th China International Import Expo in Shanghai.
- Chingmu becomes the official motion capture technology partner for Hitch Open's HOPE events worldwide.
- Hitch Open's open-source physical AI platform featuring autonomous robot table tennis was named one of the top 10 frontier-technology exhibits at the CIIE among more than 10,000 exhibits.

Chingmu and Hitch Open signed a strategic cooperation agreement at the 9th China International Import Expo in Shanghai on November 7, 2026, making Chingmu the official motion capture technology partner for HOPE events worldwide. The [FinancialContent Business Page](https://www.financialcontent.com/article/firstpublisher-2026-11-7-chingmu-and-hitch-open-form-global-partnership-to-advance-physical-ai) reported the agreement.

## Chingmu's Role in Hitch Open's Physical AI Competitions

Under the agreement, [Chingmu](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/0005ih4/chingmu) becomes a global strategic partner of Hitch Open and will support events worldwide. The company will work with Hitch Open on training data acquisition, competition sensing and related activities, with the collaboration extending to research testing and other physical AI applications.

Hitch Open runs real-world competitions to advance AI perception, decision-making and action in autonomous driving, embodied AI and robotics. Its events include the Hitch Open Ping-Pong Embodied AI Challenge (HOPE) and the Hitch Open World AI Racing Championships on Tianmen Mountain's 99 Bends. Hitch Open's open-source physical AI platform, featuring autonomous robot table tennis, was named one of the top 10 frontier-technology exhibits at the CIIE, among more than 10,000 exhibits at this year's expo.

Chingmu has supplied a Hitch Open research center with a complete optical motion capture system and technical support. Starting in Caohejing, it will also support deployments at Hitch Open research centers in other locations, connecting data acquisition, dynamic scene perception and testing for research between competitions.

"We believe robotic competition is more than a showcase for technology. It is an important step toward putting physical AI to work in the real world," said Zhang Haiwei, founder and CEO of Chingmu, at the signing ceremony.

At the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, AGIBOT, Chingmu, Peking University, the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, UC Berkeley and other teams presented a HOPE autonomous humanoid table-tennis exhibition. Chingmu captured 3D trajectories of the ball and robot to provide ground-truth motion data for dynamic interaction.

## Chingmu's Motion Capture Track Record

According to akta.pro [company records](https://akta.pro/company-data), Chingmu launched the MotionDecode Data Open Program in June 2026, releasing 1,000 hours of high-quality human motion data free for embodied-AI and robotics training. In May 2026, AMD served as lead computing partner for Chingmu's 100-person simultaneous real-time motion capture world record challenge, which used 5,300 markers across a 1,000 m² space at 12 ms processing and 120 fps. The same records list a May 2026 partnership with Unitree Robotics for humanoid robot motion capture and data acquisition.

## Earlier Chingmu Robot-Competition Work

Chingmu supported robot sports demonstrations at WPAI 2026, using optical motion capture to track balls and human movements for robot learning, the FinancialContent Business Page reported in November 2026. In September 2026, the same outlet reported that Chingmu deployed high-precision optical motion capture systems at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, tracking robot movements across 666 teams and 2,056 robots. The FinancialContent Business Page reported in July 2026 that Chingmu launched the MotionDecode Data Openness Program on June 16, 2026, with EnDecodeX, offering 1,000 hours of embodied motion dataset free to researchers and robot enterprises worldwide.

## Research Center Deployments Beyond Caohejing

Chingmu will support deployments at Hitch Open research centers in locations beyond Caohejing, following its supply of a complete optical motion capture system and technical support to the first center.

## Companies in this story

- [Chingmu company profile](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/0005ih4/chingmu) · website: http://www.chingmu.com

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