Following its breakout appearance on the 2026 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, MagicLab's panda robot "Yuanbao" quickly became a fan-favorite for its charming design and impressive mobility. MagicLab has since brought Yuanbao to Tsinghua University — one of China's top academic institutions — for an event exploring the frontiers of embodied AI with students and faculty.
As a company within Tsinghua's alumni-founded ecosystem and a leading name in embodied AI, MagicLab drew a notably larger crowd than in previous years to the Tsinghua Entrepreneurship Association's event booth, showing Yuanbao alongside other hardware and products. The visit gave students a close-up look at a "CCTV star" robot while deepening their understanding of the embodied AI industry — and marks MagicLab's second visit to Tsinghua's campus following an earlier guest lecture, underscoring the company's ongoing investment in talent partnerships and industry-academia collaboration.
Why it matters for university partnerships and talent pipelines: A recognizable, nationally broadcast robot brand converts casual campus foot traffic into genuine engagement — the year-over-year crowd increase at the same booth is a concrete signal that the CCTV appearance is translating into real recruiting and partnership value, not just brand awareness.
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