51WORLD (06651) has established a joint venture with United Imaging to launch the embodied intelligent data platform AperData.

51WORLD (06651) announced that the company has established a joint venture, Shenzhen Wanwu Linchang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (the joint venture), with Shenzhen United Imaging Co., Ltd. (United Imaging). The joint venture primarily focuses on addressing the core issue of "lack of real data" in the embodied intelligence industry and launched the "soft and hard integrated" embodied intelligence data platform, AperData, on August 18, 2026, providing relevant products and services ranging from data collection in the real world to deliverable, trainable data for the embodied intelligence industry. According to the company, United Imaging is an independent third party with no connections to the Group. Since the highest applicable percentage calculated for the establishment of this joint venture is less than 5%, this establishment does not constitute a notifiable transaction under the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. One of the significant constraints currently facing the embodied intelligence industry is the lack of large-scale, high-quality, real-world interactive data that can be directly used for model training. The capabilities of the Group and United Imaging are highly complementary: the Group has extensive experience in digital twin and data platform, with its Dataverse platform leading the industry in data lifecycle management but lacking specialized collection hardware capabilities for the real physical world; United Imaging, on the other hand, has over a decade of experience in the research, development, and manufacturing of camera modules and visual algorithms, along with a mature mass production supply chain and production experience for wearable collection devices, allowing for complementary strengths with the Group. Both parties will cooperate fully in "data platform capabilities" and "imaging hardware capabilities," which will benefit the company in seizing emerging market opportunities in embodied intelligence data infrastructure. The establishment of this joint venture is a key initiative in the Group's "three-step" development strategy: Step one, the SimOne platform has been deeply engaged in intelligent driving simulation for many years and has become the market leader in intelligent driving simulation platforms, laying the technical and market foundation for data-driven simulation; step two, the Group will extend its accumulation of digital twin and simulation to the embodied intelligence data infrastructure field, constructing the core infrastructure for the embodied intelligence era through AperData; looking ahead, the Group plans to further extend its business into the aerospace field, exploring relevant business opportunities within aerospace, and aims to become a provider of data and simulation infrastructure covering intelligent driving, embodied intelligence, and multiple fields in aerospace.