RMB 100K per Store. Partners Prove a New Embodied AI Service Model

The May Day golden week has officially drawn to a close, and the cultural tourism consumption market across China saw explosive growth. DexForce Technology, together with its operator partners, delivered a replicable, profitable and scalable high-scoring answer through an offline commercial deployment driven by embodied AI.

During the May Day holiday, DexForce Technology joined hands with operator partners in Xuzhou, Shenzhen, Guilin, Yangshuo, Shanwei and other cities to deploy 10+ robotic commercial service kiosks at cultural tourism landmarks, theme parks and premium commercial complexes across the country, including Elephant Trunk Hill in Guilin, West Street in Yangshuo, Fantawild in Xuzhou, premium business districts in Shenzhen and the Mazu Temple in Shanwei. With the innovative format of “embodied AI + offline retail”, these kiosks faced down massive holiday crowds and complex unstructured environments, completed stable full-cycle operation, and, proven under the high pressure of real offline business, validated the feasibility and real-world value of the “AI + cultural tourism” commercial operation model.

>> Key business results of the May Day holiday <<

Payback period as fast as 6 months (depending on the product categories actually operated)

Total single-store revenue for the holiday of RMB 100K+

Robots lifted total store revenue by 4.6x (vs. traditional stores)

Visitor entry-to-purchase conversion rate reached 99%

Natural foot traffic in surrounding areas rose by 30%-40%

Stores at benchmark scenic areas lifted surrounding foot traffic by 200%

During the May Day holiday, robotic commercial service kiosks everywhere drew surging crowds and sparked a queue-and-check-in craze. Take the store at Elephant Trunk Hill in Guilin: as a national 5A-level core cultural tourism landmark and a benchmark city tourism icon of Guangxi, Elephant Trunk Hill enjoys steady natural foot traffic. Yet, held back by the pain points of limited appeal to young visitors and a missing technology identity, the value of the spot had long been underestimated, and the value of its premium site resources could hardly be maximized. Meanwhile, guided by local policies pushing cultural tourism technology upgrades, the scenic area urgently needed brand-new tech-driven formats on the ground to complete its digital and intelligent transformation.

This May Day holiday, DexForce Technology partnered with the local operator to land a robotic commercial service kiosk at the Elephant Trunk Hill scenic area, rebuilding the traditional cultural tourism retail format with embodied AI and creating a benchmark-grade “AI + cultural tourism” showcase:

On the consumer side, the kiosk integrated freshly prepared drinks, smart retail, AI interactive check-ins and cultural-creative experiences, and operated in combination with local specialties such as mangoes and dried persimmons, breaking the homogeneous snack and beverage retail model of traditional scenic areas. During the holiday, peak orders hit 82 per hour per store, with peak hourly revenue of RMB 2,050 per store (note: products priced at RMB 25 each). The deeply futuristic humanoid robot became a brand-new must-visit spot of the scenic area, driving visitors to share and spread the word spontaneously and precisely capturing young consumers. The store maintained an exceptionally high entry conversion rate above 99% throughout the May Day holiday, turning every entry into a purchase and every passer-by into a conversion, and greatly reviving the value of the scenic area spot.

On the scenic area side, the new AI smart service format filled the technology experience gap of this time-honored destination and precisely matched local policy requirements for culture-tourism integration and smart scenic area development. It not only gave the scenic area a fresh digital and technology-forward brand image, but also drove up foot traffic and sales at surrounding shops and tourism-supporting businesses through traffic multiplication from a single spot, truly delivering single-point deployment with area-wide income growth and offering a better answer for upgrading established scenic areas and creating incremental revenue.

For operators of offline venues, traditional cultural tourism and shopping-district retail commonly suffers from high labor costs, high training costs, staffing gaps at peak hours, limited opening hours, slow format iteration and low profit ceilings. The robotic commercial service kiosk disrupts the traditional offline operating model and creates a premium growth track of low investment, light maintenance, fast payback and high conversion for cultural tourism and commercial scenes.

In terms of operating costs, powered by a general embodied AI brain, the robot runs autonomously 24/7 without staff on duty, substantially replacing repetitive manual roles and greatly compressing labor, management and training costs. Meanwhile, the robot can switch formats across categories and scenes, so operators need not invest in equipment again and again: a single robot covers beverages, ice products, cultural-creative goods, interactive services and other diverse business needs, avoiding the single-purpose, left-idle waste of traditional equipment.

In terms of profit efficiency, during the May Day holiday a single robot broke through 1,000 orders per day on average. Combined with an exceptionally high entry conversion rate and free traffic from spontaneous visitor check-ins, the project payback period was sharply shortened. Calculations show the payback period can be compressed to as little as 6 months (note: depending on the product categories actually operated). The business format can also be iterated flexibly to match holidays and high or low seasons, helping operators break through the seasonal barriers of traditional offline retail, leverage lower operating risk into higher and steadier offline returns, and achieve low risk, high growth and sustainability.

The multi-city deployment of robotic commercial service kiosks this May Day holiday was in essence a large-scale validation of the core “DexBot Inside” commercialization strategy of DexForce Technology. Rather than pursuing one-off hardware sales, DexForce outputs three core capabilities to operators and industry partners through its self-developed generative embodied AI brain, creating win-wins for all parties:

1. Cross-category generalization with free format switching: backed by general-purpose algorithms, a single robot adapts to coffee, ice products, retail, interactive services and other diverse consumer formats. Operators can follow consumption trends and iterate their offerings at any time without adding equipment or undertaking heavy renovations;

2. Cross-scene reuse with rapid model replication: the same technology foundation fits cultural tourism landmarks, theme parks, premium commercial complexes and many other offline scenes. With standardized deployment and lightweight installation, it can be replicated and scaled rapidly nationwide;

3. Harvesting along the way, earning more the longer it operates: DexForce follows the pragmatic “harvesting along the way” strategy, continuously feeding real offline operating data back into algorithm iteration, making robot maintenance cheaper, service more stable and user conversion higher, so that algorithm evolution and commercial monetization advance in step.

Under the “DexBot Inside” strategy, value lands clearly for three parties:

1. Operators: they can enter the business with a light-asset model, cut costs and improve efficiency while expanding into multiple formats, effectively shorten project payback periods, and comprehensively raise the overall profit potential of their venues;

2. Scenic areas / property owners: they can quickly upgrade the technology image of their venues, activate spot value, effectively boost site-wide foot traffic, precisely implement culture-tourism and technology integration policies, and build smart cultural tourism benchmark projects;

3. DexForce: it can keep feeding real offline operating data back into algorithm iteration, continuously enriching the commercial deployment scenarios and ecosystem of general embodied AI.

The area-wide results of this May Day golden week — real traffic data, exceptionally high user conversion, stable operations and a sustainable profit model — have fully validated a new paradigm of embodied AI commercial services. The humanoid robot is no longer a tech exhibit in the laboratory, but a new quality productive force that can land in offline commercial scenes, create traffic value and drive revenue growth.

Right now, demand for smart cultural tourism upgrades and digital transformation of physical business is surging nationwide, and the “AI + cultural tourism” track is squarely in its window and bonus period. Effective immediately, DexForce Technology is officially recruiting quality partners across the country:

1. Cultural tourism scenic area partners: tourism landmarks, theme parks, distinctive cultural districts and more;

2. Regional operator partners: those with offline operating resources and local channel resources who want to enter new AI tracks and expand into revenue-generating formats;

3. Premium commercial space partners: shopping centers, cultural-creative districts, urban business districts, transportation hubs and other premium high-traffic venues.

With a mature technology foundation, a proven profit model and a complete enablement system, DexForce Technology stands ready to join hands with partners to seize the new wave of cultural tourism technology and win together in the blue ocean of embodied AI commercial service scenes!