Zhang Kangrong, founder of Lingmei Intelligence, spoke about succession issues: choosing to start a business means dedicating 100% of energy to embodied intelligence.
# Zhang Kangrong, founder of Lingmei Intelligence, discusses succession: Choosing to start a business means 100% focusing on embodied intelligence In the summer of 2026, China’s retail industry and the embodied intelligence sector will face a critical moment. After digital transformation, the retail industry seeks efficiency improvements, while embodied intelligence faces challenges such as difficulties in implementation and a shortage of data. At this intersection, Lingmei Intelligence was officially established, led by Zhang Kangrong, daughter of Zhang Wenzhong, founder of Wumai Group. She was responsible for managing the operations of Wumai and the Duoduo App platform, as well as optimizing online products and commercialization efforts. Zhang Kangrong comprehensively explained her entrepreneurial thoughts for the first time: she believes that “succession” and “starting a business” are not opposing choices, but rather based on past experiences and industry judgment. She pointed out that retail is the ideal scenario for implementing embodied intelligence—stores have thousands of SKUs, with frequent daily data on SKU operations, making these actions and tasks suitable for model training. Lingmei Intelligence’s core vision is to create “ImageNet in the realm of embodied intelligence,”即 building a closed-loop of data in real retail scenarios, connecting the entire process from perception, decision-making to physical execution. In response to the question “Why choose to start a business rather than…”