“Robot training,” “robot arm programming,” “AI youth camp”… This May Day holiday, a series of intelligent technology-related buzzwords have become prominent tags on social media for the May Day study tour.
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Prices range from hundreds to thousands of yuan
After the popularity of humanoid robots and DeepSeek during this year’s Spring Festival, the “Six Little Dragons of Hangzhou” have attracted considerable attention, with many parents eager to send their children for visits.
This May Day, many study tour organizations have launched activities related to robots and AI.
According to reports, a 4-day, 3-night technology exploration camp activity promoted by several study tour organizations, using keywords like “Decoding China’s Silicon Valley” and “Zhejiang University × Alibaba × Robots,” targets youth aged 8 to 16. The activities include visits to the “Six Little Dragons of Hangzhou” Future Technology Experience Center, exploring Robot Town, visiting the prestigious Zhejiang University, and participating in Alibaba’s AI courses.
However, the mention of visiting the “Six Little Dragons of Hangzhou” does not refer to the companies themselves but rather to the “Meet the Six Little Dragons of Hangzhou” lifestyle exhibition hall.
According to the West Lake Cultural Tourism WeChat account, this exhibition hall officially opened in March this year in Hangzhou’s Wensan Digital Life Block. This exhibition hall serves as a window to comprehensively and directly understand the innovative technologies of the “Six Little Dragons of Hangzhou.” Inside the hall, you can have a super brain answer questions, shake hands with robots, and see the fantastical scenes of the 3A masterpiece “Black Myth” come to life, along with robots suddenly dancing in unison…
The half-day joint ticket price for this activity on the Fliggy platform is 298 yuan per person, 560 yuan for one adult and one child, and 760 yuan for two adults and one child.
Price list for the “Six Little Dragons of Hangzhou” half-day camp on Fliggy
In addition to Hangzhou, study tour organizations in cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Harbin, and Shenzhen have also launched unique technology-related study projects. It is reported that the “Chinese Academy of Sciences AI MOSS Robot Training 3-Day Camp” in Beijing is priced at 4580 yuan, aimed at students in the third grade and above, including accommodation services; Shanghai has launched a “Fudan University + DeepSeek” one-day camp for youth aged 8 and above, with a price of 398 yuan per person according to the Fast Group platform; Harbin’s “Harbin Institute of Technology + Combat Robot” themed study camp is priced at 558 yuan per person, targeting youth aged 6 to 15; and a 3-day “Bay Area Technology Exploration AI Study Camp” in Shenzhen is priced at 2680 yuan for youth aged 12 to 17.
On April 21, inquiries by the media revealed that one organization offering the “Chinese Academy of Sciences AI MOSS Robot Training 3-Day Camp” had sold out its 40 spots, while another organization had only 10 spots left out of 30. The organization leaders indicated that the majority of the registrants are parents from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, with the highest proportion from Beijing families.
It was noted that most robot-related study activities generally include interactive experience segments. The half-day camp at the “Six Little Dragons” city exhibition hall not only includes visits but also features “robot interactive experiences” and “artificial intelligence classes,” where students need to learn about the structure and principles of robots and control them to complete tasks.
Leaders from various study tour organizations have expressed to the media that interactive experience segments are integrated into robot study activities.
“Children have a natural interest in hands-on practice, and the interactive segments can fully stimulate their initiative, allowing them to understand technology through hands-on experience,” said a leader from a Harbin study organization, who goes by the pseudonym Dabin. He noted that robots, due to their strong experiential and interactive nature, have gradually become a popular choice for children to learn about high-tech.
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Experts: Keeping Children Updated with Frontiers is Parents’ Starting Point
A leader from a study organization mentioned that the 4-day, 3-night “May Day” technology exploration camp project was launched for the first time this year, and as of April 28, more than 20 people had registered.
According to Tang Xiaomin, the leader of the “Bay Area Technology Exploration AI Study Camp,” this year’s “May Day” AI study camp was booked out early, with the registration deadline on April 25, and families registering from various places including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Tianjin, and Chongqing.
“Keeping children updated with frontiers and having some technological specialties may be the core starting point for parents,” said Wu Liyun, Executive Vice Dean and Professor at the Chinese Culture and Tourism Industry Research Institute of Beijing Second Foreign Languages University. She noted that with the rapid development of DeepSeek AI, it is quickly penetrating various industries and fields. Against this backdrop, parents are increasingly paying attention to this emerging field. Additionally, technology experience activities themselves have a unique appeal to children, and their strong participatory interactivity is easily recognized and accepted by both parents and children.
Dabin believes that the popularity of humanoid robots during the Spring Festival indeed influenced the emergence of robot study products, but the core reason for the technology study boom lies in the development of the high-tech creative industry, which has attracted cultural tourism’s attention, leading to the gradual emergence of related study products and generating heat.
Currently, the “May Day” robot-related technology study camps can be roughly divided into two types: one type is more leisure tourism-oriented interest exploration, while the other is more purposeful specialized training or in-depth study projects. Relatively speaking, the latter is often more expensive due to longer duration, more included services, or higher “value.”
“Artificial intelligence is an important direction for current industrial development. From a study perspective, allowing children to understand the development trends of artificial intelligence in advance will have positive feedback for their schooling and future employment,” Wu Liyun believes that compared to shorter one-day leisure experience tours, in-depth study will be more systematic, professional, or stronger.
Tang Xiaomin stated that her organization collaborates with some training institutions, and projects like the “Bay Area Technology Exploration AI Study Camp” attract parents because participation can help enrich children’s resumes, meeting the needs of families planning to study in Hong Kong.
A parent from Haidian District, whose child has attended an AI training class, revealed to the media that the “Chinese Academy of Sciences AI MOSS Robot Training 3-Day Camp” seems more like a competition training, possibly lacking in the “play” aspect.
In Wu Liyun’s view, the “May Day” holiday robot technology study camps can also be seen as a new consumption phenomenon, effectively extending the artificial intelligence industry chain. In fact, she has learned that many companies in Anhui and Zhejiang are relying on AR technology companies to create unique study tourism products and routes. “Leveraging the associated effects of the tourism industry, AI technology can be deeply integrated into tourism scenarios, making the artificial intelligence industry chain longer.”
Previously, tickets for visits to several robot companies were scalped to 3000 yuan. Companies such as Shenzhen Zhongqing Robot Technology, Hangzhou Yundong Technology, Shanghai Zhuoyide Robot, Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, and Shanghai Qingxinyi Technology have all stated to the media that they are not open for individual visits during the May Day holiday and advised consumers not to trust unofficial ticket sellers.
According to reports, in March this year, the “Six Little Dragons of Hangzhou” companies, including Nuclear Technology, Yundong Technology, and Qiang Brain Technology, posted reminders in prominent places that they do not accept any paid visit activities.