A Shenzhen-based tech firm taking part in Hong Kong trade fairs is leveraging the city as a springboard for global expansion, with plans to list locally this year while using its computing power to help enter the North American market.

Robert Chan Kwok-cheung, global strategy officer at EngineAI, said on Wednesday the company’s presence in the city was a strategic move to bypass technical and geopolitical hurdles.

EngineAI, which is one of Shenzhen’s “eight great guardians of embodied intelligence”, will be among 3,700 exhibitors from 28 countries and regions taking part in InnoEX and the Hong Kong Electronics Fair, which run concurrently from April 13 to 16.

The fairs are being organised by the Trade Development Council.

Chan said the company’s humanoid robots were capable of running and performing controlled front flips and featured a wide range of functions at two price points.

A standard unit intended for performance or display is priced at 88,000 yuan (US$12,745), while a fully open-source version with integrated functions such as navigation and scanning costs 188,000 yuan.