Power AI Ultra-Brain Locomotive Makes Global Debut, Driving High-Quality Power Grid Development

From July 26 to 29, at the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance held in Shanghai, State Grid Shanghai Municipal Electric Power Company unveiled its Power AI Ultra-Brain Locomotive at Booth B108 in Hall H2 of the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center, attracting widespread attention.

Visitors explore the "Power AI Ultra-Brain Locomotive" at the State Grid pavilion during WAIC 2025.

[Photo via the State Grid Shanghai Municipal Electric Power Company]

The "Power AI Ultra-Brain Locomotive" is a pioneering system integrating nine self-developed composite intelligent agents powered by State Grid's "Guangming" (Light) Large Model. It aggregates technologies including unmanned autonomous driving, drones, LiDAR, binocular cameras, RFID, 5G, and BeiDou navigation. By efficiently and securely accessing resources such as production management systems and the unified "One Grid Map," it achieves the first-ever seamless integration of cloud-based intelligent agents and on-site smart equipment. This establishes a fully autonomous operational chain of "environment perception—intelligent analysis—air-ground coordination—precise execution", transforming the locomotive into a "super guardian" for the power grid: one that sees, moves, detects, and makes intelligent decisions.

Before daytime operations, the Ultra-Brain Locomotive transforms into a grid "combat commander". Leveraging multi-source data from the enterprise-level meteorological center and work order center, it automatically generates the day's "operational instructions". Its intelligent agents analyze tree species characteristics and growth patterns, simulate a "tree-line twinned sandbox", predict potential tree-related faults, and automatically generate early warning work orders.

During daytime operations, the intelligent agent "brain" directs the Ultra-Brain Locomotive, equipped with binocular cameras and LiDAR, deploying it like "power grid scouts" to various locations. As the inspection vehicle moves, intelligent recognition algorithms act as a "radar," keenly identifying real-time hazards like tree-line conflicts and foreign object entanglements. When the "radar" detects a potential hazard requiring aerial verification, the equipment coordination intelligent agent commands a drone to ascend as an "aerial sentinel." Together, they form a three-dimensional monitoring network of "aerial overview—ground reconnaissance—terminal inspection".

Facing extreme weather challenges like typhoons or heavy rain, the Ultra-Brain Locomotive, supported by the enterprise-level meteorological center, becomes a "weather sentinel". It monitors meteorological changes in real-time and proactively activates emergency plans. Before heavy rain strikes, it automatically dispatches unmanned vehicles as a "vanguard team" for rapid inspection of critical areas. When a strong typhoon hits, the Ultra-Brain Locomotive transforms into a "shock force", conducting precise on-site surveys and transmitting live conditions back, significantly reducing emergency repair response times.

State Grid Shanghai Municipal Electric Power Company has pioneered a new paradigm for power grid composite intelligent agents based on "perception, analysis and response". The innovatively developed "Power AI Ultra-Brain Locomotive", with its systematic operational capabilities, is now serving on the front lines of power production. It assists in tasks such as tree-line patrols, material delivery, equipment troubleshooting, and construction monitoring, contributing to building a world-class extra-large urban distribution grid.

(Text by Hu Dian)