Bespoke Executive Tours

Get on the ground in China

Private, founder-led programmes across China's technology and robotics hubs. Factory floors, meetings at founder level and briefings built around your objective.

Inside the week

What a visit actually looks like

DexForce, Shenzhen
Volume production, observed at line speed.
Huawei · BYD · Unitree · DJI · Alibaba · Tencent · Xiaomi · CATL · Baidu & many more
How it works

From brief to follow-up

01
Brief

One call to establish the decision on the table, the constraints and who travels.

02
Itinerary

We select the companies, secure the meetings and set the agenda against your brief.

03
On site

The founders take the meeting. We chair it, interpret and hold the schedule.

04
After

The follow-up runs through us, in Chinese, until the project stands.

Case studies

What clients took home

Automotive electronics
Fifteen visits opened a path into the humanoid supply chain
Luedenscheid · five days, fifteen companies
Infection prevention
A hospital trial became a development project
Norderstedt · leadership team
Specialty chemicals
One visit turned into a standing mandate
Cologne · senior leadership
Fashion retail
The board reviewed the humanoid case on site
47 countries · chief executive and three board members
AI consulting and capital
Investors secured access to a humanoid production line
Germany · consultancy and two investors
Thomas Derksen with a manufacturer's team at a humanoid robot in China
Your host

Led by a founder who lives in China

Thomas Derksen has lived in China for twelve years and reaches 10 million people a week on Chinese platforms. That is why manufacturers take the call, and why the founder, not the sales team, sits down with your delegation. He chairs the meetings himself, in Mandarin.

Questions

Before you get in touch

Do you organise robotics delegations to China?

Yes. We design and run private delegations across Shenzhen, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou and Beijing for corporate teams, investors and boards. Cities, companies and length follow your objective, never a fixed itinerary.

Which robotics manufacturers can we visit?

Companies we have taken clients into include Unitree, AgiBot, Galaxea, DexForce, LimX Dynamics, Daimon Robotics, Spirit AI, UniX AI, Pudu, TMiRob, Dobot, BYD and DJI. Which of them fit your programme depends on what you need to decide.

Do you cover anything beyond humanoid robots?

Yes. Mobile robots and AGVs, collaborative arms, warehouse and logistics automation, actuators, sensors, batteries and electric vehicles. Most programmes mix humanoids with the suppliers behind them.

Can you find a robotics supplier in China?

Yes. We screen a market of several thousand manufacturers against a written specification, verify capability on site, and chair the first meeting in both languages.

What does a delegation to China cost?

Every programme is quoted individually, because the cost follows group size, the number of cities and how much of the agenda is arranged directly with the companies. Tell us the objective and we come back with a quote.

How far in advance do we need to book?

Four to six weeks is comfortable. Faster is possible when the target companies are already in our network.

How long is a typical programme?

Three to five days, with two to four companies a day in one city, fewer when the group moves between cities. The travel time between sites is built into the plan.

Who do you work with?

Corporates, investors and private equity, chambers of commerce and government delegations looking at Chinese robotics, plus robotics companies looking for a way into Europe.

What language are the meetings in?

Mandarin and English. We chair and translate in both directions, and the technical vocabulary is ours, not a hired interpreter's.

Can you guarantee meetings with specific companies?

We name a company once the meeting is confirmed. Where a name cannot be confirmed, we say so before you book flights.

What happens after the visit?

We stay involved with the manufacturers you decide to pursue: follow-up, translation of the technical exchange, samples and support through evaluation and the first contract.

Tell us what you want to see.

Every programme is built from scratch. Give us the constraints that shape it: group, objective, timing and budget. You get a first direction back, personally, within 48 hours.

What you get back
  • A recommended route and programme format.
  • An initial commercial range.
  • The access we can confirm, and the questions still open.
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