The ultimate romance of ambience often lies in the invisible fragrance. Scent is the prelude to beauty, the overture to every gentle rendezvous. Guangzhou Cotton Candy Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. proudly launches its fully automatic perfume machine, empowering fragrance aesthetics with smart technology, using diverse aromas to warm up any space, bringing you a gentle and romantic encounter, keeping the ambience alive at all times.

The product thoughtfully offers 5 fragrance cartridges to choose from, allowing you to freely select a variety of scent types. Whether it's a quiet time at home, a couple's date, hosting guests in a store, or office leisure scenarios, you can effortlessly switch to the perfect fragrance. Let the scent be the prelude to your meeting, setting a gentle atmosphere in advance, making every stay and every encounter full of exclusive romantic charm.

The sleek and minimalist body is versatile, compact, and exquisite, suitable for both wall-mounted and tabletop placement, with easy installation, adapting to multiple scenarios for home and commercial use. It operates quietly with long-lasting fragrance, balancing aesthetics and practicality.

Guangzhou Cotton Candy Intelligent Equipment has always focused on the development of smart fragrance devices, empowering the aesthetics of life with technology. A fully automatic perfume machine, a wisp of pleasant fragrance, enhances everyday ordinary moments, unlocking exclusive romantic encounters anytime, anywhere.

To adapt to the current market demand for trendy leisure consumption and help merchants achieve lightweight, high-profit operations, Guangzhou Cotton Candy Intelligent Equipment Technology Co., Ltd. has launched the Circus Fully Automatic Popcorn Machine, bringing a brand-new intelligent retail solution to scenic spots, shopping malls, cinemas, parent-child parks, and other scenarios.

The newly launched equipment adopts popcorn-themed elements, paired with an exquisite and unique popcorn cup design, creating a full sense of childlike fun. Its novel and distinctive appearance naturally attracts strong traffic. Without the need for additional promotion, it can quickly draw customers to stop and take photos, easily creating a trendy hotspot and effectively boosting foot traffic and exposure.

In terms of operational efficiency, the equipment is equipped with an intelligent fully automatic operating system, requiring no manual supervision or complex operations throughout the process. It can produce a finished product in just two minutes, efficiently handling peak customer flow and greatly improving serving efficiency. At the same time, the equipment supports two flavor options, catering to mainstream tastes and meeting the palate needs of consumers of all ages, significantly increasing purchase and repurchase rates.

The equipment combines high aesthetics, high efficiency, and diverse flavors, with stable performance and simple maintenance, perfectly adapting to unmanned, intelligent new business models. In the future, our company will continue to deepen our focus on the intelligent leisure equipment field, continuously innovate product forms, and create more high-quality commercial equipment that fits the market, helping partners seize new dividends in leisure consumption.

To meet the operational needs of diverse commercial scenarios such as supermarkets, cinemas, and amusement parks, Guangzhou Cotton Candy Intelligent Equipment Technology Co., Ltd. has fully upgraded its fully automatic intelligent popcorn machine, empowering the upgrade of unattended retail and light food and beverage formats with high-efficiency production capacity, simple operation, and multiple flavors.

The newly launched fully automatic popcorn machine is equipped with an intelligent temperature control and automated production system, significantly shortening production time. It can quickly serve popcorn within two minutes, efficiently handling peak-hour customer flow, eliminating customer waiting and congestion issues, and greatly improving venue revenue efficiency.

The equipment supports free switching between two classic flavors, adapting to mainstream public taste preferences, flexibly matching the preferences of audiences in different scenarios, and balancing flavor variety with operational simplicity. The entire process is intelligently automated, requiring no dedicated supervision. Production can be started with one touch, offering convenient operation, stability, and durability.

The equipment adopts a standardized food-grade production structure, ensuring a clean and hygienic production process, and the visual production process enhances the user experience. With its core advantages of high efficiency, worry-free operation, and low consumption, this popcorn machine has become a high-quality intelligent device for commercial light entrepreneurship and scenario value-added revenue generation, helping merchants operate efficiently at low cost.

To adapt to the current trends of lightweight, intelligent, and unmanned operations in the catering industry, Guangzhou Cotton Candy Intelligent Equipment Technology Co., Ltd. has optimized and upgraded its full range of commercial smart pizza equipment systems. With three core devices—the fully automatic pizza machine, the -18°C frozen storage cabinet, and the microwave-convection combo oven—it delivers an efficient, standardized, and low-cost intelligent pizza serving solution.

The complete equipment system integrates storage, pre-processing, and baking into a seamless workflow. The dedicated -18°C frozen storage cabinet maintains a constant temperature to preserve semi-finished pizzas, locking in the texture and quality of ingredients for extended periods, eliminating food waste, and meeting the demands of long-duration, uninterrupted operations.

The fully automatic pizza machine features unmanned intelligent control throughout the entire process, simplifying manual operations and enabling standardized output without the need for professional chefs, significantly reducing labor and operational costs for stores. Paired with the high-performance microwave-convection combo oven, which leverages uniform temperature control and rapid heating, it achieves even baking across all surfaces, effectively shortening serving time while ensuring consistent color and texture for every pizza.

Our company is deeply committed to the research and development of intelligent catering equipment, continuously refining our commercial smart equipment systems to help restaurants and unmanned new retail scenarios reduce costs, increase efficiency, improve quality, and boost revenue, injecting fresh momentum into the intelligent development of modern dining.

With the popularization of traffic safety regulations, the number of people traveling by electric vehicles and motorcycles has continued to surge, and the demand for cleaning and sterilization of helmets under high-frequency use has fully exploded. Guangzhou Cotton Candy Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd., deeply rooted in the field of intelligent new retail equipment, has launched a fully automatic helmet washing machine. With its rigid demand attributes and advantages of low investment and high returns, it has become a new market favorite for entrepreneurship and merchant revenue growth.

This intelligent device directly targets industry pain points, integrating fully automatic washing, UV sterilization, hot air drying, and deodorization and fragrance retention functions. It requires no manual operation and can be self-served by scanning a QR code, quickly completing deep cleaning of helmets, solving the problems of cumbersome hand washing, difficult drying, and incomplete sterilization in traditional methods.

The device is compact in size and easy to install, and can be widely adapted to multiple scenarios such as charging stations, motorcycle shops, courier stations, commercial areas, and industrial parks. It supports 24-hour unattended operation, generating revenue around the clock. The device is simple to maintain, has extremely low energy consumption, and minimal wear and tear, significantly reducing operating costs and helping investors easily unlock a lucrative asset-light entrepreneurship model.

Relying on mature intelligent R&D technology, our fully automatic helmet washing machine, with its core advantages of rigid market demand, stable returns, and efficient operation and maintenance, opens up a new blue ocean of intelligent services and empowers partners with sustained and stable profitability.

In July 2026, global vending machine industry data shows that smart unmanned retail continues to expand, with low-temperature freshly made ice cream equipment becoming the fastest-growing subcategory. Procurement demand in the Asia-Pacific and Southeast Asian markets has surged, and operators place greater emphasis on stable refrigeration, low energy consumption, and long-term maintenance capabilities. The industry generally points out that the core refrigeration components directly determine the machine's profitability, and inferior compressors are prone to issues such as inaccurate temperature control, high power consumption, and frequent failures.

Guangzhou Cotton Candy Intelligent Equipment Technology Co., Ltd. keeps pace with global market demand, equipping its full range of automatic ice cream machines with Embraco 2212 professional commercial compressors, creating differentiated hardcore advantages. This compressor is suitable for low-temperature freshly made conditions, with precise and stable temperature control and minimal temperature fluctuation, ensuring a smooth and dense ice cream texture. It operates with low noise and resistance to voltage fluctuations, ensuring stable 24/7 operation in shopping malls, scenic areas, campuses, and other scenarios. Its high-efficiency structure reduces long-term electricity costs, significantly lowers the frequency of after-sales repairs, and extends the equipment's service life.

The complete machine is equipped with a smart IoT backend, supporting remote temperature monitoring and sales data statistics, balancing unattended operation with low-cost maintenance. Leveraging its core refrigeration configuration advantages, the company's equipment has recently received bulk procurement inquiries from multiple countries in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, adapting to diverse global commercial scenarios.

Cotton Candy Intelligent continues to deepen its R&D in self-service low-temperature equipment, combining first-tier imported refrigeration core components with localized intelligent systems to provide global operators with high-return fully automatic ice cream solutions, seizing the growth dividend of unmanned dessert retail.

Entering mid-to-late June, the global smart vending machine industry continues to release growth signals, with overseas markets increasingly shifting toward segmented experience-based snack devices, opening up incremental space for domestic smart manufacturing companies.

The European and American markets continue to advance intelligent equipment upgrades, with cashless payment and AI remote operations and maintenance becoming standard. Demand for on-site freshly made specialty dessert vending machines in scenic areas and commercial districts has risen significantly; mature markets in Japan and South Korea are accelerating equipment iteration, placing high importance on refined functions such as automatic cleaning and constant-temperature sugar control; emerging markets in Southeast Asia, driven by the recovery of cultural tourism consumption, have seen a notable month-on-month increase in orders for low-cost fully automatic cotton candy machines. Industry reports show that experience-based unattended retail equipment is growing at an annual rate of over 6%, and cotton candy vending machines, with their high gross margins and strong traffic-driving attributes, have become a preferred category for overseas operators.

As a Guangzhou-based cotton candy smart equipment R&D and manufacturing enterprise, Guangzhou Cotton Candy Smart Equipment Technology Co., Ltd. keeps pace with global industry trends, continuously optimizing core technologies such as multi-flower automatic forming, cloud-based backend management, and moisture-proof temperature control, with equipment compatible with multiple countries' payment systems and environmental compliance standards. The company continues to deepen its presence in overseas cultural tourism, shopping mall, and amusement park channels, leveraging flexible customization capabilities to meet differentiated deployment needs across regional scenarios.

With the expansion of the global unattended retail segment, the company will continue to increase technological innovation, deliver stable and reliable fully automatic cotton candy vending equipment, and join hands with global partners to share the development dividends of experience-based self-service retail.

The global vending machine industry is steadily advancing in June. Data shows that the global smart vending machine market will continue to expand in scale by 2026. The rapid adoption of IoT and contactless payment is accelerating the deployment of niche specialty snack self-service machines, making segmented fun snack vending a new hotspot in global expansion. With the start of the national college entrance examination, millions of examinees and accompanying families are driving short-term foot traffic dividends around exam sites and campuses, creating a window of opportunity for specialty self-service equipment deployment.

Guangzhou Cotton Candy Intelligent Equipment is seizing industry trends and the college entrance examination timing. Its self-developed fully automatic cotton candy vending machines have been deployed near multiple exam sites and campus waiting areas. The equipment features remote backend management and full-category QR code payment, producing fancy cotton candy in 60 seconds, catering to the immediate consumption needs of examinees relaxing and parents waiting, filling the gap in self-service leisure snacks at exam sites.

Relying on mature intelligent software and hardware solutions, the company's equipment not only aligns with the global development direction of segmented unmanned retail but also precisely captures the phased consumption boom of the college entrance examination and graduation season. Currently, the products have expanded to campuses and exam site locations across multiple provinces and cities nationwide, leveraging lightweight specialty self-service solutions to explore the blue ocean of campus cultural tourism segmented vending, continuously helping partners seize seasonal market dividends.

Combining the latest global vending machine industry dynamics as of May 2026, the current industry has completely bid farewell to the extensive expansion model and officially entered a new development stage of technological implementation, refined operations, and in-depth scenario cultivation.

Currently, intelligent technologies such as AI and the Internet of Things have evolved from concepts to practical functions. The new generation of intelligent vending machines can achieve intelligent operations such as sales forecasting, remote maintenance, and inventory scheduling, significantly reducing operating costs and improving store efficiency. Data-driven operations have become the core competitiveness of the industry. The development focus of industry operators has shifted from expanding the number of equipment to improving single-store profitability and cultivating user stickiness. Intelligent equipment that is asset-light, low-failure, and easy to maintain has become the market's preferred choice.

At the same time, market customization demands have exploded, and general-purpose equipment can no longer meet market needs. Sales of specialized equipment for scenic cultural and creative products, campus supermarkets, and hospital health foods have surged. Scenario-based customization, appearance customization, and function customization have become mainstream industry trends.

Guangzhou Cotton Candy Intelligent Equipment deeply cultivates segmented scenario tracks, relying on mature software and hardware R&D capabilities to create intelligent vending equipment that integrates intelligent control, diversified payment, and flexible customization. In the future, the company will continue to deepen technological innovation, optimize full-chain supporting services, and assist the industry's refined and diversified development with high-quality customized equipment.

According to the latest global vending machine industry data for May 2026, the global intelligent self-service equipment sector continues to expand, ushering in a new wave of intelligent upgrades. The Asia-Pacific region has become the core driver of growth.

Industry authorities indicate that the global vending machine market maintains a steady growth trend, with the Chinese market's growth rate far exceeding others. Driven by urbanization, the popularization of smart devices, and consumption upgrades, market penetration continues to rise. The industry's development focus has shifted, with AI intelligent algorithms, the Internet of Things (IoT), and cashless payments becoming standard features for equipment upgrades. Over 90% of industry operators plan to deepen the implementation of intelligent technologies, achieving digital equipment operations through intelligent early warnings, data analysis, and demand forecasting.

Concurrently, industry consumption scenarios are becoming increasingly segmented, breaking away from traditional single-product sales models. Demand for customized vending equipment for healthy snacks, cultural and creative products, and specialty foods has surged. The penetration rate in diverse scenarios such as culture and tourism, campuses, healthcare, and transportation continues to increase, making scenario-based and personalized equipment a new market growth point.

Guangzhou Marshmallow Intelligent Equipment closely follows global industry development trends, deeply cultivating the research and development and production of intelligent self-service equipment. Focusing on core advantages in IoT intelligent control, omnichannel payments, and modular customization, the company creates intelligent vending equipment adaptable to multiple scenarios, helping partners seize the opportunities in the intelligent retail market and empowering high-quality industry development.

The May Day holiday has concluded, and the journey of hard work begins anew. All employees of Guangzhou Marshmallow Intelligent Equipment Technology Co., Ltd. have returned to their posts with full enthusiasm and high spirits, uniting their efforts to open a new chapter of practical work in the "Red May" and fully promote the high-quality development of the enterprise.

After the holiday, all departments of the company quickly entered a working state. The R&D team focused on product iteration and upgrading, continuously optimizing the functions and user experience of intelligent equipment. The production department closely monitored production progress, strictly adhered to product quality standards, and ensured efficient order delivery. The sales and after-sales teams actively connected with customers, precisely responded to needs, and built a strong service guarantee line to implement all work deployments in a comprehensive manner.

In 2026, the company has always been at the forefront of the intelligent equipment industry, adhering to the combination of technological innovation and market demand, continuously enhancing its core competitiveness, and winning wide recognition from the market and customers with high-quality products and professional services.

A new journey has already begun. Guangzhou Marshmallow Intelligent Equipment will inherit the spirit of hard work, adhere to the original intention of quality, deeply cultivate the field of food intelligent equipment, continuously break through and innovate, take on missions with practical actions, give back to customers with high-quality products, and work hand in hand with partners to seize opportunities and forge ahead, striving to achieve annual development goals and write a new chapter in enterprise development!

Guangzhou Marshmallow Intelligent Equipment Technology Co., Ltd.

May 6, 2026

As spring breezes bring warmth and all things flourish, on the occasion of the upcoming May Day International Labor Day, Guangzhou Marshmallow Intelligent Equipment Technology Co., Ltd. extends festive greetings and high respect to all hardworking employees, long-term trusted clients, and partners from all walks of life!

As a technology enterprise focused on the research and development, production, and sales of intelligent food equipment, we are deeply involved in the fields of fully automatic cotton candy machines and intelligent food production and sales equipment. We consistently refine our products with craftsmanship and empower the industry with technology. From dedicated breakthroughs in technical research and development to meticulous craftsmanship on the production line, from full support in market services to timely responses in after-sales support, every achievement is inseparable from the perseverance and dedication of all laborers.

Over the years, the company has adhered to the philosophy of innovation-driven development and quality first, continuously optimizing product performance and upgrading intelligent technology. We are committed to providing customers with efficient, stable, and intelligent equipment solutions, assisting in the intelligent upgrading of various scenarios such as cultural tourism and retail.

On this festive occasion, we pay tribute to every effort and are grateful for every trust. In the future, Guangzhou Marshmallow Intelligent Equipment will continue to uphold its original aspirations, build quality with labor, and pioneer the future with technology, working hand in hand with partners from all walks of life to jointly create new industry developments. We wish everyone a happy May Day holiday and all the best!

Guangzhou Marshmallow Intelligent Equipment Technology Co., Ltd.

April 28, 2026

From April 9-11, the Asia Vending & Smart Retail Expo was held at the Poly World Trade Center Expo in Guangzhou. Guangzhou Cotton Candy Smart Equipment Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Cotton Candy Smart"), along with its partners, showcased its automated food production and sales equipment as the core, presenting scenario-based and intelligent retail solutions that garnered attention from global merchants.

At the exhibition, Cotton Candy Smart presented products such as its fully automatic cotton candy machines, ice cream machines, popcorn machines, and pizza machines. These machines are equipped with AI precise temperature control, intelligent ingredient dispensing, and remote operation and maintenance technology, enabling rapid production in 60-120 seconds. They support over 60 patterns and multi-language operation, making them suitable for diverse scenarios like shopping malls, scenic spots, and cultural tourism. The equipment is compatible with cloud platforms for real-time monitoring and fault alerts, enhancing operational efficiency.

As an emerging player in the industry, Cotton Candy Smart focuses on the niche segment of self-service terminals for food products. With its energy-saving, stable, environmentally friendly, and safe product characteristics, it assists partners in expanding their global market reach. This exhibition not only strengthened its brand influence but also promoted industry technology exchange, helping Chinese self-service retail equipment go international.

In the future, Cotton Candy Smart will continue to deepen its technological innovation and collaboration with partners, providing global customers with more efficient one-stop intelligent retail equipment solutions and empowering high-quality industry development.

In March 2026, the global self-service terminal market continues to grow, with scenario-based solutions becoming a key focus for the industry. Guangzhou Cotton Candy Intelligence, leveraging its integrated R&D, production, and sales advantages, is deploying multi-scenario self-service terminal businesses, providing customized intelligent devices and operational solutions for domestic and international clients.

The company focuses on cotton candy machines, popcorn machines, and ice cream machines to create integrated unmanned retail solutions, adaptable to various scenarios such as commercial complexes, scenic spots, and transportation hubs. Furthermore, with its IoT and system integration capabilities, it offers customized services and stable, reliable equipment to enhance operational efficiency and reduce costs.

In the future, Cotton Candy Intelligence will continue to optimize its products and services, deeply cultivate the global market, and strive to become a well-known domestic and international provider of intelligent self-service dessert equipment and solutions.

In March 2026, the global self-service terminal industry is steadily upgrading, with commercial unmanned equipment focusing more on stable reliability and efficient operation. Guangzhou Marshmallow Intelligence has launched its 2026 all-new upgraded self-service dessert terminals, covering three major products: fully automatic cotton candy machines, popcorn machines, and ice cream machines, providing global customers with cost-effective unmanned self-service solutions.

The new terminals optimize structure and production processes. The reinforced design is suitable for high-frequency usage scenarios such as shopping malls, scenic spots, and transportation hubs. They support QR code payment, one-key production, and automatic cleaning, making operation simple and enhancing both operation and user experience.

The equipment is equipped with an IoT module, enabling remote monitoring, data statistics, consumables alerts, and fault reporting, thereby reducing management costs. The compact body is suitable for multi-scenario deployment.

The company will continue to focus on customer needs, iterate products, optimize services, keep pace with industry trends, and provide partners with more stable and practical equipment to facilitate the upgrade of unmanned retail scenarios.

In March 2026, Guangzhou Marshmallow Intelligent Equipment Technology Co., Ltd.'s new factory officially commenced operations and entered full production.

In recent years, the market demand for the company's fully automatic cotton candy machines, popcorn machines, ice cream machines, pizza machines, and other automatic terminal manufacturing and sales equipment has continued to grow. The original production capacity has been unable to meet the global order fulfillment demand. To ensure supply efficiency and improve product quality, the company has completed the expansion of its production area, achieving a comprehensive upgrade in factory scale, production lines, and warehousing logistics.

With the new factory in production, the company's overall production capacity has significantly increased, and the delivery cycle has been further shortened. We will continue to serve global partners with more stable production capacity and higher quality products, contributing to the development of the unmanned intelligent manufacturing and sales industry.

At the World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Coca-Cola and Fuji Electric jointly launched the world's first hydrogen-powered vending machine, attracting industry attention. This device breaks away from traditional power dependence, drawing power through the electrochemical reaction of replaceable hydrogen fuel cartridges and fuel cells, achieving zero carbon emissions and flexible deployment. The 58 devices on-site were also equipped with dynamic screens to visually demonstrate the power generation principle.

As an industry innovation benchmark, smart vending machines are upgrading from passive sales terminals to active retail ecosystems. The devices integrate core technologies such as AI algorithms, cloud analysis, and remote management, enabling automatic optimization of restocking plans and the formulation of dynamic pricing and promotional strategies based on user consumption habits and real-time inventory.

This innovation not only aligns with the global trend of low-carbon transition but also highlights the core development direction of unmanned retail as "digitalization + sustainability," providing efficient and environmentally friendly new solutions for cross-border retail scenarios.

The global smart vending machine market reached $48.45 billion in 2024 and is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 8.34% from 2025 to 2035, continuously releasing growth potential. The industry is undergoing a dual innovation of technology and business models, becoming a new trend in foreign trade.

Technological integration is reshaping the industry landscape. Equipment is deeply integrated with payment systems, IoT, and data analysis technologies, with a significant increase in the adoption rate of AI visual recognition. Cashless transactions account for 98%, and remote operation has become the global industry standard. Products and scenarios continue to expand, with surging demand for healthy foods and customized products, and equipment is widely penetrating scenarios such as transportation hubs and office parks.

Sustainable and energy-saving design has become a core competitive advantage, particularly aligning with the preferences of European and American markets. These trends lay a solid foundation for deep innovation in AI-driven recognition and automated shopping ecosystems, and also create opportunities for Chinese enterprises with technological and supply chain advantages to go global.

In 2023, hardware deployment in the vending machine industry achieved new breakthroughs, with comprehensive upgrades in product categories and functions, accelerating the departure from the traditional single model of "beverage/snack sales."

Multiple new functional products were launched, including hot food machines capable of making ramen on-site and high-end coffee machines. With stronger food preparation capabilities and high-definition large-screen interactive systems, these devices offer consumers a superior instant service experience.

Notably, the successful integration and application of contactless alcohol vending machines with identity verification technology have become an important attempt to expand the market for legally sensitive goods in vending machines.

This series of innovative practices signifies that the industry is steadily extending towards the new track of "food and service vending."

In 2022, the global vending machine industry broke through traditional boundaries, no longer limited to snack and beverage categories. Health food vending machines, fresh food, and nutritional meal vending machines, among other specific categories, have accelerated their emergence, precisely responding to consumers' core demands for healthy living worldwide.

In the international market, related innovative equipment has been deployed through exhibitions and brand collaborations to expand overseas scenarios, becoming a new engine driving industry growth and highlighting the potential for scenario-based innovation in smart vending equipment.

In 2020, the global COVID-19 pandemic did not trigger a single explosive technological breakthrough in the vending machine industry, but it did force the industry to undergo deep upgrades and restructuring, establishing a new global development tone.

Contactless transactions and unmanned operations quickly evolved from optional features to essential needs. To avoid cross-infection, vending machines, with their advantages of unattended operation and instant transactions, rapidly penetrated diverse overseas scenarios such as fresh food supermarkets in Europe and America, and community supply points in Southeast Asia, driving the industry to phase out traditional equipment and transform towards safety and convenience. At the same time, intelligent networking and data-driven operations have become the norm, with equipment featuring remote monitoring and inventory alerts becoming mainstream in the market.

Overseas operators rely on data analysis to optimize layouts and product structures, achieving precise operations, cost reduction, and efficiency improvement. This has propelled the industry's upgrade from a simple sales carrier to a data-driven terminal, providing high-value-added solutions for the foreign trade market and solidifying the foundation for overseas expansion.

In 2019, the core breakthrough in the global vending machine industry was not limited to technological inventions in a single device, but rather the synergistic advancement of the entire industry in the three major directions of intelligence, digitalization, and connectivity, achieving phased key results. This collective push broke the previous pattern of fragmented industry technology and laid a solid foundation for standardization and large-scale upgrading of the industry.

As the "foundation-laying year" for industry transformation, the technological accumulation in 2019 paved the way for explosive innovation in the following years. Core technologies such as AI visual recognition, intelligent inventory prediction algorithms, human-computer interaction interface iteration, and advanced cashless payment experiences all completed preliminary technical verification and scenario adaptation in this year.

These forward-looking layouts not only reshaped the operating model of vending machines but also promoted the industry's transformation from a supplementary form of traditional retail to a digital and intelligent retail terminal, laying a solid technical foundation for business model innovation in the global foreign trade market.

In 2018, the concept of "smart retail" rapidly emerged within the industry, becoming the core direction for new retail development.

Vending machines accelerated their deep integration with the internet, big data, the Internet of Things (IoT), mobile payments, and unmanned shelves, thus becoming an important component of the new retail ecosystem. At the same time, traditional vending machines completed their functional transformation. Their role is no longer limited to "automatic selling" but has been upgraded to intelligent terminals and self-service shopping entrances. Functions such as scan-to-purchase, APP unlocking, and user profiling have been implemented, driving the industry towards digitalization and intelligence.