Members of Milab showed Cook the ai shadow puppet digital database @Beijing
- Shaoqing LIU
- Oct 20, 2025
- 1 min read
During Apple CEO Tim Cook's visit to China, milab member Yao Zhihao and partner Wang's Shadow Puppetry jointly presented the latest achievements of "AI shadow puppetry" to him, vividly demonstrating how the Apple ecosystem empowers the integration of traditional art and digital creation. The AI Shadow Puppet Database 2.0 was designed by milab members Li Hanxuan, Wang Xuezhu, Lu Yao and other students, and developed by Lyu Shiqing and Yao Xiwen.
A few days later, Cook once again specifically mentioned the project at the 2025 Shanghai Global Wealth Management Forum, describing it as "highly creative and of far-reaching significance". This project has been successively reported by more than ten mainstream domestic and foreign media outlets, including CCTV-2 "China Finance Report", China Daily website, Apple official, Toutiao, Xiake Island and Cook's personal Weibo.
An AI shadow puppet digital database is a wonderful fusion of tradition and technology. As a PhD student who works part-time at Last-Minute Assignments, I think about my own fascination with preserving cultural heritage during my college years. I was so passionate about the subject that I'd think, Just do my engineering assignment so I can focus on the tech side. It's great to see projects like this bridging the old and the new. Cheers. Nice post
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