Shanghai Theatre Academy (STA): Founded in 1945, Shanghai Theatre Academy is a higher education institution jointly established by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government. It offers a comprehensive range of artistic disciplines, including nationally and provincially recognized first-class programs in drama, traditional Chinese opera, dance, film, and television. The academy provides education across multiple levels, from secondary vocational programs to undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees. STA excels in the fields of drama and film studies, boasting 2 postdoctoral research stations, 2 first-level doctoral degree programs, 4 first-level master's degree programs, and 7 professional master's degree fields. It houses several key provincial and ministerial research platforms, including the Key Laboratory of Digital Performance Integration and Innovation under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the "AI+Performance" Integrated Laboratory, the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Artistic Creation in Virtual Environments, the Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Traditional Chinese Opera Culture, and the China Theatre Development Research Center, which is also a research base of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (2023–2025). The academy has nurtured a large number of renowned artists and highly skilled professionals for the country, with its alumni earning accolades such as the Five Ones Project Award, Wenhua Award, Golden Rooster Award, Hundred Flowers Award, Huabiao Award, Feitian Award, Golden Eagle Award, Golden Microphone Award, Golden Lion Award, Magnolia Award, and Lotus Award. The "AI+Performance" Integrated Laboratory at Shanghai Theatre Academy, led by the Department of Stage Design, aims to reconstruct the entire chain of theatrical creation, teaching, and industrial applications through artificial intelligence technology, fostering an innovative ecosystem for the integration of arts and sciences. The laboratory serves as a hub for new quality productive forces, driving the performing arts industry toward digital and intelligent transformation. It operates through vertical technology research and development as its engine, industry-academia collaboration as its bond, and a dual-cycle model of teaching and industry as its pathway. By adopting a matrix-style cluster of labs, it optimizes resource allocation and redefines the boundaries of theatrical creation and appreciation. At the teaching and research level, the laboratory provides students with a practical platform for AI tools and offers large-scale offline performance courses assisted by AI, cultivating versatile talents with both artistic sensibility and technical application skills to support the development of the discipline of "Future Theatre Studies." The Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Traditional Chinese Opera Culture is a research platform established by Shanghai Theatre Academy through its School of Traditional Chinese Opera. It aims to promote the preservation, innovation, and development of traditional Chinese opera culture. Focusing on the adherence to tradition and innovation in opera art, the center is dedicated to integrating resources from universities, performance troupes, enterprises, and other stakeholders through collaborative innovation mechanisms. It explores the integration of opera and technology, reforms in talent cultivation models, and the creation of new repertoire, advancing the inheritance and development of opera culture in the new era. The center’s achievements serve as a model for the development of traditional Chinese opera culture in Shanghai and across the country. The Institute of Machine Intelligence at Shanghai University of Technology is an international research institution established to address major national strategic needs. Emphasizing the distinctive feature of "Artificial Intelligence in the Physical World," it focuses on critical issues related to the national economy and people's livelihoods, such as intelligent robotics, smart manufacturing, and healthcare. Through interdisciplinary integration of robotics, artificial intelligence, and other fields, the institute aims to produce internationally top-tier representative achievements, support interdisciplinary collaboration within the university, and set an exemplary model for cultivating talent in "New Engineering" disciplines. Robotic Opera Experimental Theatre: Farewell My Robot Concubine Act I: Genesis of Chaos Act II: Besieged on All Sides Act III: Human-Machine Poetic Dialogue Act IV: Dance of Swords and Shadows Act V: Quantum Abyss