Nie Zaiqing, artificial intelligence (AI) research senior director at Alibaba AI Labs, said Alibaba will provide AI solutions to more nursing homes in the future and Tmall Genie will be introduced in more nursing projects.

"More than one million Chinese families are using Tmall Genie. In the next stage, we will cooperate with more partners to develop internet of things products for senior people and children," Nie said.

Yan Shua, warden at the nursing home, said he hopes the technology can improve the nursing service quality and make up for some deficiencies at the present stage.

Last July, the State Council, China's Cabinet, issued the national AI development plan, aiming to build a 1 trillion yuan ($151 billion) AI core industry by 2030 to stimulate as much as 10 trillion yuan in related business.