On the afternoon of December 29, 2025, New Star, a leading industrial robot company under Haier Group, officially released the industry’s first industrial-grade embodied intelligent robot SYNDA R1.
This release marks Newstar’s strategic transition from the field of industrial robots and motion control to a key promoter of the embodied intelligence industry. It is the first to kick off the large-scale implementation and industrial integration of embodied intelligence, injecting deterministic future momentum into the in-depth evolution of the manufacturing industry.
Currently, the humanoid robot industry is facing many pain points. Most products lack special design for industrial scenarios, and lack environmental tolerance and continuous operation capabilities; system response lags and accuracy is difficult to match industrial production requirements; and the lack of unified “industrial adaptation” standards has hindered large-scale implementation.
In this context, SYNDA took the lead in proposing and defining “industrial grade” as the core threshold for embodied intelligence industrialization. SYNDA R1 is the concrete implementation of this standard.
In terms of operating system, SYNDA R1 adopts a self-developed integrated multi-layer heterogeneous intelligent control system, equipped with a multi-layer heterogeneous controller integrating sensing-planning-operation control. Compared with traditional loose coupling solutions, it has faster response speed and better system stability, providing core technical support for industrial-level operations.
In terms of operation capabilities, SYNDA R1 has industrial-grade operation capabilities. It can be equipped with optional dexterous hands or grippers to support typical industrial tasks such as assembly, grabbing, and transportation. It can achieve millimeter-level precision operations and accurately match the high-precision requirements of industrial production.
SYNDA R1 also breaks the battery life limit. It can realize independent power swapping. With dual-battery hot-swappable autonomous power swapping and automatic recharging technology, it can achieve 7×24 hours of uninterrupted operation, perfectly adapting to the continuous rhythm of industrial production.
In terms of human-machine collaboration safety, it can adapt to complex industrial environments, with a four-chamber wheeled chassis, 3D laser radar, and omnidirectional flexible obstacle avoidance. It can achieve highly stable and safe movement and all-round protection in complex industrial scenes, ensuring the safety of human-machine collaboration.
For large-scale flexible operations, the SYNDA R1 dual-arm load capacity is optional 3/5/10KG, the upper limb turning angle can reach – 180°~180°, the waist lifting range is 0~61cm, the working height range is 0~210cm, and the working diameter is 195cm, which can flexibly adapt to the needs of multi-dimensional industrial operations.
SYNDA R1 is not only a new product that opens a new era of industrial embodied intelligence, it is also equipped with SYNDA’s full-stack self-developed high-performance, high-torque, and lightweight joint modules.
Nanosecond-level bus synchronization, one-click self-tuning, and full-frequency vibration suppression help the robot to be more stable.
The highly integrated single-board drive and some highly integrated harmonic reducers are combined with ultra-thin component design to achieve an overall weight reduction of 5kg. The multi-pole and multi-slot frameless motor increases the torque density by 20%, ensuring the durability of long-term continuous operation in industrial scenarios.
At present, Newstar has built four embodied product matrices based on industrial-grade standards: collaborative robots, mobile composite robots, wheeled humanoid robots and bipedal humanoid robots. In the future, it will provide customers with gradient solutions and lay a systematic foundation for large-scale expansion.
The large-scale application of real scenarios is the ultimate touchstone for industrial robots.
Relying on the deep ecological synergy advantages of Haier’s strategic investment, SYNDA uses Haier’s 163 factories covering the entire industry chain as “natural testing grounds.” SYNDA R1 has faced real industrial challenges from the beginning of research and development, ensuring that product performance is highly consistent with industrial needs.
At the same time, Newstar has an intelligent manufacturing demonstration factory certified by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, with an annual production capacity of up to 10,000 units, providing it with solid “mass production confidence.”
Today, SYNDA R1 has initially implemented typical tasks such as adaptive grabbing, warehousing and logistics handling, flexible PCB board quality inspection, and dual-arm coordinated assembly in real scenarios such as the Chongqing factory.
Intelligent upgrading of the manufacturing industry is a systematic project. New Star’s core ecological competitiveness stems from the two-wheel drive of “30 years of industrial genes” and “strategic ecological synergy”.
From the perspective of industrial foundation, Newstar has built a solid development foundation with 30 years of accumulation in the field of industrial automation, built a full industry chain layout, and built differentiated competition barriers with core technologies.
From the perspective of strategic synergy, after Haier’s strategic investment in 2025, Newstar and Kaos will be deeply integrated to build a complete closed loop of “software-hardware-platform”.
On this basis, New Star has built an open cooperation ecosystem and cooperated with Alibaba Cloud, NVIDIA, ByteDance, etc. to accelerate the iteration and scenario expansion of embodied intelligence technology, and promote the “acceleration” of the industrialization process of industrial humanoid robots.
With SYNDA R1 as a new starting point, SYNDA promotes embodied intelligence to truly enter the core link of industrial production.
In the future, Newstar will lay the foundation for reliability with industrial-grade standards, drive continuous evolution with real-scenario data, gather leap-forward power with an open industrial ecosystem, and join hands with industry partners to jointly promote the profound transformation of China’s manufacturing industry and carve a distinct coordinate for China’s innovation in the new map of global smart manufacturing.
