In the field of construction machinery, the wave of intelligence is rewriting industry rules. Sunward Intelligent stands out in this wave and becomes a leader.
Sunward Intelligent in June was full of good news.
Domestically, at the 2026 Wuhan City “Emergency Mission” comprehensive flood prevention and rescue drill site, three independently developed unmanned emergency equipment drove into the complex disaster environment of Tianxingzhou in the Yangtze River in a cluster formation.
Multifunctional demolition robots, intelligent remote control excavators, and intelligent remote control bulldozers work together to achieve a leap from “single-machine intelligence” to “system collaboration.”
In a large overseas open-pit mine, a SWDRT250 roller cone drilling rig set an astonishing record of 50,948 linear meters in a single month, which is equivalent to the height of nearly 5.7 Mount Everests, demonstrating strong performance.
Many people think that unmanned operation means “machine replaces human operation”, but Sunward Intelligent gives a higher-level answer: let multiple machines work together like a team.
There are three major highlights of the Wuhan flood control drill: first, 5G beyond-line-of-sight control, which allows operators to remotely control equipment several kilometers away in a safe area to achieve “human-machine separation”; second, cluster marshalling operations, where three pieces of equipment advance collaboratively according to task requirements, doubling efficiency; third, extreme environment adaptation, autonomous obstacle avoidance, and path planning algorithms ensure continued mission execution in the event of circuit breakage, network outage, power outage, etc.
Professor Li Fuhai of Hunan University commented that Sunward Intelligent’s evolution path has promoted the process of “machine substitution”, developed multi-machine collaborative cluster operation technology, and broken the bottleneck of single-machine operation.
Sunward Intelligent’s technical confidence comes from its three major self-research capabilities.
The first is the three-electric technology. It began to lay out hybrid and electrified technologies as early as 15 years ago. Now it has formed three technical architectures: external electric, pure battery, and extended range, covering an electrification matrix of more than 100 products. It has independent core technologies such as automatic recognition of working conditions and multi-motor collaborative control.
The second is the control system. The intelligent remote-controlled excavator was selected as the single champion of the manufacturing industry in Hunan Province. It has four operating modes of local + short-range + remote + 5G cross-region and can be flexibly switched. The self-organizing network + 5G dual-redundant communication architecture ensures high data bandwidth and low latency. It integrates multi-sensor information with the human-computer interaction system, as well as vision-based intelligent assistance.
Finally, there is the Sunward Xiangyun platform. Every Sunward smart device is connected to this platform, using the trinity of DeepSeek large model + RAG + digital twin. There are more than 100,000 online devices and cumulative data services exceed 260 million times. It plays an important role in R&D, production and after-sales.
In terms of internationalization, Sunward Intelligent has completed “from quantitative change to qualitative change”.
Product exports cover more than 90% of the world’s countries and regions. The number of domestic excavators in the European market ranks first among domestic brands. In March this year, it signed a purchase order for over 100 equipment with European leasing giant KILOUTOU. Piling products have entered the high-end markets in Europe and the United States, and fully hydraulic crawler pile frames have entered markets such as Japan and Vietnam.
Its overseas strategy has shifted from “simply selling equipment” to “systematic and localized operations”. The service team is localized and high-frequency parts are stored in the global regional parts center library, which greatly improves the response speed of equipment operation and maintenance.
In the next three years, there are three major trends in smart equipment worthy of attention: package-based, from stand-alone to “push + dig + install” integrated solutions; scenario-based, deeply customized for scenarios such as emergency rescue, mining, infrastructure construction, etc.; and ecological, where the industrial Internet platform connects equipment, customers, and service providers to form an industrial ecosystem.
Sunward Intelligent is laying out emergency rescue equipment systems, smart mine full life cycle solutions, underground engineering drilling and protection integrated equipment, and global service networks and accessories systems.
From the launch of the world’s first intelligent remote-controlled excavator in 2006, to the release of China’s first unmanned emergency rescue equipment in 2025, to the monthly footage of roller drill rigs in overseas mines exceeding 50,000 linear meters in 2026, Sunward Intelligent has used 20 years to prove that the true “intelligent manufacturing” transformation is a systematic reconstruction of underlying technology, control systems, industrial Internet, and global service systems.
This is not only the growth of an enterprise, but also a vivid epitome of the transformation of China’s equipment manufacturing industry from “following” to “leading”.
