Recently, Zoomlion, a leading company in the field of construction machinery, has reported important industrial layout news: its embodied intelligent robot track, which it has been cultivating for many years, has entered the harvesting period. It has now formed a diversified product matrix covering full-size wheeled humanoid robots and bipedal humanoid robots. It has officially launched the independently developed embodied intelligent operating system Robot Ops, completing the independent layout of the entire chain of “core key components → operating system → complete machine products”. Related products will gradually achieve large-scale production starting in 2026.
The news was officially disclosed by the relevant person in charge at the company’s recent annual shareholders’ meeting.
It is understood that Zoomlion will officially lay out the embodied intelligent humanoid robot industry from 2024. Relying on the technical advantages accumulated over a long period of time in the fields of industrial Internet, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, robots and other fields, Zoomlion will adhere to the industrial manufacturing thinking to polish embodied intelligent products, closely follow the actual application scenarios, start from the underlying technology, and build
A complete embodied intelligent data industrial system will solidly promote the engineering design and mass production of robots, and strive to build a future industrial sector of “industrial robots + embodied robots + AGI (general artificial intelligence)”. The embodied intelligent robot track is also expected to become the company’s third growth curve after traditional engineering machinery and agricultural machinery.
As of now, the company has full-stack self-research capabilities integrating software and hardware. Not only has it built its own dedicated humanoid robot training field, it has developed a total of 8 humanoid robots with different functions and completed nearly 20 different scenarios. It has completed pilot applications in the smart industry city and is basically ready for mass production. At the same time, the self-built large-scale embodied intelligence model has also been put into use. Relying on the accumulated massive industrial big data and rich application scenarios, it is rapidly realizing the evolution and iteration of capabilities.
With the deep integration of artificial intelligence and robotics technology, in the future, the company’s entire range of products, including engineering machinery, agricultural machinery, and mining machinery, are expected to be equipped with embodied intelligence capabilities, achieving functional upgrades of “single-machine intelligence + cluster collaboration” and fully completing the “robotic” transformation, becoming embodied intelligent devices with autonomous decision-making capabilities.
The company’s layout advantages in the embodied intelligence track are very prominent.
As the earliest company in the industry to carry out research and practice on the application of the Internet of Things, its industrial Internet platform has a technical R&D team of 1,500 people and has strong R&D capabilities.
In the field of robot bodies and core components, the company has self-developed core components such as high-performance lightweight joint modules, dexterous hands and controllers, and many products are about to enter the mass production stage. At the level of intelligent control, the self-developed “embodied intelligent large model” can already realize complex tasks such as cooperative grasping with both arms, and the motion control module can support the robot to complete various actions such as anthropomorphic walking, running, and dancing.
In addition, the company has the country’s highest level A-level and international T3+ level supercomputing center, with an existing GPU computing power of 59P, which can support 1,000 cabinets, 10,000 servers and flexible expansion of hybrid cloud computing power, providing a solid computing power base for the long-term development of the embodied intelligence industry.
The rich industrial scenarios brought by the enterprise also provide unique advantages for product iteration. At present, embodied intelligent robots have taken the lead in factory inspections, logistics sorting and other scenarios in the enterprise’s smart industrial city. The “self-perception, self-decision, and self-execution” operating system of the pilot-level intelligent factory also provides an excellent testing ground and a complete data feedback closed loop for the iterative upgrade of embodied intelligence technology.
