There was an unusually hot July in the robotics circle, and in the WAIC, the WRC, the micro-concentration lines, the small factories, and the home space, robots were not as busy as they were.
It's a great showcase, and it's scary when you land in a factory.
The scene is so unique, most of it is moving boxes, folding boxes, picking packs.
Once he started to calculate the ROI, he found his way back to this far-fetched hole.
What is the progress of the industrial furniture industry? What are the main enterprises doing? Which technologies are nearing a critical point? Which segment scenarios are the orders flowing to? A breakthrough from the perspective of cooperation in the industrial furniture industry chain in 2026 may help us to gain insight into the true underbelly of the technological direction and application landscape under the hot outlook of the intelligent furniture industry.
What's going on in the industrial furniture industry?
According to high-tech robots, according to incomplete statistics, a total of 240 strategic cooperation agreements around industrial-technology intelligence were signed in the country on 1 August, involving a total of 434 enterprises (including multiple collaborations).
Several areas are particularly prominent behind the 240 collaborations: product technology research and development remains the most important milestone, application scenario landing sequences, order collaboration, co-operation and joint venture operations companies reflect the urgency of the industrial chain from coal mining to coal selling out.
Overview of the strategic cooperation in industrial equipment for 1 August 2025 (up and down)
(Public information compiled, if there is any incompleteness, please correct)Technology: Currently, software and hardware technologies with physical intelligence have not been integrated, and product technology research and development has become the focus of cooperation. According to statistics, about two-thirds of the 240 collaborations, 66%, have focused on product technology innovation research and development, and enterprises have a strategic focus on every link in the chain of intellectual intelligence perception, reasoning, decision-making and implementation.
Landing: Unlike the past two years, the application landscape is becoming a collaborative focus, with about 56% of the collaborations this year revealing specific industrial application scenarios, which is highly consistent with the dynamics of the two major WAIC and WRC exhibitions this year.
In the first eight months, there were 55 collaborations involving procurement collaborations, covering humanoid robots, quadrupeds, humanoid arms, joint modules, touch sensors, laser radars, and more.
According to incomplete statistics, the collaborative cumulative disclosure reached orders for more than 23,000 human-powered and quadruped robots (including humanoids and quadrupeds, for industrial manufacturing purposes only, excluding universities and several research and development purposes), covering applications such as electrical inspection, heavy machinery, park maintenance, warehouse logistics, automotive parts transportation, footwear manufacturing etc.
Technology, roll-down, order-taking, and the industrial chain are using collaborative methods to transform the science-fiction sensation of artificial intelligence into a landing craft. High-tech robots, through specific analysis of the direction of cooperation, have revealed three significant changes in the course of artificial intelligence since 2026.
Eight months ago
Three changes in the industrial furniture industry
Change 1: Joint module collaboration temperature decreases and chip collaboration surgesJoint research and development on core components for smart robots is still on the rise. In the last eight months alone, the number of strategic collaborations around core components reached 67, which is close to the full-year level of 2025.
Behind the digital, there is a noteworthy signal box that the number of collaborations around integrated joint modules research and development has decreased over the past year. This is largely related to the development stage of the joint modules industry, where the joint modules industry chain has moved from the early stages of technical pre-development, product definition, to the rapidly climbing stage of mass production, joint delivery.
High-tech robots learned that there are already many modules manufacturers and mature supply schemes on the market with engineered quantity production, with some joint modules manufacturers cumulatively delivering up to 100,000 units, racking up millions of units of capacity.
Despite this, many well-known companies are still in attendance this year to collaborate on product technologies for joint modules. The collaboration of these well-known companies focuses on the intelligent development of joint modules, the optimization of multi-scenario indicators, the adaptation of new generations of generational products.
Another thing that is worth noting is that aroundSmart robot chips and computing modulesRelated strategic collaboration has skyrocketed, accounting for nearly two percent of technological R&D class collaborations. When brain-sized cerebrospins begin to work together in complex scenarios, the long sequence of perception, decision-making, reasoning, and execution of cerebrospins, cross-tasking movements, and the computational shortcuts behind the cerebrospins become a new thrill.
This arithmetic pressure is not one-sided, as different scenarios such as energy, electricity, transportation, and industrial manufacturing focus on end-to-end arithmetic, but the common challenge is to cope with unstructured complex operating environments where robots must simultaneously take on multiple tasks such as model reasoning, multi-modal interaction, and device data integration.
Intelligent enterprises such as Intelligent Lions, Intelligent Technology, Functional Robotics, Intelligent Seeking, Ubisoft, and Small Rain Smart have teamed up with chip companies such as Qualcomm, PepsiCo, and Apple Shares to create chip and model training programs specific to their brains.
Change 2: From spelling hardware to rolling models, rolling dataThe focus of industrial equipment technology research and development has begun to shift to model training. Data as the core fuel for the evolution of the body robotic pump brain, its scarcity and specificity have received wide attention in the industry. Around this point, around 70 strategic collaborations around data collection and model training have been carried out in the country in August this year.
High-tech robots have found that software hardware collaboration between manufacturers of physically intelligent entities and large model manufacturers and data set suppliers is increasing.
In June of this year, Tostada collaborated with Unquestionable Intellectual Property to build a deep collaboration in the fields of labeling integration of industrial scenario data, intelligent high-value scenario data sets, synthetic data training, physical brain simulation evaluation, and training strategies for 3C electronics, metal processing, injection molding, and more.
In August, FAO Robot first publicly demonstrated its two-arm folding paperboard workstation, which is based on two-arms of the FAO FR3 series of mechanical workstations, combined with technologies such as photo-intelligent AI vision sensing and 4D world models, to achieve environmental understanding, cardboard recognition, precise grip, folding, and compressing an entire set of autonomous closed-loop operations.
Based on a 4D model of the world based on imaging intelligence, the robotic arms of Fayo are able to understand the state of objects, spatial relationships, trajectories of motion, environmental changes in real time, and perform more precise, flexible, and complex real-world physical operations.
FARO robot X-body smart, two-armed folding carton workstation
Manufacturers of humanoid robots are also strengthening the depth and breadth of data training collaboration, advancing from the native hardware performance parameters to the mastery of the brain's full-fledged capabilities.
This year, enterprises such as autonomous variables, AI, Intelligent Robotics, LPG, Optimization, Hubei Humans, Atomic Unlimited, Owl Power, Intelligent Robotics and others are researching and developing basic body models such as VLA, WAM, WALL, and working with third-party data servers and terminal companies to build vertical models in areas such as CNC, automotive transportation, logistics sorting, 3C assembly, packaging quality testing, and so on.
Data is no longer the code for the bottom of a row of pressurized boxes in a closed system, but has become a real source of productivity in the field of industrial appliances.
Change 3: Talking about landing and application scenarios collaborate into high-frequency vocabularyCommercial landing cracks have been the most affected area in the smart industry. Currently, major companies are working to replace commercial landing cracks with shortcuts.
According to high-tech robotics statistics, 135 collaborations explicitly mention landing applications related to industrial equipment. Energy, electricity, automotive and parts, storage logistics, high-end manufacturing, and 3C electronics are the top five focuses of collaboration.
The energy and electricity scenario is the first to implement strategic cooperation in 2026, with a total budget of 6.8 billion yuan from the national grid. The procurement policy covering more than 8,500 smart devices has led to the demand for safety and maintenance in areas such as electricity inspection, industrial inspection, fire emergency, petrochemical, mining machinery, humanoid robots, quadruped robots, braided robots, and complex robots.
While East Wind, Yu-Shek Technology, Cloud Deep, Intelligent Technology, Dynamic Power, Intelligent Links, Five-Eight Intelligences, Human Robotics Innovation Center, Beijing Human Robotics, and Shenzhen Technology have all increased their collaboration in the fields of power grids, machinery, and data centers.
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In the field of logistics warehousing, industrial transportation, the material packaging of SKU varieties is rich, which derives a large amount of flexible fragmented transportation, sorting, quality inspection needs such as Star Haitian, Galaxy General, Intelligent Square, Stellar Age, Beijing Human Robotics Innovation Center, Options, Dynamics General, Large Coffee Robot Human Beings manufacturers have completed strategic agreements this year on the block, and some companies have created a set of benchmarks with Postal Service, JD, Shenzhen and other companies to collaborate on logistics operations processes.
This year's WRC showcases a wheeled humanoid robot's self-loading program, which uses a mobile platform to capture, transport and accurately place materials between two 3D printing devices.
It's the first time I've ever seen a robot.
In addition, the company has entered into a deep collaboration with Bosch Group's Borobank Co. in the field of transportation. Borobank Co. relies on the underlying advantages of Bosch's industrial resources and Galaxy's general robotics technology, with its self-developed robotic body, vertical model and software platform, using deep industrial know-how and engineering capabilities, using the methodology of building intelligent robot applications based on human-powered control arms at the industrial level, driving the integration of robots from intelligent decision-making to physical execution capabilities.
Source: Banking Co-Founder
From the mass-production slope of joint modules, to the collective supplementation of chip computing, to the collective approach to model training and data base building, these three shifts are intertwined in the same direction: industrial hardware intelligence is moving from chip conceptual verification to chip engineering delivery.
I'd like to see the color of the delivery.In this delivery contest, who is in the lead?
Landing of the industrial scene
Manufacturers of artificial turf are more active than industrialists
According to statistics, Ubisoft, Chiyo Robotics, Gathering Robotics, Jingdong Group, Yuke's Technology, Beijing Human Robotics Innovation Center, Vietnamese Robotics, Seventh-day Robotics, Thousand Intelligences, and Scheffler have been ranked among the Top 10 companies for their collaborative activity in the field of industrial robotics this year.
A clear trend can be seen in the above list: manufacturers of humanoid robots are becoming a major player in the industry. They are leading the way in technological research and development, order procurement, alternate manufacturing, application collaboration, and trying to lead the way in creating a commercial loop from the laboratory to the real line of production.
This kind of activism is not just about signing a strategic agreement, but it's about buying orders for real gold and silver.
With a total of 236 million yuan, the company has ordered a high-speed rail project in the city of Yibin, which includes 380 wheeled robots, 80 reloading robots and 10 quadruped robots; the Shenzhen Human Robot Innovation Center, Zhijiang Dynamics, China Electric Construction signed a three-year order for 5,000 human-powered intelligent robots with a central company, with plans to invest in state-of-the-art projects such as hydropower, tracks, transportation and green mines; StarDust automation and CTU collaborate on hundreds of stage human-level deployments, focus on semiconductor clean operation, ceramic floor removal, medical installation, and other high-end manufacturing scenarios.
In addition, the direct collaboration between UYSC and Hunan Steel Group, SunFong Post, Kaori Tech and Kochi Intelligent, and Dima Tech and Yu-Gi-Oh! for vertical scenarios such as steel reworking, mining power, and logistics storage is also intensifying.
Compared to the active robotics manufacturers, robotics companies with advanced industrial technology appear to have a somewhat weak voice in the application of landing gear.But a low tone does not mean no action. According to high tech robots, most companies are still in the process of internal verification of the POC and have not yet made an initiative to publicly involve customers or specific programs. A CEO of a smart robot company confessed to high tech robots:
This year, however, the WRC has seen some signals: the FARO robotics center announced a two-armed folding carton workstation with shadow intelligence, a two-armed wheeled robot transportation program developed in collaboration with Bloomberg, and an intelligent crawler robot developed by Joint Jack Technologies.
Vietnamese robots and engine warehouses jointly released an industrial hardware application program aimed at the U.S. manufacturing industry, with robots capable of completing integrated tasks such as transportation, uptake of waste materials, abnormal disposal in complex working conditions such as multiple SKUs, multiple packaging, and strengthening the generalized operational capabilities of zero samples.
In the first half of the year, AESDA robots have reached deep ties with Chiyo and Tiger robots, covering the supply chain of humanoid integers, quadruped robots and joint modules, while jointly developing large industrial and commercial vertical models to open a closed loop of scenic drives.
There's an application scene, but there's a dark line that can't be ignored as the business of selling dolls is warming up.
This year, corporate enterprises such as Fao robots, Skyplanes, China-based robots, Limestone robots, Doco robots, Children's Wood robots, Carnop, Skychain robots all added seven new human-powered control arms. In the first quarter of this year, the company revealed that it had received over 1 million orders for human-powered robots.
Fao Robotics has reached an agreement with the world's leading smartphone manufacturer Jack Tech for about 2,000 units, its ART-series industrial-grade human-power control arm covers 3 to 14 kg load, maximum instantaneous load of up to 20 kg, high-load tasks such as transportation of automotive parts, industrial precision assembly, full-junction rectal sensing accuracy of more than 0.3Nm, and is able to accurately capture micro-energy changes.
In addition to these companies, gambling intelligence, elite robots, eston couture, hueling technology, toastada, new era, abb, america, kuka, wingfi technology, promoting weights, intelligent robots, and other robotic enterprises are clearly accelerating the transition to artificial intelligence technology, but other companies known for their traditional industrial robotics technology have seen a decline this year in the field of industrial robotics.
It should be noted that between the hot stalls and the real production line, there is always a drawer called the pump delivery door called the pump delivery door, and across it, relies not on the density of the signature, but the full color of the delivery.
▎He wrote at the end:
Eight months, 240 collaborations, more than 23,000 orders for robotsSome signed agreements in front of the stage, some sold coconuts behind the scenes, and some were still silently grinding POCs.
This series of numbers is not a simple greeting but a clever division of labour. Every agreement is cutting boundaries, every joint R&D is defining who is good at what, and this is how the industrial chain is stretched step by step.