Recently, the People's Government of Hunan Province officially issued the "Implementation Plan for Hunan Province to Implement the State Council's 'AI+' Initiative" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"). The Plan announced Hunan Province's top ten key enterprises for "AI+". Zhongke Yungu, a subsidiary of Zoomlion, was successfully selected as a representative enterprise at the technology layer thanks to its strong technical strength in embodied intelligence, forward-looking R&D layout, and industry-benchmark achievements, and the company's leading position in the field of embodied intelligence has once again received authoritative recognition.

The Plan proposes to use artificial intelligence as the core driving force to cultivate and develop new quality productive forces, and to accelerate the building of a nationally first-class source of AI innovation, industrial cluster, and application demonstration site. As one of the earliest enterprises in the construction machinery industry to deploy and apply robotics technology, Zoomlion began exploring the use of embodied intelligent humanoid robots in 2024, providing a model for the high-end, intelligent, and digital transformation of the manufacturing industry.

Deeply Cultivating Cutting-Edge Technology to Forge Core Competitiveness

At the core technology level, leveraging Zoomlion's deep industrial DNA, Zhongke Yungu has built a cloud-based "Industrial Super Brain" through its self-developed AI-native national-level industrial internet "dual-cross" platform, achieving collaboration among large, medium, and small models and deep integration of data and knowledge, thereby providing strong support for the large-scale application of embodied intelligence technology. The platform has accumulated nearly 1,000 models of different types and scales, formed more than 10,000 industrial intelligent algorithms, and covers high-value scenarios across the entire business domain of more than 150 industrial enterprises. Through ultra-large-scale cloud-edge-device collaboration, it significantly enhances the thinking and scheduling capabilities of embodied intelligent robots.

At present, the company has successfully developed multiple humanoid robots, including wheeled and bipedal versions, comprehensively covering diverse industrial operation needs. The company has specially built a humanoid robot training ground with more than 100 workstations to carry out large-scale data collection and model training, providing solid data support for optimizing the perception and decision-making capabilities of intelligent agents.

△ Zoomlion's self-developed humanoid robot in an operation scenario

Deep Scenario Implementation to Verify Technological Value

The vitality of technology lies in application implementation. Zhongke Yungu has established all-dimensional advantages in the field of embodied intelligence, from technology R&D and platform support to scenario implementation. Its exploration of embodied intelligence is closely integrated with the complex needs of Zoomlion Smart Industrial City, the core of Zoomlion's intelligent manufacturing, achieving a closed loop from technology R&D to scenario verification.

Taking Zoomlion's intelligent excavator factory as an example, the factory needs to produce excavators of more than 70 different platforms and hundreds of configurations, involving about 4,000 types of parts and more than 370 manufacturing processes. By deploying an adaptive robot cluster with perception capabilities built by Zhongke Yungu and conducting intelligent scheduling through a unified industrial internet platform, the factory has achieved the world's first ultra-large-scale agile manufacturing of heavy equipment in multiple varieties and small batches. The system can switch at any time to produce products of different models, truly achieving "production on demand and flexible response." This embodied intelligence application model of "software + hardware" collaborative evolution enables industrial robot and humanoid robot clusters to achieve self-perception, self-adaptation, and self-decision-making, effectively solving operational challenges in complex industrial scenarios and providing a practicable model for building future factories.

△ A view of Zoomlion's intelligent excavator factory

In the future, Zoomlion will continue to focus on the R&D of core technologies for embodied intelligence, promote collaborative operation of industrial robot and humanoid robot clusters, actively expand and popularize their application in specialized scenarios such as firefighting, building construction, and agriculture, and accelerate empowerment across all industries. Based on scientific and technological innovation, Zoomlion will contribute greater strength to the upgrading of the regional digital economy and the cultivation of new quality productive forces, and inject new momentum into promoting the development of the AI industry in Hunan and even the whole country.