Tianjin's first humanoid robot appears

The oval shaped head, sturdy chest, flexible arms, and freely rotatable waist... When this Astro Boy humanoid robot "Tianbing No.1", which is shiny silver all over and appears quite intelligent and clever, greeted everyone in front of its company booth, it immediately attracted the attention of many attendees.

This is a scene from the 2nd Beijing Tianjin Hebei Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment Collaborative Development Conference held in Wuqing District recently. The positioning of this humanoid robot is an industrial robot. We have introduced parallel mechanisms at the waist and neck of the robot to increase its load-bearing capacity and rotation freedom. The waist of this robot has a load-bearing capacity of 200 kilograms, and the arms have a load-bearing capacity of 5 kilograms. We are currently training it in relevant application scenarios to give it certain intelligent decision-making ability and behavior, making it smarter and more intelligent than general industrial robots. In the future, it will be applied in industries such as food, medicine, electronics, and new energy, and it is estimated to be put into use in July. "Liu Songtao, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Astro Robotics Manufacturing Company Chenxing (Tianjin) Automation Equipment Co., Ltd., introduced this handsome robot to everyone.

This is the first humanoid robot produced by a local enterprise in Tianjin, "Zhang Huanxi, Secretary General of the Beijing Tianjin Hebei Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment Industry Alliance, told reporters. What are the specialties of the first humanoid robot produced in Tianjin?

Our idea for creating this humanoid robot is to make it an assistant to humans. Currently, there are mobile robots in the production workshop, as well as some fixed trajectory grabbing and placing robots. However, when objects fall to the ground on the production line, people need to pick them up. Our idea is to produce a robot that can pick up fallen objects on the ground, replace people in contacting wires in rainy weather, and flexibly wrap around the back of objects to dig out wires, "said Guo Hao, an engineer at Chenxing (Tianjin) Automation Equipment Co., Ltd.

Behind the debut of Tianjin's first humanoid robot is the efforts of a group of Tianjin people. We established the 'Tailored Intelligent Collaborative Development Plan Community' at this conference, and more than 40 leading enterprises in the field of embodied intelligent robots from all over the country, including Yushu Technology, Ubiquitous, Yunshen, etc., joined this community to create a platform for deep collaboration between industry and scene ecology in Tianjin, "said Zhang Huanxi.

This community is jointly formed by many industry leading enterprises such as Alibaba Cloud, Yushu Technology, Ubiquitous, Yunshen, Xingdong Era, Pacini, Shanghai Kepler, Leju Robotics, Magic Atom, Science and Technology Huahui, Songying Technology, as well as universities such as Nankai University, Fudan University, Hebei University of Technology, etc., and user enterprises with rich application scenarios such as China Automotive Engineering Corporation, Tianjin Rail Transit Group, Great Wall Motors, Ideal Automobile, and Xiaocheng Group. Through various methods such as joint research and development, technology sharing, and talent cultivation, it will innovate upstream and downstream collaborative cooperation models, integrate technology research and development, academic resources, and scene practices to accelerate the breakthrough of the robot industry development bottleneck, help build a competitive industrial ecosystem, and promote the development of embodied intelligent industries in Tianjin and across the country.

At this conference, the Beijing Tianjin Hebei Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment Industry Alliance also signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Guangdong Robot Association and the Anhui Robot Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance. The three parties agreed to share industrial policies, market dynamics, and investment demand information from the Beijing Tianjin Hebei, Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, and Anhui Province, and establish a green channel for key enterprise cooperation and docking. Integrating resources from the three regions, deepening regional industrial cooperation, breaking down regional barriers, and jointly promoting technological innovation and achievement transformation in the robotics industry, "said Ren Yutong, Executive Chairman of Guangdong Robot Association.

The person in charge of the Equipment Department of the Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau introduced that in recent years, our city's robot industry has gradually grown in scale with outstanding geographical advantages and a good manufacturing foundation. There are currently over 200 robot and related enterprises, and the overall industry scale exceeds 25 billion yuan. In 2024, our city will produce 9278 sets of industrial robots, a year-on-year increase of 13%; 618236 sets of production service robots, a year-on-year increase of 32.7%.

The robot industry chain in our city is basically complete, with key system components such as reducers, servo motors, and controllers initially constructed in the upstream, robot bodies in the midstream, and robot system integration in the downstream. Universities such as Nankai University, Tianjin University, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin University of Technology, Civil Aviation University of China, and Tianjin Vocational and Technical Normal University all have robot discipline directions, and also have Tsinghua University Tianjin High end Equipment Research Institute and Zhejiang University Binhai Research Institute, which have an innovative foundation for the production robot industry, "said the person in charge.

At present, the variety of robot products in the city is constantly increasing. The new generation of high dynamic, high reliability, and high load spot welding robots produced by Tianjin Xinsong Robot Automation Co., Ltd. have been successfully loaded into Geely Automobile Manufacturing Base, breaking the pattern that domestic robots cannot enter automobile manufacturers; The 600 ton heavy-duty AGV (Automatic Guided Vehicle) product independently developed by Tianjin Langyu Robot Co., Ltd. broke the international record. Ren Zhiyong, the chairman of the company who attended the conference yesterday, told reporters that Langyu's sales achieved a 55% growth in the first quarter of this year; Canaan Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. Tianjin Branch relies on core components such as robot controllers (RCUs), battery management systems (BMS), and integrated modular actuators to achieve fully independent research and production of humanoid robot bodies, and has successfully entered overseas markets.

Next, we will introduce a special action plan for the robot industry, continuously carry out precise investment attraction, expand application scenarios, release a 'Robot+' demand list in key areas such as automotive parts, new energy, electronic information, and marine equipment, rely on our city's robot industry chain innovation consortium, integrate industry chain innovation chain resources, collaborate on research and development, create a collection of typical application scenario cases, and help enterprises expand application scenarios, "said the person in charge of the Equipment Department of the Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau.