On 12 April in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, the pilot production line of Leju Robotics, the first humanoid robot production line in the city, was officially launched. The line, located in the Longhua district, serves as a ‘Experimental Platform’ aimed at speeding up the process of improving products and preparing standardized procedures for subsequent serial production.
Humanoid robots that will pass technological verification on the pilot line and the phase of refinement under the alleged "pre-series production" will be transferred to Foshan.
There, as part of the integrated model "Shenzhen: investigation + testing; Foshan: production + mass implementation", will be the first in Guangdong state to scope a full automated production line with an yearly output of 10,000 units.
Today, humanoid robot production faces challenges specified as technological instability, advanced costs and varying quality of final products. The Leju Robotics line has been designed to solve these problems systematically: it combines flexible mounting stations with manual handling, allowing fast refurbishment and the usage of human verification at key stages.
For example, Roban 2.2 has so far undergone 2 main validation iterations and over 170 process improvements, which guarantees maturity of each phase of production.
The planned yearly efficiency of the pilot line ranges from 500 to 1000 pieces – a scale deliberately limited to focus on standardisation and cognition transfer alternatively than volume. Leju Robotics builds in the Greater Bay Area region, comprising the state of Guangdong HongKong and Macau a complete value chain: from investigation and prototyping in Shenzhen, through mid-scale verification, to mass production in Foshan, where all 30 minutes a humanoid robot will descend from the line.
The company's initiative fits into the wider strategy of Guangdong Province, which plans to launch more than 200 intelligent factories and medium-scale verification platforms by the end of 2026, as well as in Shenzhen's efforts to advance the "artificial intelligence+" model and to build technological polygons for AI humanoid systems.
Guangdong state is already the country's leader in manufacturing industrial and service robots. There are more than 160,000 robotic companies operating here. The state besides has a complete supply chain – from components to strategy integration.
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Author: 梁安基 Andrzej Z. Liang, 上海 Shanghai, 中国 China
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Editorial: Leszek B.
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