Recently, the second World Humanoid Robot Games kicked off at the Beijing National Speed Skating Oval, the “Ice Ribbon.” At this premier global arena where top humanoid robots compete head-to-head, Zoomlion’s humanoid robots, powered by full-stack self-developed AI-native core capabilities, went head-to-head with global contenders. They took on three highly challenging events with extreme industrial-grade performance, collectively demonstrating the company’s industry-leading technological advantages in embodied intelligence and its hard-won achievements in large-scale real-world deployment.
▲Zoomlion humanoid robot competing in the standing high jump event
According to the schedule, Zoomlion’s humanoid robots mainly participated in three events: standing high jump, 100-metre sprint, and standing long jump. These high-speed movements and complex tasks impose extremely stringent demands on gait algorithms, joint response speed, overall stability, and coordination. During the competition, Zoomlion’s humanoid robots performed steadily and calmly across all events, excelling in hardware architecture, AI algorithms, and motion control systems, demonstrating world-class strength that firmly places them in the industry’s top tier.
On the competition floor, it was not just about winning or losing—every jump and every sprint served as a real-world test of robotic technical capabilities. Today, humanoid robots are rapidly transitioning from technology validation to mass production and real-scene deployment. The industry focus has shifted from merely comparing “how human-like the movements are” to assessing “whether they can actually do real work” and perform various tasks consistently and reliably. Zoomlion has always adhered to an industrial mindset in developing embodied intelligence. Leveraging its leading AI-native technology system and staying grounded in application scenarios, the company has built its technology from the bottom up, creating a full-stack technology framework that deeply integrates “algorithms, software, hardware, and scenarios,” thus establishing differentiated core technological barriers.
Relying on Zoomlion Smart Industrial City—a world-class intelligent manufacturing cluster—Zoomlion has already deployed dozens of self-developed humanoid robots into its smart factory operations, covering production processes such as intelligent material sorting, wire harness binding, component pre-assembly, precision assembly, finished product quality inspection, and factory patrol inspections. Among them, the bipedal humanoid robot Z01 can autonomously complete tasks such as sorting irregular objects and meticulously binding precision wire harnesses through AI-based imitation learning; the wheeled humanoid robot Z03 can independently perform precision processes like equipment mirror pre-assembly, adapting to high-precision production line requirements.
▲Zoomlion humanoid robot performing sorting tasks
What gives Zoomlion a distinct core advantage is its vast repository of real-world industrial data, accumulated from over 300 intelligent production lines and more than 2,000 industrial robots operating year-round. This data provides continuous, real-scenario support for AI model iteration, algorithm optimisation, and performance upgrades of humanoid robots, forming a virtuous cycle of “technology R&D → scenario deployment → data feedback → technology enhancement.” The participation in the World Robot Conference and the World Humanoid Robot Games represents Zoomlion’s drive to bring proven technologies honed in industrial practice to the industry’s top platforms, using extreme competitive scenarios to refine algorithms, optimise hardware, and iterate performance, thereby further advancing technological sophistication and scenario adaptability.
To date, Zoomlion has built a comprehensive product matrix covering bipedal and wheeled humanoid robots as well as quadruped robot dogs, with full-chain self-sufficiency in core components, operating systems, whole-machine technology, and scenario applications. The company stands as one of the very few AI-native robot enterprises that have achieved full-stack self-development of humanoid robot technology, large-scale scenario deployment, and continuous data-driven iteration. It is also the only enterprise in the high-end equipment manufacturing industry to have successfully developed and deployed embodied intelligent robots, with substantial industrial achievements.
▲Zoomlion’s full range of embodied intelligent robot products
“On the arena, it’s about the robots’ athletic performance; behind it, it’s about the company’s AI-native technology prowess and scenario-deployment strength,” said Zeng Guang, General Manager of Zoomlion’s ZValley. He added that this participation was not only an opportunity to exchange ideas and benchmark against the world’s best technologies, but also a chance to refine technologies through competition and hone products through athletics. In the future, Zoomlion will continue to deepen its AI-native embodied intelligence technologies, persistently iterate and optimise, accelerate large-scale deployment of humanoid robots across industrial manufacturing, special operations, smart services, and other fields, and consistently deliver “Zoomlion solutions” for embodied intelligence.
