Shanghai Electric Humanoid Robot Shines at 2025 World AI Conference, Paving the Way for Industrial Intelligence
From July 26th to 28th, the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC 2025) took place, showcasing numerous cutting-edge technologies and attracting global attention. Among them, Shanghai Electric Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Shanghai Electric, 601727.SH, 02727.HK) made a stunning appearance with its latest humanoid robot products.
From Concept to Scene: The Crossover of Industrial Gene and Humanoid Robot "Tao Yuan"
With the development concept of "industrial gene" and "scene customization", Shanghai Electric has successfully brought forth the birth of its humanoid robot "Tao Yuan", marking a major breakthrough in the field of humanoid robotics.
In terms of physical characteristics, "Tao Yuan" stands at 167 cm tall, with a weight of 50 kg, and its body design strictly follows human-centered design principles, enabling it to move freely in complex industrial environments.
With a total of 38 degrees of freedom, "Tao Yuan" possesses high flexibility and coordination, allowing it to perform fine operations or large-scale movements with ease.
In terms of motion capabilities, "Tao Yuan" excels in walking speed, reaching up to 5 km/h, and lifting capacity, supporting loads of up to 10 kg. It can also withstand single-arm loading of 2 kg, making it capable of handling heavy-duty work tasks.
In terms of sensing and computing configurations, "Tao Yuan" is equipped with laser radar and binocular cameras, allowing it to possess autonomous navigation and walking capabilities. Its onboard processing capacity reaches 275 TOPS, enabling rapid data processing.
Additionally, "Tao Yuan" is deployed with a large language model, achieving human-machine interaction, task understanding, and completing tasks such as recognition, grasping, and lifting.
From Single-robot Intelligence to Group Collaboration: The Evolution of Biped Robot "Ling Ke"
Shanghai Electric's exploration in the field of robotics is not limited to "Tao Yuan". This time, it showcased its biped robot "Ling Ke" at the WAIC, which represents Shanghai Electric's representative achievement in the field of robotic skills training.
"Ling Ke" leverages high-precision operation, flexible coordination, and data-loop capabilities to provide breakthrough solutions for complex industrial scenarios. Through advanced technologies such as dual-arm collaboration and gentle force control, "Ling Ke" can free workers from repetitive and high-intensity labor tasks, achieving a productivity boost of over 5 times.
The core competitiveness of "Ling Ke" lies in its data-driven terminal-based "data-model-deployment" closed-loop technology. Starting with business data, it cleans, annotates, trains models, deploys optimized strategies, and achieves a complete loop cycle.
Through standardized data collection, virtual-real cooperative training, and group intelligence scheduling, the robot's self-improvement ability will drive the manufacturing industry from "rigid production lines" to "flexible intelligent" and redefine human-machine collaboration boundaries, providing efficient and value-sharing solutions for industrialization.
Full-Chain Collaboration, Establishing Development Foundations
Shanghai Electric has established a comprehensive industry chain covering upstream critical components, mid-stream robotic bodies, and downstream application scenarios.
In the upstream, Shanghai Electric has collaborated with multiple partners to develop key components such as joint modules, wire rope, bearings, and fasteners. Its "Ling Qiao" special-purpose reducer bearing features high precision, low noise, lightweight design, and meets complex motion loads.
In the mid-stream, Shanghai Electric focuses on developing humanoid robots and specialized robots, building a technology-high plateau for humanoid robotics development and applications.
In the downstream, Shanghai Electric has built virtual-real combined industrial skills training platforms and constructed original skill libraries. Currently, it has deployed over 10 types of different robotic bodies, serving over 10 industrial scenarios and achieving 2 scenario solutions that have landed.
Furthermore, under the leadership of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology and the World Industrial AI Alliance, Shanghai Electric has jointly drafted and published the "Global Industrial AI Guidelines". This guidelines aims to focus on industrial AI applications in multiple sectors, including strategic planning, supply chain management, and production efficiency enhancement.
Shanghai Electric's display at the 2025 World AI Conference is a glimpse of its innovative development in the field of robotics. In the future, Shanghai Electric will continue to build upon its achievements, developing "blockbuster" technologies for industrial design, process decision-making, and other areas, driving the development of Shanghai's AI industry and building a global influence.