Shanghai Electric Unveils Humanoid Robots and AI Smart Factory Technologies

Shanghai Electric has unveiled a comprehensive portfolio of humanoid robots, industrial robots, core components, and AI-powered smart factory technologies at WAIC 2026, highlighting its strategy to integrate embodied intelligence into complex manufacturing environments.

Under the theme "AI for All: Smart Squad, Shining Without Limits," the group demonstrated end-to-end capabilities spanning complete robot systems, critical parts, industrial software, and smart factory architecture across five key scenarios: connector insertion, electrical operations, flexible sorting, intelligent assembly, and pipe processing.

Highlights include the SUYUAN bipedal humanoid robot with 41 degrees of freedom, the TUOYUAN industrial wheeled humanoid robot for sheet metal handling, the Mermaid bionic robot for electrical control operations, and an autonomous pipe inner-wall chamfering robot operating within 1-millimeter precision.

Wang Chunlei, deputy general manager of the robotics business unit at Shanghai Electric Automation Group, stated:

"The true value of embodied intelligence lies in understanding real industrial tasks: combining the strength, precision, and stability of machines with human experience and judgment to drive a genuine paradigm of 'machine-assisted, human-machine collaboration.'"

Shanghai Electric also showcased high-load planetary roller screws and the DexHand dexterous hand, alongside 51 AI models and agents under its "StarCloud Intelligent Manufacturing" series for process optimization, line scheduling, and predictive facility maintenance.

Furthermore, the company released its AI-Native Smart Factory Technology White Paper, proposing an active evolution architecture combining an AI factory brain control center, industrial agent execution networks, and physical digital twins for closed-loop self-optimization.