Tens of thousands of humanoid force-controlled arms were successfully delivered in Zoucheng, Shandong Province. Domestic embodied intelligence ushered in a large-scale breakthrough.

China News Service, Zoucheng, Shandong, October 13 (Zhou Yiwei, Cheng Xuhui) Recently, the 10,000th humanoid force-controlled arm of Luoshi (Shandong) Robot Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Luoshi Robot") was officially rolled off the production line and delivered at the Luoshi Intelligent Manufacturing Future Factory in Zoucheng, Shandong Province, becoming the first domestic enterprise in the field of humanoid force-controlled arms to achieve scale delivery of 10,000 units. This achievement provides solid support for China's embodied intelligence core execution unit to officially enter a new stage of large-scale mass production and regular application from the technical verification stage.

"The first time a robot really enters a home, it may not start from walking, but from picking up a rag. This seemingly simple action is very difficult for the robot. If the pressure is too light, it will not be wiped clean, if the pressure is too heavy, the movement will not be smooth. There is a height error on the table and it needs to be adjusted independently. Someone touches it. The arm must continue to maintain its original movement." According to Zhu Bonan, technical director of the Humanoid Arm Industry Department of Luoshi Robot, at this moment the robot begins to face the physical rules of the real world and has to deal with friction, collision, resistance and errors, and force control has re-entered the center of the embodied intelligence industry.

Zhu Bonan said that in the past two years, the core of embodied intelligence development was the "brain", but when the robot entered a real scene, the industry quickly discovered that it lacked a pair of "measured" arms. The non-force-controlled arm lacks direct perception of space, and the camera accuracy is only millimeter-level. It can see the position clearly, but cannot see the "force". The humanoid force-controlled arm equipped with full-joint force-control technology has become the core execution unit for the interaction between embodied robots and the physical world.

At present, Luoshi Robot has cooperated with more than 80 leading industrial companies, and more than 70 personal intelligence companies are integrating force-controlled arms into their respective robot systems.

Currently, China's embodied intelligence industry is entering a critical stage of industrialization development. The special action for real-life training of humanoid robots and embodied intelligence jointly launched by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission clearly proposes to promote the normal deployment and application of products in real production and living environments and accelerate the realization of large-scale development. With the release of China's first standard system for humanoid robots and embodied intelligence, the industry is accelerating from single-point technological innovation to standardized and systematic development.

"Embodied intelligence moves from demonstration and verification to large-scale application. It not only requires the continuous improvement of intelligent algorithms and complete machine capabilities, but also requires key links such as actuators and motion control to achieve reliable supply, consistent quality and cost optimization." Hao Yucheng, a member of the National Intelligent Manufacturing Expert Committee, believes that the delivery of 10,000 units of Luoshi humanoid force-controlled arms reflects that the company is migrating the engineering experience accumulated in the field of industrial robots to the field of embodied intelligence, providing infrastructure support for complete machine research and development and application verification.

The realization of 10,000-unit scale delivery is not only a concentrated expression of the company's technical strength, but also inseparable from the all-round support of the regional industrial ecology. As one of the earliest cities in China's county cities to systematically lay out the robot industry, Zoucheng City has focused on cultivating the robot industry as the core track of advanced manufacturing for many years, developing at the same time as leading enterprises such as Luo Shi Robot.

Since Luo Shi Robot landed in Zoucheng in 2016, the local area has continued to promote the agglomeration of industrial factors and supported enterprises to achieve leapfrog development from regional production bases to headquarters layout, and from local growth to listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Up to now, Zoucheng has gathered 25 robot manufacturing and parts supporting companies, and established innovation carriers such as the Jining Branch of the National Robot Inspection and Testing Public Service Platform and the Shandong Intelligent Robot Application Technology Research Institute. Relying on supporting foundations such as Jining Robot Industrial Park and Zoucheng Central Mechanical and Electrical Industrial Park, it has created a "15-minute supply circle for the robot industry" and built a full-chain industrial ecosystem covering R&D and manufacturing, core components, system integration applications, and R&D services.

According to statistics, in the past three years, the average annual growth rate of Zoucheng's robot industry has remained above 20%, and it has become the largest industrial robot production base in Shandong Province.