Exoskeleton robots that help climb mountains, Chinese medicine health robots that can read tongues, industrial robots that can automatically detect welds, wire-winding robots that have received EU certification... More and more "Made in Hunan" smart robots are appearing in overseas homes, workshops and exhibitions.
Changsha Youlong Robot recently shipped 2,000 sets of exoskeleton robots to the French, Italian, and British markets. This device can provide 30% walking assistance to the legs and can automatically identify human movement intentions. The cumulative shipment volume has exceeded 20,000 sets. "Europe has a deep aging population, a real need for mobility assistance, and hiking is a lifestyle that Europeans like." Xiong Jun, founder of the company, said that Europe is the best overseas destination.
Also entering overseas families is Hunan Chaoneng Robot Company’s traditional Chinese medicine health robot “Super Xiaokang”, which can detect eight major indicators such as blood pressure, heart rate, blood oxygen, and blood sugar. It has tongue recognition, pulse diagnosis and intelligent consultation functions, and can connect to a doctor for video consultation with one click. "Super Xiaokang" has sold tens of thousands of units in the past five years, and some have been exported to more than 10 countries and regions including France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Malaysia. "Mainly overseas customers come to buy on their own initiative." Founder Xiao Xiangjiang said that the company is working with Hong Kong partners to form a team of overseas doctors to extend remote consultation services to more countries and regions.
At the end of October, exoskeleton robots were being tested in Changsha Youlong Robot Workshop. Photo by Feng Jun
The threshold for industrial robots to go overseas is higher. Changtai Robot's transformer-embedded intelligent winding robot passed the EU CE certification in September this year. "Obtaining this certificate is equivalent to getting a pass for EU exports." Li Bo, deputy general manager of Changtai Robotics, said that the next step will be to try North American UL certification. In addition, the company's intelligent textile winding robots have exported 4 units to Saudi Arabia.
"Many customers didn't know that Hunan could make such a product before, but they believed it after seeing it with their own eyes." Liu Tingting, deputy general manager of Hunan Shibit Robot, said that the company's overseas orders account for more than 10%. It has set up a branch in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and many industrial robots have been exported to overseas markets such as North America, Europe, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. At the same time, the company also undertakes the intelligent cutting, sorting and blanking business of Caterpillar, the global leader in construction machinery, with an order amount of tens of millions of yuan (RMB, the same below).
In addition, RobotOps, the embodied intelligent operating system of Zhongke Yungu, a subsidiary of Zoomlion, made its global debut at the Hannover Industrial Fair in Germany in April this year, and the humanoid robot Z01 was subsequently exhibited at the Turkish International Engineering Machinery Exhibition; Lens Technology provides precision structural parts, joint modules, head modules and complete machine manufacturing to global embodied intelligent robot companies, and its Liuyang base has the ability to produce 500,000 embodied intelligent robots annually.
According to Changsha Customs statistics, Hunan's industrial robot exports will be 99.72 million yuan in 2025, a year-on-year increase of 82.1%. At present, Hunan has gathered about 300 upstream and downstream robot companies, and the scale of the industry chain in 2025 will be close to 50 billion yuan. In August 2026, Hunan issued the "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Development of the Intelligent Robot Industry", proposing that the province's intelligent robot industry chain revenue will exceed 100 billion yuan by 2028, and exceed 200 billion yuan by 2030. (over)
