Canton Fair Observation: Chinese robots go global with strength and overseas merchants place orders on the spot

China News Service, Guangzhou, October 18 (Reporter Sun Qiuxia) The 140th Canton Fair is being held in Guangzhou. In the past few days, Chinese robots have become very popular. Many overseas businessmen raised their mobile phones to take pictures. Some placed orders on the spot, and some made appointments to visit the factory for on-site inspections. From cleaning high-altitude curtain walls and automatically mowing lawns to carrying goods and assisting in walking, Chinese robots are going overseas with their strength and accelerating from local to global.

At the Lingdu Intelligent booth, a high-altitude curtain wall cleaning robot was simulating obstacle crossing operations. After it recognized the obstacle in front of it, it steadily lifted and stepped over it, then put it back on the glass surface to continue cleaning without manual intervention.

"Building structures at home and abroad are diverse, curtain wall shapes are complex, and the research and development cycle of this category is long. Because we have overcome these difficulties, our products are particularly popular at the Canton Fair. One device sells for more than 50,000 US dollars. Currently, there are many inquiries from customers in the Middle East and Europe, and some also place orders on the spot." Chen Xiao, international sales director of Lingdu Intelligent, told China News Service.

On October 15, the 140th China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) opened in Guangzhou. The picture shows an overseas buyer experiencing a companion robot. Photo by China News Service reporter Chen Jimin

A buyer from Chile told reporters that Chinese robots are great and they look very advanced. He is a dealer and there is a lot of local demand for high-rise building cleaning. He wants to bring high-altitude curtain wall cleaning robots back to Chile.

At this Canton Fair, an exoskeleton robot that helps with daily walking is also popular among overseas merchants. Buyers from Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and other regions entered the Taixi Smart booth one after another, waiting in line for the opportunity to try it on in person, and multiple devices were sold on site.

"The exoskeleton robot we launched is equipped with a new generation of self-developed joint modules, which has extremely fast response speed and power, and has two batteries with a battery life of up to 9 hours, covering the diverse needs of people from silver-haired elders to outdoor sports, urban leisure and rehabilitation." Han Xu, co-founder of Taixi Intelligent, said that the Canton Fair has attracted a lot of attention from overseas merchants to the company, and many merchants have already placed orders.

In front of Pudu Robot's unmanned lawn mower booth, overseas buyers come to inquire from time to time. According to the booth staff, Pudu GT series commercial lawn mowers can not only automatically suck up grass, but also automatically dump grass when the grass collection box is full, and then return to the original point to continue working. Many buyers have made appointments to visit the company for on-site inspections.

At present, Chinese robot companies' overseas expansion has upgraded from simply exporting products to a full-chain overseas layout of "R&D, production, sales, and service", and has formed a multi-level overseas echelon.

At the booth of Shugen Technology Logistics Robot Division, a counterbalanced forklift robot demonstrated the integration of semantic segmentation, multi-modal perception, image classification and target detection and other AI capabilities, realizing the leap from "manned" to "intelligent" to "unmanned" for traditional forklifts.

"Since launching the electric overseas strategy in 2024, our related products and businesses have covered more than 80 countries and regions around the world, and unmanned forklift robots have been launched overseas. In response to overseas after-sales needs, the company has deployed central warehouses and service teams in target countries, and its products have achieved 100% growth in the Mexican and Brazilian markets." said Zhao Xuexun, general manager of Latin America of the Logistics Robotics Division of Shugen Technology.

The "2026 Robot White Paper" released by Cainiao Group and Roland Berger shows that the global robot market is expected to grow from approximately 400 billion yuan in 2025 to approximately 2.12 trillion yuan in 2035. Chinese companies account for more than 80% of global shipments in the field of commercial service robots, and overseas revenue from lawn mowing robots is growing strongly. (over)