China's robotics industry ushered in the outbreak of the moment, a group of Nanjing "players" with hard-core strength in the front-
In the first three quarters of 2025, the revenue of the national robotics industry increased by 29.5% year-on-year, the production of industrial robots reached 595,000 units and the production of service robots reached 13.5 million sets, both of which exceeded the annual production of 2024, reaching a new high.
(hereinafter referred to as "Exton Automation") industrial robot shipments ranked first among national brands for seven consecutive years; Nanjing Tianchuang Intelligent Technology Co. (hereinafter referred to as "Tianchuang Robotics") since 2021, the cumulative shipments of more than 5,000 units, inspection robot shipments ranked first in the world; Jiangsu Jicui Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Research Institute Limited (hereinafter referred to as "Jicui Intelligent Manufacturing"), the robot products sell well in Singapore, France, Russia and other countries, the order is "urging" to "build a new industrialization base". "New industrialization base construction ......
A number of excellent enterprises that occupy a leading position in their respective tracks have given Nanjing, the "City of Robots", its own unique character: relying on its own technology, plowing into the needs of the scene, being pragmatic and having strategic patience.
Leading the "Critical Leap"
According to industry statistics, in the first half of 2025, Exton's industrial robot shipments surpassed foreign brands for the first time, topping the top of China's market share, and increasing the market localization rate to 55.3%.
This "key leap", marking the Chinese robotics industry after more than a decade of struggle, to truly realize the leap from catching up, running parallel to the lead, proving that the domestic brand is fully capable of breaking through the monopoly of foreign capital in the field of high-end manufacturing, leading the industry's independent development.
Last year, Exton launched the new product ER1200-3300, which became the first domestic six-joint robot with mass application and load up to 1200kg. It breaks through the key technologies of dual motor synchronous control, dual reducer hard synchronization, machine lightweight, etc., and realizes the localization of the core component 100%. By now, Exton has built up a matrix of more than 90 robots covering 3kg-1200kg loads.
Exton adheres to the strategy of the whole industrial chain, and the autonomy rate of the core components of the robot is more than 95%. "This is a road with large investment, long cycle and complicated management, but we must choose so." Zhou Ailin, Executive President of Exton Automation, said that robotics is a technology-intensive industry, and the autonomy and control of core components is crucial. By laying out the whole chain from core components, robot body to system integration, Exton is able to integrate resources more effectively, guarantee supply chain security, and accelerate technology iteration.
"Today, we are enough to prove to the world that Chinese robotics companies are not only able to provide economical products, but also have the ability to overcome heavy-duty, high-precision and high-complexity application difficulties." Zhou Ailin said that the full series of load coverage, especially the innovative research and development of 1200kg heavy-duty robots, means that the enterprise has made substantial breakthroughs in the core technologies such as robot structure design, motion control, precision maintenance, etc., and has the ability to participate in the competition of global high-end industrial applications.
In the early hours of every morning, after the busy Nanjing Metro trains end operation, there will be a group of "security guards" on duty - Yijiahe and the Nanjing Metro and the Nanjing Metro co-developed the subway vehicle inspection robot.
"The subway inspection work should be completed between 0:00 and 4:00, if manual operation, it is a great test of manpower and efficiency." Yijia and deputy general manager and secretary of the board of directors Zhang Jinbo introduction, Yijia and Nanjing Metro deep cooperation, continue to increase investment in research and development, and constantly optimize the rail transit metro vehicle inspection scenarios under the large model of intelligent algorithms, the robot has been able to efficiently achieve the image target autonomous identification, autonomous discrimination and early warning information output and other functions. The algorithm model can accurately identify 30 defect categories of subway vehicles, covering nearly 200 business scenarios, whether it is a loose screw or a foreign object attached, it can accurately identify, the overall recognition rate of more than 96%.
Yijiahe is a leading enterprise of special and service robots, and its body-intelligent robots in the power grid can realize the whole link of transmission, substation and distribution and the whole range of intelligent operation and maintenance coverage of "sky, ground and underground".
A business owner lamented, can cultivate Exton, Yijia and other robots listed companies, and attract Huichuan technology and other giants on the ground, but also nourished the blue intelligence, collection of wisdom and other emerging enterprises, and each of them in their respective fields to occupy a place, Nanjing, such a city, the country is rare.
In the past two years, Nanjing has proposed to build a "city of robots" and has issued the "Nanjing Action Plan for Promoting the High-Quality Development of the Robotics Industry (2024-2026)" and "Nanjing Action Plan for the Development of Intelligent Robotics Industry (2025-2027)" to plan the industrial development layout of "one nucleus and multiple wings". (2027)", planning "a core multi-wing" layout of industrial development, but also in March 2025 set up four "industrial attack to promote the office", robotics industry attack office is one of them.
Robot rainforests grow on fertile industrial soil
In a chemical enterprise in Jiangsu, Tianchuang Robotics latest product explosion-proof robot "Tiankui 1" has been on duty, it can not only complete the autonomous inspection, but also in the critical moment of the sudden dangerous situation, with their own "strong and dexterous hand" to quickly close the valve, and minimize the damage in a short time. In a short period of time to minimize the loss.
"At one time, this type of industry has produced many heroes who sacrificed their lives by 'going against the grain' in times of emergency, and today, we can use technology to make this type of tragedy never happen again." Min Jihai, general manager of Tianchuang Robotics, said.
The robust, wheeled foot "Tiankui" allows people to see that humanoid robots have come out of the laboratory, to become able to play a key role in dangerous environments, reliable "workers".
Tianchuang Robotics has positioned itself to develop industrial intelligent operation and maintenance robots in "4D scenarios" (remote, dangerous, dirty and repetitive). Since 2021, Tianchuang Robotics has rapidly captured the market and entered a period of rapid development. Currently, it has more than 5,000 inspection robots applied in various scenarios, and has managed more than 400,000 equipment points.
"This direction is determined by the market." Min Jihai admitted that looking at the development of the past 10 years or so, China's robotics companies are very lucky, driven by the new industrialization, "robotics +" and other strategies, a number of enterprises, especially the central state-owned enterprises took the lead in embracing robotics, which provided robotics companies with a wide range of application scenarios to hammer the technology.
Tianchuang's first breakthrough was to undertake a scientific and technological project of China General Nuclear Corporation (CGNPC), thus launching the first nuclear tertiary pipeline inspection robot. Nowadays, Tianchuang's products have covered the whole field of industrial intelligent operation and maintenance, and the robots are engaged in inspections, analysis, maintenance and other operations in the most dangerous and unsuitable places for human beings to stay for a long time in the industrial scenarios.
The industrial town of Nanjing is a fertile land destined to nurture a "rainforest of robots".
Exton and Yijiahe were both founded in the 1990s, and Tianchuang Robotics has been around for 15 years. The solid industrial landmarks formed in Nanjing in the fields of electricity, chemical industry, steel and automobile have provided the most original market demand and engineering culture for the robotics industry. Nanjing robotics companies, it is in the manufacturing boom, new upgrades in a round of waves of crawling, practiced a solution to the actual problem of the "real skills".
In recent years, the robotics industry in Nanjing has formed a whole chain system of machines, key components and integrated applications, gathering more than 200 robotics-related enterprises, and presenting industrial robots leading the way, characteristics of the robot multi-point outbreaks, humanoid robots, the layout of the whole chain, the key parts and components of the field of a number of iconic enterprises and other characteristics.
It is easiest to find growth in lush ecological rainforests.
"We specialize in the field of motion control, and there are many industrial robotics companies among our customers, and our technology can help them make robot movements more accurate and flexible." Liu Long, the person in charge of Nabert Nanjing Technology Co. Nabert independent research and development of professional motion controllers and the development of open software platform, its self-developed service wafer handling robots, collaborative robots and other areas of control equipment have been shipped tens of thousands of units.
Nabert keenly insight into the rapid growth of the penetration of multi-jointed robots in manufacturing areas such as metal processing and a trend of sustained growth. "We have to grasp the development opportunities, Nanjing robotics industry has a good foundation, industrial chain cooperation opportunities, very conducive to enterprise technology iteration and market expansion." Liu Long said the company is planning to build a production base in order to grasp the market growth opportunities.
Going global with "hardcore" in hand
At present, the chairman of the board of directors, general manager Luo Minzhou is leading the sales team non-stop, in the overseas market. At the same time, the industrialization base construction site of the Coca-Cola think-tank is in full swing, and it is expected to complete the main roof of the project before the first of May this year.
"The orders on hand are already full, and we just received orders from Singapore, France, Russia and other countries a year ago, all waiting to be delivered." Gao Wenmei, deputy general manager of Collective Intelligence, introduced that after the project is put into operation, it can produce nearly 10,000 collaborative robots and intelligent robots annually. "The construction of the project does not dare to slow down at all, and must be accelerated to enhance production capacity."
Founded nearly ten years ago, Coca-Cola has ushered in an "explosive period".
Coca-Cola is developing an intelligent teaching-free welding robot, with the help of cutting-edge multi-sensor fusion technology and AI vision algorithms, to give the robot a smarter "eye" and "brain". In the future, perhaps just a command, the robot will be able to autonomously plan the path to achieve the whole process of autonomous welding, is to overturn the industry's innovative products.
Tibco has also independently developed coffee robots, which have taken orders from Bolivia, Argentina, Singapore, Spain, Chile and other countries after the launch of the products. The previously developed intelligent portable welding robots have also long been applied to more than 10 manufacturing fields such as harbor machinery, ships, automobiles and metal processing.
"Last year, we built an overseas technical service and after-sales base in Spain, and this year we also plan to lay out at least 2 overseas." Gao Wenmei told reporters that with the advancement of the overseas market, Jicui realized that it is necessary to keep up with the service in order to maximize the advantages of the Chinese brand.
The highly representative products of CICC are characterized by high technology level, high service standard and high cost performance, which enable Chinese robots to hold the right to speak in the global market.
"With our technology and the experience we have accumulated in the domestic market, the expansion of the overseas market has been smoother than expected." Min Jihai said.
Industry is a large and complex system in which robots are applied, often requiring a long adaptation and adjustment phase.
And just last year, a Korean customer from testing and verification to scale orders, less than a year to complete, this cycle has been significantly shortened. "Customer feedback, after the enterprise commissioned Tianchuang robot, but also attracted the neighboring enterprises to observe and learn."
Nanjing is also continuing to "own" robots open the application "door". Last year, Nanjing released the robot "ability to supply" and "opportunity to release" two lists, to build a platform through the supply and demand sides. At present, 60 capacity lists have been released, the opportunity list of 600 units. The so-called "capacity list" is to display the product capabilities of robotics enterprises. The "opportunity list" encourages enterprises to open up the scene and take the lead in using robots. Through docking, Nanjing robots have been used in many excellent practice cases in conference service, cultural tourism, retail and other scenes.
Nanjing held the "Ning Gong Pin Push" supply and demand docking activities, there are also a number of robotics as the theme, according to the leading enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises demand, to help enterprises to expand the market, find orders, and promote production.
"New Opportunities in the "City of Robots
Robotics industry is stepping into a new stage of accelerated penetration and profound changes in the competitive landscape, competition, market demand, technology integration and other multiple changes intertwined emergence, the future development trend is becoming clearer and clearer.
Zhou Ailin analysis, the future trend is as follows: Intelligent and flexible become the core direction of the industry, robots will be more "smart", can be adapted to the complexity of the changing task scenarios; scenarios of deep cultivation and segmentation ushered in the outbreak of market, new energy, semiconductors, warehousing and logistics, and other fields will be the emergence of a huge amount of customized demand; human-machine collaboration and integration become the norm for industry Human-machine collaboration and integration has become the norm in the industry, and the safe and easy-to-use collaborative robots will continue to expand their application boundaries; the potential of the service robot market is also accelerating.
Based on the forward-looking judgment of the future, Exton continues to "heavy position" in Nanjing: incubation of Nanjing Exton Kudrow Technology Co., Ltd. to enter the humanoid robot track; in Gaochun, Exton Intelligent Technology (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. landed in Gaochun, focusing on new energy field of high-end intelligent equipment manufacturing; and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics jointly established Jiangsu Hang Ding Intelligent Equipment Co. Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd., the main robot automatic drilling and riveting system and other core products; Exton (Nanjing) Medical Technology Co., Ltd. to promote advanced robotics technology to the medical, nursing care field extension.
A consensus among robotics companies is to embrace AI to make robots smarter to serve thousands of industries and all parts of life.
"Our inspection robots applied in various scenarios form dozens of terabytes of data resources every day, and these millions of industrial field data become a scarce resource for training AI." Min Jihai introduced.
Last year, Tianchuang Robotics self-developed "Tiancalculator with body intelligent operation and maintenance model" through the National Internet Information Office generative artificial intelligence services on-line record. The large model is built for industrial scenarios and is a multimodal large model, which can significantly improve the intelligent level of operation and maintenance of robots in high-risk and complex environments.
Yijiahe puts forward the strategy of "Robotics+Industry", accelerates the integration of body-intelligent technology with industrial needs, and achieves a series of new breakthrough applications in recreation, cleaning, and healthcare scenarios, in addition to the energy field. For example, its incubated surgical robotics company, Tuo Dao Medical, has already obtained certification for several products, including a laparoscopic surgical robot, an orthopedic surgical robot, two C-arm X-ray machines, a puncture surgical robot, and an orthopedic robotic carbon fiber surgical table.
In the source of innovation, Nanjing also has a wealth of university resources and R & D advantages, Nanjing University, Southeast University, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and other colleges and universities are equipped with robotics-related key specialties, with the realization of scientific and technological achievements of the efficient transformation of the huge potential.
The person in charge of the relevant office of Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology introduced that Nanjing has docked with 13 universities on a regular basis, and docked their achievements to important science and innovation platforms, so that the achievements of the universities can enter the parks and enterprises smoothly, and accelerate the transformation to the industrial end. Since last year, 261 contract transactions have been realized by Nanjing in the field of robotics-related technical achievements.
Led by Exton, the joint Jiangning Development Zone and the industry's key enterprises and other nine units to build Jiangsu with body intelligent robotics innovation center, is steadily under construction, has been initially built with body intelligent machine number of people picking center, training ground. According to the plan, plans to complete the core carrier construction of the test certification platform, inspection and testing platform. Eventually, the center will focus on key common technology breakthroughs in the key areas of embodied intelligent robotics, to create "innovation resources integration hub, common technology research and development bases, public innovation service platforms, leading talent cultivation plateau" four core functions.
Nanjing Robotics Accelerates
Facing the future, defining the future
