At the beginning of 2025, whether it is the "traffic responsibility" on the Spring Festival Gala stage - a dancing robot, or the humanoid robot that continues Frozen at the Harbin Asian Winter Games, it is not difficult to find that the humanoid robot, which was once regarded as the imagination of the future, has begun to stand at the center of the global technology stage.

As a new hot spot in the science and technology industry after big model technology, humanoid robots are becoming an important breakthrough for "artificial intelligence +". The global market is accelerating its layout in the robot industry, and an unprecedented wave of technology has come.

The large-scale series of reports "Hi Robots" focuses on major breakthroughs in the field of embodied intelligence, and looks forward to the future world where humans and robots coexist in the dialogue between technological evolution and human civilization.

More and flexible. Humanoid robots have mastered the "eighteen martial arts"

Dance yangko, assembled parts, worked as tour guides, delivered express delivery... The increasingly flexible humanoid robots are constantly accumulating experience in their interactions with the real world. The increasingly sophisticated skills have also opened up more commercial implementation scenarios for them.

More and professional, global robots "do their own duties"

On a global scale, the robot industry has also ushered in leapfrog development. From industrial manufacturing to home services, "professional players" in various fields are making their debut.

Becoming smarter and smarter AI big models reshape the robot's "brain"

Robots are divided into "brain" and "cerebellum" from software algorithm strategies. The "brain" is responsible for perceiving the outside world and simulating human thinking, and the "cerebellum" imitates organisms for complex movement, that is, motion control. Thanks to the mature manufacturing system and cost advantages, my country has significant advantages in the "body" link of robots. The increasingly smart "brain" is promoting the robot industry to achieve leapfrog development.

Tan Min, Chief Brand Officer of Shenzhen UBLIC Technology Co., Ltd.: The core driving force for robots to become smarter in the past two years is the breakthrough in core technologies of artificial intelligence. Especially language big models, under the premise of big data integration, make robots' thinking closer and closer to humans' ontological thinking.

At the beginning of 2025, the domestic DeepSeek model, which caused shock in the global AI market, not only reshapes the algorithm ecosystem with its open source technology and low cost properties, but also quickly ignits the enthusiasm of the humanoid robot industry. Many manufacturers have connected to the DeepSeek model and started upgrading.

Ding Ning, head of Guangdong Embodied Intelligent Robot Innovation Center: Between robot hardware and big model software, it is actually a closed-loop process that collects data to support intelligence, and intelligence can empower machines and make it smarter. It is worth looking forward to in the future. You can think, reason, and form some strategies.

Becoming more and more efficient. The "hundred flowers bloom" of the humanoid robot industry chain

The autonomy of technology is accelerating the application of humanoid robots in my country from concept to reality. The inseparable upstream and downstream are also promoting the coordinated development of humanoid robots from "one person" to "one chain". Running, climbing, serving tea, and sorting, humanoid robots "do their own duties". Limbs, joints, eyes, and brain, in different bodies, each "organ" has its own strengths. Thanks to the mature supply chain and complete industrial ecosystem, the upstream and downstream of the domestic humanoid robot industry have formed a "cluster effect". Taking Shenzhen, Guangdong as an example, the localization rate of the supply chain of robot manufacturers has exceeded 60%. Nanshan District alone has gathered more than 200 upstream and downstream enterprises and institutions in the humanoid robot industry chain.

Zhang Simin, deputy chief of the Key Industry Section of the Industry and Information Technology Bureau of Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province: Our chain is very complete. At present, the scale of the entire industrial chain in Nanshan has exceeded 40 billion yuan, and it increased by more than 20% year-on-year in 2024.

Morgan Stanley recently released the top 100 global humanoid robots list, showing that Chinese companies account for more than one-third, and 7 companies in Shenzhen alone were selected. Among them, it not only includes robot complete machines, but also key companies that provide solutions for the body's "circulation system".

Whether it is a reducer, sensor or precision structural component, the efficient coordination of the local supply chain can form a co-construction effect between the upstream and downstream of the industry and take the lead in breaking through the cost bottleneck. The coordinated efforts of policy scenario innovation and the industrial end are accelerating the implementation of humanoid robots on a large scale.

Lin Yi, Deputy Director of the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Guangdong Province: In the near future, we will also issue special policies for humanoid robots, and provide precise support for open application scenarios, breakthroughs in key technologies, construction of special data sets, and improvements in large-scale manufacturing and application capabilities through "opening up the list and taking charge". At the same time, we will also arrange special projects for artificial intelligence and robots in major science and technology projects in the city, encourage industry, education, research and application to form an innovation consortium for collaborative research, and open another 100 application scenarios in 2025.