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WAIC 2026 | Zhongke Tianhang partners with National Center, accelerating humanoid robot ...
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20 July 2026
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Zhongke Tianhang and China's National Center for Humanoid Robot Innovation have partnered to build the Yangtze River Delta's first industrial-grade training ground for humanoid robots in manufacturing, with real-world data collection on Zhongke's production lines to solve the generalization problem blocking factory deployment.
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If you sell sensors, grippers, vision systems or power modules into manufacturing automation, you've just found your buyer: the National Center is now building a standardised testing platform and Zhongke's production lines are open. This is where humanoid robot vendors will certify hardware before scaling.
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Robotics · Manufacturing Tech · AI Infrastructure · humanoid-robotics · manufacturing-automation · embodied-ai · china-policy · training-data