In June 2026, at the Changsha Zoomlion Smart Industrial City, a group of bipedal humanoid robots danced to music with agile and graceful movements, drawing everyone's attention. This scene at Zoomlion's 7th Science and Technology Innovation Conference served as a vivid footnote to its scientific research and innovation: Zoomlion's narrative of technological innovation has fully entered the "AI era."

The 7th Zoomlion Science and Technology Innovation Conference was themed "AI Leads Innovation, Pursuing Strength Globally," and the humanoid robots, complete sets of intelligent fleet technology solutions, smart mines, and intelligent driving systems showcased at the conference amazed the audience. From focusing on individual technological breakthroughs to building a full-chain AI application system covering R&D, manufacturing, products, services, and even future industries, this equipment manufacturing enterprise has successfully transformed into an AI-driven "growth-oriented, technology-based" company.

As early as 2014, Zoomlion took the lead in launching digital transformation, investing over 10 billion yuan cumulatively to achieve end-to-end digital transformation from R&D, supply chain, and manufacturing to sales and service, building an extremely solid digital foundation. Based on this digital foundation, Zoomlion has turned AI from an "enabling tool" into "infrastructure," and has already achieved industry-leading positions in fields such as AI + high-end equipment, AI + intelligent manufacturing, AI + smart management, and AI +embodied intelligencerobotics.

In the field of AI + high-end equipment, Zoomlion is fully promoting the "robotization" of high-end equipment. The company's new-generation intelligent equipment, capable of autonomous perception, autonomous decision-making, and autonomous collaboration, has moved from the laboratory to construction sites, mines, and farmlands around the world. Future excavators, mining trucks, and agricultural machinery may not take humanoid form, but they will increasingly possess robotized and intelligent capabilities, and Zoomlion will also develop into a "robot manufacturing company."

In the field of AI + intelligent manufacturing, Zoomlion has connected the processes, equipment, data, and algorithms from cutting, welding, machining, and coating to assembly into its industrial internet platform. It has achieved unified management of more than 100,000 types of materials and lean production of more than 700 products, subverting the traditional manufacturing model and creating a new paradigm of intelligent manufacturing for construction machinery. Its excavator shared manufacturing smart factory was selected as one of China's first batch of 15 lighthouse-level smart factories, representing the highest level of China's intelligent manufacturing.

AI + smart management has built an enterprise-level "super brain," achieving end-to-end connectivity across R&D, manufacturing, sales, service, and all upstream and downstream links of the industrial chain, realizing digital-driven operations, digital management, and digital decision-making, making Zoomlion a fully digitalized smart enterprise. Taking intelligent services as an example, Zoomlion uses GPS and the artificial intelligence internet of things to build a smart service platform connecting more than 1.8 million units of various equipment worldwide, enabling equipment monitoring, early warning, and interaction on the platform, achieving "products online, data in the cloud, and services in the palm of your hand."

In the AI + embodied intelligent robotics track, Zoomlion has formed a product matrix including full-size wheeled humanoid robots and bipedal humanoid robots, independently developed the embodied intelligence operating system RobotOps, formed a full-chain layout of "core key components → operating system → complete products," and will gradually achieve large-scale production starting in 2026. At present, Zoomlion's humanoid robots have completed verification in nearly 20 scenarios, and some products have entered factories for practical training.

Industry experts believe that, relying on the digital foundation accumulated over many years, the full-chain AI application system built by Zoomlion is comprehensively changing the company's production and operation model. Artificial intelligence has been integrated into every link of the company's business development and has become the core driving force for improving quality and efficiency and opening up new growth curves. With self-developed AI technology and a complete industrial layout, Zoomlion is gradually establishing a competitive advantage that is difficult to replicate, providing support for the company's long-term high-quality development.