en.Wedoany.com Reported - According to a report by CCTV News on April 12, 2026, China's intelligent equipment sector has recently achieved another landmark breakthrough, with the country's first embodied AI specialized robot officially deployed for high-risk scenarios. This robot integrates a humanoid dual-arm system, magnetic wall-climbing capabilities, and large model intelligence, enabling it to replace human workers in performing high-risk tasks such as welding, flaw detection, and rust removal in scenarios like chemical storage tanks, ships, and energy facilities.
The robot features a design combining a humanoid upper body with a wheeled magnetic chassis, boasting a total of 15 degrees of freedom. Weighing approximately 90 kilograms, it leverages powerful electromagnetic performance to walk stably on vertical metal tank walls, and its operation remains unaffected even when carrying an additional adult. The robot can perform tasks at any angle using its dexterous dual arms. By simply changing the end-effector tools, it can quickly switch between various functions like welding, flaw detection, rust removal, and spraying, achieving multi-functionality with a single machine. Operators can use a remote control device paired with VR goggles to achieve 1:1 synchronized remote control of the dual-arm movements. With 12 active joints responding at millisecond-level speeds, operators can remotely control the robot working hundreds of meters high from a safe environment. The robot is powered via cable, allowing for continuous long-duration operation without concerns about battery life.
The biggest difference from traditional wall-climbing robots lies in this robot's bridging of the gap between AI and the physical world, enabling AI intelligence to be truly applied in specialized high-risk operation scenarios such as chemicals, shipping, energy, and manufacturing. This also marks the first time China has applied embodied AI to specialized industrial robots. Pu Xiao, the lead developer of the embodied specialized robot, explained that behind this robot lies China's largest specialized robot large model. To train this model, the robot has accumulated over 100,000 hours of operation, covering a distance of 22,500 kilometers—more than half the Earth's equator—and an accumulated operational area exceeding 5,000 square kilometers, equivalent to two and a half times the area of Shenzhen. The massive and diverse operational cases have allowed this robot to be fully trained and continuously evolve through iterations.
Concurrently, a supporting land-based inspection robot has also been put into use. Equipped with a six-axis robotic arm, this robot can replace humans in performing operations like closing valves in dangerous scenarios such as fires or hazardous gas leaks. It also possesses fire and fault warning capabilities within a 2000-meter range. Furthermore, China's first independently developed submarine cable detection robot has officially been deployed. This robot can autonomously inspect submarine cables at depths of 300 meters, and its collaborative efficiency with unmanned surface vessels is 10 times higher compared to traditional manual methods.
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