en.Wedoany.com Reported - Recently, the Department of Industry and Information Technology of Hunan Province, China, officially released the "Plan for the Construction of Manufacturing Innovation Centers in Hunan Province (Third Batch)," with the humanoid robot field included among them. Zoomlion's ZValley has become the sole establishing unit for this field in Hunan Province.
Hunan Provincial Manufacturing Innovation Centers are important vehicles for improving the province's manufacturing innovation system and promoting the deep integration of the industrial chain and innovation chain. As the lead establishing unit shortlisted for the humanoid robot construction field, ZValley closely aligns with Hunan Province's "4×4" modern industrial system and the key industry multiplication plan (Artificial Intelligence), focusing on tackling core key technologies in this field, which is in line with the orientation of high-quality industrial development.
Currently, the large-scale deployment of humanoid robots still requires systematically addressing the triple challenges of "technology, industry, and ecosystem." Targeting these pain points, ZValley's robotics team focuses on five major platforms: technology R&D, pilot testing, data, public services, and open source. They are concentrating efforts on breakthroughs in over 20 key technologies, including humanoid robot motion control precision, embodied intelligence environmental perception and decision-making, and multi-modal data fusion processing. Centered around six core links—technology R&D, pilot manufacturing, scenario validation, model training, industrial clustering, and ecosystem cultivation—they have already established R&D sites such as a data acquisition center and a pilot test base. They are progressively building a humanoid robot innovation community and operational system, dedicated to full industry chain support and large-scale application implementation, promoting the industrial application of technological achievements in seven major industries including industry, agriculture, commerce, education, and emergency response.
At the recently concluded Hannover Messe 2026, Zoomlion ZValley's self-developed embodied intelligence operating system Robot Ops, the new humanoid robot Z01, and the AI-native intelligent manufacturing overall solution made their global debut. These achievements garnered widespread attention from the international industrial community and accumulated international reputation and technical resources for the company's subsequent construction of the manufacturing innovation center.
In early 2026, the "Hunan Provincial Engineering Research Center for Industrial Embodied Intelligent Robots," led by ZValley, was approved. With the approval of the Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, two provincial-level innovation platforms have been established successively, building a complete innovation chain from basic research to technological breakthroughs, and then to industrial implementation, forming a "dual-platform" structure within the province.
Zoomlion ZValley will use the "dual platforms" as a strategic fulcrum to continuously delve into core humanoid robot technologies, build a full-chain innovation ecosystem of "technology R&D—achievement transformation—industrial incubation," enhance productivity, serve the construction of Hunan's modern industrial system, and implement the "Three Highs and Four New" strategy.
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