en.Wedoany.com Reported - China Hunan Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. ("Hunan Iron and Steel Group") and Hangzhou Unitree Technology Co., Ltd. ("Unitree Robotics") signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Changsha, Hunan Province, on June 24, 2026. Valin Steel, the group's listed steel platform, and Valin Cloud Innovation, the subsidiary responsible for the group's informatization and digital strategy implementation, signed the agreement with Unitree Robotics to jointly establish the first embodied intelligent robotics innovation laboratory in the steel industry.
Headquartered in Changsha, Hunan Province, Hunan Iron and Steel Group is one of China's major integrated steel enterprises. It owns listed companies such as Valin Steel (000932.SZ) and has an annual crude steel production capacity of over 30 million tons. Unitree Robotics, headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, is a globally leading developer and manufacturer of consumer-grade and industry-grade quadruped robots, with deep technical expertise in the field of embodied intelligent robotics.
According to the agreement, the two parties will engage in in-depth cooperation in areas such as intelligent inspection and maintenance, emergency command and response, smart factory implementation, intelligent production execution, and intelligent warehousing and logistics. This collaboration combines Unitree Robotics' technical advantages in robot motion control, environmental perception, and autonomous decision-making with Hunan Iron and Steel Group's rich industrial manufacturing scenarios to jointly explore the application of embodied intelligent robots throughout the entire steel production process.
The steel industry is a typical process industry characterized by complex production environments and high safety requirements, with urgent needs for automation and intelligence in areas such as intelligent inspection, emergency response, and warehousing and logistics. The newly established embodied intelligent robotics innovation laboratory for the steel industry will focus on practical pain points in steel production scenarios, conducting applied research and industrial implementation of robotics technology in the steel industry. The establishment of this laboratory marks the official entry of embodied intelligent robotics technology into the core production scenarios of China's steel industry, potentially providing new technological pathways for the intelligent transformation of the sector.
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