en.Wedoany.com Reported - The "Intelligent Robot General Technology Base Training Laboratory," jointly built by EFORT Qizhi Robotics and the School of Mechatronics Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), was officially inaugurated on July 11 at Building 8 of HIT's School of Mechatronics Engineering. This laboratory is the first full-stack industrial-level robot underlying technology training platform in Chinese universities, marking the official integration of Qizhi's fully self-developed general technology base into higher education talent cultivation. In the future, it will enhance students' engineering practice capabilities while cultivating more developers of general base technology assets, ushering in a new phase of industry-education collaboration in domestically controlled robot technology.
At the unveiling ceremony, Zhao Jingdong, Party Secretary of HIT's School of Mechatronics Engineering; Han Zhenyu, Vice Dean; Zhu Yanhe, Deputy Director of HIT's State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems; You Wei, Chairman of EFORT and Founder of Qizhi Robotics; along with technical teams and faculty-student representatives from both sides, attended and witnessed the event.
Dr. You Wei, an alumnus of HIT's School of Mechatronics Engineering (Class of 2002), led the team back. In his speech, Zhao Jingdong noted that this joint laboratory combines the company's engineering practice experience with the school's research and teaching strengths, serving as an important practice to meet national strategic needs.
Currently, the traditional industrial robot industry faces challenges due to the non-standard and fragmented nature of general manufacturing scenarios. Traditional teaching and pre-programmed development models struggle to meet market demands, limiting industry penetration growth. Supported by the National Science and Technology Major Project, EFORT and Qizhi Robotics have built a fully self-controlled "Intelligent Robot General Technology Base." The newly established training laboratory marks the first systematic implementation of this technology base in a university setting, integrating the HumanGPT/RobotGPT series of vertical large models, the Dayan multimodal data governance platform, the Modou IDE low-code integrated development environment, and the Openmind OS robot operating system. The laboratory fully opens underlying interfaces, enabling students to master the full-stack technical chain from data collection and algorithm training to system scheduling. Through training projects such as force control interaction, visual servoing, and dual-arm collaboration, it bridges the gap between theoretical teaching and engineering application.
For the industry, this laboratory holds strategic significance on multiple levels. First, through curriculum integration, internship base construction, and developer competitions, EFORT can intervene early in talent cultivation, lowering the barrier to application development based on the "Qizhi Base." Second, leveraging HIT's research capabilities, both parties will conduct joint research in areas such as high-precision motion control and intelligent perception and decision-making. The laboratory will serve as a verification platform for national-level project outcomes, accelerating the maturity and optimization of core algorithms. Third, by outputting a complete base including operating systems, development toolchains, and data standards, EFORT is promoting the formation of industry interface standards and development paradigm consensus.
At the unveiling ceremony, You Wei stated that the training laboratory aims to free students from single simulations, allowing them to engage in hands-on projects such as force control, visual grasping, and dual-arm collaboration, thereby deeply understanding the underlying logic of robots. This transformation in teaching paradigms will introduce real industrial-grade application scenarios, shifting the teaching model from theoretical simulation to engineering practice. Amid the accelerated development of the embodied intelligence industry, Qizhi is leveraging its general technology base to open up ecosystem empowerment for the industry while simultaneously opening up capabilities for education to cultivate technical talent, creating a pathway from talent cultivation to industrial implementation.
