Shanghai Electric has unveiled a new portfolio of industrial robots and smart factory systems, targeting high-precision tasks in confined manufacturing spaces.

The hardware line-up includes the “SUYUAN” bipedal humanoid robot, which features 41 degrees of freedom and a dual-battery hot-swap system for material handling and assembly. The company also introduced an autonomous pipe-processing robot designed to operate in restricted areas with a positioning accuracy of within 1 millimetre.

Other hardware displayed included the “TUOYUAN” wheeled robot for connector insertion and automotive sheet metal loading, and the “Mermaid” bionic robot, which identifies and operates physical buttons and knobs. The company also presented core mechanical components, such as planetary roller screws that offer triple the load capacity of standard ball screws.

“The true value of embodied intelligence lies in understanding real industrial tasks: combining the strength, precision, and stability of machines with human experience,” said Wang Chunlei, deputy general manager of the Robotics Business Unit at Shanghai Electric Automation Group.

Shanghai Electric also released a technical white paper for “AI-Native” smart factories. The proposed architecture uses a “digital mirror” of physical plants to enable real-time optimisation of production data across 51 different industrial agents.