At the 2025 World Robot Conference, Zoomlion demonstrated significant progress in integrating robotics with heavy industrial manufacturing. The company is showcasing an evolutionary approach that positions robots as collaborative partners rather than mere replacements for human labor.

Zoomlion’s technological trajectory for the heavy industrial manufacturing robots reveals a thoughtful progression from basic programmable industrial robots in 2006 to today’s sophisticated adaptive systems featuring multimodal perception and AI-driven decision-making capabilities. Of particular note is the operational deployment of over 2,000 adaptive robots at Zoomlion’s Smart Industry City facility, where they enable rapid production line reconfiguration across diverse heavy machinery categories — a capability that addresses modern manufacturing’s need for flexible, customized production at scale.

At this time, Zoomlion’s intelligent manufacturing ecosystem “connects over 1.7 million units of equipment worldwide, spanning 18 categories and more than 600 models, and collects over 30,000 data parameters to create petabyte-scale industrial assets.”

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