The industry standard for embodied intelligent engineering robots has been initiated in Chengdu.

Sichuan Online reporter Xue Weirui

On March 24, the “Centrally-led and Locally-built Embodied Intelligence Engineering Robot Innovation Center” was officially unveiled and established in Jinjiang District, Chengdu. The center is jointly developed by PowerChina and the Chengdu Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center. It is an important practice of centrally-local cooperation and adapting to local conditions to develop new-quality productive forces.

PowerChina has major engineering scenario resources, while the Chengdu Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center has leading advantages in technological research and industrial layout. By integrating the scenario capabilities of central SOEs and local R&D strengths, both sides aim to provide technical solutions for high-risk, high-difficulty tasks in major engineering construction, and to move embodied intelligence from the laboratory to the main battlefields of engineering.

At the meeting, three flagship progress updates were released in a concentrated manner.

First, the drafting and formulation of China’s first industry standard for embodied intelligence engineering robots was launched. The standard is jointly initiated by the Chengdu Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center together with leading companies across the industrial chain, including PowerChina, China Railway Group, Sichuan Shui Fa, and Shu Dao Group, among others. It establishes unified guidelines for product technical evaluation, safety specifications, and large-scale applications.

Second, an embodied intelligence engineering robot multimodal large model was released. The model has capabilities for multi-robot collaborative coordination, multi-source data analysis, and autonomous intelligent decision-making. It can provide support from the core “brain” for multi-robot cluster operations at engineering sites, enabling a leap from perception intelligence to system decision intelligence.

Third, an initiative to establish a centrally-owned and state-owned enterprises embodied intelligence industry alliance was launched. The alliance brings together common engineering demands and real-world scenarios, drives upstream and downstream collaboration in the industrial chain on joint R&D, and forms a closed-loop ecosystem of “national strategic plan—industrial coordination—scenario deployment.”

On the same day, the market-oriented operating entity jointly funded and established by PowerChina, the Chengdu Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center, Chengdu Jinjiang Development Group, and others—Zhicheng RuiJing Robotics Technology (Chengdu) Co., Ltd.—was officially unveiled. With this, the Chengdu Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center has moved from a “technology source” to “entity operations,” providing a market-based platform for large-scale application of technological achievements in embodied intelligence engineering robots.

Currently, Chengdu lists artificial intelligence as the “number one” among 17 key industrial chains citywide. In 2025, the number of enterprises clustered in Chengdu’s artificial intelligence and robotics industries exceeds 1,200, and the core industrial scale exceeds 150 billion yuan, up more than 39%. The intelligent robotics industry cluster was selected as a national distinctive SME industrial cluster. There are 76 provincial-level or above innovation platforms related to artificial intelligence, and 46 entities participate in the formulation of national-level AI standards.

A relevant person in charge from the Chengdu Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, Chengdu New Economy Commission, stated that next, Chengdu will continue to deepen centrally-local cooperation, pool the advantages of resources from central SOEs, universities and research institutes, and local industrial-chain enterprises, promote large-scale applications of new technologies and new products in embodied intelligence in major engineering fields, and speed up the construction of a national advanced manufacturing base.

A wealth of information and precise interpretation—available on the Sina Finance app