On August 19, the 2026 World Robot Conference opened in Beijing. At the booth of the Sichuan Humanoid Robot Manufacturing Innovation Center, the CRP biped humanoid robot made its official debut. Standing approximately 1.6 meters tall with a human-like frame and equipped with 31 degrees of freedom, it integrates bipedal locomotion, whole-body coordination, dual-arm manipulation and multi-modal perception capabilities. Deployable in industrial manufacturing, inspection and maintenance, warehousing & logistics, public services and other scenarios, it further extends robots' boundaries of mobility and operation in complex environments.
For CRP, however, the significance of this debut goes far beyond "launching another humanoid robot". From industrial robots to wheeled humanoid robots, and now biped humanoid robots, CRP is addressing a more critical question:
How can embodied intelligence truly be implemented on industrial shop floors?
From "Being Able to Move" to "Understanding Industrial Work"
Modern humanoid robots are increasingly resembling humans in form and locomotion. Yet once deployed in real industrial settings, robots face challenges far more complex than "walking steadily" or "grasping accurately". A genuine industrial task involves extensive process knowledge and experience, including material properties, process parameters, motion paths, production tact time, precision control, safety strategies and fault handling. Robots must not only know what to do, but also master how to do it, and dynamically adjust according to changing environments and tasks. This marks the biggest distinction between industrial scenarios and general-purpose scenarios, and constitutes CRP's core starting point for exploring embodied intelligence.
Instead of developing AI technologies first and then searching for applicable scenarios, CRP builds on more than a decade of practical experience in industrial robotics. It converts long-accumulated expertise in motion control, manufacturing processes, scenario data and industry know-how into the capability foundation for embodied intelligent robots.
To date, CRP has built an industry knowledge base covering over 70 types of application scenarios and more than 2,000 sets of process knowledge. By further integrating visual perception, tactile feedback, motion control and process models, CRP enables robots to form a complete closed loop: environmental perception → task comprehension → motion planning → operation execution → continuous iteration. In other words, CRP's goal is not merely to make robots "smarter", but to enable robots to truly understand industrial work.
Over a Decade of Industrial Know-how: A Core Technical Asset for Embodied Intelligence
Whether embodied intelligence can deliver tangible value ultimately hinges on real-world scenarios. Industry represents one of the most rigorous testing grounds for comprehensive robotic performance.
Take welding, a field where CRP has established deep expertise. Welding imposes stringent requirements on robotic motion control, trajectory planning, dynamic compensation, process stability and long-term reliability. A seemingly simple weld seam relies on abundant experience involving welding parameters, material characteristics, groove geometry, posture control and anomaly handling. In the past, such capabilities were heavily dependent on skilled veteran workers. Today, CRP is digitalizing, modeling and intelligently automating this industrial expertise, allowing robots to execute complex process tasks that once relied largely on manual experience. This underpins CRP's development philosophy for embodied intelligence: rather than building AI before identifying use cases, CRP unlocks new value from its years of industrial accumulation in the AI era. Starting from robot controllers, moving to industrial robot bodies, and expanding into processes, algorithms, software and intelligent functions, CRP's decades of industrial know-how have become vital technical assets for its embodied intelligence development.
Beyond Biped Robots: CRP's Multi-form Embodied Intelligence Layout
At this World Robot Conference, CRP showcased more than just its biped humanoid robot. Targeting diverse industrial tasks and operating spaces, CRP is building a comprehensive matrix of multi-form embodied intelligent robots.
Wheeled Humanoid Robots Prioritizing the combination of mobility efficiency and dual-arm manipulation, suitable for cross-factory transportation, inspection, material handling and flexible operation.
Biped Humanoid Robots Engineered for complex environments such as steps, thresholds, slopes and unstructured passages, expanding robots' capacity to operate within existing human spaces.
Force-controlled Humanoid Manipulators Built for precision operation, flexible handling and human-robot collaboration.
Different forms serve different tasks. CRP does not aim to deploy a single robot model for all use cases. Instead, it identifies the optimal balance among efficiency, cost, intelligence and practical value based on real industrial scenarios. The biped robot is just one new product form. Behind it lies a complete embodied intelligence product portfolio including wheeled robots, biped robots and robotic manipulators.
From Industrial Robots to Embodied Intelligent Robots
CRP began with robot controller development in 2012. Over the past fourteen years, it has focused on core technologies, products and process capabilities for industrial robots. Now, as the robotics industry evolves from "automation" toward "intelligence", this long-term accumulation lays a solid foundation for CRP's advancement into embodied intelligence.
From industrial robots to collaborative robots; From fixed robots to mobile manipulation robots; From wheeled humanoid robots to biped humanoid robots.
Robots are taking on increasingly diverse forms, yet CRP stays committed to one consistent direction: Enabling robots to enter production lines, understand manufacturing workflows and serve production.
Moving forward, CRP will continue to root its development in industrial scenarios, promoting deeper integration of robotic motion control, AI, perception technology, process expertise and real-world applications. CRP strives to ensure embodied intelligence is not merely "human-like in appearance", but fully competent for industrial missions.
Evolving from automation to intelligence, and from industrial robots to embodied intelligent robots. This defines CRP's evolutionary roadmap in robotics.