Yesterday, the 2026 Intelligent Manufacturing and Embodied AI Robotics International Industry Development Conference, along with the International Academic Conference on Robot Applications and Practices, successfully concluded in Wuqing, Tianjin.

ATOMROBOT attended the conference and delivered a keynote speech titled “Technical Exploration and Applications of Embodied AI Humanoid Robots.”

Building an Industrial Ecosystem for Real-World Deployment

Centered on the theme “Focusing on Practical Implementation, Co-creating a New Industrial Chapter,” the conference brought together key industrial resources from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.

During the “Connecting Hundreds of Enterprises · Creating a New Tianjin Chapter” Top 100 Alliance Ceremony, ATOMROBOT, as a representative enterprise in embodied AI, officially joined the iRIC industrial ecosystem, working collaboratively to accelerate the transition of robotics technologies from laboratories to real-world applications under complex working conditions.

Full Product Portfolio and Breakthrough Humanoid Innovation

During the roadshow session, ATOMROBOT presented its comprehensive robot product portfolio, covering three core product lines:

• Full range of Delta parallel robots
• Full range of SCARA robots
• Collaborative palletizing workstations across all payload levels

Leveraging its deep technological expertise, ATOMROBOT has successfully developed the world’s first humanoid robot based on a parallel mechanism.

This robot integrates:

• Human-like force-controlled robotic arms
• High-performance controllers
• Multimodal perception networks

It also pioneers the use of a Stewart parallel mechanism for the waist, combined with autonomous navigation and an omnidirectional mobile base. This design achieves major breakthroughs in motion performance, control precision, and environmental adaptability, opening new pathways for the industrial deployment of humanoid robots.

Rethinking Embodied Intelligence: Execution Matters

In the keynote speech, ATOMROBOT emphasized that while the industry is currently focused on the “brain” and “vision” of humanoid robots, the true realization of embodied intelligence lies not only in what algorithms can understand, but in what the physical system can execute.

Based on this insight, ATOMROBOT has transplanted over a decade of expertise in Delta robots—characterized by high speed, high rigidity, and high precision—into humanoid platforms, launching the world’s first parallel-mechanism humanoid robot: Tianbing-1.

Core Technical Highlights of Tianbing-1

Tianbing-1 addresses the most demanding physical requirements of industrial environments through four key innovations:

1. High-Rigidity Waist Structure

Unlike conventional humanoid robots that rely on serial joints, Tianbing-1 adopts a Stewart 6-DOF parallel mechanism for its waist—widely used in flight simulators and precision machine tools, but applied to humanoid robots for the first time.

Test results show:

• Over 3× increase in structural rigidity
• Significantly improved stability under impact and heavy-load operations

This provides a solid physical foundation for industrial applications.

2. High-Precision Manipulation

Equipped with a high-dynamic-response controller and multimodal perception network, Tianbing-1 achieves deep integration of force and vision.

In demonstrations:

• Precise handling of irregular and flexible objects
• Repeat positioning accuracy of ±0.05 mm, approaching industrial robot standards

This enables its use in precision assembly tasks.

3. Advanced Mobility

With a self-developed omnidirectional mobile base, Tianbing-1 transitions from fixed workstations to full workshop autonomous operation.

In complex production environments:

• Dynamic obstacle avoidance and path planning response within 100 ms
• Improved safety and efficiency in human-robot collaboration

4. Powerful Edge AI Computing

Tianbing-1 is equipped with 170 TOPS edge AI computing power, ensuring:

• Near-zero decision latency
• Microsecond-level jitter control

This provides strong computational redundancy for real-time perception and autonomous decision-making.

Clear Roadmap for Industrial Deployment

ATOMROBOT outlined a pragmatic commercialization strategy:

The key to industrializing humanoid robots lies in aligning technical strengths with suitable application scenarios.

Tianbing-1 will first be deployed in environments that are:

• Structured and standardized
• Task-specific
• Highly demanding in precision and stability

These include:

• University research laboratories
• Chemical laboratories
• Enterprise training and testing facilities
• Data acquisition centers and intelligent server rooms

Such scenarios provide an ideal entry point for accumulating real-world operational data before expanding into more complex industrial environments.

From Technical Feasibility to Economic Viability

With 13 years of experience in industrial automation, ATOMROBOT maintains a clear view of the competitive landscape in embodied AI.

The company believes the industry is shifting from a focus on algorithms (large models, multimodality) to a three-in-one competition of hardware architecture, control algorithms, and scenario data.

The parallel-mechanism approach of Tianbing-1 inherits the core strengths of industrial robots—high rigidity and precision—giving it a natural advantage for industrial deployment.

Looking Ahead

“We believe the true value of humanoid robots will not emerge in lab demos, but on automotive production lines and in high-cleanliness pharmaceutical workshops.”

ATOMROBOT stated that it will leverage Tianjin’s regional advantages and the iRIC ecosystem to continuously refine Tianbing-1 in real industrial environments, collaborating across the supply chain to advance embodied AI from technical feasibility to economic viability.