Shandong is popping off in embodied AI

As artificial intelligence and robotics accelerate from laboratories to the industrial frontline, embodied intelligence is becoming an important track for Shandong to develop new quality productive forces.

In the first half of 2026, the province's robot industry generated 2.4 billion yuan in revenue, up 45.5% year on year; industrial robot output rose 72.1%, 44 percentage points higher than the national average.

The Shandong Provincial Government Work Report proposed that in 2026, it will strive to push the scale of the robot and intelligent equipment industry past 200 billion yuan, strengthen the four major robot industry bases in Jinan, Qingdao, Zibo, and Jining, and build a system of embodied intelligence robot training grounds.

In Qingdao, some embodied intelligence enterprises are accelerating the development of Shandong's embodied intelligence companies through innovative practices, gathering a transformative force that moves from the laboratory to industrial implementation and serves people's livelihoods.

Guohua Intel：

hard power in robot mass production

In the 60,000-square-meter production workshop of the Embodied Intelligence Industrial Park of Guohua (Qingdao) Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd., humanoid robots stand in neat rows, while workers methodically carry out assembly, debugging, and inspection. "The company has now achieved an annual production capacity of 100000 harmonic reducers, 50000 rotary joints, and 10000 humanoid robot bodies, giving it comprehensive strength in the large-scale production of core components and complete humanoid robots," said Liu Teng, director of the Intelligent Equipment Department at Guohua Intelligent Technology R&D Center.

As a high-tech enterprise focused on the R&D, manufacturing, and sales of core components and complete robot bodies for humanoid robots and embodied intelligence, Guohua Intelligent has achieved full-stack in-house R&D and production from key components to complete-machine hardware. It became the first private enterprise in the industry to enter the aerospace system and has established strategic partnerships with more than 100 leading customers, including Haier, Hisense, JD.com, LandSpace, Atomrobot, and Qinfeng Robotics.

Leveraging its advantages in full-stack in-house R&D and large-scale production, Guohua Intelligent has greatly reduced production costs, bringing harmonic rotary joint modules down to the thousand-yuan level and robotic arms to the ten-thousand-yuan level, significantly lowering the threshold for innovation in the industry. At the same time, through modularization and pre-integration technologies, it has greatly shortened the development cycle for complete machines and accelerated the industrialization process of the industry.

Behind this technological accumulation is strong R&D strength. At present, Guohua Intelligent has built an R&D team in which more than 50% of members hold doctoral or master's degrees. It has applied for more than 100 patents in core technology fields and more than 50 software copyrights, and has deeply participated in the formulation of multiple national and industry association standards, continuously contributing Shandong technical solutions.

Kangdao Med：

AI empowers health and wellness

Kangdao (Qingdao) Medical Technology Co., Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Shandong Zepu Medical Technology Co., Ltd. As a national high-tech enterprise deeply engaged in the frontier field of rehabilitation, Kangdao Medical focuses on the R&D and production of intelligent rehabilitation equipment and the delivery of precision rehabilitation solutions. It has built a full-industry-chain layout integrating R&D, registration, production, sales, and service, helping China's rehabilitation medical industry transform toward intelligent, digital, and high-end development.

High-end AI rehabilitation equipment, brain-computer interaction rehabilitation equipment, upper- and lower-limb active-passive rehabilitation equipment, professional physiotherapy equipment, and other products cover rehabilitation needs across the full life cycle. Whether patients with neurological damage rely on brain-computer interaction devices to rebuild sensory perception, or people with limb disabilities complete standardized rehabilitation training through active-passive devices, they can achieve precise, efficient, and scientific rehabilitation with the help of intelligent equipment.

At the same time, relying on a 5G cloud platform, all products can achieve interconnection, data sharing, and intelligent linkage, building a complete digital intelligent rehabilitation service system.

From single-device R&D to full-chain rehabilitation solution delivery, Kangdao Medical takes AI embodied intelligence technology as its core, connecting the full scenarios of device terminals, rehabilitation data, and user services, injecting new momentum into the high-quality development of Shandong's big health industry.

From Qingdao to Shandong：

embodied AI is popping off

From Guohua Intelligent using full-stack in-house R&D to solidify the foundation of high-end manufacturing, to Kangdao Medical using AI robot technology to protect people's health, the two Qingdao enterprises have enriched the application scenarios of Shandong's AI industry from different dimensions.

Looking at other cities in Shandong, innovative practices are equally full of highlights: Jining Rokae Robotics' flexible collaborative robots have long ranked among the top in China by market share, and it has launched core embodied intelligence products such as humanoid force-controlled arms; Rizhao Chuangze intelligent robots can be applied in government affairs, healthcare, education, and many other scenarios; Weifang Jingke Intelligent focuses on flexible manufacturing scenarios with industrial-grade embodied intelligent robots, maintaining R&D investment intensity above 10%.

Relying on a solid manufacturing foundation, rich application scenarios, and broad market space, Shandong is promoting the deep integration of embodied intelligence with high-end manufacturing, medical care and wellness, public services, and other fields, accelerating the formation of a coordinated development pattern from core components and mass production of complete machines to scenario applications and industrial ecosystems.