Chinese manufacturer Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology says it is expanding the use of artificial intelligence across its products, manufacturing systems, and management processes, as the company advances a broader shift toward digitalized and intelligent industrial operations. The group is combining AI technologies with construction machinery, industrial internet platforms, big data, and cloud computing to create an integrated system that spans research and development, production, sales, service, and supply chain management.
The company’s AI framework is structured around applications in construction machinery, intelligent manufacturing, enterprise management, and embodied-intelligence robotics. At its Smart City industrial complex in Changsha, Zoomlion operates 12 smart factories and more than 300 intelligent production lines, including automated lights-out lines. Manufacturing processes such as cutting, welding, machining, painting, and assembly are connected through an industrial internet platform, enabling centralized management of more than 100,000 types of materials and the production of over 400 product models.
AI-based scheduling and optimization systems are used to coordinate multi-variety, small-batch manufacturing across the site. According to the company, current production cycles include one excavator every six minutes, one scissor lift every 7.5 minutes, one concrete pump truck every 27 minutes, and one truck crane every 18 minutes. AI tools are also applied to customer service, where a voice-based diagnostic system is used to support remote fault identification and around-the-clock technical assistance.
In parallel, Zoomlion has expanded into embodied-intelligence robotics, including humanoid robots designed for industrial environments. These robots are deployed in factory logistics, loading and unloading, pre-assembly, and quality inspection tasks. The company supports development through a dedicated training environment with more than 100 workstations and industrial datasets intended to accelerate human-robot collaboration and iterative improvement.
All humanoid and industrial robots developed by Zoomlion are connected to the Zhongke Yungu Embodied Intelligence Platform, which integrates data collection, model training, simulation, and over-the-air deployment. The platform operates on computing resources provided by a national supercomputing center, combining high-capacity GPU computing with a distributed network architecture.
Beyond humanoid systems, Zoomlion is developing specialized robots for applications including firefighting, landscaping, construction, and agriculture. The company is aligning these efforts with its broader strategy to integrate hardware, AI models, and operational environments, positioning robotics and embodied intelligence as a longer-term area of business expansion.
