On September 16, the Beijing-Hebei Robotics Industry Shared Manufacturing Docking Conference was held in Beijing. With the theme of "Building Industrial Ecology and Deepening Industrial Collaboration," the conference aimed to promote resource sharing, capacity collaboration, and innovation integration in the robotics industry across the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, facilitating high-quality development of regional manufacturing. Over 150 participants attended, including experts from Beijing universities and research institutions, along with enterprise representatives, with 11 projects reaching preliminary cooperation agreements.
During the conference, Tangshan High-tech Zone presented the current development status of its local robotics industry. The zone houses over 200 robotics-related enterprises, accounting for approximately 60% of the province's total, forming an industrial cluster led by industrial robots, highlighted by special-purpose robots, and characterized by service robots. It has become the primary carrier for robotics industry chain development within the "six chains and five clusters" of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development.
In the case-sharing session, enterprise representatives from Tangshan Baichuan Robot Shared Manufacturing Factory, CITIC Heavy Industries Kaicheng Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd., Tangshan Yate Special Vehicle Co., Ltd., and Tangshan Siwei Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. shared insights on robotics shared manufacturing platform construction, testing and inspection capabilities, and intelligent manufacturing empowerment of traditional industries. The Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Computing Technology and Beijing Peitien Technology Co., Ltd. engaged in discussions with participating enterprises from the perspectives of technological achievement transformation and manufacturing capacity requirements.
"Tangshan has a solid industrial foundation, forming an industrial system covering nearly 40 major categories including steel. The significant space for industrial transformation and upgrading provides a broad stage for technological achievement transformation and product application," said Qi Yuliang, Project Director of Beijing Peitien Technology Co., Ltd. The company plans to strengthen cooperation with Tangshan enterprises to jointly enrich robotics application scenarios in the Beijing-Hebei region.
"Rich scientific and technological resources are Beijing's inherent advantage. The transformation of traditional industries and the growth of emerging industries in Hebei Province, particularly in Tangshan, cannot be separated from AI empowerment," said Tang Peng, Ecosystem Cooperation Director of Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence. The institute will leverage its technological advantages in core areas such as general intelligent agents, multimodal cognition, and autonomous task planning, combined with Tangshan's shared factory capabilities in non-standard manufacturing, pilot-scale transformation, and industrial chain support, to jointly build a complete "embodied intelligence R&D-transformation-manufacturing" ecosystem, helping traditional robots leap toward embodied intelligent agents with autonomous cognition and multi-task collaboration capabilities.
A relevant official from Tangshan High-tech Zone stated that the zone will use this docking conference as an opportunity to continuously deepen connections with Beijing's scientific and technological resources, accelerate "dual-direction enclave" construction, and encourage domain enterprises to build "innovation enclaves" in Beijing to further enhance independent innovation capabilities. The zone will uphold benefit-sharing principles and support Beijing in establishing "manufacturing enclaves" in Tangshan High-tech Zone, accelerating the realization of "Beijing creativity, Tangshan transformation" to jointly accelerate robotics industry development.
Leaders from Beijing's Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology and Hebei Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology participated in the docking conference. Both sides reached consensus on leveraging their respective comparative advantages, fully utilizing market mechanisms, and accelerating the formation of a reasonably divided robotics industry ecosystem, while discussing further in-depth cooperation.