Industrial Automation & Machinery
Chinese makers compete worldwide in construction machinery (XCMG, SANY, Zoomlion), industrial automation (Inovance), industrial and collaborative robots (Estun, Dobot), machine vision and warehouse robots (Hikrobot, Geek+), and legged and humanoid robots (Unitree, UBTech). Their counterparts include Caterpillar, Komatsu, Liebherr, Siemens, FANUC, ABB, Universal Robots, Cognex and Boston Dynamics. Hikrobot carries notes through its parent Hikvision; check each entry's regulatory section.
Six-axis industrial robots for welding, palletizing, bending, stamping and handling, plus servo systems and motion controllers, including those of UK-based Trio. Founded in Nanjing in 1993.
- Industrial Robots
- Cost-effective
Collaborative robot arms (CRA, Nova and CR series), MG400 desktop and M1 Pro SCARA robots, Magician education arms and the ATOM humanoid. Dobot reports more than 100,000 robots sold in over 100 countries and regions.
- Industrial Robots
- Cost-effective
AC drives (inverters), servo systems, PLCs, HMIs and motion controllers, plus SCARA and six-axis robots, for machine builders and factories. The group also supplies EV powertrain systems.
- Automation & Drives
- Components supplier
- Cost-effective
Industrial area- and line-scan cameras, smart cameras and code readers with VisionMaster software. Also makes latent-lifting, forklift and container-handling mobile robots for factory and warehouse intralogistics. Controlled by Hikvision.
- Machine Vision & Mobile Robots
- Components supplier
- Cost-effective
Goods-to-person warehouse robots: PopPick shelf-to-person and RoboShuttle tote-handling systems. Also sorting robots, autonomous forklifts and warehouse execution software for e-commerce, retail and 3PL fulfilment centres.
- Machine Vision & Mobile Robots
- Global-ready
Truck, crawler and all-terrain cranes, excavators, wheel loaders, road and mining machinery from the highest-ranked Chinese maker in the global construction-equipment league table. Overseas sales were about 48% of 2025 revenue.
- Construction Machinery
- Global-ready
Excavators from mini to large mining class, plus concrete pumps, cranes, piling rigs and loaders. Excavation machinery is its largest product line, and overseas markets made up about 61% of core revenue in H1 2026.
- Construction Machinery
- Global-ready
Tower and mobile cranes, concrete pump trucks and mixing plants, plus excavators, aerial work platforms and agricultural machinery. Overseas markets made up about 57% of revenue in H1 2026.
- Construction Machinery
- Global-ready
Go2 and B2 quadruped robots for research, education and industrial inspection, and G1, H1 and H2 humanoids, plus robot arms, dexterous hands and LiDAR. Sold about 33,300 quadrupeds and 5,600 humanoids in 2023–2025.
- Legged & Humanoid Robots
- Cost-effective
Walker S-series full-size industrial humanoids for material handling, sorting and inspection in car, electronics and logistics plants. Customers include BYD, Geely, FAW-Volkswagen and Foxconn. Also makes Cruzr service and education robots.
- Legged & Humanoid Robots
- Global-ready