Foreign media: China's Midea Group announced that it will invest 60 billion yuan (about 8.7 billion US dollars) over the next three years to develop artificial intelligence and robotics, focusing on cutting-edge areas such as "embodied intelligence," an amount equivalent to its total investment over the past five years. The company accelerated its layout in the robotics industry after acquiring German robotics giant KUKA in 2017. Last December, it launched the six-armed wheeled humanoid robot Miro U, which has been applied in the washing machine factory in Wuxi and improved the efficiency of line change by 30%.
At the same time, Dong Mingzhu, chairman of Gree Electric Appliances, revealed that its Zhuhai smart factory has deployed more than 2,000 self-developed industrial robots to achieve full digitalization; Li Dongsheng, founder of TCL, stated that the company uses AI and digital twin technology to enable one worker to remotely manage 384 photovoltaic crystal furnaces; Skyworth also announced that it will fully implement its AI home appliance strategy starting this year.
The global robotics industry is about to face multiple catalysts, including the release of a new physical AI model and the Rubin architecture at NVIDIA's GTC 2026 conference next week, as well as Tesla's plan to launch the third-generation Optimus humanoid robot in the second quarter of this year.
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