In the modern factory building of Ningde Times Zhongzhou Base, the humanoid robot "Xiaomo" is flexibly completing complex tasks such as battery connector insertion. This intelligent robot, equipped with an advanced end-to-end visual language action (VLA) model, is currently on the world's first new energy power battery PACK production line to achieve large-scale landing of humanoid embodied intelligent robots, writing a new chapter in intelligent manufacturing.  

Cracking the Difficulty of Flexible Production

The EOL and DCR processes replaced by "Xiao Mo" are the final functional testing stages before the battery pack is taken offline. Due to its characteristics of "multiple varieties, small batches, and high flexibility", this process has long relied on manual operation. Workers need to accurately plug the test plug with hundreds of volts of high voltage into the designated position of the battery pack, which not only poses a risk of high-voltage ignition, but also has issues such as unstable efficiency and quality.  

The introduction of 'Xiao Mo' completely changed this situation. It is equipped with advanced end-to-end visual language action models, with strong environmental perception and task generalization capabilities: it can autonomously cope with uncertainties such as incoming material position deviation and changes in insertion points, and adjust operational posture in real time; When inserting and removing flexible wiring harnesses, the force can be dynamically adjusted to ensure reliable connection without damaging components. In actual operation, the success rate of its insertion is stable at over 99%, and the work pace has reached the level of skilled workers.

Double improvement of efficiency and quality

According to Qianxun Intelligence, in the face of continuous production tasks of multiple types of batteries, the daily workload of "Xiaomo" has tripled, and its consistency and stability performance are excellent. Nowadays, "Xiaomo" can not only independently detect the connection status of the wiring harness, report any abnormalities in a timely manner, effectively reduce the defect rate, but also actively switch to inspection mode during work intervals.  

This landing not only solves the flexible production problem of the power battery PACK line, but also verifies the core value of embodied intelligence in the industrial field, that is, embodied intelligent robots with "human like" perception and decision-making ability, make up for the shortcomings of traditional automation in uncertain scenarios. For the new energy industry, this means higher consistency, lower safety risks, and stronger capacity flexibility; For the artificial intelligence industry, this is a crucial step for embodied intelligence models to move from "laboratory demonstrations" to "industrial necessities".  

Deep integration of capital and industry

Qianxun Intelligence was founded by Han Fengtao, former CTO of Luoshi Robotics, and was established in February 2024. In less than a year, Qianxun Intelligent has completed three rounds of financing in a row. According to Tianyancha, in November 2024, Bairui Capital, founded by CATL, made an angel round investment in the research and development company "Qianxun Intelligence" for embodied intelligent robots. This year, Qianxun Intelligence has disclosed two rounds of financing, with a total amount exceeding 1.1 billion yuan.  

According to reports, Qianxun Intelligence revealed that the company began commercialization in the fourth quarter of this year, with current orders worth tens of millions of yuan. It is expected that the revenue will exceed 100 million next year, and the shipment volume will reach several hundred units. Next year, Qianxun Intelligence will vigorously invest in data collection, planning to achieve high-quality data collection or procurement of 1 million hours of real machines, and promote the model to become the first in China and the third in the world. Keywords: New Infrastructure News, Energy News

Xiaomo "is developed by CATL's ecological enterprise Qianxun Intelligent Robot Company and is equipped with CATL's self-developed battery. This innovative practice not only demonstrates China's leading strength in the field of embodied intelligence, but also provides a Chinese solution for the intelligent upgrading of the global manufacturing industry.Editor/Yang Meiling