HANGZHOU — Inside the sprawling welding workshop of Geely's new energy vehicle plant in Yiwu, East China's Zhejiang province, a new industrial scene is taking shape.
Rows of home-grown heavy-payload industrial robots can be seen executing high-speed welding tasks with seamless precision, their mechanical arms dancing amid showers of sparks.
This development amounts to more than just an upgrade on a single assembly line, as it represents a critical breakthrough for China's high-end equipment sector.
For years, automotive body welding was considered the ultimate proving ground for robotic performance — a domain long dominated by foreign manufacturers and largely inaccessible to domestic brands. Now, Chinese-made industrial robots are entering this arena at scale.
Siasun Robot & Automation Co Ltd, based in the city of Shenyang, Liaoning province in Northeast China, a national hub for robot industrialization, spearheaded this shift alongside Geely, one of the country's top automakers.
