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On October 27, 2026, the Joint Laboratory for Industrial Embodied AI Welding and Inspection Technology was officially unveiled.

On October 27, 2026, the "Joint Laboratory for Industrial Embodied-Intelligence Welding and Inspection Technology" was officially inaugurated. On October 27, 2026, the Joint Laboratory for Industrial Embodied-Intelligence Welding and Inspection Technology, jointly established by the National Steel Structure Quality Inspection and Testing Center of Central Research Institute of Building and Construction Co., Ltd. (CRIBC) and Beijing Xiaoyu Zhizao Technology Co., Ltd., was officially unveiled. Zeng Bin, president of the China Steel Construction Society and chief scientist of China Minmetals Corporation; Wang Haitao, Party Secretary and General Manager of CRIBC; Liu Dong, Party Secretary and Chairman of MCC Inspection & Certification Co., Ltd.; and Qiao Zhongliang, founder and CEO of Xiaoyu Zhizao, jointly unveiled the laboratory. At the ceremony, Qiao Zhongliang delivered a speech, and together with Liu Dong presented letters of appointment as expert committee members to Zhou Shuchun, head coach of the Chinese national team for the WorldSkills Competition welding event, and Zhao Qiansen, gold medalist in welding at the 48th WorldSkills Competition, and he also revealed the company's first customer case. "Embodied intelligence is developing rapidly, but precisely at a moment like this, we must hold the line on quality," Qiao Zhongliang said in his speech. Welding is not an ordinary process step; every weld seam bears on engineering safety and human lives. Robots can weld seams faster, but if quality fails, the higher the efficiency, the greater the risk. The National Steel Structure Quality Inspection and Testing Center of CRIBC is China's only national-level quality inspection center in the steel structure field. Its welding team has led the compilation of more than 100 standards, including the Code for Welding of Steel Structures, and trained the winner of China's first WorldSkills welding gold medal. Qiao Zhongliang admitted that working alongside such a "national team" means doing something rarely seen in the industry: fully connecting the process R&D of intelligent equipment with authoritative national-level quality verification on one and the same platform. "From now on, embodied welding must not only raise efficiency but also take quality to the next level — every weld seam must be inspectable, traceable, and able to withstand measurement by the most rigorous yardstick." Qiao Zhongliang revealed that just on October 26, Xiaoyu Zhizao had announced its first customer case: in one workshop of the long-established state-owned enterprise Beipao Light Steel, 12 Xiaoyu Future Robots had already entered daily operation. According to data from August 2026, the workshop's monthly capacity had increased 30% compared with before the retrofit, overall cost had dropped 49% under the same welding-quality conditions, and each machine was producing about 90 meters of equivalent flat fillet welds per day. "The new-quality productive forces brought by embodied intelligence is no longer a proposition awaiting proof — it is a fact that has already happened," he said, adding that embodied intelligence entering factories takes over dangerous, arduous, and repetitive work, putting people in a position of greater dignity. At the inauguration ceremony, Zhou Shuchun, head coach of the Chinese national team for the WorldSkills Competition welding event, and Zhao Qiansen, gold medalist in welding at the 48th WorldSkills Competition, were appointed expert committee members of the laboratory. Zhou Shuchun, who has coached champions across four WorldSkills competitions, said: "The craftsman's heart does not change; what changes are the tools in hand. Chinese welders weld the world — the next generation of welders will weld the world again, this time with Chinese robots." In September this year, Zhao Qiansen won gold at the 48th WorldSkills Competition held in Shanghai with the highest score in WorldSkills history, bringing China its fourth WorldSkills gold in the welding event. The newly crowned gold medalist said: "Our predecessors passed the baton into our hands; we must carry it forward and win the gold medal of welding craftsmanship in the embodied era." Qiao Zhongliang said that Xiaoyu Zhizao invited master craftsmen to join in order to distill craftsmanship, skill, and experience into an inheritable process foundation, and then rely on the laboratory to cultivate a new generation of welders who understand both the craft and AI. "What this laboratory connects is decades of deep accumulation in Chinese welding craftsmanship and the surging future of artificial intelligence." Public information shows that Xiaoyu Zhizao was founded in 2023 and is dedicated to building a "one brain, many bodies" general-purpose robot brain and industrial application products, with the vision of becoming a world-leading general intelligent robot platform, making intelligent labor a piece of infrastructure that everyone can access and that is everywhere. In July 2026, the company released its first product, the Xiaoyu Future Robot, equipped with an NVIDIA Orin computing platform and a Mech-Mind 3D camera, achieving absolute positioning accuracy of 0.5 mm and enabling "weld with one stroke," teach-free operation through its self-developed spatial positioning pen. The establishment of the Joint Laboratory for Industrial Embodied-Intelligence Welding and Inspection Technology marks the deep integration of authoritative national-level testing capabilities with cutting-edge industrial embodied-intelligence technology. The laboratory will take national steel structure testing standards as its rigid yardstick, carrying out welding process development, sample inspection, and performance verification for embodied-intelligent robots, while cultivating versatile intelligent-welding talent for the steel structure industry, so that embodied-intelligent welding is truly safe, stable, precise, reliable, and inspectable throughout the entire process, contributing to the intelligent upgrading of China's steel structure industry and to the development of new-quality productive forces. This also means that, from data validation on customer workshop production lines to standard-setting on a national-level testing platform, industrial embodied-intelligence welding is completing the critical leap from "cutting-edge technology concept" to "industrial-grade infrastructure."

2026年10月27日，“工业具身智能焊接与检测技术联合实验室”正式揭牌成立。

2026年10月27日，由中冶建筑研究总院有限公司国家钢结构质量检验检测中心与北京小雨智造科技有限公司共建的“工业具身智能焊接与检测技术联合实验室”正式揭牌成立。中国钢结构协会会长、中国五矿集团首席科学家曾滨，中冶建筑研究总院有限公司党委书记、总经理王海涛，中冶检测认证有限公司党委书记、董事长刘冬，小雨智造创始人、CEO乔忠良共同为实验室揭牌。仪式上，乔忠良发表致辞，并与刘冬共同向世界技能大赛焊接项目中国国家队总教练周树春、第48届世界技能大赛焊接项目金牌获得者赵钱森颁发了实验室专家委员聘书，并透露了公司的首个客户案例。

“具身智能发展迅速，但越是在这样的时刻，越需要守住质量这条底线。”乔忠良在致辞中表示，焊接不是一道普通的工序，每一道焊缝都关系着工程安全和人的生命。机器人可以把焊缝焊得更快，但如果质量不过关，效率越高，风险就越大。中冶建筑研究总院有限公司国家钢结构质量检验检测中心是我国钢结构领域唯一的国家级质检中心，其焊接团队主编《钢结构焊接规范》等百余项标准，培养出中国首枚世赛焊接金牌得主。乔忠良坦言，与这样的“国家队”同行，就是要做一件行业里少有的事：把智能装备的工艺研发，与国家级权威质量验证，在同一个平台上彻底打通。“从今往后，具身焊接不仅要提升效率，质量也要更上一层楼——每一道焊缝，都要可检验、可溯源，经得起最严苛标尺的丈量。”

乔忠良透露，就在10月26日，小雨智造公布了首个客户案例：在老牌国企北泡轻钢的一个车间里，12台小雨未来机器人已经进入日常作业。按2026年8月的数据，该车间月产能较改造前提升30%，同等焊接质量条件下综合成本降低49%，单机日均产出约90米等效平角焊缝。“具身智能带来的新质生产力，不再是一个待论证的命题，而是一个已经发生的事实。”他进一步表示，具身智能进工厂，接过了危险、艰苦、重复的工作，让人站到了更有尊严的位置上。

成立仪式上，世界技能大赛焊接项目中国国家队总教练周树春、第48届世界技能大赛焊接项目金牌获得者赵钱森受聘为实验室专家委员。带出四届世赛冠军的周树春表示：“匠心不变，变的是手里的工具。中国焊工焊接世界，下一代焊工，要带着中国的机器人再去焊一次世界。”今年9月，赵钱森在上海举办的第48届世界技能大赛上以世赛有史以来最高分一举夺金，为中国捧回世赛焊接项目第4金。这位新科金牌获得者则表示：“前辈把接力棒传到我们手上，我们要发扬光大，拿下具身时代焊接技艺的金牌。”乔忠良表示，小雨智造邀请大国工匠加盟，是要让匠心、技艺和经验，沉淀为可传承的工艺基座，再依托实验室培养新一代既懂工艺、更懂AI的焊工。“实验室连接的，是中国焊接工艺几十年的深厚积淀，与人工智能的澎湃未来。”

公开资料表明，小雨智造成立于2023年，致力于打造“一脑多形”的通用机器人大脑及工业应用产品，愿景是成为全球领先的通用智能机器人平台，让智能劳动力成为基础设施，人人可享、无处不在。2026年7月，公司发布首个产品小雨未来机器人，搭载英伟达Orin算力平台与梅卡曼德3D相机，绝对定位精度做到0.5毫米，通过自研的空间定位笔实现“一划即焊”、免示教操作。

工业具身智能焊接与检测技术联合实验室的成立，标志着国家级权威检测能力与工业具身智能前沿技术的深度融合。实验室将以钢结构国家级检测标准为刚性标尺，开展具身智能机器人焊接工艺开发、试样检测与性能验证，同时面向钢结构行业培养智能焊接复合型人才，让具身智能焊接真正做到安全、稳定、精准、可靠和全程可检验，为中国钢结构行业的智能化升级、为发展新质生产力贡献力量。这也意味着从客户车间产线的数据验证，到国家级检测平台的标准筑基，工业具身智能焊接正在完成从“前沿技术概念”到“工业级基础设施”的关键一跃。