Recently, Jia Yonghua, CEO of Hikvision Robotics, revealed in his keynote speech Open Collaboration for a Leap Toward Embodied Intelligent Manufacturing that the company serves over 20,000 customers covering more than 1,000 segmented application scenarios. Its machine vision product shipments have exceeded 10 million units, the number of mobile robots rolling off the production line has surpassed 180,000, and its self-developed industrial software has been licensed to over 600,000 users. This set of impressive figures underscores the company’s profound accumulation and solid strength in the industry.
Meanwhile, drawing on a decade of in-depth industry experience and massive data accumulation, Hikvision Robotics has proposed a brand-new paradigm — Embodied Intelligent Manufacturing. From its perspective, Embodied Intelligent Manufacturing is not merely a single technological upgrade, but an entirely new development paradigm for smart manufacturing. Its core lies in building an intelligent architecture that features both high flexibility and replicability.
Hikvision Robotics aims to enable intelligent devices to truly “be deployable on the workshop floor and capable of replicating value", realize one machine for multiple uses and rapid adaptation to new scenarios, and drive the manufacturing industry to achieve a qualitative leap from automation to full intelligence.
Growing from 10,000 units to 180,000 units today
Backed by Hikvision, Hikvision Robotics was officially founded in 2016, emerging as a highly competitive new force in the robotics market.
Over the past decade, leveraging its accumulated algorithms and software and hardware development capabilities, Hikvision Robotics has built its foundation on core technologies including multi-dimensional perception, artificial intelligence, navigation and control, as well as decision-making and planning. Focusing on the fields of industrial IoT, smart logistics and intelligent manufacturing, it adheres to the core strategy of "Smart Integration, Coordination of Eyes, Hands and Feet". The company comprehensively promotes the in-depth integration of AI with perception, decision-making and execution systems, and continues to deepen its layout and expansion in core businesses such as machine vision (Eyes), mobile robots (Feet), and articulated robots (Hands). In April this year, Hikvision Robotics launched more than 35 annual new products and solutions, covering the three major product lines of machine vision and application scenarios across various industries.
The machine vision business, serving as the "Eyes", marks the starting point of Hikvision Robotics. In 2016, the company launched its first industrial camera, taking its first step in the industry. From 300,000 pixels to 604 million pixels, and from 90 frames per second to exposure control accurate to 0.0002 seconds, continuous technological iteration has enabled it to gradually establish a complete machine vision product system. By 2019, the installed base of Hikvision Robotics industrial cameras had reached 1 million units.
Mobile robots as the "feet" and articulated robots as the "hands" are pivotal for Hikvision Robotics to advance from automation to autonomy.
In 2017, the company not only realized precise workshop-wide material transportation at workstations via transfer robots, but also took the lead in deploying fork-type robots, continuously expanding application boundaries.
In 2019, the installed base of its mobile robots exceeded 10,000 units. Meanwhile, it took the lead in delivering AMR automatic charging station projects and launched omnidirectional fork-type robots.
In 2021, AMR shipments surpassed 30,000 units, serving over 1,500 customers worldwide.
2024 marked another milestone, with the cumulative offline output of all categories of mobile robots exceeding 100,000 units.
According to UK-based firm Interact Analysis, Hikvision Robotics has ranked first globally in mobile robot shipments for three consecutive years.
Today, Hikvision Robotics boasts a comprehensive AMR portfolio ranging from latent robots to fork-type robots, and from bin handling to heavy-load traction. It also offers articulated robots that integrate drive and control with perception capabilities, boosting production flexibility and process intelligence.
These products have achieved full coverage across key sectors including automotive manufacturing, 3C electronics, photovoltaic energy, lithium battery energy storage, e-commerce and retail, 3PL, and healthcare, deeply embedding themselves into the production workflows of various industries.
In 2025, Hikvision Robotics recorded revenue of 6.452 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.82%, with its revenue proportion rising to 6.97%. Meanwhile, its IPO process is advancing in an orderly manner.
Closing Remarks
Morgan Stanley pointed out that China is not only the world’s largest robotics consumer market, but also accounts for 55% of global robot production, making it the core hub of the global robotics industry.
According to customs statistics, China’s robotics industry maintained strong and steady overseas expansion momentum in the first quarter of this year, with accelerated pace in exploring global markets. The total export value of all categorized robots reached 11.32 billion yuan, with products available in 148 countries and regions worldwide, showcasing the strength of Chinese intelligent manufacturing across the globe.
Industrial robots stood out with outstanding export performance, hitting an export value of 3.16 billion yuan, surging 42% year-on-year and fully demonstrating the core competitiveness of China’s robotics sector.
Backed by solid technological strength, a complete industrial chain ecosystem and cost-performance advantages, Chinese robots have now become a standout new business card for China’s foreign trade.
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