On 23 September, Boyin Hefang and FAIR Innovation signed an order for 2,000 humanoid force-controlled arms, a deal that pairs Boyin’s agent software and industrial-scenario know-how with FAIR’s self-made robot hardware.
The two companies described the arm as a key execution end for an agent plus industrial-grade humanoid force-controlled arm combination, where intelligent decision making and robot software meet a physical body built for factory work.
Boyin’s BW10-Lite and BW10 models already use FAIR’s custom humanoid joint modules, which carry seven degrees of freedom and a top joint speed of 180 degrees per second, enough to give the arm a wide range of motion.
The BW10-Lite, fitted with FAIR’s custom module and arm, has already been validated on an automotive-electronics line, where it handled box grasping, palletising, transport and loading and unloading, a real-task proof that embodied intelligence can hold up on the shop floor.
The next step is to widen the scope to handling, loading and unloading, sorting, palletising, quality inspection and patrol across industrial settings.
Boyin itself was incubated by Boyuan Capital, the market-facing investment arm of Bosch, together with Galbot. It builds its own robot body, an industrial vertical model and a software platform, with the aim of letting robots read a task, adapt to change and slot into a production line as one coordinated process. It has already set up a ROBOFAB embodied-intelligence lab with United Automotive Electronics, reached a project with the Bosch Changzhou plant and signed a strategic procurement agreement for close to 2,000 BW10-series units with Sujie Industrial.
FAIR, for its part, makes its core components in house: controllers, encoders, servo drives, harmonic reducers, servo motors and brakes. It now runs more than 50 service outlets across mainland China, Taiwan, North America, Europe, Japan and Korea, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and South America, covering over 100 countries and regions.
For European manufacturers the telling detail is the ownership. A 2,000-unit humanoid-arm order backed by a Bosch-incubated firm shows German industrial capital is not waiting on the sidelines of China’s robotics build-out. The force-controlled arm is the kind of payload-handling tool that automotive and electronics suppliers in Europe are evaluating now, and the race is shifting from demonstrations to signed, repeatable industrial volume.
Editor’s note: This is an adapted translation of the original Gasgoo report. It has been trimmed and restructured for readability for an international business audience. The full original (in Chinese) is at https://www.gasgoo.com/apps/50640d4b55d5cba175fb84f15d679f19/robot/news/70473036-%E5%8D%9A%E9%93%B6%E5%90%88%E5%88%9B%E4%B8%8E%E6%B3%95%E5%A5%A5%E6%9C%BA%E5%99%A8%E4%BA%BA%E7%AD%BE%E7%BD%B22000%E5%8F%B0%E4%BA%BA%E5%BD%A2%E5%8A%9B%E6%8E%A7%E8%87%82%E8%AE%A2%E5%8D%95/.