On 28 September a launch event in Yichang, Hubei unveiled what its maker calls the world’s first embodied-intelligence robot built on a fully domestic electronic architecture. The “intelligent nervous system” of a robot, its electronic architecture sets the ceiling on whole-machine performance and covers the operating system, network, tooling software and AI compute chip.
Kyland’s domestic architecture is built on deterministic computing and deterministic networking. It integrates four technologies into one optimised design: Intewell, a national-grade industrial intelligent operating system with rich international functional-safety certifications; AUTBUS, an international standard for a two-wire broadband industrial bus based on TSN that China led; MaVIEW, a national-grade agent tooling platform; and a fully domestic AI processor chip. The design fuses control and AI inference on one deterministic base, giving a complete option that can replace foreign stacks.
What the domestic stack buys
Against foreign stacks such as Linux or ROS and CAN or EtherCAT, the domestic architecture’s advantages include consolidated industrial protocols, control and AI inference running on one deterministic base, vision-to-control coordination at millisecond level and motion control at microsecond level, deep fusion with industrial agents, and a rebuilt internal security mechanism for the robot. Its direction aligns closely with MIT’s recently proposed physical-AI concept, pushing intelligence from model output toward deterministic physical action.
The National Industrial Information Security Development Research Centre ran validation. Under joint destruction, network attack and virus injection, a traditional-architecture robot showed line failure, instant shutdown and system loss of control, while the Kyland machine passed the harsh safety tests and kept running safely. That demonstrated the domestic architecture’s real-time control, fast response, fault isolation and anti-attack capability.
A ten-year build-up
Kyland began the underlying work in 2016. Intewell carried a national robot operating-system programme, giving unified low-level software to robotics, semiconductors, aerospace and machine tools. AUTBUS became the world’s first two-wire TSN-based industrial bus to reach IEC standard status under China’s lead, solving reliable deterministic communication across many nodes at scale. MaVIEW, a physical-AI actuator platform, shared the World Artificial Intelligence Conference technology award with Siemens’ MindSphere in 2020.
Domestic robotunderlying technology is now forming industrial cohesion. In May 2025 Intewell released a brain-and-body fusion architecture for robots. In April 2026 Kyland joined the Shenzhen Robotics Association, the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Centre and UBTECH to build a domestic-architecture alliance. In September it launched a domestic embodied-robot electronic-architecture coalition with Tsinghua, AgiBot, LimX Dynamics and Moore Threads. From single-component breakthroughs to software-hardware fusion to full-chain ecology, China’s robotunderlying technology has taken a qualitative leap.
The domestic architecture guarantees the robot’s internal safety and industrial-sovereignty security, drawing a rigid safety boundary for autonomous behaviour so it does not break production or threaten people, and letting AI act safely, credibly and controllably in the physical world.
Editor’s note: This is an adapted translation of the original OFweek Robotics report. It has been trimmed and restructured for readability for an international business audience. The full original (in Chinese) is at https://robot.ofweek.com/2026-09/ART-898890-8220-30705461.html.