Inside a palm-sized module sits a chip rated at 560 TOPS, integrating large-model inference, multimodal perception and real-time motion control. That is the flagship Sunrise S600 from Digua Robotics, and it is the computing core the company wants every robot to grow from.
“We do not build robots, but we want all robots to grow out of our products,” Hu Chunxu, vice president of the developer ecosystem, told Shenzhen Economic Daily, describing Digua’s place at the very top of the embodied-AI supply chain: a computing platform of chip, software and adaptation tools that lets robots handle complex tasks intelligently.
The S600 is purpose-built for humanoids, designed to carry larger models and stronger algorithms. The brain compute unit, the company’s core chip-design technology, accelerates the underlying neural-network operators while holding stability and precision. As humanoid makers accelerate mass production, Digua’s orders have grown exponentially. The firm works with more than 20 Chinese embodied-AI companies and explores production scenarios with Shenzhen names including UBTECH, Zhongqing and Leju. Its chips already ship to over 60 countries, and it has a supply agreement with Sweden’s Husqvarna, the global lawn-equipment leader.
As an upstream leader, Digua’s pace tracks its environment. Hu argues only Shenzhen offers the edge: more than 60 customers within a five kilometre radius, and an idea-to-prototype cycle of just days. In the Greater Bay Area, he says, what wins firms over is the scene itself. Open real-world settings let robots gather data in factories and homes and feed it back into models.
That scene-feeding loop is why self-developed core chips matter. Globally, only a handful of companies can supply high-compute chips for humanoids. Controllable silicon is not just a supply-chain question, it sets the ceiling of what China’s robot industry can do, because a large model running on domestic chips is what keeps the core technology in its own hands.
From one chip to one ecosystem, from the national market to the world, Digua is fitting more robot brains with its silicon. “We hope to set the standards for chips, software, safety and production quality with more partners, and build a complete industrial ecosystem so the steps toward mass production go further and steadier,” Hu said.
Editor’s note: This is an adapted translation of the original Shenzhen Economic Daily report. It has been trimmed and restructured for readability for an international business audience. The full original (in Chinese) is at https://sztqb.sznews.com/PC/content/202610/20/content_3485357.html.