Capacity aimed at the Yangtze River Delta
Qingtian Lituo Robot, a unit of Lituo Intelligent, has broken ground on a project that will build a digital factory for smart logistics robots with planned annual output of 5,000 units. The 40 mu site focuses on AGV handling robots, smart warehouse equipment and control software, serving manufacturers across the Yangtze River Delta as they automate. Completion is expected in 2027.
The project owner, Lituo Intelligent, was founded in August 2018 and is a national specialised “little giant” in smart manufacturing and digital transformation. It develops industrial software and smart-manufacturing equipment and supplies integrated solutions to automotive, components, 3C and home-appliance makers. Its partners include Siemens, Fanuc, Yaskawa, KUKA, Hikvision, Schneider, Emerson, Geely, Great Wall, BYD, Midea and Haier.
The company’s robots perform fine processes such as embedding nuts, vision-guided loading and unloading, automatic engine-head tightening and automatic gluing, replacing tedious manual steps and driving full-line automated, standardised production.
What the equipment does
In smart logistics, Lituo’s latent and fork-type AGVs use SLAM laser navigation with fast deployment, self-checks, interface expansion, automatic charging and 360 degree safety, running 24 hours a day. According to Anhui’s development commission, its in-mould monitoring plus full-inspection dual-station AI vision system cut defect rates 30 per cent, quality labour costs 40 per cent and delivery times 20 per cent, while lowering equipment failure rates 22 per cent.
Lituo Intelligent passed 100 million yuan in revenue as early as 2022 with a 14 per cent market share. The new Qingtian site gathers upstream and downstream logistics-robot resources, rounds out the regional smart-equipment chain and amplifies cluster effects.
QYResearch projects the global logistics robot market will reach 32.0 billion US dollars by 2031 at a 20.1 per cent compound annual growth rate. Smart unmanned logistics solves the low efficiency, high cost and inability to run around the clock that plague traditional warehousing, and the fast-growing category keeps favouring well-positioned suppliers.
Editor’s note: This is an adapted translation of the original OFweek 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/2026-08/ART-8321202-8120-30699858.html.