When manufacturing competition moved from single devices to full-chain coordination, Bangqi set its core strategy as building the smart-system capability of the entire factory. On a self-developed industrial vertical AI model, it uses its LDS production-coordination system and ADS multi-brand scheduling system as the base, while building its own AGV, AMR and embodied robots, pushing plants from local automation toward global autonomous decisions.
Wu Xiaoqian, Bangqi’s founder and chair, says the firm decided from day one not to be a pure robot company. In 2013, when local AGV firms were racing hardware specs, she saw the deadlier problem: MES, WMS and ERP systems all spoke different languages, and a dozen AGV brands each ran their own scheduler, with humans breaking deadlocks when they collided.
The root issue was never weak hardware. It was systems that were not connected. So Bangqi built around the underlying logic of smart manufacturing, not around boxes.
Its three technology fronts, AGV and AMR, embodied intelligence and industrial AI agents, form one loop around brain, execution and coordination that Wu calls ‘one body, two wings’. The industrial AI agent is the digital brain, owning global perception, decisions and optimisation. Embodied intelligence is one wing, turning robots from tools into adaptive limbs. AGV and AMR are the other wing, the legs that handle mixed-brand scheduling and end-to-end logistics.
Bangqi’s clients include CATL, EVE Energy, Guoxuan, Sunwoda, Guangzhou Pharmaceutical, SF Express and DHL, close to a hundred leading firms, with more than 2,000 projects delivered across China, North America, Europe and Southeast Asia.
Its Hefei production base is about to open, deepening local delivery across the Yangtze River Delta. The goal Wu states plainly: let factories worldwide run with no humans in the loop.
Editor’s note: This is an adapted translation of the original OFweek interview. It has been trimmed and restructured for readability for an international business audience. Source: OFweek.