In mid-August, Zhongjian Technology faced a proposed 3.9 million yuan fine for fabricating a signing event with Huawei’s embodied-intelligence centre and for false disclosure, dragging it into controversy.
Amid the storm, the veteran garden-equipment maker has not slowed its robotics expansion. Recently Zhongjian and its subsidiary Shanghai Huazhijian signed an intelligent-robotics industrialisation project agreement with the Yongkang city government. Shanghai Huazhijian will set up a project entity in Yongkang with total planned investment of 1.2 billion yuan, building a national smart-manufacturing headquarters, a global sales headquarters, a post-doctoral workstation and a robotics training ground.
Shanghai Huazhijian was founded in August 2025 to carry Zhongjian’s embodied-intelligence mission. It is not yet profitable: 2025 revenue was 126,549 yuan with an 11.30 million yuan net loss, and first-half 2026 revenue was zero with a 56.56 million yuan net loss, a pure research-and-development burn.
At the World Robot Conference 2026, Shanghai Huazhijian unveiled its concept humanoid ZERO, an early attempt at general-purpose humanoid technology and consumer use.
Alongside the Yongkang deal, Zhongjian said Shanghai Huazhijian introduced external investors in a capital increase. Yongkang Puhua Huajian, Guangdong Haomei New Materials, Suzhou Zhuoyu Electric, Hainan Runze and Sanya Shenguang together invested 300 million yuan for 4.6667 million new shares at 64.29 yuan each, implying a pre-money valuation of 4.5 billion yuan. After the increase Zhongjian holds 53.17 per cent and keeps control.
Zhongjian has built a multi-subsidiary robotics ecosystem: Zhongjian Gaoke for lawn robots, Jiangsu Jianmi for quadrupeds and Zhongjian Zhike for joint modules. Its GOATBOT lawn robot covers yards from 300 to 30,000 square metres with RTK plus VSLAM and 3D LiDAR plus vision options. its Lingrui P1 quadruped runs above 6 metres per second, clears 40 centimetre obstacles and climbs 25 centimetre steps, and joined a Jiangsu fire-rescue drill in the first half.
To push the robotics pivot, Zhongjian lifted first-half research spending to 139 million yuan, up 257.13 per cent, with 62.31 per cent of it aimed at intelligent robots. The heavy spend swung the group to a loss: first-half revenue rose 39.50 per cent to 701 million yuan, but attributable net profit fell 114.91 per cent to a 7.61 million yuan loss.
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-8321204-8120-30701100.html.
Translated and adapted from OFweek Robotics (https://robot.ofweek.com/2026-09/ART-8321204-8120-30701100.html).