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力争成为机器人时代的“华强北”，上海张江科学城推出全新供应链平台 2026-06-17
The Zhangjiang Science City, located in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, has launched a set of supply chain collaboration platforms for the robotics industry, including one for embodied intelligence, to quickly connect startups with suppliers and hasten the industrialization of this emerging sector.
“In the personal computer era, there was Zhongguancun in Beijing. In the mobile phone era, there was Huaqiangbei in Shenzhen. In the robotics era, we hope to establish a market for robot components in Zhangjiang, allowing local robotics firms to find all suppliers within a week, or even in just a minute,” Jiang Lei, chief scientist of the National and Local Co-Built Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center, said at the launch event on June 16.
“This will usher in an era or organized innovation for the humanoid robot industry,” he noted.
The robot industry’s supply chain is exceptionally long, spanning large language models, chips, core components, materials, and more, Jiang said. As the industry moves toward industrialization, the newly released collaboration platform for embodied intelligence can offer concrete support to companies across the supply chain, he added.
The platform has already accumulated more than 800,000 suppliers across the robot lifecycle and provides robotics firms with four core capabilities: design, agile manufacturing, secondary development, and community services, Jiang pointed out.
Buyers of components and services can use the platform to find local suppliers and then identify the algorithms, components, and solutions that fit their specific requirements, creating more efficient industrial collaboration for prototyping, validation, and delivery of robot products, Jiang stressed.
The platforms will shift robotics companies away from independently searching for suppliers and toward precise supply-demand matching, along with full-process service support, Jiang said. Manufacturing and service suppliers, in turn, will secure real orders through the platforms, he added.
At the event on June 16, the National and Local Co-Built Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center also opened its Robot Lifecycle Demonstration Application Zone. It will provide full traceability for humanoid robots from research and development to manufacturing and decommissioning, together with one-stop support services such as prototype testing, performance inspection, data accumulation, operations and maintenance, and recycling.
The establishment of the demonstration zone draws on the experience of full lifecycle management from the automotive and other industries, Jiang said. It aims to build a lifecycle management system for the robotics industry at an early stage of its development, helping the entire sector quickly transition into the practical application phase, Jiang pointed out.
Source: Yicai Global
