Hardware and software in concert | Longsheng WIIRI and GigaAI enter a deep strategic partnership to advance industrial embodied-AI robotics

Joining forces to tackle key challenges,

building coordinated industrialization

Drawing on the resources of the provincial embodied-AI robotics innovation center platform and its industrial supporting capabilities, Longsheng WIIRI has formally entered a deep strategic partnership with Beijing-based GigaAI, a leading world-model company. The partnership focuses on three areas — jointly optimized contract manufacturing of embodied robot bodies, model cooperation, and rapid deployment in real scenarios. By combining their strengths, the two companies will open up a path for hardware–software coordination and jointly bring embodied AI into benchmark industrial scenarios quickly.

Agreement signed, project under way

On April 15, 2026, witnessed by provincial and municipal authorities, the Jiangsu Longsheng WIIRI Embodied-Intelligence Robotics Innovation Center was officially opened and signed a strategic cooperation agreement with GigaAI on the same day. After in-depth technical exchanges and on-site tuning, the cooperation model for robot-body optimization and contract manufacturing has now taken shape.

The partnership establishes a new model of cooperation with a complete "data – model – hardware – scenario" technology loop, laying a solid foundation for future large-scale contract manufacturing and mass-production rollout of robot bodies.

Multi-dimensional coordination across the whole chain

The two sides have planned their cooperation together, combining Longsheng WIIRI's experience in complete-robot manufacturing with GigaAI's frontier AI technology to build a collaborative ecosystem of "core components + robot body + world model + data platform + full-scenario applications", advancing on three fronts — mass production, scenarios and technology:

Contract manufacturing and mass production of robot bodies: drawing on Longsheng WIIRI's in-house core-component capabilities and mature production-line support, the company will undertake contract manufacturing of the jointly optimized embodied robot bodies, with a complete supply chain ensuring stable mass-production delivery.

Scenario-based deployment: leveraging its industrial resources, Longsheng WIIRI is bringing the jointly developed robot models into world-class Lighthouse factories, covering core applications such as intelligent manufacturing, industrial logistics and precision machining. Standardized deployment solutions will be distilled and steadily rolled out to industrial clusters nationwide, empowering the intelligent transformation of manufacturing.

Joint optimization of robot body and model: building on the provincial innovation center platform's capability for long-cycle industrial data collection, the two sides will build a joint R&D platform, iterating the world model with real on-site data and then using the improved algorithms to refine the robot body's structure and performance in turn — continuously upgrading both hardware and software.

Complementary strengths, a solid foundation

Jiangsu Longsheng WIIRI Embodied-Intelligence Robotics Innovation Center Co., Ltd. (Longsheng WIIRI):

In December 2025 it was recognized as a provincial-level embodied-AI robotics innovation center — one of only three in Jiangsu and the only one in Wuxi — and it officially opened in April 2026. The platform adopts an innovative market-oriented "industry + research + capital" operating model, gaining a strong competitive edge from its full-chain industrial layout. Following a dual-drive strategy of "technology R&D + scenario application", its business spans the entire chain from core components and complete robot systems to end-use scenarios. It focuses on independent breakthroughs in key robot components such as joint modules, dexterous hands and electronic skin, and with its full R&D and industrialization capabilities is working toward the goal of building a national manufacturing innovation center, serving as a core vehicle for bringing embodied-AI hardware into practice.

Beijing GigaAI Technology Co., Ltd. (GigaAI):

GigaAI is a world-leading world-model and embodied-AI technology company. With its four-in-one approach of "world model – embodied foundation model – native robot body – generalized scenarios", it is bringing general-purpose robots into every industry and leading the rise of physical AGI. Its core team brings together talent from top institutions such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and CMU, as well as executives from well-known companies including Microsoft, Horizon Robotics and Bosch, combining world-class physical-AI research with experience in large-scale industrial deployment. GigaAI was the first technology company in China to work on world models. Through its closed-loop ecosystem of the GigaWorld world model, the GigaBrain embodied brain and the Maker native robot body, it aims to improve the efficiency of the entire data, training and testing pipeline by 10 to 100 times. Its products cover general-purpose robots, autonomous driving, content creation and other scenarios, serving hundreds of leading customers in China and abroad.

Looking ahead

This strategic partnership is an important step for both companies in the development and deployment of embodied robot bodies. Going forward, they will continue to deepen the joint iteration and optimization of robot bodies, refine standardized complete-robot products and expand into diverse industrial scenarios; and, relying on the provincial innovation center platform, promote the hardware–software co-development model and steadily advance industrialization.

Longsheng WIIRI will build on its strengths in independent robot-body development, combine them with its large-scale production capabilities and GigaAI's algorithms, and continue to strengthen China's integrated hardware–software industrial chain for industrial robots, supporting the upgrading of intelligent manufacturing.