From January to May 2025, Guangdong produced 124,700 sets of industrial robots, marking a year-on-year increase of 33%. This output accounted for over 40% of the national total, maintaining Guangdong's leading position for five consecutive years.
During this period, the production of service robots in Guangdong reached 4.1698 million sets, an increase of 8.2% year-on-year.
In the first five months of 2025, the scale of Guangdong's core artificial intelligence (AI) industry exceeded 100 billion yuan, firmly placing it in the top tier nationwide.
The data was recently released by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology.
The department further stated that in response to the large-scale development of humanoid robots, Guangdong is about to issue and implement a plan for tackling key challenges in embodied intelligent robots.
The plan focuses on addressing breakthrough needs in four key areas: core fundamentals, key products, public support, and typical applications of embodied intelligent robots. The aim is to foster a range of underlying general-purpose technologies, landmark products, and typical applications targeting critical links in the industrial chain, establishing Guangdong as a global innovation hub for the embodied intelligent robot industry.
Additionally, Guangdong will leverage AI to drive the incubation and implementation of embodied intelligent scenarios. By using scenarios to promote technological innovation and application, the province will enhance the construction of training ground systems in multiple sub-sectors.
Currently, Guangdong has established 11 provincial-level AI industrial parks, with Guangzhou and Shenzhen approved as national pilot zones for AI innovation and application.
Looking ahead, Guangdong will further strengthen its AI ecosystem. It will prioritize the development of five major AI industrial innovation and development platforms covering the embodied intelligent training ground, the Ascend adaptation center, the OpenHarmony adaptation center, the open-source community, and the intelligent agent innovation center.
In terms of creating application scenarios, Guangdong will launch a series of vertical domain large models tailored to the needs of specific industries or professional scenarios, promoting the application of AI across various sectors.
Reporter | Chen Jinxia
Editor | Hu Nan, James, Shen He
