Major Milestone
SpeedBot entered the first quarter of 2026 with strong momentum, securing nearly RMB 200 million in shipbuilding-industry orders, including a single intelligent steel plate cutting and sorting production-line project worth nearly RMB 100 million. This series of wins with leading shipbuilding customers demonstrates SpeedBot's advanced technology and strong market competitiveness in intelligent shipbuilding.
SpeedBot began developing intelligent sorting technology for steel plate cutting in 2019. In 2020, it deployed the first intelligent cutting and sorting production line at the “smart manufacturing lighthouse factory” of a leading construction machinery manufacturer, establishing an industry benchmark for intelligent manufacturing in heavy industry.
In 2024, SpeedBot officially entered shipbuilding with its original innovation technologies, building on years of expertise in industrial embodied intelligence and a close understanding of customer pain points. It developed a portfolio of intelligent products and solutions offering high flexibility, high precision, high efficiency, and fast delivery and covering sorting and grinding, assembly and welding, inspection and measurement, and applications ranging from standalone stations to production lines and entire factories.
These products have now been successfully delivered to several leading shipbuilders. Through advanced technology and a commitment to quality, SpeedBot continues to provide customers with high-quality products and services while using original innovation to advance the intelligent transformation of shipbuilding.
Precision Plate Quality Inspection
Steel Plate Surface Pitting Inspection: Designed to meet shipyards' need to inspect pitting defects on steel plate surfaces, the system provides quantitative pitting-defect inspection, accurately measuring and grading pitting density, size, and depth. It also supports simultaneous inspection of both sides of a steel plate without adding to production cycle time, accommodates multiple plate specifications, and establishes the first line of defense for steel plate surface quality.
△ Steel Plate Surface Pitting Inspection System
Intelligent Sorting and Component Finishing
Intelligent Steel Plate Cutting and Sorting Production Line: Replacing conventional manual lifting and kitting in shipbuilding plate-cutting operations, the line accurately identifies the position, orientation, and type of steel plate parts and guides robots to pick them automatically, organize them by section, and load them into bins. This reduces safety risks, substantially improves kitting efficiency, and automates and digitalizes the raw-material processing stage.
△ Intelligent Steel Plate Cutting and Sorting Production Line
Intelligent Remnant and Strip-Material Production Lines: Designed to address the wide variety of raw-material specifications and the complexity of remnant management in shipbuilding, these lines provide fine-grained control and efficient utilization of raw materials, maximizing steel plate utilization while helping shipbuilders reduce costs and improve efficiency.
△ Intelligent Remnant Cutting and Sorting Production Line
△ Intelligent Strip-Material Cutting, Sorting, and Chamfering Production Line
Intelligent Flexible Free-Edge Grinding and Chamfering: Designed for the complex profiles and irregular edges of ship components, the system automates grinding and accurately identifies the free edges of different parts. It addresses the heavy workload and inconsistent quality of manual grinding, improving component finishing quality.
△ Intelligent Flexible Grinding and Chamfering Workstation
Flexible Welding and High-Precision Measurement
No-Teach Intelligent Welding Production Line: Equipped with SpeedBot's proprietary SpeedWeld welding control software and laser vision sensors, the line identifies complex curved weld seams on ship sections in real time, automatically plans welding paths, and delivers no-teach, no-programming operation. It supports the multi-layer, multi-pass welding processes required for thick plates in shipbuilding, efficiently welding complex curved seams and significantly improving weld quality and productivity.
△ Intelligent Pipe Welding Production Line
△ Intelligent Subassembly Welding Production Line
Automated Loading, Unloading, and Welding of Lifting Lugs: Designed for typical shipbuilding lifting-lug structures, the system uses 3D vision guidance to automate loading and unloading, accurately identifies weld paths, and achieves welding accuracy of ±0.5 mm. It effectively resolves weld-offset problems caused by incoming-part tolerances, enabling standardized and automated lifting-lug welding.
△ Automated Lifting-Lug Loading, Unloading, and Welding Workstation
Visual Weld Defect Inspection: Designed for weld-quality control in shipbuilding, the system accurately detects multiple types of weld defects, provides real-time inspection results, and works in closed-loop coordination with welding equipment to identify quality risks early and further safeguard weld quality.
High-Precision 3D In-Line Measurement: The system performs full-dimensional in-line inspection of ship components, providing real-time, reliable quality-inspection support for the high-precision requirements of shipbuilding and safeguarding component forming and welding quality at the source.
Full-Stack Support from Proprietary Software Platforms
Kunwu Intelligent Production Line Design and Development Platform: Using digital-twin simulation and low-code development, the platform digitizes key hardware such as robots and cameras, allowing users to build virtual production lines rapidly through drag-and-drop configuration. Combined with Kunwu Cloud's extensive process model library and industrial foundation models, it can generate and deploy production-line prototypes with one click, significantly improving the efficiency and delivery speed of shipyard production-line upgrades.
△ Kunwu Platform for Efficient Intelligent Production Line Development
Xiangyun AI Development and Operations Platform: Centered on an Agentic AIOps intelligent hub, its three closely integrated modules—Smart Training, Smart Brain, and Smart Inspection—work together with an embedded AI Agent acting as an end-to-end operations assistant. Covering the full lifecycle from AI model development and management to execution, the platform substantially improves the efficiency of shipbuilding inspection projects, reduces delivery costs, and provides end-to-end support for intelligent quality control at shipyards.
△ Xiangyun Platform Architecture
The intelligent transformation of shipbuilding is a deep exploration of collaborative innovation and coordinated upgrading across the industry chain. With full-stack technical capabilities built through original innovation, SpeedBot has established multiple benchmark projects in the shipbuilding industry, significantly improving shipyard productivity and lean operational control.
Looking ahead, SpeedBot will continue to use technological innovation as its engine, push the boundaries of industrial intelligence, and continuously refine its products and solutions. Together with its partners, SpeedBot will help propel intelligent manufacturing in China toward a broader global future.
