A Resonance at the Summit of a Thousand People! Wu Xiaoqian of Pangqi: In the Age of Embodied Intelligence, Intelligent Manufacturing Is Ushering in a New Era—Moving from Automation Toward Cognitive Collaboration.

On December 3, 2025, the “2025 (8th) Mobile Robot Industry Development Annual Conference & Summit on the Integration of Embodied Intelligence Mobile Robots and Humanoid Robots,” co-hosted by the People’s Government of Baohe District, Hefei City, the Mobile Robot Industry Alliance, and other organizations, kicked off in Hefei, bringing together representatives from government, industry, academia, research institutions, end-users, investors, associations, and media. As a global leader in AI-powered unmanned factories and warehouses, Ms. Wu Xiaoqian, Chairwoman of Pangqi Technology, was invited to attend the event.

In converging with XinSong, Jizhi Jia, Hangcha Intelligent, Pangqi Technology Leading enterprises in various industries Deep During the roundtable session titled “Reflection and Dialogue: Technological Foresight,” Wu Xiaoqian systematically articulated her profound insights into industrial transformation, resonating deeply with the entire audience.

The most profound migration in 30 years is underway.

From automation to intelligent agents and now to embodied intelligence, the evolution of manufacturing has always revolved around... “Make intelligence closer to real-world manufacturing.” Expand, and this trend is precisely the core consideration behind Pangqi’s layout of its Hefei base.

Over the past thirty years, we’ve been talking about automation—replacing actions with machines and processes with systems.

Over the past five years, we’ve been talking about agents—enabling AI to participate in decision-making and allowing systems to perform reasoning.

Today, as embodied intelligence and humanoid robots accelerate their integration, we are entering a new stage led by embodied intelligence: Give intelligence a body, enable judgment to be put into practice, and allow algorithms to directly impact the real world.

Because manufacturing isn't a PPT. Manufacturing involves friction, thermodynamics, error, risk, lead time, and collaboration. Traditional AI understands data but not costs; platform algorithms understand logic but not physical constraints.

Embodied intelligence allows intelligence to understand the weight of the real world for the first time.

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Embodied Intelligence

It’s not an enhancement of functionality; it’s a shift in the paradigm of intelligence.

Many people tend to view embodied intelligence as “more advanced robotics,” a perspective that vastly underestimates its strategic significance. Wu Xiaoqian’s core insight precisely gets to the heart of what embodied intelligence really is:

Why are cognitive abilities so important? Because what’s truly costly isn’t the action itself—it’s the *process* behind the action. The cognitive and coordination costs behind this—include judgment biases, inefficient collaboration, unnecessary rework, delivery delays, and uncertainties throughout the process.

The value of embodied intelligence lies precisely in systematically reducing these hidden costs by replicating organizational cognition.

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The scene is not an adjunct to technology.

It is the steering wheel of technological evolution.

Focusing on the central theme of this event—“Embodied Intelligence and Humanoid Robot Applications”—Wu Xiaoqian further clarified the relationship between technology and specific application scenarios:

Specifically in industrial practice, this “push-from-below” effect is particularly evident: solid-state battery manufacturing processes demand that robots possess a keen awareness of cleanliness and micrometer-level precision; energy-storage PACKs require intelligent systems to understand the interplay between rhythm and shared risk factors; and the flexibility required for new-energy vehicles calls for robots that are capable of “self-evolution” and “self-adaptation”...

These scenario requirements may seem stringent, but they are actually a defining challenge of our times—driven not by passive demand, but by proactive industrial imperatives.

Embodied intelligence isn't about “deploying devices”; rather, it’s about forging a new industrial logic: Scene Symbiosis It is precisely for this reason that Pangqi’s Hefei base is bringing these “questions of the times” into reality—by recreating core scenarios such as battery PACKs, enabling technology to evolve through its interaction with industry and significantly shortening product iteration cycles.

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Humanoid robot

Not equipment—rather, a new type of production relationship.

When discussing the value of humanoid robots, Wu Xiaoqian specifically corrected a common industry misconception:

The real transformation lies in the fact that humanoid robots × embodied intelligence will reshape the core logic of production: How decisions are generated, how risks are predicted, how collaboration happens in real time, and how the value chain adjusts automatically. 。

As she pointed out, “After robots move toward embodied intelligence, they’re no longer mere executors—they become participants in the value chain.”

What does this mean? This isn’t just a simple automation upgrade—it’s a restructuring of the production organizational model.

The commissioning of the Hefei base serves as a testing ground for this “new production relationship”—in the future, by leveraging “robots + embodied intelligence” in collaboration with local enterprises, we’ll reshape the processes for production-line decision-making and risk prediction, enabling robots to truly evolve from mere “tools” into “value-chain partners.”

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China's Opportunity

Not following, but defining.

When the perspective is broadened to global industrial competition, Wu Xiaoqian saw the unique advantages of “Made in China”:

These traits are often seen by outsiders as “challenges” to industrial upgrading, but Wu Xiaoqian holds a different view: These “challenges” are precisely the “real-world testing ground” for technology implementation. — A complex supply chain demands more precise collaborative capabilities, and stringent delivery scenarios are driving technology to respond rapidly. These are industry conditions that are difficult for other markets to replicate—and precisely the touchstone most critical for the practical implementation of embodied intelligence.

She concluded: “This isn’t a challenge—it’s an opportunity that the world is giving to Chinese manufacturing. In the age of embodied intelligence, Chinese manufacturing won’t just be a participant; it’ll be a rule-maker.”

The logic behind this is crystal clear: We’re not moving from the lab into industry—rather, industry is driving technology forward and shaping the future. Therefore, the symbiotic relationship between humanoid robots and embodied intelligence applications isn’t merely following global trends; it’s about defining what the next-generation factory will look like.

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Written at the end

Wu Xiaoqian concluded with the following remarks: “Embodied intelligence gives algorithms a body; scenario-based coexistence allows intelligence to enter the real world. And ‘Made in China’ doesn’t just follow the tide—it changes the direction of the tide itself.”

The Pango Hefei production base is about to go into operation, marking the first step in Pango’s mission to “change the direction of the tide”—anchoring itself in localized practices to ensure that the blueprint for embodied intelligence truly becomes a reality in smart manufacturing.

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