AI + Industrial Embodied Intelligence Deeply Implemented: ESTUN Empowers Extreme Lithium Battery Manufacturing

Recently, the 2026 (19th) GGII Lithium Battery Industry Summit was successfully held. Zhu Chunhua, Executive President of ESTUN Automation, was invited to attend and deliver a speech, exploring new paths for the intelligent upgrading of energy storage and power batteries together with upstream and downstream experts in the industrial chain and leading battery enterprises.

According to the latest data forecast from the GGII Lithium Battery Research Institute, China's lithium battery shipments will exceed 2.6 TWh in 2026, and energy storage will leap to become the industry's primary growth engine. Amid rapid market expansion, overseas expansion, the popularization of large cells, yield improvement, and flexible production have become the four core propositions of the industry. Zhu Chunhua proposed that reconstructing the full-process manufacturing system of lithium batteries with AI + industrial embodied intelligence is the core solution to address industry pain points and achieve extreme manufacturing.

Relying on AI + robotics technology, ESTUN empowers flexible lithium battery production from four dimensions: expanding AI open functional interfaces to adapt to diverse application needs; independently developing the RoboBase industrial embodied intelligence foundation to build a developer ecosystem and generalizable vertical domain models; providing an AI digital operation and maintenance service platform to offer full-cycle services such as equipment health monitoring, fault warning, and remote technical support; and customizing localized AI intelligent agents based on customers' exclusive production lines to achieve rapid model iteration while ensuring data security.

Supported by this complete technology foundation, ESTUN has created intelligent lithium battery solutions covering cells, modules, PACK, and other segments, helping battery enterprises build extremely efficient, low-carbon, and energy-saving extreme manufacturing production lines through full-process intelligence.

Cell Segment: Motion Control Drives Extreme Manufacturing

For core equipment in the cell segment such as high-speed stacking machines, winding machines, die-cutting machines, and pouch liquid injection machines, ESTUN deeply embeds its self-developed high-end motion kernel into lithium battery equipment, ensuring high-speed, high-precision, and stable cell production from the underlying motion control level, and building a solid hardware foundation for extreme lithium battery manufacturing.

Mr. Zhu focused on introducing the newly launched ESTUN EMP800 series intelligent motion controller, which deeply integrates the openness of the Codesys platform with TRIO's high-quality motion kernel technology, and is equipped with HSCM high-speed and high-precision control technology and FFTG full-function trajectory planning algorithms.

The EMP800 supports 32-256 axis synchronous control and is equipped with a lithium battery-specific motion instruction library; it adopts dual EtherCAT ring network redundancy and nanosecond-level program scan rates; it has a built-in lithium battery full-process software package that is ready to use out of the box; it achieves micron-level processing accuracy through multi-dimensional compensation algorithms; and its rich hardware interfaces can seamlessly connect with MES production management systems.

Module and PACK Segment: AI Robots Drive Flexible Production

Module and PACK assembly processes are numerous and require extremely high flexibility. With its self-developed iER series intelligent industrial robots as the core, ESTUN covers the entire process of cell loading, tape application, gluing, welding, and inspection.

The iER series achieves comprehensive upgrades in dimensions such as precision, speed, intelligence, collaboration, operation and maintenance, and openness: absolute positioning accuracy < ±0.2 mm, trajectory accuracy < ±0.3 mm at 200 mm/s operation; equipped with the iER.OS intelligent operating system, it automatically cycles and optimizes takt time within 0.5 hours; it supports synchronous motion of 4 robots, reducing programming time by 50% and increasing effective working time by more than 30%; it has a built-in AI service toolbox and opens hundreds of API interfaces, compatible with the ROS2 open-source system.

Facing future dynamic and complex lithium battery production scenarios, ESTUN has laid out a humanoid robot product matrix. Relying on a fast-slow dual-system + reinforcement learning architecture, robots can autonomously complete embodied intelligent decision-making, empowering flexible production in the future lithium battery industry.

In response to the trend of lithium battery enterprises expanding overseas, ESTUN has established 75 global service outlets, which can provide one-stop implementation and localized operation and maintenance support for energy storage and power battery factories at home and abroad. At present, the complete set of intelligent lithium battery solutions has been applied at scale by multiple leading enterprises in the industry, fully covering the entire lithium battery process segment. In the future, ESTUN will continue to promote the deep integration of motion control, industrial robots, and AI embodied intelligence technology, focus on continuous innovation in green, low-carbon, flexible, and extreme manufacturing, and join hands with industry chain partners to build a new ecosystem for intelligent lithium battery manufacturing.