Embodied Intelligent Robot Academic Seminar and Industry-Education Integration Community Inauguration Successfully Held

Recently, the Embodied Intelligent Robot Academic Seminar and Industry-Education Integration Community Inauguration Ceremony was grandly held at Nanjing ESTUN Automation Co., Ltd. As one of the annual themed activities of the Jiangsu Embodied Intelligent Robot Industry Alliance, this conference was jointly hosted by the Jiangsu Embodied Intelligent Robot Industry Alliance, the Jiangsu Society of Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering, Southeast University, ESTUN Automation, and Nanjing Vocational College of Information Technology, and received careful guidance from the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education, and the National Machinery Industry Vocational Education Teaching Steering Committee.

With the theme of "Intelligent Embodied Intelligence Embarking on a New Journey, Industry-Education Collaboration Creating an Ecosystem," the conference gathered numerous leading figures and experts and scholars from government, universities, industry, and enterprises to explore new paths for collaborative development of policy, education, and industry around three major directions: discipline construction, talent cultivation, and frontier technology.

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Speech Session: Building Consensus, Jointly Drawing the Blueprint

At the beginning of the conference, relevant leaders from the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education, and the Machinery Industry Education Development Center delivered speeches respectively, expressing earnest expectations for the development of the embodied intelligent robot industry and industry-education integration work. Subsequently, representatives of the leading units of the community spoke in turn, unanimously stating that they would fully leverage their respective advantages, promote deep industry-education collaboration, and serve the national "AI+" strategy and the 15th Five-Year Plan.

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Core Focus:

Embodied Intelligent Robot Industry-Education Integration Community Officially Established

As a highlight of this conference, the Embodied Intelligent Robot Industry-Education Integration Community was grandly established under the witness of all guests. The community has hundreds of colleges and enterprises. At the conference, three units—ESTUN Automation, Southeast University, and Nanjing Vocational College of Information Technology—were announced as rotating chairman units, and more than 50 colleges and enterprises were appointed as vice-chairman units, covering key institutions in the upstream and downstream of the robot industry chain and multiple high-level domestic universities.

The establishment of the community marks that industry-education integration has moved from consensus to substantive operation. In the future, the community will integrate industry-university-research-application resources around directions such as discipline construction, talent cultivation, and technical breakthroughs, connect the education chain, talent chain, industry chain, and innovation chain, and accelerate the implementation and application of embodied intelligence technology in industrial scenarios.

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Project Release: Promoting Teaching Through Competition, Multi-Dimensional Empowerment

After the establishment of the community, the first batch of cooperation projects was released on site. Among them, the 3rd "ESTUN Cup" University Student Robotics Competition (https://ecup.estun.com) was officially launched. This competition is aimed at universities and enterprises nationwide, focusing on innovative applications of embodied intelligence in industrial scenarios, aiming to promote learning and teaching through competition and to discover and cultivate outstanding talents in the robotics field.

In addition, the community also released projects such as the textbook and paper award plan and the robot co-creation service center, providing member units with multi-dimensional support such as course co-building, scientific research transformation, and practical training platforms.

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Academic Seminar: Frontier Sharing, Collision of Ideas

In the expert report session, well-known scholars from the University of Science and Technology of China, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Southeast University shared their latest research results on topics such as autonomous drone perception and decision-making, embodied intelligence discipline construction, RoboCup competition experience, and medical-engineering interdisciplinary magnetic-controlled microrobots. In the afternoon sub-venue for vocational education institutions, representatives from multiple enterprises and institutions held in-depth exchanges on topics such as the industry-education integration system and excellent talent cultivation, with a lively atmosphere on site.

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ESTUN: Deeply Cultivating Industry-Education Integration, Empowering the Industrial Ecosystem

As an important organizer of this conference and a core member of the community, ESTUN Automation has always been committed to promoting the deep connection between the robot industry and the education chain, talent chain, and innovation chain. In 2025, ESTUN achieved operating revenue of 4.888 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 21.93%, and its robot shipments ranked first in the Chinese market, with a market share of 10.6%. The company successfully led the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's 2030 Major Science and Technology Project, and in March 2026 became the first A+H listed enterprise in the domestic robot industry. In April, it successfully passed the acceptance of the national heavy-load industrial robot industry chain leader project, and its 1.2-ton heavy-load robot filled a domestic gap.

In the field of embodied intelligence, ESTUN has cooperated deeply with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Southeast University, and others to build an intelligent foundation driven by industrial-grade large models and deep learning, promoting the batch implementation of embodied intelligence in high-end manufacturing scenarios such as automobiles, semiconductors, and shipbuilding.

In terms of industry-education integration, ESTUN has established collaborative innovation mechanisms with multiple universities, jointly held the "ESTUN Cup" University Student Robotics Competition, and actively opened industrial practice resources to support course co-building, practical training platforms, and teacher training.

Looking to the future, ESTUN will continue to deepen AI + robotics technology innovation and accelerate domestic substitution in high-end scenarios; join hands with all parties in the community to jointly build a talent cultivation ecosystem; and strengthen international collaboration to promote Chinese robot standards and products to the world, contributing greater strength to the high-quality development of China's embodied intelligence industry.