While the humanoid robot sector is still debating whether to "build the body first or train the brain first," the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has already assembled the "Ten Steeds of Guangdong." (a riff on the traditional "Ten Tigers of Canton" — a literary allusion to the most celebrated figures from Guangdong)
Guide to the Ten Steeds: Understanding Their Unique Killer Features
LimX Dynamics, Zibianliang Robotics, Zhipingfang, Leju Robotics, ZQ Robotics, Midea, XPeng, Honor, UBTECH, and Dobot—ten humanoid robot OEMs rooted in Guangdong—recently gathered at the China International Fair for Small and Medium Enterprises, forming a unique humanoid robot lineup.
01LimX DynamicsBipedal Stability + Benchmark for Going Global
Its killer feature is bipedal dynamic balance control, boasting extremely strong anti-disturbance capabilities and the ability to quickly recover posture even under external impact. Targeting scientific research, inspection, and commercial services, it shows significant advantages in scenarios such as complex terrain mobility and heavy-load handling. As of July 2026, cumulative orders for various robot models have exceeded 3,000 units, with over half coming from the European, American, Middle Eastern, and Southeast Asian markets, making it a representative of domestic bipedal humanoid robots going global.
02Zibianliang RoboticsFocusing on World Models + Data Factories
Zibianliang is not limited to the hardware body; its core focus is on embodied AI large models. Its self-developed data factory continuously accumulates massive multimodal datasets from the real physical world, enabling robots to autonomously learn operations such as folding clothes and setting plates, taking the physical world closed-loop of perception, decision-making, and action as its core competitiveness.
03ZhipingfangFocusing on Brain-like Embodied Models
Established for just three years, Zhipingfang has become a unicorn in the Greater Bay Area with a valuation exceeding CNY 20 billion. It features the original brain-like VLA model NeuroVLA, endowing robots with three major biological motor capabilities: active perception, fault self-recovery, and sequential memory. Breaking out of the traditional large model framework, it solves problems of continuous action, long-term memory, and abnormal self-healing from a brain-like perspective.
04Leju RoboticsHigh Domestic R&D + Pioneer in Mass Production
The Kuafu series of full-size humanoid robots has a 95% domestic production rate for core components and has built the world's first 10,000-unit-level automated production line for humanoid robots. Facing industrial scenarios, it creates vertical domain embodied models and accumulates a large number of industrial atomic actions, making it one of the fastest players in domestic industrialization and implementation.
05ZQ RoboticsHigh-Mobility Humanoid Player Going Viral with Combat
Going viral with combat, its core highlights are the robot's adversarial movement, rapid response, gait stability, and on-the-spot decision-making capabilities. ZQ Robotics pushes humanoid robots from "showcasing walking" to "dynamic confrontation," using combat scenarios to verify the whole machine's motion control, anti-disturbance, and real-time response capabilities.
06MideaHumanoid Robots Born in the Factory
Relying on decades of experience in automation and factory manufacturing, it reverse-defines humanoid robots from industrial site needs. From the very beginning of design, it targets workshop operations, integrating automated production lines and equipment scheduling, and excels in completing industrial tasks such as handling and loading/unloading in real factories.
07XPeng RoboticsInheriting the Manufacturing Genes of Automakers
Reusing the complete vehicle R&D, supply chain management, quality control, and large-scale manufacturing systems, it focuses on the three core capabilities of walking, dialogue, and human-machine interaction. Relying on stores and parks for scenario verification, it plans to rapidly advance scaled mass production, representing a typical example of cross-over automakers entering the humanoid robot sector.
08HonorCross-over Smartphone Maker + Humanoid Half-Marathon Champion
Gaining widespread popularity with its extremely strong continuous long-distance running capability, it once won the championship of the 2026 Yizhuang Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon. It forms differentiation in continuous stable movement, long-endurance walking, and dynamic gait optimization, focusing on highly reliable continuous movement capabilities.
09UBTECHVeteran in Exploring Commercialization Scenarios
As an old player in the domestic humanoid robot sector and a company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, it has fully self-developed servo joints and whole machine solutions. The Walker series has entered multiple automaker factories for practical training, covering three major scenarios: industrial manufacturing, commercial services, and family companionship. With a massive patent reserve, it focuses on real-world implementation verification in multiple scenarios and is highly favored by state-owned capital platforms.
10DobotCross-over Upgrade from Collaborative Robotic Arms
Starting with collaborative robotic arms, its products are sold to over a hundred countries globally. Relying on years of industrial collaborative operation experience, it extends upwards to build a humanoid whole machine platform. Its advantages lie in dexterous upper limbs and safe human-machine interaction, transferring mature robotic arm control experience to the humanoid whole machine.
The "Ten Steeds of Guangdong"—some train their legs, some train their brains; some build prototypes for scientific research, some target factory mass production; some deeply cultivate algorithm models, and some enter the field across boundaries with solid foundations in automobiles, home appliances, and robotic arms—each possesses a unique "moat."
Why Can the Greater Bay Area Breed the "Ten Steeds"?
Because this land possesses the three things most needed by humanoid robots: a complete supply chain, mature manufacturing capabilities, and rich real-world scenarios.
High-density full-chain component supporting. The Pearl River Delta gathers the vast majority of the country's core humanoid robot component manufacturers, basically fully equipped within a radius of tens of kilometers. Start-up teams can finalize the drawings in the morning and get the samples by the same evening, significantly compressing the prototype iteration cycle.
Mature precision manufacturing and mass production capabilities. Guangdong possesses complete and comprehensive manufacturing categories, with industrial robot output ranking first in the country for many consecutive years. The micrometer-level precision machining, flexible assembly, and production line management capabilities accumulated over decades in consumer electronics, automobiles, and equipment manufacturing are directly transferred to robot manufacturing. Shenzhen is responsible for R&D and pilot production, while Foshan and Dongguan undertake scaled mass production, forming cross-city collaborative division of labor.
Massive real-world scenarios, where robots are "trained on the job" on-site. Factories, parks, commercial stores, and exhibition halls—the Greater Bay Area itself is a natural testing ground. Enterprises can skip pure laboratory simulation and directly deploy robots to operate in real environments, collecting data and iterating algorithms in real tasks. Meanwhile, scenarios reverse-define products, forming a closed loop of "deployment—data collection—iteration—redeployment."
In addition, there is continuous support from talent, capital, and policies. Shenzhen gathers a large number of AI, robotics, and hardware engineering talents. The primary market continuously injects capital into embodied AI enterprises, while local governments build public testing platforms and industry exhibitions to accelerate technological exchange and industrial docking.
This is the confidence of Greater Bay Area enterprises in making humanoid robots: the synergy of the entire industrial chain—the combined force of the whole chain far surpasses the single-point technology of a single enterprise.
The competition in humanoid robots is long past being a mere comparison of single parameters. The Ten Steeds of Guangdong represent the diverse exploration in the domestic whole machine track. Although they take different technical routes, they can compete on the same stage and complement each other, presenting a pattern of diverse and progressive development.
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This article is compiled based on public network information, for reference only, and does not constitute investment advice.
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