Exciting industry cooperation news came from the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC 2026)! 3Srobotics and ELITE ROBOTS officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement, granting each other the status of2026 Global Industry–Education Ecosystem Partner. They will work together in the fields of industrial robots and embodied AI to connect the full chain from industrial technology to talent cultivation at schools, jointly building a new robot industry-education ecosystem. On the afternoon of July 19, at the first batch of strategic partner signing and awarding ceremony, 3Srobotics General Manager Mr. Li Hongyu and ELITE ROBOTS management representatives jointly signed the ecosystem cooperation agreement.
Strong Alliance, Leveraging Both Sides’ Core Industry Strengths
3Srobotics
As a core domestic R&D enterprise in embodied AI welding vision and robot motion control systems, 3Srobotics is deeply engaged in industrial vision and intelligent welding robot software and hardware solutions, providing integrated training equipment and vision-welding teaching platforms to manufacturing enterprises and vocational institutions, with mature implementation cases in robot practical teaching and industrial automation training scenarios.
ELITE & Aifan Robots
A leading domestic manufacturer of collaborative and general-purpose industrial robots, ELITE covers arc welding, loading/unloading and material handling across its full machine lineup, with complete self-developed robot bodies, servo drives and control systems. Its subsidiary Aifan Robots is deeply engaged in the robot+education track, with a full set of self-developed robot training tools and standardized industry-education courses, cooperating with over a hundred polytechnic and electromechanical colleges nationwide.
Core Directions for Strategic Cooperation
Under this agreement, the two sides will collaborate deeply across three dimensions:
Jointly Building an Embodied AI Integrated Training Solution:
Combining 3Srobotics’ 3S vision seam-finding and intelligent welding algorithms with ELITE robot hardware, they will launch robot welding and flexible-automation integrated teaching workstations for universities and vocational schools, filling the current gap of training equipment that has “machines but no intelligent vision”.
Co-Building Standardized Industry-Education Courses and Faculty Systems:
Jointly authoring textbooks on robot vision, embodied AI and arc-welding automation, conducting nationwide joint training for college teachers, and unifying teaching and training standards to supply manufacturing with professionals skilled in both vision and robotics.
Two-Way Empowerment of Global Industry-Education Market Channels:
Leveraging ELITE’s mature domestic and overseas channel networks with 3Srobotics’ vision-welding overseas solutions, they will export complete localized robot teaching solutions to vocational institutions in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe, jointly expanding the global market for intelligent manufacturing talent cultivation.
Messages from Enterprise Representatives
3Srobotics General Manager, Li Hongyu:
“WAIC is a core platform for global AI industry exchange. This industry-education strategic partnership with ELITE ROBOTS is a two-way complement between vision intelligence and robot-body tracks. Manufacturing today lacks large numbers of interdisciplinary talents with both vision application and robot commissioning skills. Together we will connect technology, equipment and course resources to complete the intelligent manufacturing talent cultivation chain from the source, while leveraging both sides’ overseas expansion to bring China’s robot industry-education solutions to the global market.”
An authorized representative of ELITE ROBOTS said:
“Industry-education integration is the foundation of the robot industry’s long-term development. 3Srobotics’ technical strengths in machine vision and intelligent welding can enhance the intelligence of our existing training product line. This global industry-education ecosystem partnership will realize turnkey teaching solutions of ‘robot hardware + intelligent vision software’, helping institutions build training bases more aligned with real enterprise production scenarios and cultivate interdisciplinary robot technical talent that meets industry needs.”
Strategic Significance: 3Srobotics’ Ecosystem Positioning
Since 2026, 3Srobotics has exhibited at the Beijing Essen Welding Show, the Hangzhou Humanoid Robot Expo and the CSITF, and has continued to deepen its focus on welding-process intelligence. This ecosystem partnership with ELITE ROBOTS marks a key leap for 3Srobotics from a “single welding equipment supplier” to an “intelligent welding ecosystem participant”.
As the embodied AI wave sweeps manufacturing, welding is seen as one of the most worthwhile industrial scenarios for embodied AI due to its high precision, high repeatability and high safety requirements. The partnership between 3Srobotics and ELITE is an efficient “industry know-how + platform-based AI” path — and a strategic positioning in which 3Srobotics chooses ecosystem synergy over going it alone in the fiercely competitive intelligent manufacturing equipment market.
