With its embodied AI welding robot project for vertical welding scenarios, 3Srobotics stood out in the Embodied AI Division of the 2026 “Create·In Shanghai” International Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition and won third prize — another important industry recognition for 3Srobotics on the embodied AI track.
Competition Background: An Innovation Arena for Embodied AI
The “Create·In Shanghai” International Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition is a brand event co-hosted by the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, the Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission and other organizations. Held for many consecutive years, it is one of the most influential innovation and entrepreneurship competitions in China, focusing on strategic emerging industries and future industries to discover and cultivate high-growth tech enterprises with core technology competitiveness and market prospects.
The 2026 competition established an Embodied AI Division for the first time, targeting embodied AI bodies, embodied AI operating systems, and embodied AI industry application solutions, attracting over a hundred innovative enterprises in AI and robotics from across the country. Judging was conducted jointly by experts from industry, academia and investment, with comprehensive evaluation across technological innovation, industrialization prospects, team strength and business model.
3Srobotics’ “Embodied AI Welding Robot for Vertical Welding Scenarios” project passed multiple rounds of selection — preliminary, semi-final and final — and ultimately won third prize in the Embodied AI Division, becoming the only award-winning enterprise in the welding-intelligence field.
3Srobotics Award-Winning Project: Embodied Intelligent Welding Robot Solution
The award-winning project is a core self-developed technology achievement of 3Srobotics. Based on an embodied AI simulation engine, it deeply integrates three core technologies — AI vision guidance, a welding process knowledge graph, and digital-twin quality traceability — to build afull-chain intelligent welding solutionfrom virtual simulation to line delivery.
Core Breakthroughs in Technical Architecture
Physical AI Simulation Engine
Previews the physical behavior of the entire welding process in a digital-twin environment — heat conduction, molten-pool flow, solidification and crystallization, and post-weld residual stress distribution — enabling virtual validation and optimization of the welding process solution before line deployment, effectively shortening process development cycles and reducing trial-and-error costs.
Multimodal AI Vision Guidance
Through high-precision 3D vision, it perceives weld seam positions and shape changes in real time and, combined with adaptive trajectory planning algorithms, lets the welding robot “see and adjust” like an experienced welder, autonomously adjusting welding parameters under complex conditions such as workpiece assembly deviations, uneven plate gaps and thermal deformation.
Welding Process Knowledge Graph
Systematically digitizes and models decades of accumulated welding process know-howinto a large-scale process knowledge base covering groove shapes, base materials, wire matching, pass strategies and heat-input control, supporting intelligent recommendation and continuous iteration of welding solutions.
The solution has completedindustrial-grade validation in benchmark customer projects across steel structures, shipbuilding, bridges and heavy industry, significantly improving weld quality consistency and process efficiency.
Welding Is the Industrial Scenario Most Worth Mining for Embodied AI
Welding is one of the most process-complex, safety-critical and labor-shortage-prone steps in industrial manufacturing. As the intelligent upgrade of steel structures, shipbuilding, bridges and other industries accelerates, demand for intelligent welding robots is surging.
3Srobotics CTO Dr. Yang Zhanye said:
“Welding is one of the industrial scenarios most worth mining for embodied AI. The quality of a weld seam is determined by dozens of physical variables such as molten-pool shape, heat input, base material state and assembly gap. Traditional automated welding’s approach to these variables — preset parameters plus manual compensation — is approaching its ceiling under complex conditions. The introduction of embodied AI essentially upgrades the welding robot from a preset-program executor to an intelligent agent with environmental perception and autonomous decision-making. This award affirms 3Srobotics’ technical path and our mission of making every weld seam traceable.”
Dr. Yang further noted that the core challenge of embodied AI welding robots is to give robots eye-brain-hand coordination on real production lines — high-precision AI vision as the eyes, the welding process knowledge graph and Physical AI simulation engine as the brain, and multi-axis intelligent welding machines as the hands.The deep integration of these three forms 3Srobotics’ core technical moat.
From Industry Recognition to Accelerated Industrialization
Since 2026, 3Srobotics has maintained a rapid development pace. From exhibiting at the Beijing Essen Welding Show, the Hangzhou Humanoid Robot Expo and the CSITF, to signing ecosystem cooperation with ELITE ROBOTS and Physical AI simulation partnerships with Shengyao Intelligence, to winning third prize in the “Create·In Shanghai” Embodied AI Division —3Srobotics’ technology-ecosystem-market triple-driven strategy for welding-process intelligence is accelerating.
This award is not only an important industry endorsement of 3Srobotics’ technical strength, but also marks that the company’s differentiated positioning on the embodied AI track has gained multi-dimensional recognition from government, industry and capital. As the embodied AI wave sweeps manufacturing, 3Srobotics is building an irreplaceable competitive moat in the high-value, high-barrier vertical welding scenario through its industry know-how + platform-based AI path.
