Automakers' Cross-Industry Layout in Humanoid Robots: The Automotive DNA of AiMOGA

In the era of deep integration of artificial intelligence and intelligent manufacturing, a global cross-industry layout by automotive enterprises is emerging. Since Tesla's Optimus set off a technological storm, more than 20 leading global automakers have accelerated their entry into the humanoid robotics field. As a leading Chinese automotive manufacturer, the AiMOGA robot jointly created by Chery Automobile and AiMOGA has attracted public attention and high industry focus through its appearances on global stages such as the Shanghai Auto Show and Chery International Ecology Exhibition.

Why Are Automakers Actively Venturing into Humanoid Robots?

Technical Homology

Intelligent electric vehicles have been likened to ‘Robots on Wheels’, sharing technical homology with humanoid robots in key areas such as autonomous driving environmental perception, human-computer interaction, and motion control. Automakers' extensive expertise in ‘Three-Electric’ technologies (batteries, electric motors and electronic controls), lightweight materials, sensors, machine vision, and artificial intelligence provide a solid foundation for humanoid robot R&D.

Highly Overlapping Supply Chains

From a supply chain perspective, automotive manufacturing and humanoid robot production share significant overlap in their supply chain systems. Automakers can rely on their existing supplier networks to quickly obtain various components required for robot manufacturing, reducing procurement costs while shortening production cycles and achieving optimized resource allocation and efficient sharing.

Full-Link Automotive Scenario Validation

The automotive industry's full-chain scenario ecosystem—encompassing production, warehousing logistics, sales services, and user experience—forms a diversified application scenario matrix covering industrial, service and consumer segments. These scenarios provide real and diverse testing grounds for robots, enabling them to complete technical validation at lower costs and higher efficiency while offering more opportunities for commercial value transformation in the market.

The Automotive DNA in AiMOGA Robots

From the precise design of mechanical structures to human-centered breakthroughs in intelligent interaction, from accurate environmental perception to systematic development of ecological synergy, Chery empowers robots with full-chain technologies, establishes a robust foundation for breaking through industry technical barriers and advancing innovative development.

Mechanical Structure

The Mechanical structure is the core of a robot's body. Chery has drawn on its accumulated architectural design thinking (modularity), material engineering capabilities (lightweighting), and precision manufacturing systems (high precision) from the automotive field to provide a blueprint for robot mechanical structure design. This endows robots with not only ‘Flexible Skeletons’ but also automotive-grade reliability, durability, and scenario adaptability. The current AiMOGA robot features a bionic mechanical architecture with 40 degrees of freedom, enabling joint-level fine control and human-like flexible movement. The highly integrated design of its components significantly reduces volume and weight, ensuring not only high motion precision and flexibility in control performance but also safe and stable operation in complex environments.

Battery Technology

Due to their complex structures and high motion energy consumption, humanoid robots place stringent demands on battery power systems. In terms of energy consumption, Chery's advanced battery technology provides strong support: The new solid-state battery technology released at the 2024 Chery Global Innovation Conference has an energy density exceeding 600Wh/kg, offering significant advantages in safety and environmental adaptability compared to traditional lithium-ion batteries, and providing a stable and long-lasting power solution for AiMOGA robots.

Intelligent Driving Technologies

Environmental perception technology functions as the ‘Eyes’ of robots. Chery's intelligent driving technologies, including advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving, offer technical reuse and data experience for robots. Leveraging multi-sensor fusion solutions and advanced algorithms for sensor data processing, it achieves navigation accuracy at the ±5 cm level (far exceeding the common ±20 cm level in China), enabling rapid target recognition, path planning, and enhanced environmental adaptability and autonomous operation capabilities in complex scenarios.

Voice Interaction Technology

The dual large models of CheryGPT and Deepseek: The former, based on a million-level automotive professional knowledge base, can accurately answer professional questions about vehicle configurations and maintenance; the latter relies on natural language processing technology to achieve semantic understanding, emotional analysis, and personalized responses, accurately recognizing user intentions through multi-modal interactions such as voice and gestures. Both are deeply integrated into Chery's intelligent cockpit voice interactions and simultaneously applied to AiMOGA robots.

Ecological Scenarios

Chery's intelligent ecosystem serves as a full-cycle empowerment platform for robots to transition from laboratory prototypes to commercial products. As a key component of Chery's intelligent ecosystem, robots facilitate the creation of a complete link from data interconnection to scenario extension through deep collaboration in diverse application scenarios. This ultimately achieves the feedback of automotive technologies to robot innovation and the expansion of ecological boundaries through robot applications.

Commercial Advancement from Scenario Pilots to Global Delivery

In February 2025, AiMOGA robots first launched application services at a 4S store in Malaysia. At the Shanghai Auto Show in April, they demonstrated multi-robot collaboration in 4S store scenarios, and in May, they began successive global market deliveries of 220 humanoid robots. These rapid commercialization moves benefit from Chery's vast automotive ecological scenarios and global business layout. AiMOGA has always adhered to the principle that every technological development originates from real human application needs.

Standing on the shoulders of Chery's giants, AiMOGA robots are growing rapidly. With the continuous improvement of the R&D matrix and the strengthening of technological barriers, AiMOGA will also actively layout public services, home services, and other fields, making intelligent services an integral part of every corner of life—a career vision that AiMOGA has always upheld.