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Schaeffler's Taicang humanoid robot lighthouse factory goes into operation

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Schaeffler has opened a humanoid robot lighthouse factory of approximately 7,500 square meters in Taicang, China, where six humanoid robots perform loading, sorting, assembly, inspection, labeling and packaging of key components such as linear and rotary actuators at five workstations. Schaeffler says the plant marks the entry of its related components into the mass-production stage. The factory also houses a training and data-collection center, a digital twin platform and a data center, which can mirror and optimize parameters such as assembly precision, work hours and energy consumption in real time; the training environment references the actual conditions of Schaeffler's roughly 100 factories and is open to customers and partners for training and testing physical AI systems under real industrial conditions.

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  1. Schaeffler's Taicang humanoid robot lighthouse factory begins production, with humanoid robots assembling joint modules

    Schaeffler has opened an approximately 7,500-square-meter humanoid robot lighthouse factory in Taicang, China, where six humanoid robots at five workstations handle the loading, sorting, assembly, inspection, labeling, and packaging of key components such as linear and rotary actuators. The factory also includes a training and data acquisition center, a digital twin platform, and a data center, enabling real-time mirroring and optimization of parameters such as assembly precision, work hours, and energy consumption, and offering customers and partners the ability to train and test physical AI systems under real industrial conditions.

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