Chinese robotics consulting

Chinese manufacturers now build the most capable humanoids and quadrupeds available at their price, and European companies buying them run into the same three problems: nobody on their side reads the Chinese specification sheet, nobody is in the room when the machine is tested before it ships, and nothing anyone has bought answers the question of what the robot will actually do once it arrives.

We work from Hangzhou, about 200 km from Shanghai, in direct contact with manufacturers including Unitree, Deep Robotics, Lenovo and BrainCo. The role is technical and it lasts the whole project — not an introduction and an invoice.

If you are still deciding which machine you are talking about, our robot registry lists 39 machines from 21 manufacturers with published starting prices and full specifications.

Four services

1. Consulting and China-side project management

For companies buying or evaluating a robot from China who need someone on the ground: negotiating with the manufacturer, verifying the hardware before it ships, staying in contact with their engineering team, and reading contracts against how this market actually behaves. Our fee comes from you and only from you.

2. Simulation and prototyping

We test how a robot or an algorithm behaves in a simulator before there is any physical hardware to argue about. Proof of concept from an idea to a working demo in weeks rather than months, delivered as rendered video plus a numeric result you can put in front of a board.

This is the cheapest possible point at which to discover that a task is harder than it looked, and it is the step most buyers skip.

3. The AI layer on the robot

Language and vision models wired into the machine: autonomous agents that carry out a mission without an operator, voice control, task planning from a spoken description, and analysis of the robot's own camera feed. This is the same work as our AI agent development, with a physical machine at the end of it instead of a spreadsheet.

4. Training

Three formats, all one day unless a programme is agreed: the Chinese AI ecosystem — which models exist, who makes them, what is genuinely open source, and how to judge a supplier; robotics from China — manufacturers, platforms, protocols, and where they differ from European norms; and a hands-on workshop that takes a team from a robot API to a working agent. Training regularly turns into the next project, which is the honest reason we price it as an entry point rather than a product.

Who this is for

You are	What you get from this
A distributor or integrator	Moving into Chinese robots without your own competence in China. We are the technical presence you would otherwise have to hire and relocate.
A manufacturer	Evaluating a specific machine before purchase, or planning a deployment on your own floor. Simulation answers "will it do the task" before the purchase order.
A research or R&D team	Experimenting with AI models for robots — from a policy in simulation to something running on real hardware.

Where you can meet us

• CIIF, Shanghai — 12–16 October 2026. China's largest industrial fair, 2,600 exhibitors, and the fastest way to see the whole robotics field in one week.
• HumanTech Summit, Warsaw — 3–5 December 2026. Humanoid robotics and AI, at SWPS University.

When to not hire us

If what you want is the cheapest possible unit price on a machine you have already chosen, a freight forwarder and a purchasing agent will do that better and cheaper than we will. We are worth paying when the risk is technical: the task might not be feasible, the specification might not survive contact with your floor, or the software that makes the robot useful does not exist yet.

Judge it the same way we ask clients to judge an automation build — on the value of what the project decides, not on how many units are involved. One robot doing something nobody else in your market can do is worth more analysis than a fleet of machines doing something ordinary.