SICHUAN, China — As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, a new "worker" has joined the production line at Sichuan Laoliaoji Food Co.: a RealBOT wheeled humanoid robot from Ruier Man Intelligence. The robot deftly picks up bamboo leaves, folds them into funnels, fills them with glutinous rice and fillings, ties them with string — all with precise and skilled motions.
What makes this remarkable is that the operator controlling the robot is not in the Sichuan factory, but 1,500 kilometers away at the Beijing Humanoid Robot Data Training Center. Through Ruier Man's proprietary GLN Remote Operation Network, the operator achieves real-time cross-regional precision control.
13 steps, real-world challenges
The RealBOT completed all 13 production steps: leaf picking → funnel folding → rice filling → sealing → string tying → wrapping → raw zongzi handling (15kg) → boiler loading → boiling → cooked sorting → vacuum packaging → box assembly → gift box packaging.
Each step requires force sensing, visual recognition, and motion planning. Bamboo leaves vary in moisture, glutinous rice can clump, steam interferes with vision, and vacuum packaging demands millimeter-level positioning.
Infrastructure for scale
Ruier Man has built two major embodied AI data training platforms. The Beijing center deploys 108 embodied operation units covering ten real-world scenarios, accumulating thousands of tasks and millions of trajectory segments. The Changzhou center, launched in May 2026, deploys 150 RealBOT robots across 3,000 square meters, capable of over 1,000 real-world tasks.
The company's fully self-developed integrated joint modules have passed CRL3 safety certification with 50,000 hours MTBF, and annual joint module capacity has exceeded 100,000 units.
