China's robot industry kicked off the Year of the Horse with a burst of momentum as enterprises rolled out new products during the Spring Festival holiday, with domestic and overseas orders keeping production lines running at full capacity.
The Spring Festival, China's most important holiday marked by family reunions, festive foods and New Year wishes, fell on Tuesday this year. The nine-day holiday period starting from Feb 15 is now in full swing.
To meet growing demand in service scenarios, the research and production teams at Shanghai-based AgiBot, which emerged as the world's largest supplier of humanoid robots in 2025, remained on duty during the Spring Festival holiday. The teams worked to optimize product performance, enhance user experience, and accelerate mass production progress.
"To advance robots from single-function demonstrations to multimodal immersive interactive services, we chose to [launch our new products] during the Spring Festival holiday. By better connecting technology with daily life, we aim to enable robots to deliver truly warm and intelligent service experiences across various scenarios," said Wang Chuang, president of AgiBot's General Products Line.
A newly built embodied artificial intelligence robotics park in Suzhou City, east China's Jiangsu Province, is scheduled to officially open after the Spring Festival holiday. But even during the holiday, enterprises that have already moved in were busy carrying, sorting, assembling, and testing new robots.
"During the Spring Festival holiday, engineers are working overtime to do some stress tests. The products will be delivered to the customer on the first day after the holiday," said Cang Yu, vice president of Beijing Galbot Co., Ltd.
New products from China's leading floor-cleaning robot maker, Ecovacs Robotics, sold out overseas shortly after their launch last month. To meet surging global demand, nearly 2,000 employees worked through the Spring Festival holiday to ensure production targets were met and overseas orders delivered on schedule.
"Compared with last year, our product output has increased by more than 50 percent this year," said Han Guanqun, director of the production department at Ecovacs Robotics.
Chinese robot makers race to meet surging orders during Spring Festival
