EIR Wins China Rongtong Technology Services' "Air-Ground Unmanned Cluster Project," Will Build a 30-Unit Equipment Pilot Cluster

Recently, EIR Sichuan Embodied Humanoid Robot Technology Co., Ltd. signed a pledge agreement with China Rongtong Technology Service Group Co., Ltd., successfully winning the bid for Sichuan Province's "Results Find Market" open-call project—"Key Technology Research and Application Demonstration of Intelligent Coordination of Air-Ground Unmanned Swarms." As the chain-leading enterprise in the humanoid robot field under Sichuan Province's "AI+" No. 1 Innovation Project, EIR is also the only enterprise among the more than 20 bidding enterprises to complete signing with the project issuer, and will independently undertake the project's R&D, integration, testing, and commercialization tasks. This successful bid affirms EIR's technical undertaking and engineering transformation capabilities. Relying on the research accumulation of the Robotics Research Center of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and the Frontier Research Center for Interactive Humanoid Robots of Tianfu Jiangxi Laboratory, the company continues to advance the R&D of complete robots and core technologies. The recently completed hundred-million-yuan Pre-A round of financing will also support EIR in accelerating product engineering and delivery capacity building. As R&D and application gradually deepen, EIR was named among the "TOP20 Most Promising Robotics Companies of 2026" this year. This industry recognition has also accumulated trust for the company's commercialization cooperation. In inspection and emergency tasks, the wide-area observation of drones and the ground exploration of quadruped robots can complement each other, but information sharing, task allocation, and action coordination in complex environments still face technical bottlenecks. To this end, the project will carry out research on air-ground collaborative perception, decision-making, planning, and control to enhance the ability of different platforms to collaboratively execute complex tasks. EIR will transform its existing patented technologies into algorithm modules adapted to the two types of platforms, fuse aerial and ground perception information, and coordinate task execution through a unified platform. The R&D will combine digital twin simulation and real-machine testing to validate and improve the system in small-scale swarms, gradually build a pilot cluster of 30 units of equipment, and carry out demonstrations in inspection, emergency, and other scenarios to test collaboration effectiveness and operational stability, forming a replicable air-ground collaboration solution. The quadruped robot dog Tianxun, designed for industrial inspection, provides the foundation for the project's ground robot R&D and application. Its joint modules, control system, and perception-decision system are all independently developed by EIR. Combined with multi-source perception configurations such as LiDAR and depth cameras, it supports passage through complex terrain and environmental perception. These capabilities have been continuously validated in underground utility tunnels, allowing the team to accumulate testing and application experience in real environments. Enabling ground robots to cooperate with aerial equipment also requires linking environmental information and action instructions at the software level. Around Tianxun, EIR has developed functions such as map management and navigation control to support the robot in perceiving the environment and executing tasks. With open interfaces and secondary development support, new collaboration algorithms can be adapted on the existing platform and gradually improved through real-machine testing, providing support for subsequent system integration and scenario validation of air-ground swarms. This cooperation will open new space for EIR to deepen air-ground collaboration research and expand robot applications, and will also give advanced scientific research results a transformation vehicle oriented toward actual needs. Relying on the "Results Find Market" mechanism, scientific research and industry are closely connected in specific tasks, with technology, talent, and capital jointly invested in commercialization, accumulating practical experience for Sichuan to deepen the integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation, and enabling more innovative results to grow into real productivity supporting industrial development.