PrimeBOT to Build Robot Production Base in Hangzhou as Orders Grow

The consumer humanoid brand will build its manufacturing base and national headquarters in Fuyang, pairing Shanghai R&D with Hangzhou production.

PrimeBOT has signed a deal in Fuyang, Hangzhou, to build a robot production base and open a national headquarters operations center, as orders for its consumer humanoids outgrow its current capacity. The project sets up an operating entity in the Fuyang Economic and Technological Development Zone, in a partnership between PrimeBOT, precision manufacturer Jingu Co., and the Fuyang Industrial Investment Group.

PrimeBOT is the consumer humanoid brand of Swancor Advanced Materials. Its Qiyuan Q1 and T1 models opened for pre-order in August, with the first shipments going out in September. The new base is designed to link research verification, pilot production and real-world application in a single pipeline, and the company expects it to draw in suppliers of precision structural parts, joint modules, sensors and control systems.

Research stays in Shanghai: Qiyuan Xinchuang, based in Zhangjiang Robot Valley, handles product development, while Fuyang takes manufacturing and the national headquarters. Jingu chairman Sun Fengfeng called the move a strategic extension into embodied-intelligence manufacturing, and PrimeBOT chief executive Tian Hu pointed to Fuyang's manufacturing base, its range of industrial application scenarios and its responsive government services as the reasons for the choice.

The district is courting the sector. Fuyang party secretary Xie Jiansheng noted that embodied intelligence is a designated future industry in the proposed 15th Five-Year Plan and a 100-billion-yuan industrial cluster for Hangzhou. No investment figure, planned capacity or production start date has been disclosed.