Foreign Tier 1 Suppliers Begin Selling Production Scenarios to Robot Companies

At the 9th China International Import Expo, Aptiv announced partnerships with Itstone Intelligence and Shanghai Electric to deploy hundreds of embodied robots in its production lines by the end of 2026. Other automotive Tier 1 suppliers like Schaeffler, Bosch, and Faurecia are also integrating real factory environments for robot validation and training. The article explores how these companies are leveraging their production scenarios through joint development and data generation, while noting that traditional automation still dominates simple tasks and that cross-factory scalability remains a key challenge.