For years, companies promised humanoid robots revolutionizing industries. Impressive videos appeared, as well as laboratory demonstrations, but there was almost always the same word in the air, soon, now that changed. The Chinese company AgiBoot in collaboration with Long Cheer Technology announced the first mass production line led by humanoid robots in continuous operation in the consumer electronics sector.

It is not a temporary test, it is not a showroom, it is real production of tablets running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in Nanchan, China, the protagonists are the G2 robots, developed to circulate in complex industrial designs and execute precise tasks in multimedia test stations and the figures attract attention, each unit can process up to 310 devices per hour with cycles of approximately 19 to 20 seconds per operation and a success rate greater than 99%.

In other words, a tablet validated every few seconds, without pause, without fatigue and with extreme repeatability, but what makes this so important is not just the speed, it is the flexibility. The electronics industry is experiencing a difficult reality, products change too quickly, new models emerge all the time, traditional automation lines are often expensive and rigid to reconfigure, while manual work faces increasing costs and labor shortages.

The humanoid emerges as an intermediate solution, it uses tools made for humans, adapts to new designs and learns new tasks via software, this changes the logic of the factory, instead of rebuilding machines for each new product, the robot is updated. According to the company, the line integration was completed in just 36 hours – by industry standards, that is extremely fast – in addition, the system accumulated more than 140 hours of continuous operation with downtime of less than 4%.

EgiBoot claims to have already launched 10,000 humanoid robos and intends to expand this facility to have 100 humanoids working until the third quarter of 2026. If that is confirmed, we are facing something bigger than an automated factory, we are seeing the birth of scalable robotic labor, but for the promoters working robots is not enough, the next step is to make them think better.