BYD Executive Vice President Li Ke recently confirmed for the first time that the company is steadily advancing its self-developed industrial humanoid robot project, codenamed "Yao Shun Yu," marking the world's largest new energy vehicle manufacturer officially launching a second growth curve in embodied intelligence. The project was initiated by the 15th Business Unit in 2022, with technical support from the Central Research Institute, and currently has a core R&D team of over 4,000 people. As of May 2026, the prototype has evolved to the seventh generation, and the core component production lines are also in operation.

The "Yao Shun Yu" has a dual-foot walking speed of 1.5 meters per second, a rated load of 50 kilograms, and is equipped with a four-finger, 16-degree-of-freedom dexterous hand and a laser radar + 6D tactile sensing system. Currently, about 150 prototypes have been trained in factories in Shenzhen Pingshan and Changsha, achieving an efficiency of 80% of human workers in tasks such as handling and labeling, and have achieved collaborative operations with UBTech Walker S1 and unmanned logistics equipment. According to the roadmap, BYD will deploy 2,000 units in small batches in 2025, expand internal deployment to 20,000 units in 2026, and achieve large-scale deployment comprehensively by 2028.

Li Ke pointed out that the AI capabilities of cars and robots are highly similar. Relying on a sales scale exceeding 4.6 million units per year, the commonality rate of core components of BYD robots with cars exceeds 60%, and the self-research rate of core components exceeds 80%. Its self-developed and mass-produced 4nm intelligent driving chip "Xuanji A3" can also be transferred to robots in the future.