SUPCON Technology Co., Ltd. 中控技术股份有限公司
Hangzhou process-automation group (DCS, SIS, PLC) that also builds explosion-proof plant inspection robots and the Navigator α wheeled humanoid.
SUPCON Technology Co., Ltd. is a Hangzhou-based supplier of industrial automation and smart-manufacturing systems for the process industries: chemicals, petrochemicals and refining, chlor-alkali, power, pharmaceuticals and similar continuous-process plants. Its A shares trade on the Shanghai Stock Exchange STAR Market under code 688777 (listed November 2020), and since April 2023 its global depositary receipts trade on the SIX Swiss Exchange under the symbol SUPCON, each GDR representing two A shares; the GDR offering raised about US$565 million at US$26.94 per GDR. The listed company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered at No. 309 Liuhe Road, Binjiang District, Hangzhou.
Core business. SUPCON's main product families are control and safety systems (the Universal Control System UCS, distributed control systems, safety instrumented systems and PLCs), field devices (control valves, Hobré process analyzers and instruments) and industrial software (TPT, PRIDE, OMC, SCADA, operator training simulators, advanced control and optimisation, supply-chain management and the Operation Navigation suite), plus an industrial cybersecurity line with a PSIRT and security bulletins. Robotics sits inside the Field portfolio of the global website.
Robotics. The company's robotics page lists three product categories: inspection robotics, autonomous forklifts and humanoid robotics. The inspection line is aimed at unattended patrols in hazardous plants. SUPCON describes explosion-proof robots that patrol refineries and chemical plants to detect gas leaks and thermal anomalies, robots for corrosive chlor-alkali units, and AMRs for warehouse logistics that connect to WMS and ERP systems. The Japanese subsidiary SUPCON Japan markets wheeled patrol robots (with explosion-proof versions), rail-mounted patrol robots for data centres, outdoor wheeled substation inspection robots, dual-mode robots for expressway tunnels and municipal pipe galleries, pipe-inspection crawlers, explosion-proof AGVs, autonomous forklifts and the EMMA-K and EMMA-L transport robot series. The same catalogue also lists quadruped inspection robots under the names X30 and Lynx; those names match DEEP Robotics models, which fits the integrator role recorded for SUPCON in RobotToday's quadruped landscape. The robots are tied together by Plantbot Studio, a software platform that manages robots, fixed cameras and sensors, schedules inspection routes and links patrol data to the plant's DCS, PLC, MES, EMS and ERP systems through open APIs and standard industrial interfaces. SUPCON says its multi-sensor fault analytics cover more than 200 fault models across eight industries.
Humanoid. In April 2024 SUPCON opened the Zhejiang Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, which focuses on intelligent sensing and control and links universities with industrial users. At the same time it launched Navigator α, a 1.5 m, 50 kg humanoid with lightweight arms and a dexterous hand. The hand has 15 finger joints, 6 active degrees of freedom, 10 N fingertip force and weighs 600 g, with joint speeds of 150 degrees per second. The company says it plans to add large AI models for a natural operator interface, and that the robot has already been used in several field projects. SUPCON Japan lists it as the SUPCON AI Humanoid Robot.
For RobotToday the relevant parts of SUPCON are its own plant-inspection and humanoid robots and its role as a systems integrator that deploys mobile and legged robots inside process plants already run on its control systems.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
Navigator α humanoid robot
1.5 m, 50 kg humanoid with lightweight arms and a 6-active-DoF dexterous hand, launched with SUPCON's Zhejiang Humanoid Robot Innovation Center for industrial plant tasks.
Explosion-proof plant inspection robot
Autonomous wheeled patrol robot for refineries, chemical and chlor-alkali plants that detects gas leaks, smoke, fire and thermal anomalies in hazardous areas.
Rail-type patrol inspection robot
Rail-mounted inspection robot that patrols data-centre halls and equipment rows without blind spots, sold by SUPCON Japan.
Plantbot Studio
Platform that manages inspection robots, cameras and sensors, schedules patrol routes and feeds results to DCS, PLC, MES, EMS and ERP systems through open APIs.
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Company Facts
Founded
1999
Primary Role
Manufacturer
Company Size
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Primary Region
Asia-Pacific
Annual Sales
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Funding Stage
Public
Funding Total
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Keywords
- SUPCON Technology Co.
- Ltd.
- 中控技术股份有限公司
- Zhejiang SUPCON Technology Co.
- Zhongkong Technology
- SUPCON
- Navigator α
- explosion-proof inspection robot
- Plantbot Studio
- plant patrol robot
- rail-mounted inspection robot
- chlor-alkali plant patrol
- DCS integration
- chemical plant inspection
- autonomous forklift
- Manufacturer
- System Integrator
- Software/Algorithm
- Commercial Service Robot
- Humanoid
