Technology

As industrial intelligence becomes increasingly widespread, robots are now extensively used across many industries. Common industrial robotic arms, site patrol robots, and general-purpose intelligent inspection devices are typically designed for clean, non-hazardous environments at normal temperature and pressure. In the petrochemical industry, however, production sites contain flammable and explosive gases, toxic and hazardous media, as well as densely installed high-temperature and high-pressure equipment, making conventional robots unsuitable for use.

Fueled by vigorous development in recent years, robotics has drawn high-level attention across all market segments. Nations worldwide, including China, attach great importance to this sector and have issued a series of regulatory documents and incentive policies to promote robot for human replacement solutions for risk mitigation.

You may have seen them in news reports: tireless inspection robots operating in petrochemical plants, desilting robots removing sludge from storage tanks, wall-climbing robots working at height on vertical facades, fire-fighting and reconnaissance robots operating in heavy smoke and flames, and underwater robots conducting offshore operations. They all share a unified name — special robots.