Since 2025, enterprises including Luobo Intelligence, Lingtong Robotics, UBTECH, and Huawei have successively launched AI emotional companion robot products. Ranging from trendy toy forms empowered by cellular communication, to breakthroughs in embodied humanoid hardware, and to electronic pets with multimodal interaction, AI companion robots are evolving from single-function “chat tools” to warm, tactile “emotional partners” thanks to the iteration of intelligent manufacturing technologies, emerging as a new breakthrough for the commercialization of intelligent robots.
Notably, the high-precision and high-reliability capabilities of intelligent manufacturing that underpin the evolution of AI companion robots have been fully validated in fields like medical device production. Syringe automatic assembly equipment, a classic example of precision intelligent manufacturing, achieves ultra-high-precision assembly of syringe components through automated control systems and precision positioning technology, ensuring the safety and consistency of medical products. This mature experience in precision control, automated assembly, and quality assurance provides a solid technical foundation for the manufacturing of AI companion robots—such as the precision processing of micro-bionic skeletal components and the seamless integration of tactile sensing modules.
UBTECH “Youzai”: The “Digital Life Form” Cultivation System
Shenzhen UBTECH Robotics Corp., Ltd. (UBTECH for short) is a leader in humanoid robots and a pioneer in intelligent service robots.
On December 1, 2025, UBTECH officially released its new product in the Meng UU family series – “Youzai”, which has already opened for pre-sale. Building on the previously launched “Mengzai”, Youzai is based on UBTECH’s self-developed “Dianling Intelligent Agent”, boasting a unique personality and growth trajectory. Its conversation style and memory methods evolve over time, providing the experience of a “rudimentary form of real digital life”. Youzai also inherits the “digital life form” cultivation system of the Meng UU series, including “cloud travel” for sharing experiences and an electronic wardrobe for outfit changes, offering richer gameplay and strengthening the emotional bond between users and Youzai. “Youzai” represents UBTECH’s in-depth practice of the concept of “emotional intelligence” – by endowing the robot with a unique, growable “personality”, it aims to establish a deeper emotional connection with users.
Huawei “Intelligent Hanhan”: Redefining Consumer-grade AI Products
In November 2025, Huawei launched its first chat companion robot “Intelligent Hanhan”, positioned as an intelligent companion for household scenarios, further enriching the interaction dimensions of AI companion robots.
This emotional companion electronic pet is equipped with Huawei’s Xiaoyi Large Model. Its intelligent manufacturing process integrates touch sensing technology with a soft plush material in an integrated design – physical interactions such as stroking and shaking can trigger precise emotional feedback. The built-in exclusive memory system, through the combination of hardware storage and AI algorithms, enables the device to record details of user interactions and generate emotional logs.
This design concept of “hardware tactile sensation + AI empathy” has redefined the way consumer-grade AI products deliver emotional value. Analysts believe that this phenomenon is more than just the popularity of ordinary toys; it is a signal of the full-scale outbreak of the “emotional economy”, and tech companies have thus become the “emotional suppliers” of the new era.
Lingtong Robotics: Breaking Through the Miniaturization Challenge of Desktop Humanoid Robots
Lingtong Robotics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (Lingtong Robotics for short) is core-positioned as “AI-native hardware”, covering the R&D and sales of intelligent robots, the development of artificial intelligence hardware and application software, as well as the development and sales of digital cultural and creative products, and the sales of toys and arts and crafts.
Lingtong Robotics has achieved a key breakthrough in intelligent manufacturing in terms of hardware form. Its independently developed micro bionic skeletal system and application of intelligent materials have solved the industry challenge of miniaturizing desktop embodied humanoid robots – a typical achievement of intelligent manufacturing in the fields of precision processing and material R&D.
Lingtong Robotics’ desktop AI embodied humanoid robot, the “Nian” series NIA-F01, is soon to be launched. With a height of 56cm (approximately 1/3 of a human height), Lingtong Nian NIA-F01 is described by the official as “a size that meets human psychological expectations for a companion while adapting to placement in multiple scenarios such as homes and offices”. The product features an independent AI personality cultivation system, built-in cutting-edge large AI models, and learns users’ language habits, preferences, and emotional patterns through daily interactions. Lingtong Nian NIA-F01 also supports face and costume changes, and is equipped with an AI Soul Card to cultivate a soulmate exclusive to the user.
Currently, Lingtong Robotics has built a complete matrix of hardware R&D, digital content ecology, and AI service platforms. Through the construction of a robot app store and a peripheral product system, it has formed a closed loop of intelligent manufacturing and scenario-based implementation.
Luobo Intelligence’s Trendy Toy Fuzozo: Meeting the Personalized Emotional Needs of Generation Z
Shanghai Luobo Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (Luobo Intelligence for short) focuses on three major areas: technology R&D, product application, and innovation incubation. It is committed to providing customers with one-stop artificial intelligence software solutions, specializing in the R&D of AI companion robots and emotional interaction technologies to create a warm human-machine interaction experience.
The in-depth penetration of intelligent manufacturing technologies is the core support for the experience upgrade of AI companion robots. Launched by Luobo Intelligence in June this year, Fuzozo – an AI cultivation-oriented trendy toy – relies on the integration of Fibocom’s cellular communication technology and large AI models to break through the scenario limitations of traditional AI devices: the low-latency feature of cellular communication ensures millisecond-level response of cloud-based large models. The innovation in communication technology on the hardware side has transformed AI companionship from “fixed-scenario conversations” to “full-time online companionship”. The five Fuzozo products with different personalities and adapted to diverse scenarios launched by Luobo Intelligence reflect the flexible production capacity of intelligent manufacturing, accurately meeting Generation Z’s pursuit of personalized emotional needs.
Conclusion
In the future, with the continuous upgrading of intelligent manufacturing technologies, AI companion robots are expected to make breakthroughs in more scenarios: the AI toy market has enormous potential, and AI technology is reshaping the landscape of the traditional toy industry, likely to become a new breakthrough point. Lingtong Robotics’ promotion of large-scale popularization in household scenarios, coupled with Huawei’s continuous innovation in multimodal interaction, will drive AI companion robots to become an important carrier of emotional connection in the digital age. Empowered by intelligent manufacturing, intelligent robots are not only the product of technological iteration but will also become people’s future electronic partners and a medium for building digital emotional bonds.
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