On June 19, 2025, at the Mobile World Congress (MWC Shanghai 2025), Leju Robotics, an intelligent robot company, together with China Mobile and Huawei, released the world's first 5G-A embodied intelligent robot "Kuavo". This breakthrough achievement not only marks the first application of 5G-A in the field of robotics, but also opens a new wave of industrial chain reconstruction with intelligent robots as the core.
In terms of core challenges such as high concurrency, multi-tasking, and human-machine collaboration, Kuavo has achieved an end-to-end intelligent closed loop through the advantages of low latency, high bandwidth, and large connection of 5G-A network, and has become a technical model of "robotics + communication + AI" deep integration. The "New Three Things" White Paper on 5G-A Empowering Information Consumption jointly released by the three parties was unveiled at the same time, laying a theoretical and practical foundation for building a standardized, large-scale, and network-collaborative robot ecosystem.
Ⅰ. Technological breakthroughs: 5G-A empowers intelligent robots to accelerate their evolution
The "Kuavo" robot is a typical representative empowered by 5G-A technology, with the following three technical highlights:
1. The leap in network capabilities supports "super perception + super collaboration".
Compared with traditional 5G, 5G-A has an order of magnitude improvement in speed, connection density, and latency. The peak rate can reach 10 Gbit/s, the connection density is increased to millions, and the latency is reduced to milliseconds. This provides technical support for Kuavo to achieve large-scale multi-machine concurrent collaboration. For example, without relying on additional edge devices, Kuavo can achieve high-precision positioning, millisecond-level instruction response, and low-latency communication, greatly improving task execution efficiency and system robustness.
2. Multi-machine collaboration and air-ground integrated intelligent scheduling
In the on-site demonstration, "Kuavo" realized the automatic collaboration between multiple robots: fully automatic box handling in industrial scenarios, and completed the integrated distribution process of "airdrop + ground delivery" in commercial scenarios in collaboration with drones, opening up". The last 10 meters" puzzle. This ability of multi-machine collaboration and air-ground integration marks the leap of embodied intelligent systems from single intelligence to swarm intelligence.
3. Strong athletic performance and all-weather battery life
With a walking speed of 5 kilometers per hour and a 24-hour endurance, the "Kuavo" supports continuous jumping, walking on non-flat terrain (such as grass and sand, etc.), and is equipped with model-based motion control algorithms and reinforcement learning optimization mechanisms, which can maintain good motion stability and energy consumption control in dynamic environments.
Figure: Leju, China Mobile, Huawei, and others jointly released a white paper to clarify 5G-A humanoid robot scenarios and network demand indicators
Ⅱ. Scenario application and business value
The application scenarios of "Kuavo" have covered many fields of industry, commerce and service industries, reflecting a high degree of product versatility and market expansion potential.
1. Industrial automation: adapt to changeable scenarios and reduce labor costs
In intelligent manufacturing scenarios, "Kuavo" can independently complete tasks such as handling, loading and unloading, and inspection, and adapt to dynamic working conditions and complex path planning. With all-weather operation capability and strong terrain adaptability, it is expected to greatly replace manual operations in warehousing logistics, manufacturing lines and other links.
2. Commercial logistics: a key role in connecting the "last mile".
Combined with the airdrop capability of the drone, "Kuavo" can complete the ground reception and precise delivery of terminal distribution. This air-ground collaboration model has strong expansion potential and is suitable for e-commerce, express delivery, catering and other fields, which will greatly improve service response speed and user experience.
3. Service and Companionship: A New Direction of Intelligent Care
Although there is no actual deployment case of "Kuavo" in elderly care or nursing scenarios, the potential of embodied robots in companionship, rehabilitation training, and daily care cannot be ignored. It can integrate functions such as voice interaction, behavior recognition, and assisted control, and is expected to alleviate the service pressure caused by the aging population in the future.
Ⅲ. The ecosystem of industrial collaboration and 5G-A integration has emerged
The success of "Kuavo" is not only a technological breakthrough, but also the crystallization of industrial ecological integration and synergy.
1. Drive 5G-A applications from "viable" to "usable".
For the first time, Kuavo has completely transformed 5G-A network capabilities into perceptible and callable capabilities on the robot end-side, providing a landing sample for 5G-A technology to move from standard to commercial. The joint release of Leju with operators and equipment manufacturers also marks the gradual expansion of 5G-A application scenarios from traditional communication equipment to intelligent terminals (such as robots).
2. Deep integration of the intelligent robot industry chain
Leju has core capabilities in robot ontology manufacturing, intelligent algorithms, and motion control, while China Mobile provides network services and cloud-edge collaboration capabilities, while Huawei provides support in underlying capabilities such as chips, operating systems, and communication protocols. The three parties form a complete technology closed loop from network to terminal, from communication to AI, accelerating the transformation of embodied intelligent robots from the laboratory to commercialization.
3. Joint definition of standards: Publish a white paper to build consensus
In the "New Three Ways of 5G-A Empowering Information Consumption" White Paper jointly released by the three parties, the network requirements and application indicators of 5G-A humanoid embodied intelligent robots were systematically put forward for the first time, filling the gap in industry standards. The white paper is expected to provide important technical reference and business model guidance for subsequent industry chain partners.
Ⅳ. The future outlook: from single-point innovation to large-scale replication
1. Technological evolution: higher degrees of freedom, stronger perception and cognition
With the evolution of technologies such as AI large models, edge computing, and sensor fusion, the future "Kuavo" is expected to have richer perception capabilities, stronger environmental understanding capabilities, and more natural human-computer interaction methods. For example, through multimodal perception and local semantic understanding, autonomous collaboration with the environment and humans can be realized.
2. Scenario extension: from manufacturing to medical, security, and education
In vertical scenarios such as medical rehabilitation, teaching assistance, and public security, "Kuavo" or its derivatives can provide targeted services. For example, in the hospital, the distribution of materials, ward inspections; AI teaching interaction on campus; Perform 24-hour intelligent patrols in security.
3. Market scaling: Build replicable technology and business models
With the improvement of the industrial chain and policy support, embodied intelligent robots are expected to enter the stage of rapid replication. Leju and its partners are exploring modular and standardized product design, reducing costs, improving versatility, building intelligent robot systems that can be deployed on a large scale and with low thresholds, and accelerating commercial implementation.
Ⅴ. List of product parameters: KUAVO core configuration
Figure: The core configuration of the KUAVO humanoid robot
VI. Conclusion
The release of "Kuavo" is not only a landmark landing of 5G-A technology, but also indicates that intelligent robots have entered the era of convergence. It is the product of the integration of communication network, AI perception, and intelligent manufacturing technologies, and it is also a key step for China's intelligent robots to move from "concept demonstration" to "industrial application". In the future, embodied intelligent robots will work with 5G-A to jointly build a new foundation for the intelligent world and promote industrial upgrading and social transformation.
