JAKA Robotics is using the 26th China International Industry Fair in Shanghai, which opens on October 12, to launch two new machines: the JAKA Kargo50, a heavy-duty wheeled humanoid robot, and the JAKA Zu50, a high-payload collaborative robot. The company described both as global debuts, according to Shanghai Securities News.
The Kargo50 extends JAKA's Kargo line of wheeled humanoids into heavier industrial work, chiefly moving totes and other materials between stations on a production floor. JAKA has not yet published payload or other specifications for the new model, and the Kargo50 does not appear on the company's English product pages as of launch day.
The company is leaning on the track record of the smaller Kargo10. JAKA says the Kargo10 is in large-scale commercial use at automotive parts and high-end electronics factories. After engineers stayed on site at customer lines to tune it, the robot's cycle time per tote fell from 105 seconds to 28 seconds, and deployment in a new scenario now takes 57 days.
The Zu50 fills the top of JAKA's collaborative arm range, which previously ran from light to medium payloads. According to the product listing on JAKA's website, the arm handles up to 50 kg, reaches 2,100 mm and offers up to 50% higher axis speed thanks to new integrated joint modules with a high power density drive and control system.
Rather than staging isolated motion demos, JAKA has rebuilt a factory workcell on its booth. On the eve of the fair, Jiemian News watched two wheeled humanoids work as a pair: one carried an engine to a set position, the other tightened its screws, and both returned to their start points. JAKA marketing lead Wang Lei said the setup is an agent-driven collaborative system for new energy motors meant to show long-horizon factory work, where staff describe a task goal and the system plans and checks the steps itself.
That workflow runs on JAKA EVO, the embodied intelligence operating system JAKA released in 2025. It splits control into a cloud model that handles perception, task planning, skill selection and exception decisions, an edge model with a rules engine that plans motions and force control, and a motion controller responding at 1 kHz.
Founded in 2014, JAKA now runs two product lines, collaborative robots and embodied intelligence. Vice President Chang Li said general-purpose robots are where the industry is heading.
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