SRT is the only technology company in China with end-to-end innovation capabilities across the entire industry-university-research-application chain in soft robotics. The company has always focused on technological accumulation and persisted in product iteration and innovation. While continuously strengthening its core competitiveness, it proactively fulfills its social responsibilities and is deeply engaged in industry-education integration.leveraging cutting-edge industrial technologies, advanced processes, and practical implementation experience from the front lines of industry, SRT systematically organizes, simplifies, and standardizes high-quality industry resources to develop course resources and practical teaching content that are suitable for campus teaching, easy to understand, and highly practical. This effectively breaks down the barriers between industrial technology and campus education, precisely supporting the cultivation of high-quality applied and skilled talents, and empowering the building of industry talent pipelines.

On July 28, 2026, the 2026 Manufacturing and Vocational Education Exchange Conference was held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Under the guidance of the China Machinery Industry Federation, the conference was hosted by the Machinery Industry Education Development Center and the National Machinery Vocational Education Teaching Steering Committee. With the theme “Integration and Symbiosis, New-Quality Empowerment, and Smart Innovation for the Future,” it brought together representatives from nearly 400 organizations, including equipment manufacturing enterprises, higher education institutions, vocational colleges, and technical colleges from across China.

At the sub-forum “Special Exchange Meeting on High-Quality Development of Industry-Education Integration in Machinery Vocational Education,” SRT’s Education Sector Lead, drawing on the company’s technological expertise and industrial applications in soft robotics, shared with participating colleges and enterprises the practical pathways for commercializing soft robotics technological achievements and deploying them in industrial scenarios. SRT hopes to work with colleges to jointly develop soft robotics technological achievements, ensure solid commercialization of colleges’ technological achievements, and transform real industrial scenarios into teaching cases, thereby providing industry-side practical reference for the promotion of soft robotics technology, the development of college programs, and the building of practical training systems.

On August 19, the 2026 World Robot Conference opened in Beijing under the theme “Human-Robot Symbiosis, Production-Demand Integration.” As an international innovation enterprise specializing in “Robot+” and industry-education integration, SRT partnered with Beijing E-Town Talent Group to showcase its self-developed equipment at the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Robot Industry-Education Integration and Coordinated Development Exhibition Area, Hall A, Booth A105.

The Dexterous Hand Workstation draws its design concept from industrial mixed-material sorting and packaging scenarios. It incorporates a collaborative robot, a hybrid biomimetic dexterous end effector, and an integrated 3D vision, motion control, and drive-control system, integrating cutting-edge technologies such as speech recognition and multimodal interaction. It can simulate the functions of human eyes, brain, and hands to perform adaptive grasping, precision assembly, and other tasks. For educational institutions, it can serve as practical teaching equipment for courses in robotics, artificial intelligence, automation control, and related fields, helping students intuitively understand and master the core principles and technologies of soft robotics and embodied intelligence. The platform supports multimodal intelligent perception and interaction, and can guide students to carry out a wide range of innovative experiments and project practices, such as robot environmental adaptation, intelligent path planning, and human-robot interaction design, effectively enhancing students' practical skills and innovative thinking.

On August 21, SRT and Taishan Polytechnic jointly exhibited at the Shandong Education Expo, presenting an intelligent harvesting robot based on soft robotics technology.

The project integrates soft robotics and machine vision technologies, with self-developed food-grade flexible grippers and an intelligent control system. It can precisely locate fruits and vegetables and cut fruit stems. Equipped with an autonomous obstacle avoidance mechanism, it adapts to field environments such as orchards and greenhouses, fully automating harvesting and collection. It is suitable for soft fruits such as apples, peaches, and plums, helping reduce labor and fruit loss.

By participating in this expo, SRT not only provided a teaching platform closely aligned with real industrial scenarios for relevant programs at vocational colleges and higher education institutions, but also further advanced the implementation of industry-education integration in specific professional fields.

In recent years, SRT has established school-enterprise partnerships with multiple universities and colleges across China, achieving phased results in talent development, scientific research and innovation, and base construction. SRT has carried out nearly 20 research projects with these institutions and built dozens of laboratories in robotics, smart manufacturing, and related fields. In addition, SRT has established innovation platforms such as a Postdoctoral Research Workstation (Park Branch), the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (BDA) Talent Joint Training Base, and a Beijing Municipal Enterprise R&D Institution. These platforms continue to attract and cultivate high-end talent in soft robotics, providing intellectual support for technological innovation and industry-education integration.

Looking ahead, SRT will continue to play its role as a key education stakeholder, integrating technologies and processes from the transformation and upgrading of advanced manufacturing into classroom teaching. This will help colleges enhance their program development capabilities and the quality of talent cultivation, while providing talent support for the high-quality development of new quality productive forces in smart manufacturing.