With a 30% increase in efficiency and a 99.5% reduction in defect rates, how could you not love this AI-powered welding robot?
2025-11-28
Recently, the 3rd Intelligent Welding Process Innovation (Jinqiao Welding Materials) Forum and the 16th Tianjin Welding Forum were successfully held in Tianjin. Tang Ruobin, Product Director of the Welding Application Department at STEP, was invited to attend and delivered a keynote speech titled “Application and Innovation of ‘AI-Powered’ Teach-Free Technology,” highlighting STEP technological breakthroughs and comprehensive scenario-based solutions in the field of intelligent welding, and showcasing the brand’s strength in driving high-quality manufacturing development through independent innovation.
Featured Highlights
Tackling Pain Points Solving industry challenges such as high reliance on manual labor and slow product changeovers in traditional welding, thereby achieving a dual leap in both efficiency and quality.
Tech hardcore Self-developed across the entire value chain, the no-teaching technology boosts welding efficiency by 30% and reduces defect rates by 99.5%.
Honored and Empowered STEP has been awarded the “Welding Classic Award”—the 2025 Annual Typical Application Case Award for Innovative Welding Products.
Tackling Industry Pain Points: AI Technology Breaks the Impasse
Currently, the welding industry faces several core challenges: high reliance on manual labor, poor environmental adaptability, insufficient quality stability, and difficulties in welding advanced materials. Particularly in sectors such as shipbuilding, steel structures, and construction machinery, the demand for diversified products produced in small batches makes it difficult for traditional welding robots to meet these requirements. Adhering closely to industry needs, STEP has adopted a “robotics + AI” strategy as its core approach and launched a smart welding solution that eliminates the need for teach-in programming. This shift from “experience-driven” to “data-driven” provides a brand-new pathway for flexible manufacturing.
Tang Ruobin, Product Director of the STEP Welding Application Department, delivered a keynote presentation.
Empowered by cutting-edge technology, reshaping the value of welding.
In his sharing, Tang Ruobin thoroughly analyzed the core advantages of teach-free technology:
- Based on a 3D visual reconstruction and AI-based path-planning system, autonomous workpiece recognition, automatic weld seam extraction, and trajectory planning can be achieved without complex programming.
- Combined with intelligent matching technology, it can identify weld seam types and plate thicknesses in real time and automatically calibrate welding parameters.
Digital Intelligence Transformation | SmartRobot Intelligent Work Platform with No Teaching Required
This solution achieves multi-station collaborative operations and full-process data traceability through deep integration between the “visual-drive-control integrated” control cabinet and a fully self-developed robot series. In welding complex seams and irregularly shaped structures, it boosts efficiency by 30%, reduces defect rates by 99.5%, and significantly lowers labor costs and material waste.
Efficiency increased by 30%, and the defect rate decreased by 99.5%.
Honor-certified strength, envisioning a blueprint for the future.
2025 Welding Innovation Product Typical Application Case Selection (Welding Excellence Award) Ceremony
At the award ceremony for the 2025 Welding Innovation Product Typical Application Case Selection (Welding Excellence Award), held concurrently with this forum, STEP successfully won the "Welding Excellence Award" for its AI-powered welding application technology case in the shipbuilding industry—specifically, a no-teaching approach. This honor not only recognizes STEP technological strength within the industry but also underscores its significant contribution to driving the intelligent upgrading of the welding sector.
STEP Wins the "Welding Excellence Award"
In the future, STEP will continue to deepen its integration of AI and intelligent manufacturing, optimize its teach-free technology and expand its full-industry-chain layout, and explore more high-end application scenarios. Together, we will uncover how intelligent manufacturing can address the pain points in the welding industry and inject new momentum into the upgrading of key equipment welding technologies.
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