World's first robot 6S store opens in Longgang

Visitors enter the newly opened robot 6S store, touted as the world’s first of its kind, near World · Coco Park in Longgang District yesterday. Photos from Shenzhen Evening News

A robot 6S store, said to be the world's first of its kind, opened yesterday near World · Coco Park in Longgang District, offering a one-stop shop for robot and component sales, maintenance, leasing, and customized services. 

Both individual and corporate clients can access a diverse selection of robots tailored for industrial, commercial, medical, and educational uses.

A total of 26 robot companies, including Unitree Robotics, signed cooperation agreements with the store Monday. More than 200 companies from across the industry chain have expressed interest in joining the store's services, including nearly 50 humanoid and service robot firms. These companies cover the entire industry chain, from core component research and development to complete machine manufacturing, software algorithms, and application scenarios.

A claw robot picks up a stuffed toy while engaging with visitors.

Building on the traditional auto 4S store model of "sale, spare parts, service and survey," the robot 6S store has added two new services: leasing and customized products, said its operator, Shenzhen Future Times Robotics Co., Ltd.

It redefines the service standards and supply-demand connection model of the robot industry, providing an efficient bridge to help transition robots from the lab to the market while transforming technical concepts into real-life applications, according to the operator.

Children interact with toy robots at the store.

The leasing services offered by the store cover a variety of scenarios, including exhibition reception, event performance and emergency inspection. This flexible leasing model not only lowers the barrier for companies and individuals to adopt robots but also quickly validates the application potential of robots in different scenarios in the short term, providing data support for future market expansion, the operator said.

Its customized services are expected to meet different industrial needs. Restaurants need service robots that can carry and deliver food, factories need industrial robots that can move heavy objects, and research institutions need experimental robots with specific sensors. The store also offers customers the potential to build fully customized robots.

A robot demonstrates its massage function on a mannequin.

The store will also have a verification center where companies can simulate real-life scenarios to test the operational stability, interaction smoothness and safety reliability of robots, facilitating robot application, according to the store operator.

Metro: Line 10 to Yabao Station (雅宝站), Exit B