Buyer's Guide

When I founded SZGH in 2013 here in Shenzhen, buyers from Europe and North America would politely hear our pitch — and then quietly place their orders with ABB or FANUC anyway. I understood. The perception of Chinese industrial robots at that time was not unfair. Component quality was inconsistent,

I run a Chinese robot manufacturer. We compete against ABB, FANUC, and KUKA every week — which makes me probably the last person you'd expect to write an honest comparison. But that's exactly what I'm going to do.Buyers who dismiss Chinese manufacturers without doing the math are often overpaying by

I've walked these same floors thousands of times since we founded SZGH in 2013. The smell of aluminum swarf in the machining bay, the low mechanical hum from the assembly lines, the flickering status lights on a row of robot arms running their 72-hour endurance test at 2 a.m. — I know every corner o

When I started SZGH in 2013, China was the world's largest importer of industrial robots. ABB, FANUC, and KUKA logos were everywhere on Chinese factory floors. Domestic brands were a distant second thought — affordable, yes, but not yet trusted for precision work. We imported components, reverse-eng

In 2026, I speak with fabrication shop owners nearly every week who are at the same crossroads: they know they need to automate welding, but they feel locked out of it. Traditional welding robots seem too expensive, too complex, and too inflexible for a shop doing 20 different part numbers. Manual w