Hangcha Group | Smart Moving Future: The Embodied-AI Era of Forklifts - LINGTRA

November 14,2026

The 2026 Asia International Logistics Technology and Transportation Systems Exhibition (CeMAT ASIA 2026) was held from November 3 to 6 at the Shanghai New International Expo Center. Under the theme 'Smart Moving Future: The Embodied-AI Era of Forklifts,' Hangcha Group focused on the 'forklift robot' concept, showcasing full-scenario capabilities from forklift robots to smart logistics and new-energy forklifts across the W5 forklift-robot zone, W5 smart-logistics zone, W5 new-energy forklift zone, W1 display zone and W4 e-commerce product zone. Hangcha's booth number was W5-A1.

On the morning of November 3, at the Hangcha booth in Hall W5 of the Shanghai New International Expo Center, the 'Smart Moving Future: The Embodied-AI Era of Forklifts' new-product launch ceremony was held grandly. On site, Hangcha Group unveiled the 'LINGTRA' AI-Fork full-series intelligent forklift robots, and demonstrated two innovation achievements - an industrial embodied large model with a brain-cerebellum collaborative architecture, and a new-generation single-machine intelligent driverless forklift - systematically presenting a complete technical system in which a top-level coordinating 'brain' and on-site executing 'cerebellum' work together.

Scene of Hangcha Group's 'Smart Moving Future: The Embodied-AI Era of Forklifts' launch ceremony

LINGTRA brand launch opens the physical-AI era of forklifts

Xu Zhengyu, Chief Engineer of Hangcha Group

The launch officially began at 10:28. In his speech, Xu Zhengyu, Chief Engineer of Hangcha Group, said that over a 70-year development history and more than 50 years of industrial-vehicle R&D and manufacturing accumulation, Hangcha has always been led by innovation. This July, Hangcha's first AI DAY unveiled the LogiMind embodied large model with a 'brain-cerebellum collaborative architecture,' taking a key step in its 'second entrepreneurship.' The full-series products released today share a unified technology base, covering Class I, II and III industrial vehicles, with complete autonomous capabilities of environment understanding, task understanding, motion planning and anomaly closed-loop. What Hangcha delivers is not a capability fixed at the factory, but a continuously upgrading operational capability; going forward it will accelerate the deep integration of embodied intelligence and industrial vehicles, transforming toward a technology-driven enterprise.

Zhang Jie, Specialist of the Industrial Vehicle Branch of the China Construction Machinery Industry Association

In her speech, Zhang Jie pointed out that the industrial-vehicle industry is accelerating its transformation toward low-carbon and intelligent development, and forklifts are becoming intelligent robots capable of sensing the environment, making autonomous decisions and completing operations. Hangcha's full-series products cover multiple scenarios such as counterbalanced, reach, stacker and pallet trucks, and demonstrate an industrial embodied large model with a brain-cerebellum collaborative architecture and a new-generation single-machine intelligent driverless forklift, reflecting Hangcha's deep understanding of real in-plant logistics scenarios and providing the industry with a practical sample of embodied-intelligence deployment. She looks forward to Hangcha continuing to play its leading demonstrative role and driving high-quality industry development.

Li Jinke, Secretary General of the Mobile Robot Industry Alliance

Li Jinke said the forklift, an industrial equipment born over a century ago, is being redefined by embodied intelligence. As the 'micro-circulation' of manufacturing, the intelligence level of in-plant logistics has become an important yardstick for the modernization of manufacturing systems. Hangcha's newly released technology uses a 'top-level coordinating brain' for global perception and task orchestration and a 'field-executing cerebellum' for precise, safe real-time operation, practically solving the industry's real problem of single-machine intelligence breakthroughs versus top-level scheduling coordination. He hopes the industry will take real scenarios as the driver, standards co-building as the bond and open collaboration as the path, jointly promoting the large-scale deployment of forklift robots.

At the launch ceremony, Hangcha Group officially unveiled the 'LINGTRA' AI-Fork full-series intelligent forklift robots. 'LINGTRA' is a blend of 'Ling' (smart) and 'Transport' (carry); the Chinese name 'Lingyun' matches the English in sound and meaning: 'Ling' stands for smart sensing and agile decision-making, 'Yun' for effortless carrying and boundless transit. As the brand carrier of Hangcha's AI-Fork full-series intelligent forklift robots, LINGTRA carries the decisions of the LogiMind intelligent hub, executes full-scenario operations, and conveys the brand proposition 'aspiring to the clouds, boundless in transit,' perfectly corresponding to the closed-loop logic of embodied intelligence - perception, decision, execution.

Full-series product matrix unveiled, covering all in-plant logistics scenarios

With the new-product unveiling, Hangcha Group showed the global AI-Fork forklift-robot product matrix built on an 'all-standard smart base,' precisely fitting various complex working conditions:

Three-wheel counterbalanced forklift robot: flexible side-shift and dock-board boarding capability, supporting free shuttling in narrow aisles, ideally fitting container cargo in/out and production-line distribution.

Four-wheel counterbalanced forklift robot: built for outdoor heavy loads and long-distance transfer, achieving intelligent autonomy even under heavy load, suitable for factory loading/unloading and heavy long-distance transfer.

Reach-truck robot: designed for high-bay racking, supporting high-level dense storage and retrieval, with high-level intelligent motion control ensuring stable and reliable high-bay operations.

Stacker robot: narrow-aisle capability, the all-round choice for intelligent stacking, production-line connection and warehouse picking.

Pallet-truck robot: built for flat-warehouse, high-frequency short-haul and production-line distribution, supporting cross-floor elevator transfer.

'LINGTRA' AI-Fork full-series intelligent forklift robots

At the software and system level, Hangcha launched the TransEasy task-orchestration system, supporting seven template types and graphical configuration - a new scenario goes live in just one hour, reusable with zero code. Combined with digital twin and shepherd-style remote supervision, it achieves graded human-machine collaboration led by full automation with remote fallback. For safety, the products carry a five-layer protection system (design, hardware, software, operation and fallback layers) to fully safeguard mixed human-machine site operation.

Wang Wenfei, Hangcha's Chief Technology Officer and Dean of the Intelligent Logistics Research Institute, introduced the product's technical architecture and scenario capabilities. The industrial embodied large model demonstrated on site features a brain-cerebellum collaborative architecture, emphasizing the linkage of the top-level coordinating brain and the field-executing cerebellum; the new-generation single-machine intelligent driverless forklift demonstrated single-machine intelligence in real job-site applications. Together they form Hangcha's technical closed loop of 'perception-decision-execution' for forklift robots.

Wang Wenfei, Chief Technology Officer of Hangcha Group and Dean of the Intelligent Logistics Research Institute

Full-matrix ecosystem display, presenting the smart-logistics landing panorama

Beyond the new forklift robots, Hangcha Group simultaneously showcased at this exhibition a full matrix of smart logistics, new-energy forklifts, humanoid robots, aerial work platforms, tractors, cleaning equipment and core components:

Smart logistics and humanoid robots: the W5 smart-logistics zone dynamically demonstrated the second-generation high-speed cloud ladder, bin shuttle, bin-picking robot and humanoid logistics robot assisting sorting. Among them, X1-L focuses on light-load flexible material handling; X1-H features heavy-load dual-arm collaboration; X1 is the full-size general-purpose model. On site, a composite robot fusing a mobile chassis, robotic arm and 3D vision was also shown, boosting flexible manufacturing.

New-energy forklift family: the W5 new-energy zone had frequent highlights. The XH 3.5t high-voltage lithium dedicated truck adopts a 317V high-voltage platform with water-cooling, core components rated IP67, paired with super-fast charging - the standard battery fully charges in one hour and is compatible with EV charging piles, unfazed by harsh conditions; the all-new X-series sit-down reach truck can be configured with a mast up to 15m, equipped with a 5-inch smart touch color screen and full-scenario drive-by-wire technology for precise control and active safety warnings; the NEX high-voltage lithium tractor, powered by CATL LFP batteries and a high-power motor with industry-leading comprehensive energy consumption, is built for modern airports and logistics scenarios. The XA mini stacker and mini pallet truck and other lightweight products were also shown, meeting diverse warehouse needs.

Intelligent warehouse management system: demonstrated WMS (warehouse management system), MES (manufacturing execution system) and AMS (automated equipment management system), supporting centralized and distributed deployment, connecting upward to ERP/CRM/SCM, providing an agile and smart overall IT solution for intelligent logistics.

In addition, Hall W1 concentrated on warehouse trucks, aerial platforms, cleaning equipment and lithium battery assemblies - whole machines and core components - covering warehouse, aerial, cleaning and lithium supporting applications; Hall W4 highlighted e-commerce products for e-commerce logistics, further enriching the exhibition's full-scenario product matrix.

From product launch to scenario landing, building a new pattern of embodied intelligence

During the exhibition, the Hangcha booth arranged live Douyin streaming, photo live-streaming, prize Q&A and entertainment interactions, letting visitors more intuitively understand the deployment progress of Hangcha's embodied-intelligence technology in in-plant logistics scenarios. On the afternoon of November 3, Hangcha Group also held a forklift-robot product-landing exchange meeting, inviting industry customers, media, experts and institutional investors to discuss industry trends, forklift-robot landing paths and future development.

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