Get on the ground in China

Asiabits does. We sit in Shanghai and run private factory tours for corporates, investors and boards from Europe. Thomas Derksen has lived in Shanghai for over ten years, speaks Mandarin and chairs the meetings himself. The other routes are trade bodies and chambers, which run fixed group itineraries, and travel operators, who arrange the logistics but do not sit in the technical discussion.

Start from a written specification, not from a shortlist someone hands you. We screen several thousand manufacturers against that specification, then verify on site what a company can actually build: line speed, how much is made in house, the quality process and who the real customers are. Exhibition demos and public claims are not evidence.

Yes. Sourcing a humanoid means sourcing the supply chain behind it as well: actuators, harmonic drives, force sensors and the embodied-AI stack. We identify the candidates, arrange the meetings, and stay in the project through samples, evaluation and the first contract.

Those run to a fixed date with a fixed group along a fixed route, and you go where the group goes. Ours is built for one client around one decision. You choose the companies, the meetings are private, and nobody from a competing firm sits at the table.

Our own database holds 7,000+ robotics companies across Asia with funding history and supply-chain position. More than 2,600 of them are published in our free Asia Robotics Directory. The shortlist for a programme is built out of that database, not out of a search engine.

Yes. We design and run private delegations across Shenzhen, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou and Beijing for corporate teams, investors and boards. Cities, companies and length follow your objective, never a fixed itinerary.

Companies we have taken clients into include Unitree, AgiBot, Galaxea, DexForce, LimX Dynamics, Daimon Robotics, Spirit AI, UniX AI, Pudu, TMiRob, Dobot, BYD and DJI. Which of them fit your programme depends on what you need to decide.

Yes. Mobile robots and AGVs, collaborative arms, warehouse and logistics automation, actuators, sensors, batteries and electric vehicles. Most programmes mix humanoids with the suppliers behind them.

Yes. We screen a market of several thousand manufacturers against a written specification, verify capability on site, and chair the first meeting in both languages.

Every programme is quoted individually, because the cost follows group size, the number of cities and how much of the agenda is arranged directly with the companies. Tell us the objective and we come back with a quote.

Four to six weeks is comfortable. Faster is possible when the target companies are already in our network.

Three to five days, with two to four companies a day in one city, fewer when the group moves between cities. The travel time between sites is built into the plan.

Corporates, investors and private equity, chambers of commerce and government delegations looking at Chinese robotics, plus robotics companies looking for a way into Europe.

Mandarin and English. We chair and translate in both directions, and the technical vocabulary is ours, not a hired interpreter's.

We name a company once the meeting is confirmed. Where a name cannot be confirmed, we say so before you book flights.

We stay involved with the manufacturers you decide to pursue: follow-up, translation of the technical exchange, samples and support through evaluation and the first contract.