These are aimed respectively at the embodied‑intelligence hardware sector and the mass‑personalization footwear market—both high‑growth arenas.
On August 26, 2026, the first day of Formnext Asia in Shenzhen, Polly launched two major solutions: the RoboFab one‑stop additive manufacturing full‑stack solution for robotics, and the PollyAlign AI‑driven digital foot platform for footwear.
As a national‑level “Little Giant” enterprise in China’s specialized and sophisticated manufacturing sector, Polly operates five R&D and production bases in Suzhou, Wuhu, Yangzhou, Luzhou, and Yichun. The company has accumulated over 12,000 material formulations and more than 300 patents, and has built its HALS ultra‑high‑speed 3D printing intelligent cloud factory 2.0 system. With more than a thousand self‑developed industrial‑grade printers, its daily production capacity reaches tens of thousands of parts, enabling a complete closed‑loop chain covering materials, equipment, software, and manufacturing services.
RoboFab: Tackling the Three Big Pains in Robotics
Leveraging the AMaaS (Additive Manufacturing as a Service) model, RoboFab combines digital design, high‑performance materials, and ultra‑fast cloud manufacturing to address three persistent challenges in humanoid and embodied robotics: low collaboration efficiency, high IP leakage risk, and painfully long iteration cycles.
On the material side, the solution features three proprietary polymer systems—FIRMRIUM for high‑strength structural parts, TOUGHTRIUM for tough, impact‑resistant components, and ELASTRIUM for flexible elastomers. These cover applications from tooling and jigs, prototyping, and bionic muscle‑like structures to cushioning pads for robot feet. Together they enable the design and volume production of “bone‑tendon‑muscle” integrated bionic structures. Polly’s “bone + flesh” approach—using lightweight lattice structures as the skeleton and 3D‑printed breathable, shock‑absorbing materials as the muscle—has already been put into practice in humanoid robotics. The solution offers one‑stop engagement, low‑cost early‑stage validation, agile tool‑free manufacturing, and four‑level data security protection. Samples can be delivered in as little as 48 hours, and the overall lead time is reduced by over 40%, supporting the entire lifecycle from R&D prototypes to mass production.
PollyAlign: From Mass‑Produced Shoes to a Pair Made Just for You
PollyAlign is a digital operating system for human‑product conformal design in smart wearables. It connects the entire value chain: upstream 3D sensing and digital twinning, mid‑stream differentiable geometric conformal deformation, and downstream production orchestration and control. Using only unorganized images, it generates a high‑fidelity digital twin of the foot, captures true foot dimensions according to national measurement standards, and produces a postural diagnostic report.
The platform translates individual foot‑shape variations into computable, machine‑readable parameters for manufacturing, achieving millimeter‑level conformal fit. It supports one‑click generation of TPMS micro‑topological lattices, and its orchestration middleware handles order management and production line task dispatch. This effectively solves the chronic industry headaches of inaccurate measurement, difficult adjustments, failed deliveries, and difficulty in scaling traditional custom shoemaking. PollyAlign enables mass customization with “one profile per person, one mold per order,” covering the entire journey from foot scanning to finished product. As previously disclosed, the company has already achieved million‑unit scale production through its cloud factory, with a turnaround of just two hours from data modeling to physical part.
Software‑Defined Manufacturing
Behind both solutions lies a fully self‑developed software stack—ensuring high success rates and consistent quality in large‑batch printing, while PollyAlign handles human perception, digital twinning, conformal design, and production line orchestration. The deep synergy among software, materials, equipment, and cloud factories forms the core moat that sets Polly apart.
During the show, Polly will also host two forum presentations and live demonstrations of the full foot‑scan‑to‑lattice‑generation workflow. These launches precisely target two high‑value directions for additive manufacturing industrialization: as humanoid robots move from validation to volume production, flexible bionic structures and lightweight frames are exactly where traditional processes fall short; and as custom footwear evolves from a luxury exclusive to a scalable consumer product, the commercial potential of 3D printing far exceeds that of conventional manufacturing. From materials and equipment to software and cloud factories, Polly is building an “additive manufacturing operating system” that spans both robotics hardware and consumer wearables.
