Massimo Group has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Shenzhen AIBO Robotics to enter the intelligent robotics and automation market, targeting opportunities in both the United States and China.

The partnership is aimed at deploying AI-enabled robotic systems across commercial, retail, and service environments, with Massimo leveraging its manufacturing, assembly and market capabilities to support localization and scaling.

Under the agreement, AIBO will act as a technology partner, providing robotics expertise subject to project-level validation and commercial terms. The collaboration will also explore integrating intelligent automation into Massimo’s existing vehicle platforms, including golf carts, with potential upgrades such as assisted navigation, obstacle detection and remote monitoring.

The companies plan to evaluate applications in areas such as retail automation, hospitality, healthcare support and site management, as well as industrial service use cases. The initiative comes amid growing demand for robotics solutions driven by labor shortages, rising costs and increased interest in automated operations.

Massimo said it will also assess scalable deployment models across multi-site and franchise-based environments, as part of a broader strategy to expand into smart mobility and commercial automation.

“This strategic partnership represents an important step in MAMO’s long-term platform expansion strategy,” said David Shan, Chief Executive Officer of MAMO. “By combining AIBO’s robotics technology with our strengths in commercialization, deployment execution, electromechanical integration, U.S.-based assembly capabilities, and existing vehicle platform experience, we believe MAMO is positioned to evaluate practical automation applications across a range of real-world environments, including the potential intelligent upgrading of selected golf cart and utility vehicle platforms.”

The companies said further details, including deployment plans and revenue models, will be defined in subsequent agreements.