The Most Potential Companies in China for Commercial Robots

At present, the total value of the global commercial robot market is growing at an annual rate of 20% to 30%, which will increase the operational efficiency of enterprises, save labor costs and management costs, and promote the innovation and upgrading of traditional service industries. More and more companies have begun to accelerate the deployment of commercial robots. The antennae of robots have begun to extend to diversified scenes such as retail, restaurants, hotels, and finance. The following Xiao Bian gave everyone a look at the top 10 companies with the most potential for commercial robots.

NO.1 Flags Technology (Sambo Robot)

The flagship technology established in 2006 is a pioneer in the field of commercial robotics in China. The concept of platform robots was first proposed in China. At present, Qiqi Technology owns the Sanbao elf series and the Sanbao Kongang series of products, and has a wealth of industrial application cases in retail, customs, education, medical, courts and other fields.

At the World Robotics Conference in August 2017, Qi Shu Technology first launched the world's first three robots, including intelligent voice semantic system, intelligent vision, human-like bionic arm, high-speed mobile 3DSLAM, super heavy load, API development, and advanced battery life. Advantages represent the leading level of Chinese commercial robots in terms of product innovation. Qifan Technology also put forward the "Robot + 100 Hundred Business" strategy to promote the innovation of technology and business models in various application industries through the ecology of developers.

NO.2 Cobos (Wang Bao robot)

Cobos was established in 1998 and launched a commercial robot R&D project in 2013. During the period from 2015 to 2017, the public service robots Wangbao 1st, 2nd and 3rd generations were successively released. The new generation of Wangbao 3 products has invested heavily in and innovated in core technologies such as robot motion platforms, artificial intelligence applications, and system architecture, enabling differentiated industrial applications.

At present, Cobos Commercial Robot Wangbao is mainly used in banking, insurance, retail and judicial areas, and it can be competent for many professional job functions such as precision marketing, customer service and reception, secretarial and data management.

NO.3 You must choose (Cruzr)

Ubisoft was established in 2012 and will launch Cruzr, the first commercial service robot, in early 2017. Cruzr is a smart cloud platform commercial service robot with technical freedoms such as full-freedom arms, omnidirectional free movement, multi-modal human-computer interaction, U-SLAM stereo navigation obstacle avoidance system, and active data acquisition management. Transportation, retail, exhibitions, banking, automotive 4S shops and other industries and application scenarios, providing personalized customized services.

Ubisoft has accumulated rich experience in human-robot joint-actuated servo steering servos, gait planning and motion control algorithms. In 2016, it completed a round of 100 million U.S. dollar financing in B, with a valuation of over one billion U.S. dollars. In 2017, it plans to achieve a sales target of 1.5 billion yuan. At present, it has received orders for five or six thousand units.

NO.4 ROOBO (Jelly & Farnese)

ROOBO (Beijing Smart Butler) was established in 2014 and its commercial robots are mainly Jelly and Farnese products. Jelly is designed for banks, hospitals, restaurants, and other industries. It supports open customization. Farnese is a large-scale intelligent service robot that can provide consulting, publicity, and other services at airports, banks, shopping malls, and exhibition venues.

Smart stewards are based on an open ROS.AI system that provides industry users with a complete system solution. In September 2017, ROOBO announced that it had completed a round of financing of RMB 350 million, led by Seven Seas Capital. At the same time, Tencent's former CTO Xiong Minghua announced that he has joined ROOBO as chairman.

NO.5 Cloud Technology (Run & Yunfan)

Cloud Trace Technology was established in 2014. It owns the Run-Intelligent Business Service Robot, Water Drops-Smart Mobile Platform, and Yunfan-Large Display Interactive Robot Series. Among them, “Run” robots are mainly used in hotel scenes and currently serve over 100 hotels in the four major international hotel groups and five major domestic hotel management groups. "Yanfan" can be applied to government affairs halls, banks, hotels, 4S stores, luxury goods stores and other applications.

CloudScience Technology has completed the A round of financing from HKUST and HNA's travel industry innovation. In the second half of 2017, CloudStone officially became an Intel OEM partner.

NO.6 Kang Liyou Blue (youyou U05)

Kangli Youlan was established in 2006. In 2015, Kangli Youlan officially released the large-scale commercial robot U05. The U05 has technical highlights such as a multi-modal image recognition engine, a Chinese speech recognition system, semantic understanding capabilities, multi-sensor fusion technology, ontology motion control systems, and autonomous awareness engines.

Youyou U05 can be used in many application scenarios such as museums, shopping malls, restaurants, entertainment, and finance. In June 2017, Kangliyou Blue announced the production of U05 U-series production line.

NO.7 Ke Luther (Wow Europe)

Kluder Robots is a subsidiary of Haier Households and was established in 2015. In the same year, it released its robotic product "Wow Europe." In 2017, Kluder released the new robotics "Wow Europe II", which can switch scene application functions according to the specific use environment, and at the same time open the software development interface, and the robot encapsulates the basic functions (voice, sports, etc.) into usable interfaces. The robot performs secondary function development.

In May 2017, Kroll released the “Wow European Brain” with language skills, data processing capabilities, and machine perception and action capabilities. At the same time, Kluder announced that it had completed a round of financing of 60 million yuan, and the lead investor was the Sino-Lee-Zhaohaihui fund. After this round of financing, Kluder robots had a valuation of 420 million yuan.

NO.8 Evolved (little fat)

EVOLUTION Robots was established in 2015 and launched in September 2016 a smart robot chubby and service robot solution for industry users. At present, the evolator mainly increases the research and development efforts in both the cognitive navigation system and the emotional operating system. In the future, the evolving person hopes to establish a complete ecology of the “robot body + application solution”.

In September 2017, the Epoch Robots announced that it had received 80 million yuan in A+ round financing, which was invested by private equity agencies Ropeway Capital and Shuimu Capital. Up to now, the evolutionary robot has completed 3 rounds of over RMB 200 million in financing. After this round of financing, its valuation has exceeded RMB 1 billion.

NO.9 Amy (AMY)

Hangzhou Amy Robot was established in 2015. Its product line already has a commercial robot M1 with intelligent interaction, remote presentation and autonomous navigation. The main application scenarios are banks, hospitals, nursing homes and rehabilitation centers.

In March 2017, Amy Robot announced the completion of Fangrong Fund's 15 million yuan round A financing. This round of financing was mainly used for marketing and sales outlets.

NO.10 has a robot (YOGO)

Shanghai has a robot (YOGO) founded in 2015 and currently offers hotel service robots and PIZZABOT dining robots. YOGO robots use fully self-developed algorithms that allow self-awareness, decision-making, and execution, autonomous robots that can adapt to various human life scenarios without changing the environment.

The YOGO Hotel Robot solves the problems of robots taking elevators, wireless calls in rooms, and cooperation between multiple robots.

In November 2016, YOGO received IDG tens of millions of Pre-A rounds of financing.

The above list is authoritatively released by the China Artificial Intelligence Robotics Industry Alliance (CAIA). It aims to help domestic commercial robotics companies to increase their awareness and influence in the industry. It encourages the robot brands listed on the list to go further and promotes China’s commercial use. Robot market innovation and development.

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