Specialized and innovative "little giant", mobile robots unlock new roles

According to relevant data, since 2018, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has cultivated more than 8,000 specialized, sophisticated and innovative "little giant" enterprises.

This year's Government Work Report, in addition to proposing to accelerate the implementation of the national strategic emerging industry cluster project, also emphasized the need to accelerate industrial upgrading and focus on cultivating specialized, sophisticated and innovative enterprises.

Focusing on niche markets, strong innovation capabilities, high market share, and mastering core technologies are all distinctive features of specialized and innovative "little giant" enterprises over the years.

According to Gaogong Mobile Robot, several industrial AMR and forklift AGV companies such as Jiateng Robot, Kunchuan Intelligent, Lingdong Technology, and Guozi Robot have been listed on the national list of specialized and innovative "little giants" enterprises.

So which industrial AMR and forklift AGV companies will be successfully selected in the fourth batch of specialized and innovative "little giant" companies released this year ?

*The following companies are sorted in alphabetical order, in no particular order.

1. HaiRobo Innovation - Extending Infinite Possibilities from ACR Box-Type Warehouse Robot

Hai Robotics, also founded in 2016, has continued to develop box-type storage robot systems since the single-box robot HAIPICK A2 was put into operation in 2017. It is understood that the HAIPICK system under Hai Robotics has been upgraded to the fourth generation.

HaiRobo Innovations officially stated that the KuBao system has been widely used in many industries including footwear and apparel, 3PL, e-commerce, electricity, 3C manufacturing, medicine, retail, etc., and has more than 500 application projects worldwide.

Gaogong Mobile Robot learned that with the increase of Hai Robotics' projects, the R&D team is also expanding. Today, Hai Robotics has transformed into a unicorn company with more than 1,600 employees, more than 50% of whom are R&D personnel, and more than 1,100 intellectual property rights.

Judging from the layout in recent years, Hai Robotics has not only focused on the box-type storage robot series products, launched efficient and coordinated multi-layer material box robots, telescopic lifting material box robots designed for 10-meter-high warehouses, and a new generation of lifting storage robots; it has also laid out multiple lines in different domestic and overseas markets, such as setting up subsidiaries in Japan, the United States, Singapore, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and other places, cooperating with Wanyitong to launch the ACR smart warehouse of Birmingham e-commerce in the United Kingdom, digitalizing the smart three-dimensional warehouse for Xinfangsheng, and working with Zhongzhi Pharmacy to create the iconic ACR pharmaceutical smart warehouse in China, and jointly "casting" digital factories with different brands such as Anta/Philips, etc., in order to achieve spiral growth of increasing market penetration.

2. Jiazhi Technology - Empowering industry upgrades with full-scenario smart logistics

Founded in 2016, Jiazhi Technology has, after six years of development, now developed different series of products including industrial-grade standard logistics robots, omnidirectional intelligent operation robots, intelligent unmanned forklifts, composite collaborative robots, park-level indoor and outdoor heavy-load unmanned operation robots and industry logistics special aircraft for different industries such as semiconductors, FPD, electronics, lithium batteries, photovoltaics, automobiles , aviation, home appliances, medicine, energy, and food.

According to official information from Jiazhi Technology, it currently serves more than 200 customers and has over 1,000 smart manufacturing factory logistics projects. Its market covers South China, East China, as well as Europe, the United States, and the Pacific Rim.

Since its establishment, Jiazhi Technology has been digging deep into laser SLAM fusion navigation technology and constantly trying to better integrate this technology into the new generation of products. At the 2022 lTES Shenzhen Industrial Exhibition held in August this year, Jiazhi Technology made a heavy debut of the FOLA series of lightweight intelligent unmanned forklifts that use laser SLAM fusion navigation technology.

It is understood that the maximum rated load of the BN2001D pallet-handling unmanned forklift on display is 2000kg, while the 120mm fork tine lifting height and 360-degree on-the-spot turning design can be easily used in various workshops and factories with narrow spaces.

In terms of industry applications, Jiazhi Technology stated that as a full-scenario intelligent logistics solution provider, in recent years, in addition to deepening its roots in the 3C, semiconductor and lithium battery fields, it has also been deploying in multiple fields such as photovoltaics, automobiles, aviation, home appliances, and medicine.

It is understood that for each process stage of lithium battery production, Jiazhi Technology has deployed various special AMR robots, such as the coil double-lift AMR suitable for coating and roller pressing loading and unloading/slitting loading and unloading, the omnidirectional cantilever axis AMR used in the slitting off-line/die-cutting on-line/winding on-line and other process stages, the clip transfer AMR that can realize intelligent automatic loading and unloading of square battery stacking sections, and the coil loading and unloading unmanned forklift that meets the needs of intelligent handling of polar coil materials and loading and unloading of production lines .

3. Quick Robotics - Benchmarking against FANUC among the four major industrial robot families

Founded in 2014, Kuaikan Intelligence has focused on building general-purpose AMR clusters since its inception.

"Adhere to the positioning of AMR manufacturers and benchmark against FANUC, one of the four major families of industrial robots" is the clear market positioning of Kuaikan Intelligent. According to official sources, the general products of Kuaikan Intelligent have been verified in more than 50 industries and three major scenarios, and have accumulated nearly 1,000 customer resources around the world.

Kuaikan Intelligence also stated that in recent years, the company has been building the know-how capability of "understanding customers better than the customers themselves" by continuously cultivating e-commerce, clothing, retail, medicine, automobiles, photovoltaics, lithium batteries, PCB and other industries.

In fact, as early as 2017, after Kuaikan Intelligent launched overseas projects in Southeast Asia, it began to accelerate its pace of globalization.

In 2019, Kuaikan Intelligent officially passed the German TÜV Rheinland full directive CE certification;

In 2020, we reached a global strategic cooperation with KION Group and started the project of building a global intelligent robot industry base;

In 2021, Kuaikan Smart's overseas orders reached hundreds of millions of yuan, with the highest single order exceeding 100 million yuan;

In 2022, we will enter the lithium battery industry, target the French e-commerce market with a market share of up to US$100 billion, and explore with Cubyn the implementation of automated unmanned warehousing for French e-commerce.

In the view of Quicktron Intelligent, the four words "specialization, precision and innovation" have fully explained the company's development over the years: focusing on the creation of general AMR clusters, implementing lean and standardized production, accurately positioning the market - benchmarking "FANUC" among the four major families of industrial robots, and innovatively launching QuickBin solutions for material box and latent collaborative operations.

Focus on the market segments and take your own path. Different companies have different understandings of specialization, excellence, and innovation, and the broad mobile robot track should not have only one voice and one standard answer.

To this end, the 2022 (3rd) Gaogong Mobile Robot Annual Conference, sponsored by Angge Technology and themed "Resilient Growth in the Year of Change", will set up a special session for new forces around the topic of "Specialization, Specialization, and Rise of Science and Technology Innovation". At that time, a series of exciting topic sharing, hard-core case practice, and views and opinions on cutting-edge technologies will be presented one by one.