The deployment period for the unmanned transformation of manual forklifts was shortened to 2 days.
It has been learned that Multiway Robotics (hereinafter referred to as “Ming Micro Robots”) recently completed a series of tens of millions of yuan in financing led by Meihua Venture Capital and followed by Plug and Play. This round of financing will be used for further technology research and development and market development.
“Maiwei Robot” is a company dedicated to becoming a leading on-site intelligent logistics solution provider. Based on fully self-developed core algorithms and software technologies, the business of “Mobile Micro Robot” covers on-site intelligent logistics solution provision, unmanned forklift/AMR vehicle sales, manual forklift unmanned modification and technical solution authorization, etc.
In the past ten years, the compound annual growth rate of the global manual forklift market was 16%, and the market stock has continued to increase, reaching 13 million units in 2020.
In 2019, the sales volume of manual forklift trucks in China was 608,300 units. In 2020, under the influence of the epidemic, it will increase to over 700,000 units. However, as the demographic dividend fades, the application of manual forklifts is facing problems such as labor shortage and expensive labor. Therefore, the unmanned forklift market has ushered in a window of development.
The main players in the unmanned forklift market can be divided into two categories:
The first category is traditional forklift companies that obtain algorithms, positioning, navigation, and cluster scheduling in key areas of driverless driving through cooperation with third-party technology companies. However, this solution has high prices, low industrial automation, Poor environmental universality and long implementation period.
The other type is AGV (Automated Guided Vehicle), which is an unmanned guided vehicle company, which also uses independent research and development and obtains some third-party company technology authorization as a positioning system, supplemented by simple control and scheduling system solutions, usually lacking The ability to land large and complex projects.
Compared with traditional unmanned forklift service providers, the core solution of “Mobile Micro Robot” is completely self-developed and can achieve cost-controllable products to provide customers with more cost-effective products. It also transforms manual forklifts The deployment cycle is shortened to less than one week, up to two days at the fastest.
The technical competitive advantage of “Mobile Micro Robots” is mainly reflected in three aspects:
First, it broke the 4.5-meter industry lifting height limit. Through the research and development of the front fork structure, the “mobile micro robot” raised the maximum lifting height of unmanned forklifts to more than 10 meters, and carried out actual landing applications;
The second is to achieve a substantial increase in the operating efficiency of unmanned forklifts. At present, the maximum travel speed of the same type of forklift AGV is 1.5 meters per second, and the “Mirobot” has increased it to 3 meters per second;
The third is to improve the achievable positioning accuracy. The joint development of laser positioning radar provided by “Micro Robot” and its partners, supplemented by the flexible positioning solution of the SLAM vision system, can enable unmanned forklifts to achieve a positioning