The service robot is landing to pinpoint the specific problems of the subdivided fields.
According to the data of the “China Robot Industry Development 2019 Report”, the domestic service robot market is expected to reach US $ 2.2 billion in 2019, a year-on-year increase of approximately 33.1%, which is higher than the global service robot market growth rate. Despite the rapid growth of the market size, service robots are still far from industrialization. At present, there are very few service robot listed companies in domestic A-shares, most of which are cut in by mergers and acquisitions; domestic startups are also mostly in the exploration state of landing scenarios. Mass production is always a problem.
The fat robot has cut into commercial robots in the field of education, and positioned the application segmentation in the kindergarten and elementary school scenes, focusing on solving the problem of teacher repetitive teaching . At present, the number of customers has Reached more than 3,000.
Little Fat Robot was established in 2015. It is an intelligent robot service developer and currently has two major product lines for home and business. Among them, the commercial service robot (Little Fat) currently accounts for most of the revenue. It is also the company. Products currently occupying a major market share.
From the technical line, The company has independently developed artificial intelligence visual recognition, machine vision, speech recognition and other technologies to build a navigation cognitive system, so that robots can build maps, Plan paths and autonomous movements to accurately identify commands and reach their destinations, with infrared sensors and ultrasonic sensors to help achieve autonomous obstacle avoidance; In addition, the core technology of the product is the “emotional operating system” , CEO Wei Ran said that the main purpose of developing the “emotional operating system” is to improve the “interactive” user experience of the service robot. At present, the system has undergone a large number of tests and verifications for 3 years. The user can be judged by simple language, actions and expressions Emotional state and give feedback.
From the results of use, Fatty Robot is currently assisting teaching in the mode of “assistant teacher”, aiming at repetitive teaching links of teachers, robots assist teachers in explaining courses, and teachers are responsible for guiding students Interaction, thus reducing the workload of teachers. The current product price is about 3-4 million yuan, and mass production has been achieved. The number of customers is about 3,000. The market has covered remote areas in China to help supplement local education resources. CEO Wei Ran said that the company will launch another new model this year, which is mainly cheap and easy to use, with simplified functions.
Service robots are a price-sensitive market. Regarding this reason, CEO Wei Ran said: Users have high demand for interactive experience, although artificial intelligence interaction technology has greatly improved the intelligence of service robots. Great progress has been made in software, technology, and algorithms, but the technology gap between core components such as chips, servos, and sensors is relatively small.Large, for example, the current SLAM that solves robot navigation and positioning, mature laser SLAM and developing visual SLAM have shortcomings, and multi-sensor fusion needs to be implemented as soon as possible. At the same time, robot chips need strong support for judgment, calculation, and execution. In addition, many core parts rely on imports, which leads to excessively high-cost products that cannot solve the user’s needs just now, and it is more difficult to achieve mass production. This is the current dilemma facing service robot manufacturers in opening the market. Therefore, in order to open up the market for short-term service robots, it is necessary to find the specific positioning in the segmented scenario, make use of the existing technical advantages of the robot, and complement the manpower.
According to the exhibits of service robots at the World Robot Conference 2017, the sales price of commercial robots is generally high, with an average price of about 200,000 yuan. Most of the landing scenes are selected at bank outlets, star hotels, large-scale exhibition venues, museums, shopping In the center and other places, the companies and products with high market share currently include the Cruzr series of products that can help companies divert traffic and reduce operating costs through the new retail scene. In addition, medical treatment is also the scene where commercial service robots are centralized. DaVinci surgical robots for assisted surgery; and Titanium robots, whose product series have covered links such as hospital guidance, medical services, and material distribution.