Kaiyun Automobile also cooperates with T11 Fresh Supermarket in the cold chain home delivery business.

I learned that Kaiyun Automobile announced today that it has received a strategic investment from the Harbin Institute of Technology Robot Group. The amount of financing was not disclosed. Kering said that they will use the advantages of Harbin Institute of Technology Robots in robot products, technology and operations to lay out the urban home furnishing field and accelerate the construction of home furnishing logistics infrastructure.

Kaiyun Automobile was established in 2014. It is a new energy vehicle design and manufacturer. It mainly provides comprehensive intelligent solutions for the city’s end-of-town logistics home delivery business. Its business covers the design and development of miniature electric smart vehicles, innovation and application of IoV technology , Fleet operations, etc., the goal is to improve the overall efficiency of logistics companies and drivers.

Kaiyun Automobile is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zhongrui Deke (Beijing) Industrial Design Co., Ltd. (CSG DESIGN), which was established in 2009 and has been designing and developing new energy vehicles since 2013.

At the end of 2016, Kaiyun Automobile announced that it had received a pre-A round of financing of hundreds of millions of yuan, led by Huaxing Private Equity Fund and followed by Panda Capital. In October 2019, the company announced that it had obtained strategic investments from Harbin Institute of Technology Robot Group, Dazhi Capital, and Harbin Venture Capital.

Source: Kaiyun Automobile

Kaiyun Auto told that at present, urban logistics is undergoing a transition from “extensive” to “fine”, from “manpower superposition” to “intelligent and efficient”, and the home furnishing industry will also usher in a disruptive wave of change. Through this investment, the Harbin Institute of Technology Robot Group has achieved an industrial leap, allowing robot technology to be applied on a larger scale. And through cooperation with the Harbin Institute of Technology Robot Group, Kaiyun Automobile can enhance its capabilities in mechatronics and automation control, through real-time online, automated, intelligent new energy vehicles, in picking, transportation, distribution and more The link promotes the upgrade of the city’s real-time home delivery model.

Specifically, in the sorting process, the sorting robot will quickly sort and accurately sort the goods; in the transport process, the transport robot can intelligently identify, automatically store and retrieve the goods at any time; in the distribution Link, the distribution robot can