Chuangyebang was informed that on June 15, Wanxun Technology, an innovative service robot enterprise, announced the completion of the PreA+ series of financing, with an accumulated amount of nearly 10 million US dollars. The finalization of this series of financing will further accelerate the research and development of new products of Wanxun Technology’s service robots and the building of high-quality teams, strongly promote the commercialization of multiple scenarios, and at the same time build technical barriers to expand technological leadership in the field of interactive robots.
Cao Wei, partner of Lanchi Ventures, the leading investor, said: “The cutting-edge innovation related to robots is the key layout direction of Lanchi. At present, the cost, flexibility and safety of traditional robotic rigid manipulators limit its large scale in many scenarios. Large-scale application. After years of research and development, Wanxun’s team has pioneered a modular, low-cost, high-safety flexible robotic arm and gripper solution, and its technology and products have been recognized by many heavyweight customers. .We are very optimistic that the Wanxun team can bring flexible robots into more application scenarios and bring users a new experience.”
Founded in 2019, Wanxun Technology is an innovation-driven high-tech enterprise dedicated to providing flexible, dexterous and safe work-based interactive service robot solutions for industries and families. The founder and core team have solid technical backgrounds from top universities at home and abroad, such as Harvard University in the United States, Technical University of Munich in Germany, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Hong Kong University, Tsinghua University, Harbin Institute of Technology, and Southern University of Science and Technology. The team has opened up the entire technology stack in the field of robotics and innovated independently, and created an integrated intelligent operation robot solution with a lightweight and flexible robotic arm as the core to meet the diverse needs of different service scenarios for safe, flexible mobile and interactive operations. Widely used in public services, security power, energy and chemical industry, disinfection and epidemic prevention, smart parks and other fields.
[Breakthrough at the Bottom: “Flexible Robot” Redefines Safe Interaction]
The robotic arm is one of the product forms with the longest history, the most mature development and the most extensive application in the field of robotics. From industrial manipulators to collaborative manipulators, manipulators are constantly improving their safety and interacting with people safely and effectively. However, the traditional manipulators that meet the core requirements of processing and manufacturing scenarios take “high precision, fast speed, and large load” as the core indicators. Hardware modifications and limitations to achieve the required flexibility, security, and interactive control. This greatly restricts the expansion of robots from industrial scenarios to service scenarios.
Driven by the background of the ageing population and the short-term catalysis of the new normal of the epidemic, unmanned robots, intelligent operations and labor shortages in the service industry will inevitably lead to rapid demand for interactive robots. However, at the core end of the working arm, there is a serious lack of effective solutions to meet the various requirements of the service robot for the working ability, safety and cost of the interactive working manipulator.
In response to this market situation, Wan Xun independently developed a series of lightweight/ultra-lightweight flexible robotic arm bodies through subversive innovation of underlying logic and multiple rounds of systematic optimization iterations based on a deep understanding of the full-stack robotic arm technology. The unit and intelligent control algorithm have successively created K series and S series flexible robot arms and grippers, which are flexible and light to use. Based on active and passive safety technology, they can achieve all-weather, all-round safe and flexible operations in unstructured scenarios where collisions may occur. .
The flexible robotic arm with “dexterity, lightness, flexibility, and safety” as its core features has almost no restrictions on installation and operation of traditional robotic arms, so it is very suitable to be mounted on various mobile robot platforms, whether indoors or outdoors, in severe cold and heat, or on the go. In the world, even ultra-high voltage and corrosive radiation can be calmly dealt with. With excellent operation ability and strong interactivity, diversified operation services from cleaning and disinfecting to inspection and maintenance can be realized.
[From full-stack technology penetration to product commercialization exploration]
The landing of interactive service robots requires full-stack technological breakthroughs. A service robot with physical interactivity is a complex system, which requires the effective cooperation of the chassis, arms, and terminal execution end, as well as in-depth collaboration with software algorithms for navigation, vision, and arm control, in order to realize the effective and stable operation of the robot as a whole. For interactive service robots operating in a generalized environment outside the assembly line, the operation of the overall system needs to eliminate the “black box” and realize the through adjustment and optimization of the whole system, so as to make up for the shortcomings and give full play to the overall advantages.
On the basis of the underlying research and development of the early lightweight robotic arm, Wanxun’s team gradually expanded the technical boundaries upward and downward, and used three years to consolidate the foundation. , and the soft and hard two levels of composite algorithms such as joint drive control, arm solution, navigation planning, intelligent recognition, and intuitive teleoperation have achieved a full technology stack. Based on this, Wanxun launched the integrated motion control platform MIU and the intelligent solution platform PASI, which provided a unified, stable and highly compatible hardware foundation for Wanxun’s full range of robot products, which greatly accelerated the promotion of product iteration and standardization. .
In terms of products, Wanxun adopts a modular strategy to highlight portability and replaceability on the basis of early single product research and development, and quickly iterates a series of unique features to meet the needs of different scenarios such as mobile inspection and energy operation and maintenance. The mobile interactive service robot solution has initially built a product matrix with flexible robotic arms as the core, and has outstanding market competitiveness in terms of product interactivity, flexibility, and safety. At the same time, based on the technical advantages of full-stack connection, Wanxun robot products can better quickly reiterate, meet the actual needs of core customers, and help the team expand a number of opinion leader customers to achieve “0 to 1” breakthrough in robot applications , laying a solid foundation for large-scale replication.
[Innovation is endless: a new starting point for the stars and seas]
In the future, Wanxun Technology will continue to take lightweight and flexible robotic arms as the core technology, provide integrated solutions for interactive service robot applications, deepen and expand scenarios, polish and iterate products, gradually enrich product lines, and launch a series of iconic products. Standing at the new starting point of scale and mass production, Wanxun will introduce the new dimension of “dexterity, lightness, flexibility and safety” into the interactive operation of service robots, providing professional, reliable, safe and affordable services for customers in different industries. Robotic Solutions.
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