Scale like this is the sum of long bets on technology, product, scenario and standards, not just capacity. Hikrobot’s path runs from early product lines (latent, forklift, omnidirectional forklift) to a safety controller with the world’s first SIL3 certificate, an omnidirectional forklift with China’s first full-directive CE mark, and a fourth-generation ‘smart base’ architecture, a … Read more
Jieluo Intelligent Equipment (Suzhou) has broken ground on a headquarters project in Suzhou’s Wuzhong district, a 1.2 billion yuan bet on the robots that move wafers around the world’s cleanest factories. The site covers 42.5 mu and about 70,000 square metres, and is designed to build 2,000 trackless-navigation robots (AMRs) and 500 wafer-intelligent-storage systems a … Read more
From ‘can move’ to ‘can be scheduled’ Scale is the result of long accumulation in technology, product, scenario and standards, not just capacity. Hikrobot’s path runs from early latent, forklift and omnidirectional models to a safety controller with the world’s first SIL3 certificate, China’s first full-directive CE for omnidirectional forklifts, and a fourth-generation ‘smart base’ … Read more
Standard Robots has submitted its prospectus to the Hong Kong exchange for the third time. On the industrial autonomous mobile robot, or AMR, track, the Shenzhen company is a genuine dark horse: its client list spans 3C electronics and automotive manufacturing and includes Huawei, Xiaomi, Toyota and NIO. From a 12-square-metre room Founder Wang Yongkun, … Read more
Founder Wang Yongkun, just 35, started the company in 2016 from a 12-square-metre office with a five-person team and a startup loan. He bet early on laser-SLAM autonomous mobile robots, machines that route, avoid and schedule themselves on the factory floor. A 2018 cash crunch nearly killed it; at 26 he took over as CEO, … Read more