The sudden epidemic has aggravated the "non-contact" demand, thereby providing a broader application space for the service robot industry. Industry shipments have been thoroughly stimulated, and service robots have been accelerated into the "spotlight".
At present, China has become the world's largest and fastest-growing robotics market, and it shows the characteristics of diversified application scenarios, diversified products, and accelerated scale. Affected by the difficulty of recruitment in the public service industry and the rising cost of employment, and the emergence of new functional needs such as mask identification, disinfection, and contactless delivery in the post-epidemic era, it is estimated that the potential market size of service robots in my country will exceed 300 billion yuan.
Capital entry, intensifying the "Matthew Effect" in the service robot industry
As the robotics industry continues to heat up, capital with a keen sense of smell has also begun to focus its efforts on entering the field of robotics, especially service robots that have become the hottest “sweet and pastry”.
According to the data from Tianyan Check, there are currently over 310,000 robot-related companies in my country. According to incomplete statistics, from January to July 2021 alone, my country’s robot track financing amounted to 94, with a total financing amount of approximately 12.535 billion yuan; 31 projects with a financing amount of more than 100 million yuan, with a financing amount of approximately 10.769 billion yuan. . It is worth noting that the financing amount of the service robot is basically more than 100 million yuan, which is enough to show the large expectation of capital on the track.
Looking back at the investment and financing situation of the service robot industry in the first half of 2021, in addition to the amount of financing, all head service robot companies have generally entered the B round and above.
The accelerated penetration of capital inevitably intensified the "Matthew effect" of the service robot industry, and at the same time meant that a new round of reshuffle of the industry was about to begin. How to break the restriction of "low price + homogeneity" has also become the key to "breakthrough" that major service robot companies cannot avoid.
According to industry insiders, due to the long industrial chain of commercial service robots, it needs to go through hardware design and development, supply chain management, procurement, production, quality control, security, systems, business docking, product service value release, large-scale operations, etc. There are complicated links, and purely hardware is not the key point for service robots to break the game.
Focus on smart buildings to ensure a complete service closed loop
In the current background of multi-technology integration of complex scenes, service robots have gradually expanded their applicability to application areas, product types have become more diverse, and their autonomy has continued to increase. At the same time, service areas and service objects have been continuously enriched.
In the lively scene of "Hundreds of Flowers", for service robots, improving hardware capabilities is only one of the most basic requirements. How to provide users with stable, reliable, and long-term complete services can ensure their own market occupancy rate. Take into account the benign long-term development of the industry. Zhongzhi Wei'an, which is deeply involved in intelligent building commercial service robots, has made more exploration and practice in this regard.
It is understood that the reeman robot is precisely aimed at the smart building track and uses this as a product foothold to quickly establish product advantages through diversification and scale. At present, 11 self-developed public service robot products have landed in 50+ application scenarios; at the same time, Zhongzhi Guardian has established more than 300 service outlets across the country, and has 30,000 customers of various buildings across the country, in office buildings, hospitals, and hotels. , Supermarkets, government affairs halls and other scenes have maintained a large market share.
"Selling out" robots is only the first step, focusing more on how to realize the maximum release of the value of products and services. Based on this, adhere to the development of a technology-driven Internet OTO model, creatively and independently research and develop and build the "Smart Cloud Service Robot Industry Internet Platform", which overturns the operation mode of traditional robotics companies and realizes a complete closed-loop service for the entire robot industry chain .
The Lingji cloud service robot industry Internet platform integrates the carrot network e-commerce platform, the human-machine collaboration service platform, the Lubanda technical service platform, the digital enterprise management platform, and the operation service platform. The five platforms cover pre-sales product display and customer site Deployment, after-sales technical support, enterprise internal management, follow-up operation services and other robot industry transaction cycle and the entire chain of services.
Reject the ceiling and start the long-distance running mode of commercial service robots
With the rapid development of the industry, some different voices have begun to appear: Can service robots really become a rigid demand? Is the popularity of service robots just a flash in the pan under the catalysis of the epidemic? Will service robots reach the ceiling soon?
In any industry, sprinting and long-distance running are bound to exist. It is advisable to take a long-term view, how to go more stable and farther, this is also the development direction that Zhongzhi Wei'an has always adhered to. "The ceiling of service robots depends on changes in demand. As long as demand continues to upgrade, the entire robot industry will continue to be promoted."
my country’s service robot industry has taken the lead internationally from its inception to overtaking; on the one hand, it is a huge market effect brought about by market development, on the one hand, there is indeed a rigid demand. However, what cannot be ignored is that my country’s service robot industry is more or less incomplete at this stage, or limited by technology, or limited by the environment; among them, how to continuously release, radiate and drive the aggregation effect of the robot industry to promote the long-term industry Development has become one of the important issues facing the industry.
Service robots are an important part of the intelligence and digitization of the entire society. It is foreseeable that in the next two to three years, commercial service robots will usher in an explosive period. Zhongzhi Guardian will continue to consolidate the intelligent manufacturing and shared ecological chain of service robots and start the development of service robots. A new journey of "long-distance running".