China's Food Delivery Robot Market Has Broad Prospects

Recently, the Shenzhen Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Shenzhen Robotics Association jointly released the "2018 Shenzhen Robot Industry Development White Paper". In 2018, the total industrial output value of Shenzhen's robot industry was 117.8 billion yuan, of which the output value of industrial robots was about 80.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.25%; the output value of service robots was about 34 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 21.79%. On the whole, the growth rate of industrial robots in Shenzhen has slowed down; service robots are still in a stage of rapid development, and the scale of the service robot industry has further expanded.

Output value of service robots in Shenzhen, 2014-2018

The demographic dividend disappears, and the demand for service robots increases

In recent years, China's demographic dividend has gradually disappeared, the aging population, insufficient labor force and rising labor costs have led to a gradual increase in demand for service robots; secondly, as income levels continue to increase, people are also willing to pursue a higher quality of life; thirdly, technology Maturity provides a favorable guarantee for the development of service robots. With the application of deep learning algorithms and various intelligent algorithms such as computer vision, machine learning, and intelligent voice, the machine vision, human-computer interaction capabilities of service robots, and machine learning based on big data Ability will also show a qualitative leap, and even have the characteristics of "personification". Robots appear more and more frequently in industries such as education, entertainment, and medical care, as well as commercial services such as banks, airports, large stores, and restaurants.

National labor force demographics aged 16-59

It can be seen that my country's service robot market has entered a period of rapid development, and the sales volume of manufacturers has shown a blowout growth. The data shows that from 2012 to 2017, the compound annual growth rate of sales of professional service robots in China reached 10.46%, and the compound annual growth rate of sales of personal and household service robots reached 31.17%. It is estimated that by 2020, with the rapid development of service robots in emerging application scenarios, the scale of my country's service robot market is expected to exceed 20 billion yuan.

In the context of the outbreak of the national service robot market, the output value of Shenzhen's service robot industry has been on a steady upward trend in recent years. The added value of service robot output in 2018 is almost the same as that in 2017, and the demand for service robots will increase. , the market size will continue to grow.

The mobile robot market has sprung up, and the food delivery robot has achieved remarkable results

The mobile robot industry in Shenzhen has also sprung up, with more and more application scenarios. Mobile robots span the two fields of industrial robots and service robots. In recent years, there have been more and more landing applications in the logistics industry, factory production lines, and service fields. Relying on the efforts of experts from the Society of Artificial Intelligence and related enterprises, the technology and application of Shenzhen's mobile robot industry are at the leading level both domestically and internationally, and a number of local high-quality robot brands in Shenzhen have been cultivated.

Purdue Technology is one of the high-quality brand enterprises incubated in the robot industry in Shenzhen in recent years. It focuses on the research and development of mobile robots in the catering service industry, and has rapidly achieved commercial landing in recent years. Purdue Technology's robot products have penetrated into a variety of restaurants such as hot pot, Chinese dinner, Western food, and Japanese food in China, and have been further recognized by overseas markets, and are being used by more and more catering companies around the world.

"Happy delivery" is a food delivery robot product launched by Purdue Technology, which aims to reduce labor costs for catering companies and improve the efficiency of food delivery. It is understood that a "Happy Delivery" food delivery robot can deliver more than 300 trays in a single day, and can deliver more than 400 trays during peak dining periods such as holidays, while a mature delivery person can deliver 200 trays in a single day. about. At present, the food delivery efficiency of robots is 1.5 to 2 times that of manual labor, and the monthly rental cost is between 2,000 and 3,000 yuan, which is far lower than the restaurant’s monthly expenditure on waiter salaries, performance, five insurances and one housing fund, training and other costs.

Purdue Technology's "Happy Delivery" food delivery robot landed in nearly 100 Haidilao stores across the country

At the same time, Purdue Technology has also demonstrated innovative achievements in the research and development of SLAM (Simultaneous Positioning and Mapping), the core field of mobile robots. Pudu Technology combines the common lidar SLAM and visual SLAM solutions, and independently developed the multi-sensor fusion algorithm of PuduSLAM. Through the PuduSLAM algorithm, the "Happy Delivery" food delivery robot can not only obtain sufficient environmental semantic information through the visual camera, and conduct a comprehensive scan and map of the restaurant; , distance to identify, so as to achieve extremely fast obstacle avoidance.

At present, Purdue Technology's "Happy Delivery" food delivery robot has landed in nationally well-known restaurants such as Haidilao, Dezhuang Hot Pot, Bahe Lihaiji, Wangshun Pavilion, Xibei Noodle Village, and Jingdong X Future Restaurant, while exporting to South Korea , Singapore, Italy, Belgium, Thailand and other overseas markets have made great contributions to the popularization of food delivery robots in the catering industry.

Purdue Technology's "Happy Delivery" food delivery robot landed in a Korean western restaurant

With the support of mature technology and market demand, the market prospect of food delivery robots and even the entire mobile robot industry is worth looking forward to. The "2018 Shenzhen Robot Industry Development White Paper" shows that in 2018, mobile robots are in a steady growth trend in terms of industrial scale and product sales; in 2018, the new increment of mobile robot-related products in the Chinese market achieved a 42.5% increase compared with 2017, and the newly added mobile robots There were 29,600 robots, and the market size reached 4.25 billion yuan.

Forecast of supply and demand trend of my country's mobile robot market from 2018 to 2024

With the government's strong support for the development of the robotics industry, Shenzhen's robotics industry has gathered top-level talents across the country, created a superior environment for innovative research and development, and has a mature and complete industrial chain support. In a favorable environment, Shenzhen's robotics industry has developed rapidly and achieved a leading position in the country. Especially in the field of service robots, its technology and application level maintain an absolute leading edge in China. In the future, with the development of artificial intelligence and other related technologies, service robots will have a wider range of application scenarios and usher in a golden period of development in many fields.