Commercial Cleaning Track, How Purdue Robotics Is Playing A New Game?

Each technological revolution will bring disruptive changes to the traditional model. 

At present, China's industrial structure is entering a stage of rapid upgrading, the spring tide of intelligent manufacturing is surging, and all industries are experiencing a round of intelligent transformation and upgrading changes. 

In addition to the recent fire of humanoid robots, there is a track that is also very much in the spotlight, that is, commercial cleaning robots.

Starting in 2021, ZTE, Cinnamon, visual source and other large manufacturers have set up a commercial cleaning robot team, chasing foraging, Corvus and other household sweeper robots are also quickly switching the market, there are many Internet gurus down the field of entrepreneurship. Among them, the service robotics track "star" Purdue Robotics (hereinafter referred to as "Purdue") also released its commercial cleaning robot products, officially entering the commercial cleaning robot track.

Recently, it was announced that Purdue's new commercial cleaning products will be launched soon. Based on service robots, more than service robots, now, Purdue is cleaning robot field continues to deep plowing, and in the leading market share for the industry empowerment.

Forward-looking layout, in-depth customization and leading the development of the industry

As one of the unicorns in the field of domestic commercial service robots, Purdue started out as a catering and delivery robot and has made remarkable achievements, and its products have been widely used in catering, retail, hotels, medical care, entertainment and sports, industry, education and other industry scenarios, with a cumulative shipment of more than 70,000 units.

So, why Purdue still do commercial cleaning robot?

The fundamental reason still lies in the market and Purdue itself. As early as 2021, Purdue realized that the commercial cleaning robot market is facing a huge blue ocean. On the one hand, demographic changes have led to a scarcity of labor, and it is economically reasonable for robots to carry out auxiliary operations. On the other hand, commercial cleaning robots are essentially a demand-escalation product with relatively low market education costs, so the penetration rate will be relatively fast. The trend has emerged, the pattern has not yet been determined, the penetration rate is still low, and the space is vast, all of which make the commercial cleaning robot market is regarded as "the next blue ocean market that is about to explode"

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Back to Purdue itself, the company in the field of commercial service robots for many years, in-depth understanding of user needs and pain points, in the accumulation of technology, sales capacity, scale advantages and other aspects have a deep practical experience. On this basis, it can go to define commercial cleaning robots that are more in line with customer needs and market demand, so it is a natural step to enter commercial cleaning robots.

Purdue will be accumulated VSLAM +, high dynamic algorithms, robot motor drive and motion control and other mature technologies used in the field of cleaning, the introduction of commercial cleaning robot products with better performance, more stable operation, easier to operate. Compared with the existing commercial cleaning robot products on the market, it has strong competitiveness. One of the best examples is that its first product, PUDU CC1, was very well received by the market as soon as it was launched.

In terms of product functions, CC1 integrates multiple cleaning functions such as washing, sweeping, dust pushing and vacuuming, and is able to autonomously add water and sewage, automatically charge and automatically add cleaning agents to achieve unattended operation. At the same time, CC1 can also connect with IoT devices such as elevators, gates, access control and communications and the upper layer software to achieve comprehensive interconnection and break down barriers, realizing truly fully automated cleaning.

At the same time of having good products, Purdue even brings industry solutions from the users. Purdue always adheres to the concept of user-centered, in-depth customer cleaning needs, the introduction of exclusive integrated solutions, a practical response to the core demands of users. It is believed that in the future, Purdue will bring more star products of cleaning robots to users and boost the rapid development of the industry.

Technological Change Enabling the Future of Digital Intelligence for Thousands of Industries

In the process of market development, multi-scene and multi-function is the main direction of attack. Not only for commercial use, at present, Purdue cleaning robots have been widely used in various industry segments.

Precision optical products require extremely high standards for clean rooms. In the clean room of a Fortune 500 optical giant's manufacturing plant, the introduction of Purdue's CC1 cleaning robot has effectively solved the pain points such as uninterrupted cleaning and maintenance, secondary pollution, and inconvenient management due to the fact that the cleaning work can't interfere with the automated production process in the traditional clean room.

CC1 is equipped with HEPA filter cartridge, which can effectively filter a variety of dust and microorganisms and other sources of contamination, to meet the standard requirements of precision optical clean room construction and optical device production requirements, and to avoid secondary pollution; at the same time, based on the intelligent charging pile and automatic charging function, CC1 can run 24/7 uninterrupted operation, can be fully adapted to the production line of the operational arrangements and meet the needs of unattended. The CC1 can operate 24/7, which can fully adapt to the operation schedule of the production line and meet the demand of unmanned guarding.

From commercial to industrial scenarios, Purdue cleaning robot's empowerment of scenarios is breaking through the boundaries of the industry.

Traditional retail is still the key market for commercial cleaning, and Purdue has also brought its own new program. Supermarkets have long faced many difficulties in cleaning and maintenance. For example, in a Top 3 supermarket chain in Germany, different areas in the supermarket (e.g. food and fresh food area, shelf area, etc.) have different requirements and standards for cleaning. In particular, the fresh food area, which is the hardest hit by cleaning, needs to be cleaned more frequently to maintain hygiene and safety.

The chain of supermarkets through the introduction of Purdue cleaning robot CC1, effectively solved the above problems: CC1 with automatic floor washing timed task function, can effectively ensure that the supermarket in the opening of the door and before the peak hours to keep the floor clean; equipped with an extended brush CC1, can be in the edge of the shelves for the ultimate edge cleaning, to achieve the dead end of the full coverage; for the focus of the foodstuffs, fresh food and other key areas of frequent cleaning, CC1 full automation workstations can realize the full unmanned cleaning. The CC1's fully automated workstation can realize fully unmanned operation.

In addition, CC1 industry-leading "space intelligent navigation system", for the high traffic flow, more changes in the pile of supermarket scenes, with a map of self-updating, real-time coverage of the path planning, intelligent complementary sweeping and other functions, not only to achieve efficient cleaning coverage, but also to provide customers with a better shopping experience.

Purdue cleaning robots do not stop at cleaning itself, but also have their own leading solutions to multi-machine synergy under the convergence scenario.

Photovoltaic is a key industry in high-end intelligent manufacturing. In the large-scale production workshop of a domestic photovoltaic giant, the degree of automated production is more than 90%, and the round-the-clock operation of AGV robots puts forward extremely high requirements on obstacle avoidance and path planning of cleaning robots.

As the proposer and builder of R2X, Purdue Robotics has always been in the leading position in the industry in terms of collaborative scheduling, and the intelligent scheduling of CC1 based on Pudu OS enables CC1 and AGV robots to share the map of the PV workshop and open up the unified cloud-based scheduling system, so that they can obtain each other's position, speed, moving direction and route in real time, and successfully realize collaborative operation under the circumstance of guaranteeing the smooth operation of the AGV robots' equipments. In order to ensure the smooth operation of AGV robot equipment, it successfully realizes collaborative operation and helps industrial scenes realize high-end intelligent manufacturing.

Full of wind and vigor to actively build a full-stack product matrix ecology

As a leading brand in the field of global service robots, Purdue has been actively exploring the future development and direction.

It is worth noting that Purdue is the only service robot enterprise that owns a complete product matrix of delivery robots and cleaning robots and covers the whole scenario of commercialization and cleaning at the same time.

At the beginning of its establishment, based on industry research and market analysis, Purdue first chose the commercial delivery industry and launched the intelligent food delivery robot "Joyful Delivery", the high-end food delivery robot "Bella", and the delivery robot "HaoLa", which mainly focuses on the function of call notification. The company has launched the intelligent food delivery robot "Happy Delivery", the high-end food delivery robot "Bella", the delivery robot that focuses on call notification function "Holla", the two-in-one delivery and welcome robot "Hulu", and the building delivery robot "Lightning Box", among others.

Since 2022, Purdue has launched CC1 and other products for the cleaning market, and commercial cleaning robots have become an important part of Purdue's full-stack product matrix and full-stack service ecology.

Today, Purdue's cleaning robots have been tested and successfully deployed in a variety of environments, such as office buildings, residences, hotels, commercial complexes, hospitals, transportation hubs, retail stores and factories, etc., and have won unanimous praise from customers for their excellent performance.

Powering Cleaning, More than Cleaning. In the future, Purdue will continue to improve the product matrix of service robots, realize the full coverage of retail, industry, warehousing and logistics, medical care, hotels, catering and other industries, launch more professional and capable intelligent cleaning products, and build a more open industry ecosystem, which is the vision of Purdue as a global leader in service robots.

Now, the commercial cleaning robot track has entered the moment of spelling products, technology and market landing. In the place where the "sound of fire" can be heard in the market, how to gain a foothold has become a key point that enterprises must pay attention to. Quality foundation, continuous technology research and development and new applications to open up, improve the core competitiveness of the product in order to survive.

It is reported that on May 20, Purdue will hold a new product conference. This will also be the highest level and most interesting conference in recent years, at which Purdue will also release a new generation of cleaning products.

Characterized by innovation, the key is quality, the essence of advanced productivity. 2024, Purdue will bring what surprises to the commercial cleaning robot industry? Let's wait and see.