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"Nihon Keizai Shimbun" article on February 8, original title: Chinese food delivery robots, stepping up their offensive after the new crown epidemic In order to catch up with the wave of demand after the new crown epidemic, China's food delivery robot giant-Shanghai Qinglang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. is making great efforts Expand overseas markets. In 2022, the company will build three new subsidiaries in Europe, America and other places, and plans to increase the proportion of overseas shipments of food delivery robots from about 30% to 50% by the end of 2025. Other companies in China are also competing for the price and "service" quality of food delivery robots, which are expected to gain popularity amid a shortage of manpower.
According to the statistics of IDC, an American research company, in the service robot market for Chinese restaurants, Keenon ranks first with a share of about 49% (2021), and is also considered one of the leading companies in the industry in the world.
The reason why Chinese food delivery robot manufacturers are actively entering overseas markets is because there is a lot of room for development in overseas markets. Statistics from institutions such as the Chinese Institute of Electronics show that in 2023, the global market size of service robots, including those for medical care, education, and catering, is expected to grow to 25 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 15% compared with 2022; in 2022, China's domestic The market size of service robots is about 44.776 billion yuan, and it is expected to exceed 50 billion yuan in 2023. However, the Chinese market only accounts for nearly 30% of the global market.
In addition, in January 2023, China adjusted its epidemic prevention policy, and the Chinese government announced that the peak period of infection had passed. In this context, companies such as Keenron plan to promote both domestic and foreign growth strategies in the future. The price of Qinglong’s food delivery robot is US$10,000-30,000 per unit, which is cheaper than that of Japanese, European and American companies. Wan Bin, the company's chief operating officer, said, "In China, the manufacturing supply chain is complete, and components can be purchased at low prices. Mass production can control manufacturing costs."
Other companies are also launching offensives at home and abroad. A spokesman for Shenzhen Pudu Technology, which ranks second in China's food delivery robot market, said the company has sold more than 56,000 food delivery robots at home and abroad. In the past two years, the company quickly provided 3,000 food delivery robots to about 2,100 stores of a Japanese restaurant chain brand. "Purdue Technology's food delivery robot is designed in the shape of a cat and has simple conversation functions, so it is very popular and sold well in Japan." The person in charge of a robot consulting company in Japan commented. In Japan, food delivery robot sales companies import robots made overseas mainly in China, and there are almost no Japanese manufacturers.