Entering Small And Medium-sized Enterprises To See The Economic Vitality｜Cloud Whale Intelligence: Creating A New Intelligent Manufacturing Sample in The Cleaning Robot Industry

"A small sweeping and mopping robot contains hundreds of patented technologies. After several years of independent research and development and production experience, we have built SLAM (synchronous positioning and mapping), three-dimensional perception, AI object recognition, and robot structure technologies. , big data applications and other core technology maps." On April 5, the reporter came to the headquarters of Cloud Whale Intelligent Innovation (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. in Nanshan Science and Technology Park, the company's founder and CEO Zhang Junbin told reporters.
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Cloud Whale Intelligence is a technology company based in the field of household cleaning robots. It is committed to developing revolutionary technology products. It has been listed on the Hurun Global Unicorn Company List for two consecutive years and was rated as one of the top 50 Chinese technology robot companies. It has previously been selected as a " List of Guangdong Province's Specialized and New Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in 2021."

When Cloud Whale Intelligence was established 7 years ago, cleaning appliances had just been introduced to the domestic market from Europe and the United States. Because manufacturers borrowed too much from foreign vacuum products, most of the high-end sweepers on the market focused on sweeping the floor, and the mopping function was more like a "gift." Either stick a rag to the bottom of the machine and mop the entire house, or you need to manually change the rag frequently. Cloud Whale aims at the market pain point of "mopping the floor" and decides to develop a revolutionary product with strong mopping function that is not available on the market.

However, the process of independent research and development was more difficult than imagined. The Cloud Whale team spent three years "hard work" on the product, and finally conquered the mop self-cleaning technology. In 2019, it launched the sweeping and mopping all-in-one robot J1 that "can wash its own mop". Looking back on the development process of Cloud Whale J1, Zhang Junbin said with deep emotion: "At that time, we studied more than 30 technical solutions, and tested the mop shape alone more than 200 times. We boldly adopted a large base station with dual water tanks to support 'automatic At the same time, in order to avoid secondary pollution on the ground caused by the mop's return to washing, the path algorithm of sweeping and mopping separation has been redesigned. "The disruptive technological innovation of Cloud Whale J1 has changed the product form of traditional sweepers and opened up a new era. The industry's "sweeping and mopping era" + "self-cleaning era".
In fact, the sweeping robot is essentially a "cleaning tool", and "cleaning power" is its core competency; at the same time, consumers' expectations for cleaning robots are "home smart cleaning assistants", and intelligence is another core competency.

As a robot innovation company, Cloud Whale has always focused on core technological breakthroughs in product cleanliness and intelligence to create unique product capabilities. At present, Cloud Whale has applied for more than 700 technology patents, and the research and development of sweeping robot products focuses on key areas such as mop self-cleaning structure design, upper and lower water cleaning mechanism design, dirt closed-loop detection technology, and robot behavior algorithm control.

The rapid development of intelligent manufacturing companies is often inseparable from the support of the production, research and marketing system. At present, Cloud Whale has set up a R&D center in Shenzhen, with more than 30% of its R&D personnel coming from well-known domestic and foreign companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Emerson, DJI, and Huawei. They have rich experience in robot R&D and product design; they also have their own in Dongguan. A production and manufacturing center with independent production capabilities can not only give full play to the synergy between R&D, production and sales, quickly respond to the needs of R&D and innovation, but also effectively control costs and after-sales services.

Like many Shenzhen companies, Cloud Whale Intelligence's innovative development has benefited from Shenzhen's good business environment, especially the series of industrial assistance and support policies that Shenzhen has introduced intensively in recent years. "Shenzhen provides entrepreneurial soil and a warm business environment, allowing scientific and technological enterprises like Cloud Whale to focus on product research and development to the greatest extent. We will maintain the geek spirit and strive to become a global, service-oriented company An innovative representative enterprise for global users." Zhang Junbin is full of confidence in future development.