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The Nikkei article on February 8, titled: Chinese food delivery robots, stepping up their offensive after the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to catch up with the wave of demand after the COVID-19 pandemic, Shanghai Qinglang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., a Chinese food delivery robot giant, is vigorously expanding its overseas market. In 2022, the company will build three new subsidiaries in Europe and the United States, and plans to increase the proportion of overseas shipments of food delivery robots from the current 30% to 50% by the end of 2025. Other Chinese companies are also competing on the price and "service" quality of food delivery robots. In the context of a shortage of manpower, food delivery robots are expected to become popular.
According to statistics from the US research company IDC, in the service robot market for Chinese restaurants, Qinglang ranks first with a share of about 49% (2021), and is also considered one of the industry leaders in the world.
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Chinese food delivery robot manufacturers are actively entering overseas markets because there is a lot of room for development in overseas markets. Statistics from the China Electronics Society and other institutions show that in 2023, the global market size of service robots, including those for medical, education, and catering, is expected to grow to US$25 billion, an increase of 15% from 2022; in 2022, the domestic service robot market in China was 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 size.
In addition, in January 2023, China adjusted its epidemic prevention policy, and the Chinese government announced that the peak of infection had passed. Against this background, companies such as Qinglang plan to promote domestic and foreign growth strategies in the future. Qinglang's food delivery robots are priced at US$10,000-30,000 per unit, which is cheaper than those of Japanese and European and American companies. Wan Bin, the company's chief operating officer, said, "In China, the manufacturing supply chain is complete, and parts can be purchased at low prices. Mass production can control manufacturing costs."
Other companies are also launching offensives at home and abroad. A spokesperson for Shenzhen Pudu Technology, which ranks second in the Chinese 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 has quickly provided 3,000 food delivery robots to about 2,100 stores under a Japanese restaurant chain. "Pudu Technology's food delivery robots are cat-shaped and have simple conversation functions, so they are very popular and sell well in Japan," said the head of a Japanese robot consulting company. In Japan, food delivery robot sales companies import robots made overseas, mainly in China, and Japanese manufacturers are almost invisible.