The Commercial Service Robot Market Has Entered A Period Of Rapid Growth, And Challenges Remain

In the past two years, in addition to long-term trends such as rising labor costs and an aging population, three factors have driven the rapid growth of the commercial service robot market. One is the gradual maturity of multi-sensor technologies such as SLAM and radar; Mature and rental models have brought cost reductions; third, since the 2020 epidemic, the demand for various service robots such as contactless distribution, disinfection and temperature measurement has begun to increase.

In the past two years, commercial service robot shipments and investment and financing have shown a hot state. Compared with the annual shipments of 100 units in previous years, the shipments of major manufacturers have doubled and rapidly increased in the past two years. The annual shipments of some manufacturers have reached thousands of units, and the cumulative shipments have exceeded 10,000. The financing of leading service robot start-ups has also reached the C-round level, and some manufacturers have raised more than 1 billion yuan in financing.