With the development of artificial intelligence technology, my country's service robot market has also ushered in explosive growth. According to the statistics of the "Analysis Report on the Development Prospects and Investment Strategic Planning of China's Service Robot Industry", the overall period from 2013 to 2018 was in a stage of rapid growth. The size of China's service robot market is expected to reach US$1.84 billion in 2019, a year-on-year increase of about 45.3%, which is higher than the growth rate of the global service robot market.
The growth rate of the service robot market will inevitably drive the growth of its related core technologies. As the basis for the movement of service robots, mobile robot chassis plays an important role in helping robots achieve autonomous walking. What is a mobile robot chassis and what are its main functions?
Speaking of mobile robot chassis, we have to mention the ZEUS series general-purpose service robot chassis headed by Silan Technology. ZEUS adopts the domestic leading SLAM navigation technology, which can identify the surrounding environment and know its own location. At the same time, it also integrates lidar , depth camera, ultrasonic, anti-fall and other sensors, combined with navigation algorithms, can help robots achieve rapid perception, precise positioning, real-time mapping, intelligent navigation and path planning, allowing robots to perform independent computational reasoning in unknown environments. , motion planning and real-time control.
At the same time, it supports appointment charging that can be scheduled externally. When the power of the robot is low, it will automatically return to the charging dock to charge, without human guarding, saving time and worry. In addition, the integration of autonomous elevator scheduling and control functions enables autonomous elevators to get on and off the elevator to reach the designated location, monitor their own floor at any time, and independently build a multi-floor map that end users can view at any time.
As a combination of various technologies and functions, in addition to some software functions, other important parts are on the hardware module of the robot chassis. The mobile robot chassis is not only the integration point of various sensors, motors and other equipment, but also carries The basic functions of the robot itself, such as positioning, navigation, and obstacle avoidance, are very important for service robots. The quality of the mobile robot chassis is directly related to the value of the service robot, which affects the commercial development of service robots. In view of this, many robot companies Began to focus on the development and production of robot chassis.
At a time when service robots are becoming more and more popular, the emergence of professional robot chassis R&D companies not only lowers the threshold for other companies to enter the service robot industry, but also makes breakthroughs in functions and costs, paving the way for the large-scale development of service robots. .
With the growing demand for service robots, more and more companies have entered the robot chassis. Many people in the industry are optimistic about the development prospects of mobile robot chassis. On the one hand, the increase in companies will bring greater competitive pressure and contribute to the rapid progress of technology. On the other hand, the technological development of robot chassis can give birth to the emergence of mobile robots such as competition, and open up a larger application market for the development of the industry.
At present, there are nearly 20 companies entering the field of robot chassis. They all want to come in and get a share of the pie, but the market prefers to choose Silan Technology. The big reason is that Silan Technology itself is a company focusing on robot positioning and navigation technology. , which has more advantages in helping robots to achieve positioning, navigation, obstacle avoidance and other functions.
Judging from the companies that have entered this field, although there are chassis serving industrial and special service robots, most of them are based on service robot chassis. The hot development of service robots has driven the outbreak of downstream demand.