Since the domestic market began to consume sweeping robots on a large scale, the product form of sweeping machines has undergone several iterations. With the inertial navigation sweeping robots becoming the past, sweeping and mopping robots equipped with laser navigation and a new generation of sweeping and mopping robots have begun to enter the mass consumer market. For the intelligent cleaning industry, 2021 can be called the first year of sweeping and mopping robots. A number of brands have successively launched self-developed sweeping and mopping robots. Among them, there are conservatives, innovative pioneers, and venture capitalists. The market is mixed and the product homogeneity is quite serious. Of course, among them, we can still discover many highlight products with differentiated functional designs, such as the Cloud Whale J2 equipped with automatic water loading and unloading devices, and the Yuri UONI A1 Pro with real-time self-cleaning washing and rolling brushes.
From the perspective of product differentiation, Yunjing J2 is similar in function to its previous J1. The highlight lies in the automatic water supply and water supply solution developed. However, the device needs to be pre-reserved during decoration, otherwise the later installation requires wall drilling or The specific effect and market feedback of this innovative function are yet to be verified by time, and the industry is also waiting to see the feasibility of the implementation of the plan. Another product, UONI A1 Pro, is actually different from the existing sweeping and mopping robots on the market in terms of product logic. From the perspective of cleaning methods, although the product still has the function of sweeping and collecting dust, its attributes are more inclined to washing machine robots. ; By definition, it is the first fully automatic floor scrubbing robot in the industry. This innovation is also a lot of shock to the industry. As far as I know, many brand companies have invested in the research and development of floor washing robots since then, and Ecovacs and Stone are among them.
When the industry got together and invested in the torrent of research and development of sweeping and dragging robots, how did Yuli turn its thinking and turn to research and development of floor scrubbing robots? The author is very curious about this, so I also conducted some research and was fortunate to learn from relevant industry personnel. I got some information, and based on this, I summarized the whole process of its research and development.
First of all, the design concept of the product does not come out of thin air, but comes from the precise control of user needs. It is understood that the Yuli start-up team has an average of nearly 10 years of experience in the cleaning robot industry. They have paid attention to the strong demand of Chinese users for floor scrubbing at an early stage, that is, for Chinese families, the floor is only cleaned but not dragged with water. is not clean. Family houses in my country are basically hard floors, mainly wooden floors and ceramic tiles, and carpets are rarely laid on a large scale. Floor washing is a rigid demand for consumers who pay attention to deep cleaning, and the current floor washing machines on the market are still needed. The user can use it by hand, unlike the vacuum cleaner which has developed to the stage of sweeping robot. It is precisely because of the insight into this hidden demand and potential market that the team members have invested in relevant research earlier. The UONI A1 Pro launched this time can be regarded as the product of the team's accumulation.