"Bangyao Robotics" enables explosion-proof AI robots to "stand guard" in high-risk chemical plants, pushing the inspection capability from "merely issuing alerts" to "being capable of on-site disposal"
Bangyao (Shandong) Robot Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Bangyao Robotics") was founded in 2016, with its headquarters located in Zibo, Shandong Province. As a national high-tech enterprise, it focuses on providing integrated solutions of special explosion-proof AI robots for high-risk scenarios such as petrochemical industry.
The core competitive barrier of the company lies in its rare team that integrates "chemical safety and independent R&D of explosion-proof technologies": the founder has 21 years of front-line safety management experience in 10-billion-yuan-level chemical enterprises, and the team masters both the process know-how of hazardous chemicals and the independent R&D capability of complete explosion-proof machines. Two models, the wheeled type and the rail-mounted type, have achieved mass production, obtained Ex db ib ⅡC T6 Gb explosion-proof certification and IP66 protection grade certification, with the highest AI recognition rate reaching 96%. Against the background that the industry generally stays at the stage of "only giving alarms without closed-loop processing", the company has opened up the whole link of perception - recognition - decision-making - disposal through the dual-track product system of "investigation and inspection + special disposal", and plans to make the robot capable of changing the physical state of the site for the first time in 2028.
In terms of the market, about 8,000 major hazard source enterprises among the approximately 33,000 chemical enterprises above designated size across the country constitute the precise target market; the market size of explosion-proof inspection robots will increase from 2.54 billion yuan in 2023 to 18.5 billion yuan in 2030, with a penetration rate of less than 6%. About 600 valid end customers and 150 million yuan of existing business opportunities support the revenue to increase to about 284 million yuan from 2026 to 2028.
Industry Pain Points: "Three Highs" of High-Risk Chemical Inspection and the Status of "Only Alarming Without Closed-Loop Processing"
The "Three Highs" Pain Points of High-Risk Chemical Inspection
The first is high risk. High-risk medium areas such as chlor-alkali, coal chemical industry, fine chemical industry and hazardous chemical storage are flammable, explosive, toxic and harmful, and manual inspection faces major personal risks such as explosion and poisoning. The second is high cost. Traditional inspection has high labor cost and large training cost, and it is difficult for personnel to cover high-altitude restricted areas such as tank farms and pipe galleries. The third is high requirement. The logic of safety supervision has switched from "encouraging use" to "mandatory compliance", the main responsibility of enterprises and the intensity of punishment have risen simultaneously, and the unmanned inspection has changed from an optional item to a mandatory one.
The Industry Generally Faces the Status of "Only Alarming Without Closed-Loop Processing"
The industry generally stays at the stage of "only alarming without closed-loop processing": most solutions only realize anomaly detection and alarm, lack a complete closed loop of perception - recognition - decision-making - disposal. After the alarm is triggered, manual workers still need to enter the site for disposal, and the risky operations have not been truly reduced. This is exactly the industry gap that Bangyao enters with the value proposition of "shifting from only alarming to being capable of disposal".
Policy Driven: From "Encouragement" to "Mandatory Requirement"
In December 2023, the Ministry of Emergency Management and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued the Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Emergency Robots (Yingji 〔2023〕 No. 148), which clarified the roadmap of "replacing human workers with robots" in high-risk scenarios at the national ministerial level for the first time; in January 2024, the Work Safety Committee of the State Council issued the Three-Year Action Plan for Fundamental Improvement and Tough Battle of Work Safety (2024-2026), and automated and intelligent transformation has become a hard assessment indicator for industrial parks; on December 27, 2025, the Safety Law of the People's Republic of China on Hazardous Chemicals was adopted at the 19th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress, which will come into force on May 1, 2026, marking that the safety supervision in the hazardous chemical field has officially risen to the level of legal mandatory requirement.
Entering 2026, the emergency management departments in Shandong, Zhejiang, Hebei, Shanghai and other places have put forward quantitative acceptance indicators, requiring that the unmanned replacement rate of external operation inspection points shall not be less than 80%, and manual intervention shall be reduced by 80%; Jiangsu, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Guangdong and other places have listed "reducing on-site operators" and "unmanned transformation" as mandatory technical transformation requirements. The shift of policies from "encouragement" to "mandatory requirement" is the direct driving force for the concentrated release of demand for explosion-proof inspection transformation in this round.
Solution: Dual-track Coordination of "Investigation and Inspection + Special Disposal"
The company currently has two mass-produced models, covering ground inspection and mid-air inspection respectively. Both models have obtained Ex db ib ⅡC T6 Gb explosion-proof certification and IP66 protection grade certification, and carry out 7×24-hour normal operation for scenarios such as petrochemical industry, fine chemical industry and hazardous chemical storage.