"Zhixing Robot" Secures Tens of Millions of Yuan in Series B Financing to Accelerate the Layout of Embodied Intelligence | 36Kr Exclusive

Written by | Wang Fangyu

Edited by | Su Jianxun

36Kr has learned that Zhixing Robot Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zhixing Robot") has recently completed a tens of millions of yuan Series B financing round. This round of financing is jointly led by Chengmei Capital and Zhongguancun Zhiyou Scientists Fund. The funds raised will be used for the research and development, expansion and promotion of the company's core products and systems.

Zhixing Robot was established in August 2018 and has rapidly developed into a national high-tech enterprise specializing in the research and development and production of dexterous hands and embodied intelligent robots.

The company is committed to developing flexible, reliable, safe and intelligent robot hands and robot system solutions. Up to now, it has served more than 300+ customers and established cooperation with more than 50+ enterprises in China, accumulating many successful cases of intelligent manufacturing and automation in multiple industries.

With the rapid development of intelligent manufacturing and artificial intelligence technology, embodied intelligence is setting off a new wave in the field of robotics. AI has given robots "silicon-based life" and can replace humans in many tasks, opening up a broad imagination space for thousands of industries. Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of NVIDIA, clearly stated that the next wave of artificial intelligence is embodied intelligence.

This wave has also driven the rapid development of the intelligent robot hand track.

"After the popularity of humanoid robots, the market's awareness of electric grippers has increased a lot, and they are getting more and more attention and recognition. Embodied intelligent robots are often used in general scenarios, not to grasp the same fixed or a certain type of items, so the advantages of electric intelligent robot hands can be reflected." Dr. Bai Guochao, the founder of Zhixing Robot, told 36Kr.

As a core component supplier of embodied robots, Zhixing Robot has launched the Zhixing Hand series products, including four categories: industrial parallel hand, collaborative hand, bionic hand, and heavy-duty hand. The weight covers from a few grams to more than 60 kilograms, and it has developed a tactile perception module and visual AI algorithm that are matched with the products, which can replace the human hand or assist humans to achieve precise grasping and flexible operation.

In terms of technology research and development, Zhixing Robot builds an embodied intelligent technology ecosystem with adaptive reconfigurable technology, multi-perception information fusion technology, and AI intelligent control technology as the core, and has a deep accumulation in precise force control grasping technology, visual guidance grasping technology, AI intelligent drive control technology, and digital twin technology.

Taking the robot end effector as the entry point, Zhixing Robot has quickly deployed in the intelligent robot field market, providing flexible, reliable, safe and intelligent intelligent robot solutions for industry customers.

Up to now, Zhixing Hand and intelligent robot equipment have launched corresponding solutions in industries such as aerospace, humanoid robots, industrial manufacturing, and warehousing and logistics, and are widely used in scenarios such as precision assembly and flexible sorting, helping many enterprises achieve cost reduction and efficiency improvement.

With the rapid development of China's science and technology, the acceleration of digital transformation and the continuous breakthrough and innovation of artificial intelligence technology, the market scale of embodied intelligence has increased significantly, and the future development potential is huge.

"The development of embodied intelligence has made more and more factories have the demand to use robots, and industrial production has moved from rough to fine, which is an opportunity for Zhixing's development." Bai Guochao said that Zhixing Robot is accelerating the strategic layout in the direction of embodied intelligent robots, and will deeply build three core intelligent ecological technologies: mechanical intelligence, perceptual intelligence, and drive control intelligence, to provide excellent intelligent robot products and solutions for global customers.

Investor's Views:

Wang Xuefei of Chengmei Capital said: "With the continuous improvement of the intelligent level of industrial robots, Zhixing Robot's deep technical accumulation and high-quality products in the aerospace field will lay a solid foundation for its future development."

Professor Wang Tianmiao, the honorary director of the Robotics Institute of Beihang University and the dean of Zhongguancun Zhiyou Research Institute, said: "Zhixing Robot not only has outstanding core competitiveness in the modular mechanism and electromechanical control of dexterous grasping, but also has industrial actual sales from a few grams to more than 60 kilograms. Currently, it is strengthening the application layout and development pace in the vertical application fields of aviation and logistics, from dexterous grippers, robot equipment to AI visual navigation control applications."