The total scale is 1 billion. Jiangxi Province's first robot industry fund has been signed and landed | Frontline

Written by Tian Zhe

Edited by Su Jianxun

Recently, the Ganzhou Municipal Government and Huangpu River Capital completed the signing of the Intelligent Robot Fund + Project in Ganzhou. Among them, the total investment in the intelligent robot industry fund project is 1 billion yuan, and the total investment in the intelligent humanoid robot project is 270 million yuan. Currently, the signed project companies include seven companies such as EXDOLL Technology, Chaodian Motor, and Botai Internet of Vehicles.

It is understood that this signed fund is the first intelligent robot industry fund in Jiangxi Province, which is formed by the Provincial State-owned Assets Control, Ganzhou Development and Investment, as well as Zhanggong District, Ganxian District, Ruijin City and Huangpu River Capital.

The goal of the fund establishment is to focus on the advanced manufacturing industrial cluster in the "1269" Action Plan for the Modernization of the Industrial Chain in Jiangxi Province and the "1 + 5 + N" Industrial Doubling and Upgrading Action Plan in Ganzhou City. It focuses on equity investment in the intelligent robot and its upstream and downstream fields of the industrial chain, as well as the application of the rare earth industry, to promote the development of the advantageous and emerging industries in Ganzhou City.

Huangpu River Capital, which participated in the signing of this fund, was established in 2015 and focuses on investing in unicorn enterprises in multiple fields such as chip semiconductors, new energy, biomedicine, artificial intelligence, and information technology, including memory interface chip company Montage Technology, China's largest intelligent driving chip company Horizon Robotics, and e-commerce platform Pinduoduo.

Public data shows that the average annual compound growth rate of the domestic intelligent robot market scale from 2021 to 2025 will reach 40%. In 2023, except for household robots, the market scale of industrial robots is about 53.4 billion yuan, and the market scale will be nearly 100 billion yuan in 2025.

At present, the industrial ecosystem of the intelligent robot industry in China is relatively complete. In terms of core hardware, it covers manufacturing enterprises of reducers, controllers, special chips, servo motors, sensors, etc.; in terms of system software, it has perception system enterprises such as speech recognition, machine vision, and motion perception, as well as decision-making technology enterprises that master SLAM technology, machine learning, etc.

EXDOLL Technology is an intelligent humanoid robot company. Its CEO Li Boyang told 36Kr that the reason for EXDOLL Technology's cooperation with Ganzhou City is that Ganzhou City is located at the intersection of Hunan, Guangdong, and Fujian provinces, and can reach multiple surrounding economic regions. In addition, the local government is supporting the construction of industries such as motors, and the local university resources are also relatively abundant.

He said that the newly established fund will bring direct financial support to the company, increase product output and reduce costs, and promote the commercialization of humanoid robots.