High - end precision transmission parts company secures exclusive investment from SAIC after winning orders from leading new - energy vehicle startups | Exclusive report by Yingke
Author | Huang Nan
Editor | Yuan Silai
Yingke learned that Shenzhen Nuoshi Robot Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Nuoshi Robot") recently completed its Angel + round of financing, which was exclusively invested by SAIC Venture Capital. This is also SAIC Venture Capital's first foray into the upstream core components of humanoid robots. The financing funds will be used to support the mass production of C5-grade planetary roller screws.
Founded in July 2023, "Nuoshi Robot" evolved from a family business with over 30 years of screw manufacturing experience. Professor Xu Genlin, the first-generation founder, has more than 30 years of theoretical research and production experience in screws. The second-generation founder Xu Yang, co-founder Wang Xiaobin, and the main team members all come from Valeo Group. The company focuses on the design, production, and manufacturing of planetary roller screws and supporting actuator modules. It has developed the world's smallest planetary roller screw, which has been commercially verified by leading customers. It has established a research and development center in Shenzhen and a manufacturing base in Shanghai to ensure the production efficiency and quality stability of core components.
Nuoshi Robot R & D Center (Source/Enterprise)
As a high-end precision transmission component, the planetary roller screw has obvious advantages in load capacity and service life compared with traditional trapezoidal screws and ball screws. On the one hand, it can carry a larger load, providing reliable transmission support for various high-precision and high-load mechanical equipment. On the other hand, its service life far exceeds that of trapezoidal screws and ball screws, effectively reducing the maintenance cost and downtime of equipment and improving overall production efficiency.
However, due to its extremely complex grinding and processing technology, which involves multiple processing steps and strict quality control requirements, from the selection of raw materials to the precise operation of production line steps, professional technology and advanced equipment support are required. At present, the mass production of planetary roller screws in large quantities, at low cost, and in a miniaturized form is a "bottleneck" problem common to the global manufacturing industry.
Especially in the field of humanoid robots, dexterous hands have a high demand for micro screws. However, in the large-scale mass production stage, they have long faced severe challenges such as high costs and long delivery cycles. The high cost has led to a significant increase in the overall cost of humanoid robots, limiting their popularization in the market. At the same time, the long delivery cycle will further affect the product R & D rhythm and market launch speed.
Based on years of technological accumulation, "Nuoshi Robot" has once again broken through the bottleneck of C5-grade precision screws on the basis of its previous products and developed a new model of the world's smallest planetary roller screw. The screw diameter is 1.5mm, and the nut diameter is 5.5mm, which can be easily integrated into the dexterous hands of humanoid robots. While ensuring the accuracy and stability of hand movements, it maintains high precision and high load capacity without increasing additional volume and weight, contributing to the compact and lightweight design of robots.
The World's Smallest Planetary Roller Screw (Source/Enterprise)
On the production side, "Nuoshi Robot" uses a unique high-precision metal forming process and has achieved stable mass production of C5-grade precision planetary roller screws, which can be widely used in humanoid robot joints and dexterous hands, semiconductors, lithium battery coating equipment, medical equipment, and industrial machine tools.
Yingke learned that at present, "Nuoshi Robot" has won orders from leading new forces and is accelerating the application and mass delivery in niche fields. At the same time, it has broad cooperation space with SAIC Group in the automotive chassis fields such as EMB braking, steering, and suspension. In the future, the company will continue to carry out the forward design of planetary roller screws and actuators, build and master the complete set of production processes, and achieve independent production.
Nuoshi Robot Planetary Roller Screw (Source/Enterprise)
Investor's Viewpoint:
The investment team of SAIC Venture Capital said that as a high-end precision transmission component, the planetary roller screw has far better performance in load capacity and service life than trapezoidal screws or ball screws. However, its grinding and processing technology is complex, and mass production in large quantities, at low cost, and in a miniaturized form is a global bottleneck problem. Based on 30 years of technological accumulation, Nuoshi Robot uses a unique process to break through the bottleneck of C5-grade precision mass production and has significant price advantages. The company's products can be widely used in industries such as humanoid robot joints and dexterous hands, semiconductors, medical care, and lithium batteries, and have broad cooperation space with SAIC Group in the automotive chassis (EMB braking, steering, suspension) field. SAIC Venture Capital will, as always, firmly implement SAIC Group's technological innovation strategy and the requirements of investing in early-stage, new, and technological projects, actively promote and implement the close collaboration between the investment team, invested enterprises, and the industry, and help the group's innovation, upgrading, and transformation and development.