ZhiYuan Robotics may collaborate with CP Group to accelerate the implementation of new retail scenarios.
Recently, Zheyuan Robotics received strategic investment from CP Robotics Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Charoen Pokphand Group in Thailand. CP Robotics will assist Zheyuan Robotics in exploring and developing full - scenario businesses in vertical fields such as life science and technology, new retail, new consumption, and health care services.
As a century - old multinational enterprise renowned worldwide, Charoen Pokphand Group has extensive business layouts in more than 100 countries and regions, covering a variety of business fields. Meanwhile, as the first foreign - funded enterprise to enter the Chinese mainland after the reform and opening - up, for over 40 years, Charoen Pokphand Group has actively participated in China's reform and opening - up cause and continuously increased its investment in China. It is one of the multinational enterprise groups with the largest scale and the most investment fields in foreign investment in China. CP Robotics will continue to focus on new - quality productivity enterprises in China and contribute to high - quality development.
Since its establishment in 2022, Zheyuan Robotics has received support from industrial capitals such as Tencent and JD.com, forming a capital matrix of "Internet giants + retail giants". The participation of Charoen Pokphand Group fills the key link in global layout. Relying on CP's retail networks and health care institutions in Southeast Asia, Europe and other regions, Zheyuan Robotics can directly enter the real scenarios of mature markets.
According to the 2024 financial report of Charoen Pokphand Group, the sales volume of its retail sector is approximately $58 billion, covering multiple brands such as 7 - Eleven, Lotus's, CP Fresh Mart, and Makro. The number of its global stores is nearly 100,000. In addition, Charoen Pokphand Group also has a complete business ecosystem including agriculture, animal husbandry, food, retail, pharmaceuticals, and health care, which will serve as a natural testing ground and channel provider for Zheyuan Robotics' business, new retail scenarios, and "going global" initiatives.
It is reported that Zheyuan Robotics' data collection center covering more than 3,000 square meters has specially set up sample rooms for supermarkets, milk tea shops, restaurants, and home furnishings. Various operations such as cashiering, stock - taking, making milk tea, making breakfast, and doing housework are collected every day. In the supermarket scenario, the Elf G1 plays the role of "stock - taking - cashiering - shopping guide". It can automatically organize the shelves through visual recognition and complete the settlement by scanning the barcodes of goods. In the future, it can also be equipped with a large language model for interaction to provide customers with product consultations. This cooperation may turn the scenarios in Zheyuan Robotics' data collection center into reality.
Currently, the global embodied intelligence track is entering the critical period of "technology verification - scenario implementation". Zheyuan Robotics has built a flywheel model of "data - model - ontology - scenario". For example, this time, it uses the Zheyuan Qiyuan large - scale model as the technical foundation, polishes products through scenarios such as supermarkets and health care, and then exports standardized solutions through CP's global network, thus forming a closed - loop from technology to commercial application.
The industry analysis institution Gartner predicts that the global commercial service robot market will exceed $50 billion in 2027, with the retail and health care scenarios accounting for more than 40%. The multiplier effect of "capital + technology + scenario" of Zheyuan Robotics may rewrite the global competition pattern of the robotics industry.