In recent years, the robotics industry in China has exhibited consistent growth in recent times, with a corresponding increase in market size. Hantewin, a prominent commercial service robot enterprise in Fuzhou, aims to expedite the dissemination of innovative enterprise accomplishments, advance the "intelligent manufacturing + intelligent service" industry chain in Fuzhou, and facilitate the successful implementation of high-potential projects and skilled professionals.
Fujian Hantewin Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Hantewin", Chinese: 汉特云), headquartered in Fuzhou, announced that it has completed a Pre-A+ round of financing of over CNY 10 million from Fuzhou Financial Holdings Group Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 福州市金融控股集团有限公司). This round of financing will be mainly used for product development, industrialization application promotion and global market development.
Founded in 2019, Hantewin focuses on the research and development of indoor and outdoor intelligent robots and low-speed unmanned vehicles in specific scenarios. The company was the official partner of the venue intelligent service robots of Ice Cube Sports Center for the Beijing International Winter Olympics & Paralympics in 2022. In terms of technology path, the founding team of Hantewin has focused on using hardware standard modules and software systems to carry out platform research and development in collaboration. The company has completely independent intellectual property rights in the field of autonomous driving electronic control unit (AD-ECU), wire control chassis, intelligent cloud-network platform and other core technologies in autonomous driving, with hardware and software design and algorithm research and other full-stack technological innovation strength.
Hantewin has landed three scenarios, namely community, park and building, forming a large model application of robots in specific scenarios. For example, the service robot "Ben Xiaobao" in the building scenario can work all the time, including welcoming guests in the morning, delivering food and goods at lunchtime, and patrolling at night. At present, Hantewin not only adopts the city agent model to export robot products in Fujian and China’s first-tier cities, but also expands overseas markets to deliver service robot chassis products.
Hantewin has built a RaaS platform (Robots as a Service) and a human-robot cooperative operation ecology, providing intelligent service robot solutions with "self-driving technology + series of intelligent robots + cloud control platform" as the core. This demonstrates a practical application of digital, unmanned and intelligent robots. According to the Tracking Report of China's Basic Data Services Market for Artificial Intelligence released by IDC (Internet Data Center), the market size of intelligent public cloud services will reach about CNY 4.41 billion in 2021, accounting for about 13.4% of the overall software market. The report predicts that by 2025, the market size of China's intelligent services will reach CNY 12.34 billion.
In terms of team construction, Hantewin's R&D team accounts for 80% of the total number of employees, with over 35% of Master's and Doctor's degrees, and an average of more than 10 years of R&D experience, and is the most core team of the company. Dr. Chen Wenqiang, Founder and CEO of Hantewin who has won the second prize of the National Technology Invention Award and more than 10 provincial and ministerial-level awards, has worked for Soueast Motor (Chinese: 东南汽车), Geely Automobile (Chinese: 吉利汽车) and YUDO Auto (Chinese: 云度新能源汽车), with more than 20 years of experience in the field. Chen Zhizhang, Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Hantewin, is a double academician of Canadian Academy of Engineering and Academy of Engineering Research. Zou Huiyun, Co-founder and Executive Vice President of Hantewin, is an EMBA master of Tsinghua University and a continuous Entrepreneur.
The major competitors of Hantewin include Chinese companies such as Pudu Robotics (Chinese: 普渡科技) and Keenon Robotics (Chinese: 擎朗智能), as well as international players such as IRobot from the US, and SoftBank Robotics Group from Japan.