The 2023 World Conference on Artificial Intelligence opened in Shanghai on July 6. More than 1,400 heavyweight guests, including leading scholars, renowned entrepreneurs and representatives of international organizations from home and abroad, attended the conference, including four Turing Award winners. Service robot developer DaXu Robotics' humanoid robot products were presented at the conference.
EqualOcean has learned that DATAAROBOT recently received over RMB 1 billion in Series C financing. The financing was invested by Knowledge City Group, Shanghai Guosheng Investment Group and Shui Mu Chun Jin. It is reported that DATAAROBOT has previously completed 5 rounds of financing and had gone public in the U.S. but met with failure, and then there is news that it will go public in Hong Kong this year.
Founded in 2015, DATAAROBOT is a unicorn head company in the field of intelligent robotics and a leading global creator, manufacturer and operator of cloud-based robots. With the strategic mission of "robots serving people, DATAAROBOT serving robots" and the vision of "cloud intelligence, connecting the future of intelligent robots", the company aims to help human beings accomplish the following tasks by continuously leading the research and industrialization of cutting-edge technologies of cloud robots We aim to help human beings to complete 4D (such as boring, dirty, dangerous and even difficult) work, so that human beings can enjoy a better life.
With industry-leading full-stack technology solutions for cloud-based robots, Datacom has innovatively proposed the "cloud-based robot" ("cloud brain + safety net + robot") architecture and successfully commercialized cloud-based robots.
With an aging population and rising labor costs, service robots have huge market demand potential. At present, there are about 1,500 service robot companies worldwide; among them, European service robot companies account for about 50%; American and Asian service robot companies account for 30% and 20% respectively.
EqualOcean reviewed data from the Suzhou Bay Service Robotics Industry Summit and learned that the global robotics market will reach USD 51.3 billion in 2022, with an average annual growth rate of more than 14% in the past five years. Among them, the service robot market size reached USD 21.7 billion, occupying the bulk of the global robot market. Service robots are now the most active market force and one of the most important strategic pillars of the global robot industry.
Service robots have emerged a number of industry-leading companies, including Keenlon(擎朗智能), UdiTech（优地科技） and ECOVACS（科沃斯）, with products covering catering, hotels, medical, industrial parks, home cleaning and other usage scenarios.
DATAAROBOT had planned to go public in the U.S. but met with failure, and some sources believe it will go public in Hong Kong this year. The financing will be used for technology innovation and upgrade, and further expansion of overseas layout.