EqualOcean has learned that DareRobot (Chinese: 帝尔博格), a manufacturer of intelligent robots in heavy industry, has recently completed tens of millions of angel round financing.
Founded in 2022, DareRobot's founding team has a deep background in heavy industry, comes from the industry's top enterprises, has many years of experience in heavy industry and robotics, and has found a strong demand for intelligent robots to replace humans in heavy industry scenarios.
In heavy industry scenarios, large and small sizes of metal plates, profiles and non-standard structural parts make it difficult to promote the application of robots. Heavy industry means that robots need large loads (usually in the hundreds of kilograms or even tons) and long hours of accurate operation, while the robot's stability, reliability, consistency and other indicators are also demanding. In this regard, some domestic and foreign manufacturers of heavy-duty robot bodies have gradually met the needs of the scene.
More importantly, there are still many problems that need to be solved in the heavy industry scene. Compared with the mass production of light industry, the production of parts and other materials in heavy industry is characterized by multiple types and small batches, and frequent replacement of materials or deviation of incoming materials caused by upstream manufacturing means that the robot program needs to be reset.
In this regard, DareRobot chose to use the existing mature robots, sensors and other hardware as a carrier, combined with AI algorithms and process logic, etc., to develop intelligent robot workstations, so that the robot can autonomously complete the material perception, data processing, operation path planning, actuator action control, to achieve the field of heavy industrial robots fully autonomous operation, to avoid manual intervention.
The actual landing point of view, after two years of development experience accumulated by the team, DareRobot can do a relatively standardized delivery of various types of workstations, and provide customers with research and development, installation, commissioning and other services, basically within 2-3 months from the signing of the order to the final acceptance.
For the future, DareRobot plans to promote multi-machine collaboration, to achieve the same process of multiple robots division of labor, different processes of multiple robots coordinated collaboration and other business needs. In this regard, DareRobot already has algorithms such as multi-machine joint control and dynamic path planning.
As for the team, DareRobot team comes from Tsinghua University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an University of Electronic Science and Technology and other universities, and many of them have worked in the robotics research institute of the industry's leading enterprises. Founder Ben Zhang graduated from Tsinghua University Nuclear Research Institute, a master's degree, an industrial control field expert, with product and technology development, team management and other decades of experience, led and participated in a number of major national special projects, has built a robotics research team from 0 to 1, the cumulative value of the product more than 300 million.
This round of financing is exclusively invested by BlueRun Ventures (Chinese: 蓝驰创投). This round of funding will be used for product iteration and research and development.