Shenzhen Lizi Robot Co., Ltd., an industrial vehicle automatic driving solution company, completed tens of millions of A rounds of financing

[Shenzhen Lizi Robot Co., Ltd., an industrial vehicle autopilot solution company, has completed tens of millions of rounds of A round of financing] Recently, Shenzhen Lizi robot of industrial vehicle autopilot solution company has completed tens of millions of pre-A rounds of financing. Capital, optimizing capital as financial advisor.

Lizi robots are located in Pingshan, Shenzhen. The current team size is about 20, of which more than 7 Chengdu are R&D personnel, mainly responsible for the system development and commissioning of standard forklift products; the founder Wang Bin graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology and has many years of robot navigation. Algorithm development experience.

Lighting Capital Director Su Zhibin said that lighting the capital in the field of vertical application of artificial intelligence and robotics has been continuously focused and focused. The Lizi robot team has been deeply cultivating for many years in the field of robotics. It has sufficient precipitation and accumulation in technology and market, relying on hybrid laser navigation, control and AGV scheduling algorithms with independent intellectual property rights to provide competitive products and solutions.

According to Jiang Xiong, Managing Director of Optimization Capital, with the higher labor costs, smart logistics and intelligent warehousing will usher in a period of rapid development, which is in line with the structural opportunities in the intelligent manufacturing field that have long been focused on optimizing capital. Li Zi from the HIT team, has strong technical barriers in the field of industrial robots, including laser navigation forklifts in the leading domestic level. The products have been commercially applied by benchmarking companies such as Shangfei and Xuji, and their performance and stability have been widely recognized by the market.

Domestic Replacement of Industrial Automatic Forklifts

The main product of Lizi robot is its hybrid laser forklift type AGV, which is used for feeding and feeding materials in the industrial field. In the early days of the establishment of the Lizi robot, the company also had business lines such as unmanned storage solutions and robot autonomous mobile device solutions. However, the intelligent unmanned forklift trucks in the industrial sector are the areas where Lizi robots persist for the longest time and have accumulated the most. Wang Bin, the founder of the sub-robot, is also determined to continue cultivating in this vertical field.

At present, there are two main solutions for the transformation of unmanned forklifts on the market. One is the high market share of the German SICK based on the NAV series laser head program, the program provides reflective plate based positioning data; the second is the NDC program, its latest system provides natural navigation-based vehicle hardware and software and host scheduling software.

However, these foreign programs have high domestic sales prices, and domestic buyers have strict requirements on costs. It is precisely because of cost reasons that many manufacturers cannot make up their minds to carry out automatic transformation.

Therefore, Lizi robot independently developed a third solution, “Unmanned Forklift Reconstruction Project Based on Hybrid Laser Navigation and Fuzzy Control Technology”. Currently, Lizi has four core technologies: autonomous core hybrid laser navigation algorithm, AGV controller, upper system software, and dispatching system; the company has applied for 29 core technology patents, including 13 inventions.

The combination of SLAM technology and laser beacon matching technology greatly improves the positioning accuracy compared to the single SLAM technology. Compared with the laser reflective plate positioning, the amount of construction is greatly reduced, and the flexibility of the AGV walking route is improved. It is worth mentioning that such an AGV product has a stable stop accuracy error of less than 10mm. This error is somewhat “overkill” for the storage area. However, for the more stringent industrial fields, such an error can meet the demand.

In addition, forklift type AGV is one of the most difficult models to control at present, because the movement model of forklift will change with the load conditions. Force robot based on fuzzy logic independent research and development forklift control technology, can achieve precise control of the forklift trajectory.

Wang Bin said that the automatic forklift products based on the above technologies have entered the customer's site for use and are undergoing further product stability reliability verification.

From customization to standardization, the business model of Lizi robot is explored

Lizzi robots, like other companies with technology as the core strength, have mostly experienced technological development and product optimization, and their business capabilities are more or less inadequate. Wang Bin also bluntly stated that the company’s focus in the next phase will be to strengthen the construction of business teams.

In July 2016, it reached a strategic cooperation with the listed company, HKUST, and obtained close to 10 million investment. The previous major orders of Lizi Robot also came from the smart packaging program of HKUST.

After obtaining a new round of financing, Lizi will mainly use this money for small-scale production and second-generation product development, as well as the layout of sub-industries, hoping to continue to expand such as Shang Fei and Xu Ji. Benchmarking customers.

At present, the main business model of Lizi robot is program-based, based on existing products, according to customer needs, including the automated forklift products, including a full set of factory forklift automation solutions. In the future, the company will perfect standardized products and systems to help more companies solve automation problems.

In addition, in the direction of future business model development, Wang Bin also put forward two ideas. First, relying on the leasing model used by traditional forklift trucks, it launched a leasing service model for intelligent unmanned forklift trucks. The second is to cooperate with forklift manufacturers and configure intelligent systems directly on its forklift products to help traditional forklift manufacturers to increase their added value.

From a large conception, the robotic forklifts of the Lizi robots should also be included in the category of new autonomous mobile robots. However, most of the companies of this type, including Quan Zhijia and Kuangcang, aim at warehousing. In the logistics field, companies such as Lizi Robot, which focuses on industrial fields, are relatively rare.

Driven by the policy of smart manufacturing, there will be more demand for automated upgrades by manufacturing companies, and now may be the best opportunity period for the rapid development of Lizi.