Currently, however, the four major families in the field of robotics abroad are still predominant in the global industrial robot market, namely ABB in Switzerland, KUKA in Germany, Fanuc and YASKAWA in Japan, and shortcomings in technological capabilities In order to change this situation, more and more robotic companies in China join the battlefield, and Dongguan Liqun Automation Technology Co., Ltd., established in 2011, is one of the factors that make the domestic industrial robot field companies still in a backward position.
From a product perspective, it is also true that domestic robots have no way to compete with foreign robots, but the trend is that more and more robotic companies in China are treated in the same way as international robotics companies, This is actually a very important signal: the main battlefield of big companies or robots is opening to the domestic and domestic competitive strength, quality products have the opportunity to contend with foreign rivals, this is a very good situation. 'Lee Group automation CEO Shi Jinbo said in an interview with micro-network reporters.
'The first pot of gold' from the United States well-known mobile phone company
Since its inception, Li Qun automation has also gone through six years of development.After six years of experience, Li Qun automation is currently committed to the research and development, production and application of small, lightweight industrial robots, with SCARA, Delta, six-axis Robot products, forming a 'high-quality robot + open application software platform + personalized intelligent solutions' product system, as if the robot industry is a 'potential stock'.
But in fact, any one company will inevitably encounter some bottlenecks in the beginning of the establishment, Li Qun automation is no exception.In the company was first established, Li Qun is mainly positioned to help domestic enterprises to buy foreign products, processing used in New industry in the field of automation.But in 2012, Li Qun and other manufacturers in the process of equipment production, due to the lack of adequate market research and development of the product did not cause market concern, capital and team problems, Cause the development of the company in trouble.
Fortunately, this time the United States well-known mobile phone company is looking for a project of industrial robot partners, at the recommendation of Dr. Li Zexiang, Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Li Qun automation took the opportunity.After several months of painstaking research and development, Li Qun The prototype was delivered on schedule and was recognized, and despite being at a time when the size of the team failed to bring the project into mass production, Li Qun thus earned the company the 'first pot of gold'.
China's first completely self-developed drive control system
2013 can be said to be a turning point for Li Qun because on October 10, 2013, Li Qun Automation completed the development of the world's first drive-in-one parallel robot and pioneered the integration of drive control and design to reduce external alignment without External control cabinet, light weight, small size, significantly reduce space occupancy.It is understood that at present the series known as the 'Apollo' parallel robot AP-1130-465S, AP-1130-365S, AP-1635- 465S, and AP-1635-365S four models, mainly used in food, electronic products, pharmaceutical products and cosmetic products industries.
It is noteworthy that, in August this year, the new conference, Li Qun also introduced the drive control of electrical integration technology as a driving extension and innovation.In addition, last month's 19th China International Industry At the expo, Li Qun also released three new products: the Triton Distributed Intelligent Robot Control System, the MT2 Next-Generation Teach Pendant, and the Deep Learning Defect Detection System.
Among them, the Triton distributed intelligent robot control system is the first autonomous robot control and drive system in China, which adopts embedded design, integrates the controller into the robot body, and forms a control-electric integrated distributed control architecture with more flexible Compute capacity expansion and higher integration.
Shi Jinbo said that the robot's several major components, including motors, reducers, and controllers, and Li Qun itself technical expertise is the control system.Based on the robot, and the future of automation considerations, we designed a new, subversive control system.
So what is the need for this control system for the future? Shi Jinbo added: "The future development of industrial robots requires a lot of external sensing, such as vision, laser, force control such sensors to meet the scene interaction Demand, distributed control with a very powerful communication and computing power, this is absolutely the world's first, but definitely the technology leader. '
Three financing for R & D investment and scale development
According to Ji Wei network understanding, Li Qun since its establishment, a total of three funds were amalgamation, respectively: in October 2014 by the Ming Dynasty capital of millions of angel angel round of financing; in April 2015 Sequoia Capital and Ming-potential capital Tens of millions of RMB A round of financing; April 2016 Sai Fu Fund led the tens of millions of dollars of round B financing.
Shek Kinbo disclosed that the financial capital mainly used for investment in R & D of technology and the scale development of the company currently has more than 230 employees and more than half of them are technical R & D personnel. Li Qun's target customer base is mainly divided into two categories: It is an integrator who needs small and lightweight robots in industries such as food, 3C, glass, precision machinery, new energy and chemical products, and has the needs of sorting / packaging / handling / assembly. The other is manufacturing Industry manufacturers, engineering departments within their factories need the automation of machines.
Shi Jinbo said that Li Qun's marketing strategy has always been very clear.'First, in the main battlefield, the use of product reliability, the scale of the complete armed themselves, so that they become a confident, confident domestic products to fight; secondly On the regional level, we look for a large number of channel partners and work with integrators to develop new application sites to help customers protect their technical value by utilizing our own R & D or open platform features.
'The robot is actually going to have to go through a very long but very solid process of accumulation in the last couple of years, just as we did with the spirit of spaceflight,' said Shi Jinbo. In the future, Li Qun will continue along the road With independent innovation and industrial accumulation of the road to go forward.