Little Giant | Chen Haibo, founder of Shenlan Technology: Strive to create a new enterprise cluster specializing in specialization

Economic Observer reporter Wang Qing, as an artificial intelligence of a new round of scientific and technological revolution technology, is constantly reconstructing industrial development.

"For example, in the steel industry of traditional manufacturing industry, as far as the detection of steel plate defects is concerned, it used to be necessary to wait for the steel casting slab to cool down and then be observed by the naked eye by the quality inspector, which took a long time and low efficiency, and the naked eye was easy to fatigue, and eventually caused the defective product to flow out." Chen Haibo, founder and CEO of Shenlan Technology, told the Economic Observer that the traditional manual detection of high temperatures cannot be achieved at all, let alone the collection of detection data and the standardization of operations, but with the blessing of artificial intelligence technology, these problems are gradually solved.

As a national -level "little giant" enterprise, Shenlan Technology, an artificial intelligence enterprise founded in 2014, has been focusing on specialized new tracks, forming a company structure based on the research institute and empowering the layout in multiple industries.

In Chen Haibo's view, specialized special new has always been the development direction of Shenlan Technology, and obtaining these titles has not changed much for the company itself. In the future, the company will unswervingly take the road of new development of specialized specialization, adhere to innovation-driven, focus on subdivision areas, closely follow market demand, let more projects and products enter the market independently, strive to create a new enterprise cluster of specialized specialization, and contribute to the scientific and technological strength of artificial intelligence enterprises.

"One horizontal and one vertical" corporate structure

Before founding Shenlan Technology in 2014, Chen Haibo has been abroad for more than ten years to start a business in the field of artificial intelligence, which has also accumulated original funds and technologies for the development of the company.

As we all know, artificial intelligence is a money-burning industry, but the financing scale of Shenlan Technology has been small. In this regard, Chen Haibo believes that the amount of financing and strength can not be equated, technology companies should look at long-term development, and the annual orders of Shenlan Technology are still growing.

The organizational structure of Shenlan Technology can be summarized as "one horizontal and one vertical". Specifically, it is to adopt the organizational mechanism of the Academy of Sciences + company and continue to exert efforts in basic research and application development. At present, the Shenzhen Academy of Sciences has six research institutes, including the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, the Institute of Intelligent Vehicles, the Institute of Automation, the Academy of Life Sciences, the Institute of AI Brain Science and the Institute of Frontier Science.

At the same time, with autonomous driving, biological intelligence, computer vision and cognitive intelligence and other technologies as the core, relying on the scientific research strength of the "Academy of Sciences" system, we will promote the combination of "learning" and "research", create a complete business chain of platform-based algorithm output, integrated loading and hardware delivery, and quickly realize the industrialization of AI science and technology.

Chen Haibo believes that artificial intelligence is not only an important frontier field for strengthening the national strategic scientific and technological strength, but also a hard-core technology that is deeply integrated with various industries and leads the intelligent upgrading of economy and society. The company started with computer vision, the Academy of Sciences "blessed", a comprehensive understanding of the underlying logic of the specific business, looking for AI use scenarios composed of real pain points, and gradually created an AI capability platform that incubates many technologies and products, most of which have developed into "specialized and specialized" projects.

"In the core logic of the development of Shenlan science and technology, it is always believed that we should do our own thing well in basic research, and do not always follow the footsteps of others." Chen Haibo said that in the next decade, the company will continue to increase basic research in artificial intelligence and become a soft and hard enterprise. The company has been verified many times in terms of technical software, both soft and hard, and gradually realized, and will continue to benchmark excellent enterprises in the future, continue market development, improve operational capabilities, and strive to become a head enterprise covering multiple fields.

Diversified layout

Looking at the development of Shenlan Technology in the past 7 years, it can be found that the company did not choose to label itself in a certain field, but quickly laid out in multiple fields, from intelligent robots, intelligent health, intelligent driving to four major industrialization sections of intelligent industry, comprehensive supporting artificial intelligence products and customized AI solutions.

Chen Haibo believes that technology is an important force to promote social progress, and a great enterprise can empower technology, promote industrial upgrading and development, empower China's new infrastructure construction, provide assistance for Chinese science and technology in the upcoming fourth industrial revolution, and continue to work hard to achieve the corporate vision of "artificial intelligence and serving people's livelihood".

The four major industrialization plates are specifically looked at: Shenlan Intelligent Robot Plate, relying on the accumulation of AI technology in the fields of computer vision, navigation technology, path planning, human-computer interaction, biometrics and other fields of Shenlan Academy of Sciences, in-depth intelligent robots in various subdivisions, with the high-end robot research and development team integrating production, education and research, has developed a number of intelligent robots.

Relying on the technology accumulation of Shenlan Academy of Sciences in cutting-edge fields such as biological intelligence, genetic testing, brain-computer interface, infrared and 3D imaging, and deep learning algorithms, the Shenlan Intelligent Health Section has realized the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements in the field of intelligent health. At present, Shenlan has become the first AI enterprise in China with the ability to test for nucleic acids of the new crown virus, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China has commended the outstanding performance of shenlan technology star product "Owl" in the process of fighting the epidemic.

Shenlan AI intelligent driving plate, relying on the vision-based multi-sensor fusion technology of Shenlan Academy of Sciences, combines the decision-making system of precise positioning navigation and reinforcement learning with the planning and control technology of optimizing vehicle safety to create a platform-level autonomous vehicle-level solution. Since 2017, Shenlan has developed and launched mobile retail vehicles, Panda smart buses, AI intelligent road sweepers and hydrogen energy logistics vehicles, among which Panda Smart Bus has obtained 5 automatic driving test licenses and commercial licenses, and Panda Bus is also the only autonomous driving large bus in the announcement directory of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Shenlan Intelligent Industrial Sector is committed to helping enterprises implement digital transformation, empowering traditional industries through cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies such as machine substitution, visual inspection, process optimization management, 3D modeling, high-precision analysis, equipment data perception control, big data computing preventive maintenance, industrial intelligent networking, etc., using process modeling to increase factory transparency, controllability and regular iteration of production processes.

Among them, industrial intelligence, as one of the most important sectors empowered by Shenlan AI technology, has been accelerated.

In addition to the steel industry, Shenlan industrial AI technology has been applied to the industry direction also include chip packaging, semiconductor production, pharmaceutical products, textile production, auto parts, aircraft parts, wood flooring and other industries and industrial brain, factory brain and other AI behavior detection.

It can be said that the changes in macro policies have been guiding the development of Shenlan, grasping the pulse of the times, meeting the needs of people's livelihood, and keeping up with the national strategy to find direction.

"If there are three keywords to be locked in for 2021, it must be reflection, refactoring and planning. First of all, changes in technology and policies have ushered in great changes in the industry and the enterprises in which they are located, so they need to constantly reflect; secondly, after the current changes in the external industry, it is necessary to reconstruct the company plate and strive to build a new business card and brand in Shanghai. Chen Haibo said frankly that in the end, it is necessary to plan for future development, and the answer of Shenlan Technology is to firmly take the road of specialized and special new development and promote industrial upgrading and development.