36Kr learned that Fourier Intelligence has recently received a 400 million yuan Series D financing, which was led by the SoftBank Vision Fund Phase 2, and Saudi Aramco's venture capital funds Prosperity7 Ventures and Yuanjing Capital followed. Gu Jie, founder and CEO of Fourier Intelligence, said that this round of financing will be used to develop intelligent robot technology and accelerate the landing and popularization of rehabilitation robot products around the world.
Founded in 2015, Fourier Intelligent is an intelligent robot company that focuses on overcoming the core technology of high-performance robots, building an intelligent robot technology platform, and has formed large-scale applications in the rehabilitation industry. In 2021, Fourier Intelligent was successfully selected as a national specialized new "Little Giant" enterprise, and the company has taken the lead in undertaking nearly 20 national and provincial research and development projects.
The mainland rehabilitation medical market demand is huge, and the data of the Prospective Industry Research Institute shows that it is expected that in 2025, the scale of the rehabilitation medical market will exceed 200 billion yuan. The mainstream investment institution Nugget Rehabilitation Robot Track will further promote the rehabilitation industry into a period of rapid growth, drive more outstanding talents and resources to accelerate the influx of the rehabilitation industry, and the public's cognition will also step onto a new level.
From the field of rehabilitation robots, Fourier Intelligent can now provide intelligent rehabilitation integrated solutions for rehabilitation institutions, involving intelligent rehabilitation products, physical therapy equipment and rehabilitation medical digitalization, etc., forming a closed loop of services.
Up to now, the rehabilitation robot independently developed by the company has been exported to dozens of countries and regions, and settled in more than 1,000 institutions at home and abroad. Headquartered in Zhangjiang, Shanghai, the company also set up a regional headquarters in Singapore to carry out R&D and production layout in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Zurich and Chicago, and establish a global R&D, production and service network.
Fourier Intelligent EMU 3D Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robot
It is reported that Fourier Intelligent has independently developed core technologies and components such as force feedback technology platform, multi-joint robot motion control card, multi-dimensional force sensor, etc., getting rid of the import dependence of software and hardware. It is reported that the intelligent rehabilitation robot developed based on the force feedback technology platform simulates rich mechanical effects with precise force control to achieve smooth mechanical control. According to the user's situation, the corresponding auxiliary force is output, and the user is guided to carry out task-oriented interactive training.
For example, the EMU three-dimensional upper limb rehabilitation robot took the lead in achieving full coverage from single joints, planes to three-dimensional spatial movements, and completed functions such as motion control, muscle strength and cognitive training. The ExoMotus lower extremity exoskeleton rehabilitation robot provides wearable rehabilitation walking training, which can also be used to assist individual walking in the future.
In the next step, Fourier Intelligent plans to release a pan-bionic robot platform, which will apply core technologies to more non-rehabilitation areas in the future. Son zhengyi, who spoke at the Mobile World Congress in 2017, said that in the next 30 years, the number of intelligent robots will surpass that of humans. Gu Jie revealed that this situation has been realized in advance in the rehabilitation department. For example, in the rehabilitation center that Fourier intelligently participated in, the number of rehabilitation robots has exceeded the number of rehabilitation workers, "which shows that the era of human-machine integration is accelerating."
Gu Jie said that Fourier Intelligence is essentially an intelligent robot company, and the company will continue to invest in the research and development of the underlying technology of the robot, including the infrastructure and technology of the bionic robot, and gradually develop in the direction of the pan-bionic robot platform company, and then create an overall solution in different vertical application scenarios.
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