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At the beginning of 2022, CES, known as the "Spring Festival Gala of Science and Technology", kicked off.
Gathering global tech giants and promising start-ups, CES 2022 is showcasing a new round of technology trends, covering artificial intelligence, automotive technology, digital health, smart home and other fields. Among them, commercial robots have quietly penetrated all walks of life, and their landing scenes have been given more imagination: South Korean company "Beyond Honeycomb" innovates commercial kitchens with robots that can cook customized meals; Shenzhen "Purdue Technology" brings the cleaning robot "CC1", which provides four-in-one cleaning services for multi-scenes such as residential areas and industrial parks.
This year is already the third time that Purdue Technology has participated in CES, and "Purdue Technology" has been present at CES conferences in 2019 and 2020. At the 2020 CES, Purdue Technology won the "2020 CES Science and Technology Innovation Award" issued by the Consumer Technology Association, the organizer of CES.
"CC1" Nuggets commercial cleaning robot market
At this year's CES technology feast, Purdue Technology brought the cleaning robot "CC1" just released in November last year, and this exhibition is the first time that this commercial cleaning robot has gone overseas. For Purdue Technology, which previously focused on distribution scenarios, the release of the cleaning robot "CC1" marks the official entry of Purdue Technology into the commercial cleaning robot market, exploring the application of digital technology in the field of health and sanitation services, and accelerating the layout of commercialization scenarios.
PURDUE TECHNOLOGY's new generation cleaning robot "CC1" (Source: "PURDUE TECHNOLOGY")
According to Hong Hao, sales manager of Purdue Technology, "CC1" has a variety of functions including floor wiping, sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, automatic water sewage, automatic driving, etc., and can provide cleaning services for office buildings, offices, residential areas, industrial parks and other scenarios. The "CC1" is equipped with roller brushes, suction grills and dust thrusts with liftable structures, which enable it to adapt to different types of floors, including hard floors and short-bristle carpets.
In order to adapt to the growing trend of "Internet of Everything", Purdue Technology takes "connecting various Internet of Things devices" as the design point, from building elevators and gates to access control systems, communications and upper-level software, "CC1" can interact with more terminals and systems, forming an important part of intelligent building management.
Driven by multiple factors such as rising labor costs, intensified labor conflicts, and policies to accelerate the digital transformation of the service industry, the market demand for commercial cleaning robots has continued to grow. According to the statistics of the Prospective Industry Research Institute, the market size of China's commercial cleaning robot demand in 2019 is about 380 million yuan. According to its forecast, in the future, China's commercial cleaning robot market demand will continue to grow rapidly, and the overall demand market size will reach about 2.78 billion yuan by 2025.
Based on the technical foundation accumulated in the field of delivery robots, the "CC1" launched by Purdue Technology solves the pain points of the cleaning industry, such as difficulty in recruiting workers, difficulty in employing labor, short and low manual effective cleaning time and frequency, unstable cleaning quality, and low cleaning perception of Party A.
From distribution to cleaning, the emergence of "CC1" is a strategic move for Purdue Technology to develop horizontally in the commercial field after meticulous market research and in-depth analysis of user needs and pain points.
Robot Story enters North America
In addition to the latest product "CC1", Purdue Technology also showcased other commercial service robots at CES 2022, including the high-end food delivery robot "Bella" equipped with bionic design language, the intelligent food delivery robot "Happy Delivery", and the delivery robot "Okay" with the main call notification function.
Purdue Technology participates in CES 2022 (Source: "Purdue Technology")
At the end of 2021, Purdue Technologies launched a week-long "Happy Delivery" free trial for restaurants, cafes, hotels, hotels, offices, hospitals and other food and beverage operators in Dallas, Texas. Hong Hao, sales manager of "Purdue Technology", said that the service capacity of each service robot is about equal to 1-2 full-time waiters, with a working endurance of more than 12 hours, and it can also be automatically charged. "Due to the region's widespread labor shortage, many restaurateurs see great potential for commercial service robots to improve efficiency, reduce operating costs, and attract customers."
Hong Hao said that due to the impact of the epidemic, Purdue Technology has only been able to expand overseas business remotely online in China in the past two years, although sales have doubled for half a year, but there is still great potential in the vast international market. "CES provides an opportunity and stage for Chinese enterprises to go to sea, and purdue technology has gained a large number of interested customers on the first day of the exhibition."
At present, Purdue Technology's business covers many countries and regions around the world. With this CES conference, Purdue Technology will increase its layout in North America, form a complete localized operation system as soon as possible, and strive to accelerate the lead on the new track.
Four months of financing of nearly one billion yuan
In China, "Purdue Technology" also has many customers, according to the official website information, its robots have been stationed in BYD, Haidilao, Intercontinental Hotel, Treadwave E-sports, Yichun high-speed rail station and other scenes.
In the capital market, "Purdue Technology" is even more favored. In May 2021, Purdue Technology completed a C1 round of financing of 500 million yuan; on September 16, four months later, Purdue Technology announced the completion of the C2 round of financing, with a cumulative financing amount of nearly 1 billion yuan in two rounds, and the investors behind it include Tencent, Meituan, the Greater Bay Area Common Home Development Fund, Shenzhen Investment Holding Capital, Sequoia China, etc.
According to Hong Hao, in 2022, "Purdue Technology" plans to continue to invest in the research and development of commercial service robots, based on the strategic layout of "multi-functional, multi-scenario" to continue to develop horizontally in the commercial field, to build a moat with technological innovation; to maintain customer-centricity to ensure production quality; to enrich robot application scenarios, improve new products in different service scenarios, promote the landing of new business models while developing technology, and promote the deep integration and innovative development of artificial intelligence and the real economy.