Cross-border to do AGV, is it reliable?
Wen | Ye Jiaqi
In recent years, with the heat of the mobile robot track, many companies have begun to cross-border involved in this field, at present, how is the progress of the mobile robot industry of these companies? What are the results?
Trinity Group
Sany Robot Technology Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise incubated within Sany Group, relying on advanced technologies such as 5G, industrial Internet, and AI, and is committed to empowering the intelligent, electrified, unmanned transformation and upgrading of discrete manufacturing.
The main business of Sany Robot mainly includes three major sections: system integration, intelligent mobile robots and electric forklifts. In the past two years, Sany Robot has undertaken more than 100 internal and external smart factory construction and digital transformation projects of production lines of Sany Group, and it is reported that Sany Robot's sales in 2021 will exceed 1.6 billion yuan.
In the intelligent mobile robot sector, Sany Robot has helped more than 40 large factories across the country take a solid step in intelligent manufacturing and digital transformation with a rich product line with a full coverage of 1 to 20 tons, a multi-agent scheduling platform with independent intellectual property rights, and an end-to-end one-stop solution for the whole process.
ZTE
In 2021, ZTE officially released the industry's first industrial natural navigation AGV load platform with integrated 5G modules ZXAGV_T260, which is the industry's first industrial natural navigation AGV load platform that integrates 5G modules, ZXAGV_T260 adopts industrial natural navigation technology, realizes the integration of laser + visual navigation, has expanded functions such as object recognition, human body recognition, intelligent decision-making, etc., compared to the traditional magnetic stripe/two-dimensional code navigation method, suitable for more scenarios, especially complex working conditions, Industrial production environment under complex light, less transformation of site deployment, short cycle, large working space, site deployment cost reduction of about 80%. At the same time, it supports 5G full-band communication, effectively solving the problem of large AP switching delay, and reducing the average drop rate by 80%.
T260 has greatly improved the efficiency of transportation turnover in many projects such as ZTE Nanjing Binjiang Intelligent Manufacturing Base, a terminal manufacturing plant in Changsha, and a processing equipment manufacturing plant in Nanjing, helping customers achieve lean production and flexible manufacturing.
BYD
BYD's forklift business has been going on for ten years, and with the upgrading of the manufacturing industry, BYD has gradually extended its business from the traditional forklift field to the AGV field. At present, on the product page of BYD forklift official website, we can already see a series of mobile robot products, mainly forklift AGVs, including different types such as forward-shifting, stacking-type, pallet-type, counterweight type and traction type.
Bi Guozhong, chairman of BYD Forklift Trucks, once said: "Bydir forklift trucks aim to greatly reduce the cost of AGVs, and the main measure is of course that we independently master AGV technology and further optimize them. "At present, BYD has taken an important step in early product development, but the follow-up needs to be verified by market applications.
Han's laser
Han's Laser Technology Industry Group Co., Ltd., a holding subsidiary invested and formed by Han's Laser Technology Industry Group Co., Ltd., launched a new mobile robot product in 2021 - MAV multi-perception automatic navigation vehicle.
MAV multi-perception automatic navigation vehicle is a new generation of Han's robot multi-sensor autonomous vehicle, now mainly used for indoor logistics tasks, with AI voice intelligent interaction, obstacle avoidance radar, can be continuous, safe uninterrupted work, more according to different scenarios to apply different types of bodywork, while having an autonomous navigation system and scheduling software, can be multiple vehicles at the same time service, so that the production task always runs and maintains the flexibility of control.
This product is another breakthrough in the field of mobile robots after the launch of Han's robot composite robot products, and further clarifies the main direction of Han's robots in the future.
JD.com
In September 2021, JD Logistics released the self-developed "Heaven and Earth Wolf - Three-dimensional Mobile Robot Cargo-to-Human System" (hereinafter referred to as the Heaven and Earth Wolf System). The Wolf system has both vertical storage and flexible handling functions, which can realize high-density three-dimensional storage of 3-20 meters, with the characteristics of high flexibility, high flexibility and high reliability. Its innovative three-dimensional mobile robot method breaks through the limitation that traditional mobile robots can only walk in two-dimensional space, and can move to any position according to the instructions of the scheduling system, realizing that the single machine can walk in multiple spaces on the ground and shelves at the same time.
In 2021, the handling AGV robot independently developed by JD.com - "Ground Wolf" was also officially launched in the plateau area, more than 100 robots were put into use at the same time, and the large intelligent logistics warehouse landed on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for the first time.
In addition, at the World 5G Conference in September 2021, JD.com said that it would achieve the large-scale production of its 5G warehousing robots by the end of 2021.
UBTECH
In January 2021, UBTECH's intelligent logistics robot AMR and solutions made its debut at the International Consumer Electronics Show.
UBTECH intelligent logistics robot AMR, using laser SLAM navigation and visual assistance obstacle avoidance, has real-time monitoring, intelligent obstacle bypass, intelligent scheduling, smooth movement, self-detection, self-service charging and other functions. Its intelligent logistics robot solution takes intelligent robot as the carrier, equipped with robot intelligent scheduling system and intelligent warehouse management system, which is specially designed for flexible mobile handling in industrial scenarios, and can expand different operation modules to easily cope with the mobile operation tasks of factory manufacturing and warehousing logistics, realize material transportation automation, and improve internal logistics efficiency.
In addition to the above-mentioned companies, the mobile robot business of enterprises such as BMW, Continental Group, Foxconn, XCMG Group and other companies is also advancing. BMW has set up a subsidiary, IDEALworks, and plans to sell mobile robots to the outside world; the research and development of AGVs within Continental Group is advancing; Fabo Intelligent, an AMR joint venture between Foxconn and ADlink Technology, will launch related products for the mainland market this year; XCMG's port heavy-duty AGVs have been put into use, and unmanned forklifts are also under development.
On April 13th, China Mobile Robot (AGV/AMR) Industry Alliance will hold the "11th China (Shenzhen) Industrial Logistics and Warehousing Intelligent Development Engineering Conference and South China Industrial Application Mobile Robot Promotion Conference" in Shenzhen, in addition to a series of wonderful speeches, the "2021-2022 China Mobile Robot (AGV/AMR) Industry Development Report" will be officially released at the meeting, so stay tuned!