When young people come to a city, how do they like a city and take root in a city?
Because here you can chase your dreams and have endless possibilities.
Hu Yuchen, co-founder and chief problem officer of Shanghai Dajie Robot Technology Co., Ltd., a young entrepreneur in Baoshan, is a member of innovation and entrepreneurship in Shanghai. The pursuit of technology research and development and product innovation
It is the original intention of entrepreneurship
Born in 1992, his entrepreneurial journey began in 2017. "Three post-85 friends with digital construction backgrounds developed a robot digital twin system and started a business in a 100-square-meter garage. The idea was for robots to build houses. Hu Yuchen said at the Dajie Baoshan Laboratory in Shanghai.
Today, Shanghai Dajie Robot Technology Co., Ltd. has developed into a leading intelligent robot system company in China, providing advanced flexible production solutions in construction and industrial scenarios.
In Hu Yuchen's view, how to keep himself and his employees on the original intention of technology research and development and product innovation is a difficult thing that requires constantly getting out of the comfort zone, but he will always try to find some simpler application scenarios to achieve product landing and help everyone solve problems.
"When the company's first generation of industrial software products was established, I told all my friends that this product would definitely be overthrown by myself in the future." Hu Yuchen said that the process of innovation and research and development is the process of facing the unknown.
Hu Yuchen said: "The English name of our enterprise is Robotic plus. AI, which means 'empowering buildings with machines and AI'. The Chinese name 'Dajie' means 'seeing the vast world of intelligent manufacturing through robots'. ”
Intelligent robots are the core equipment for the development of intelligent terminal industry, the frontier direction of the integration of advanced manufacturing and a new generation of information technology, and an important field of global scientific and technological competition and industrial upgrading.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together with 15 ministries and commissions, jointly issued the national "14th Five-Year Plan" robot industry development plan, proposing to vigorously promote the supply of high-end products and increase the breadth and depth of application; Shanghai issued the "Shanghai Action Plan for Promoting the High-quality Intelligent Terminal Industry (2022-2025)", which clearly states that it will focus on the development of the intelligent terminal industry represented by robots during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period and create a number of benchmark brands and application scenarios.
On July 8, 2023, Dajie Robotics released RoBIM Cloud, a new AI product at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC). RoBIM Cloud, which has been developed for 3 years, is a cloud-native intelligent robot flexible production platform, committed to helping manufacturing practitioners quickly build and deploy robot solutions that can execute production.
In Hu Yuchen's view, after years of scenario practice in the construction, shipbuilding, construction machinery and energy industries, Dajie has gradually formed a cross-industry model service capability of "algorithm + data + process", and accumulated and precipitated into RoBIM Cloud platform products. "With the help of Big Model and AIGC, Dajie hopes to work with customers and partners from all walks of life to create a powerful robotic AI assistant through RoBIM Cloud."
RoBIM Cloud's three core technology bases: algorithm + data + process.
Based on geometric algorithms and numerical optimization methods, combined with AI technology, Dajie has established a modular low-code geometric algorithm library and a CAPP algorithm library with process characteristics, condensing the continuous accumulation of industry know-how and process, providing users with a programming-free robot flexible production cloud platform, and realizing one-click import and immediate production of massive drawings and models. Based on the capabilities of industrial software RoBIM, Dajie Robot has launched intelligent welding and cutting products to help the intelligent manufacturing of high-end equipment in the industrial field, and has accumulated a number of leading customers in the industry. Widely used in construction steel structure, bridge, coal machine, shipbuilding, engineering machinery, offshore and other industries of customers cutting production workshop. The first batch of related series of products were selected as benchmarking enterprises and application scenarios of intelligent robots in Shanghai, and typical examples of intelligent construction new technologies and new product innovation services in Guangdong Province. RobimCut intelligent cutting center, it only takes 2 minutes from batch import of workpieces to robot production, and can quickly complete accurate positioning of workpieces within 15 seconds, improving efficiency by 150-200% compared with traditional line laser scanning; Typical parts slope cutting can be increased from 80 pieces/person per day to 240 pieces/unit, and the overall efficiency is improved by about 3 times.
RobimCut Smart Cutting Center.
RobimWeld intelligent welding center can be applied to section steel assembly workpieces in buildings, bridges, offshore steel structures and other fields, through RobimWeld software directly and quickly read the original data of ifc, dxf, stl, STP and other types of drawings and models, automatically generate welds, welding processes and robot welding paths, help enterprises reduce 90% of the time to make processing drawings, save 80% of manual programming time and 2-3 programmers. At the same time, the stand-alone efficiency is about 1.8 times that of traditional manual welding.
In addition, Dajie has cooperated with the global leader in modular and synthetic construction, Al Youjia, to design an efficient, flexible and flexible welding production line based on the prefabricated steel structure building market in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The production line is the first in the industry, and through the landing and practice of the project, the prefabricated modular integrated construction industry has taken a solid step on the road of emerging industrial intelligent construction.
Dajie modular integrated building welding production line.
The project applies the flexible production system currently developed by Dajie for the steel structure MIC industry, and through the introduction of automated welding robots, flexible tooling, laser visual identification systems and RobimWeld software, it can greatly improve the consistency of production efficiency and quality at the same time, and is compatible with workpieces with a length of 4-12m, a width of about 3-3.5m and a thickness of 0.1-0.2m, and is compatible with different MIC product specifications to the greatest extent. It can meet the production needs of various products including transitional housing, simple public housing, data centers, student apartments, etc. in the future.
Good business environment and rich application scenarios
Choose in Baoshan
Talking about the reasons for choosing Shanghai and Baoshan, Hu Yuchen said that Shanghai has a good industrial environment, especially for the industry in which he chooses to start a business. "For an industry such as flexible production, it involves terminal users, robot-related supply chains, and the underlying technology development of some core industrial software, and Shanghai just has the above advantages." At the same time, it is easier to attract outstanding talents from all over the world to join our business in Shanghai, which is the core reason why we have always been firm in Shanghai. ”
In 2021, Dajie Robot settled in Baoshan, combining the regional advantages of Baoshan Robot and steel structure industry to form industrial linkage, which is a strategic move for enterprises to accelerate R&D landing. "Good business environment, high-quality talent team, convenient financing conditions, rich application scenarios... Dajie has also truly felt the encouragement, recognition and support of governments at all levels for the 'intelligent construction' industry and Dajie. ”
"In the future, based on the core industrial software RoBIM, Dajie Robot will deeply integrate the process experience of construction steel structure, shipbuilding, engineering machinery, coal machine and other industries, deeply cultivate intelligent methods such as geometric algorithms, process generation, robot free planning, 3D vision, etc., break through the technical bottlenecks such as traditional teaching, offline programming, and parametric programming, and continue to empower the intelligent transformation, lean production, and digital transformation of the industry." Hu Yuchen's long road of innovation is taking every step in a solid manner.
Text: Dong Zhiwen
Editor: Xiao Lu