On July 25, Shanghai Whale Robot Technology Co., Ltd. announced that the 7th round of financing has been successfully completed. The Shanghai Sports Industry Fund, jointly established by Shanghai Jiushi Group, Lujiazui Group, Shangwen Investment, Five Star Sports Media and other state-owned platforms, participated in this round of financing, with a financing amount of more than 100 million yuan.
The founding team of Whale Robotics has 22 years of accumulation of educational robots, and Whale Robotics has full-stack technologies and capabilities such as design, research and development, and intelligent manufacturing, and has opened up the four-in-one educational robot industry ecology of products (Whale Robots), competitions (ENJOY AI), content (sea level education cloud), and training (2050 Innovation Center).
After the completion of the financing, Whale Robotics will promote the robot competition to become a summer Olympic event, the product will be fully exported to the sea, and more educational robot categories will be launched.
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Promote robotics competitions as a summer Olympic event
Founded in 1987, Jiushi Group, one of the investors in this round of financing, is the first government investment and financing company in China.
As a subsidiary of Jiushi Group, Jiushi Sports has built and operated a number of landmark large-scale sports venues in Shanghai, and has also introduced and operated more than ten international top events such as the F1 Chinese Grand Prix, Shanghai Rolex Masters, Shanghai Longines Global Equestrian Championship, World Snooker · Shanghai Masters, and International Athletics Diamond Race.
At the same time, this round of financing will also be used to promote the in-depth R&D and upgrading of full-stack technologies such as flying robots, humanoid robots, mobile robots and building block robots.
ENJOY AI is initiated and hosted by the Federation of Global Youth Artificial Intelligence, an international non-profit organization (NPO), and is open to graduate students, college students, high school, secondary vocational schools, and primary and secondary school students around the world.
The goal of ENJOY AI is that by 2030, 10 million young people around the world will participate in the Youth Artificial Intelligence Popularization Competition, so as to truly make robot competitions run anytime and anywhere, and make robot competitions more popular and fairer.
At present, ENJOY AI's global youth AI popularization activities have covered 24 countries around the world, attracting more than 500,000 young people to participate every year.
This year, more than 100 ENJOY AI elite players will receive admission letters from world-renowned universities, and the annual ENJOY AI Global Finals has become the Olympic Games in the field of educational robotics, and Whale Robot is the official global partner of ENJOY AI.
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Products and competitions are fully overseas
The export of whale robot products has crossed 5 continents and steadily expanded to 30 countries and regions around the world, with annual shipments exceeding 500,000 sets. From robotics course training to international robotics competitions, to youth artificial intelligence science popularization activities, whale products are promoting the global popularization of "educational robots + AI education".
In addition to the ENJOY AI global competition, the whale robotics platform has also helped science and technology festivals, science and technology weeks, STEM innovation workshops and other popular science education activities in dozens of countries such as Netherlands, Mexico, U.A.E., India, Korea, Malaysia, and Viet Nam.
Next, Whale Robotics is still optimizing overseas products, achieving localized adaptation, and providing professional technical support and after-sales service. Whale's educational robot has built a full product system of 3~22 years old, which is unified and compatible, and is suitable for use by teenagers of all ages around the world.
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Launched more categories of educational robots
The core team of Whale Robotics has 22 years of experience in robotics technology and products, and has the ability to apply robotics and artificial intelligence technology to the industrialization of the education field, and has achieved 100% localization of core hardware including chips, sensors, and intelligent motors. Next, Whale Robotics said that it will continue to focus on technological innovation to meet the diversified needs in the field of "youth + technology".
Based on the self-developed "Whale Spirit" architecture, Whale Robotics has launched an educational robot architecture, which has achieved full age, full scene and full system coverage of educational robots aged 3-22. In the future, 3~22-year-old flying, humanoid, mobile, building blocks and other educational robots will be fully popularized among teenagers.
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