When robot technology meets traditional manufacturing and logistics industry, it will burst out many exciting sparks! In the context of Industry 4.0 and intelligent manufacturing 2025, the development of the mobile robot industry has entered the fast lane, the global layout is also accelerating, a large number of new startups are rising rapidly, and the market is full of vitality.

As the world's largest mobile robot producer and sales place, China's AGV/AMR sales volume in 2022 exceeded 90,000 units for the first time, of which export orders accounted for 25% for the first time, which is destined to be an increasingly competitive track.

As a dark horse in the industry, stable stone robot is leading this technological revolution with the attitude of overtaking on a corner. In an interview, Li Hang, research and development director of Stable Stone Robot, put forward his own views on the development of the industry.

"The purpose of robotics is not to replace humans, but to increase efficiency and address labor shortages." Li Hang, research and development director of Wenshi Robot, pointed out that "in the next few decades, aging will become one of the important issues facing society, and robot technology can alleviate the pressure of human resource shortage to a large extent." He believes that through robotics, the efficiency of supply chain and warehouse management can be improved, benefiting the whole society, which is also the significance of the positive innovation of the Steady Stone team."

We focus on the development and application of autonomous mobile robot (AMR) and unmanned forklift technology, providing innovative flexible solutions for the logistics and warehousing field in the supply chain system to create stable and efficient productivity. Our products play an important role in the transformation of digital intelligent logistics, widely used in footwear, 3C manufacturing, e-commerce express delivery, third-party logistics, retail, bathroom and other industries, helping dozens of benchmarking enterprises at home and abroad to achieve industrial logistics intelligent upgrade. The Stable Stone robot system greatly improves the efficiency and accuracy of the warehouse through precise navigation, identification and sorting technologies. Promote customers to accelerate into the "intelligent era".

Previously, the impact of "masks" and the cooling of global investment and financing have brought more uncertainty at the business level, but the mobile robot industry is still showing an upward momentum. With its unique advantages in optimizing supply chain and logistics management as well as core products, Weishi robot has attracted the attention of investors. This year, Weishi Robot has completed A round of investment with a total investment capital of nearly 100 million yuan.

This also laid the foundation for the disruptive impact of our product innovation.

01 The road to innovation has no end

There are a large number of non-standard and customized products in China's manufacturing industry, and various product classifications require extremely flexible identification capabilities, which is also the reason for the brand differences brought by the AMR technology differences of different brands.

"According to the operation data performance of the stable stone robot in a well-known international 3PL enterprise warehouse, the stable stone robot lifts the AMR picking transportation solution for the output material shelf: By lifting, transporting the material frame, and cooperating with the workers for selection, the relay selection of 'people to cars' can be safely and efficiently realized. It can be seen that the stable stone robot not only has a strong advantage in the sorting and transportation of standard parts, but also can fully cooperate with manpower on non-standard parts to achieve the doubling of productivity."

As for how to choose AGV/AMR to reduce the capital occupation of enterprises in a short period of time, Li Hang believes that the choice of different schemes is more closely related to the situation of enterprises. "If a scenario is a point-to-point transportation scenario with fixed service, simple and low traffic volume, then the guided AGV has a price advantage. It is recommended to use AMR if there are many job points in a scenario or if the service changes frequently.

If it is only to save costs, the early purchase of AGV may not be worth the loss, because many logistics and manufacturing enterprises in China are not simple scenes, a place can save the trouble of resetting the AGV guidance sign, which is a more cost-effective approach, after all, AMR's independent comprehensive ability is more beneficial to business owners, which is also from 2021, We can see why the global AMR market is outpacing AGVs in terms of sales volume.

Whether AGV or AMR, the more diverse the device application scenarios and the stronger the integration capability of the vendor's technical support team, the more quickly productivity can be delivered. More flexible products can meet the diversified needs of customers to a greater extent, which has become the driving force for continuous innovation of stable stone robots.

02 Wenshi Robot releases the fifth generation multi-mode flexible AMR

The iterative innovation of Wenshi robot products stems from in-depth understanding of customer pain points, and the team continues to explore and study the challenges and needs in the field of warehousing logistics management. Li Hang pointed out: "We not only need to improve the labor replacement rate in labor-intensive industries, but also to achieve safe and efficient automation in critical and special industries."

These industries include wafer manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, nuclear power plants, etc., where human intervention is impossible or extremely dangerous.

For example: "The wafer manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries are highly sensitive to dust, and traditional manual operations can have a significant impact on product quality. Through the introduction of mobile robots, automated material handling, cleaning and handling tasks can be achieved, avoiding human interference and improving the stability and quality of production.

In the field of nuclear power plants and the disposal of nuclear materials, there is a huge risk of manual intervention due to the presence of radioactive materials. Mobile robots can undertake dangerous and complex tasks, such as radiation monitoring, equipment maintenance and nuclear waste management, to reduce personnel exposure and risk.

In addition, the hazardous chemicals industry also needs to reduce the risk of human error. Mobile robots can be used for the handling, injection and mixing of chemicals, reducing the potential risks of human operation through accurate and programmable actions, while improving work efficiency and safety."

Stable Stone Robot is willing to continue to explore innovation in these areas, to provide solutions for the development of the industry, while ensuring the safety of personnel and the improvement of production efficiency.

Based on the analysis of market demand, Li set the direction of developing efficient and intelligent robot solutions.

As the research and development director of Stable Stone Robots, I analyzed market demand, developed product strategy, and collaborated with the team to develop an innovative product to meet customer needs - the fifth generation multi-mode flexible AMR. In this dynamic and competitive industry, innovation is the key to success.

The introduction of the fifth generation of multimodal flexible AMR products will revolutionize the multi-industry sector.

The "fifth generation multi-modal flexible AMR" robot adopts deep learning and automatic driving technology of high-performance GPU edge computing, and the robot can realize autonomous perception, segmentation and recognition of the scene.

High-performance GPU heterogeneous computing power, support 275 trillion floating point operations per second (TOPS), all kinds of AI network models, have real-time computing capabilities, give the robot AI brain, to achieve scene understanding and logical reasoning ability.

The addition of automatic driving technology enables the robot to continuously optimize its detection range, detection accuracy and detection capability in order to adapt to more edge scenes, so that the handling robot can "walk" out of the outdoor for the first time, which can not only meet the work needs of indoor open scenes, crowded and repeated scenes, narrow laneways, cross-layer transportation and other scenes. It can also meet the complex scene operations such as outdoor human-vehicle mixing and traffic intersections.

The new generation of products uses ChatGPT large model on high performance cloud computing for the first time to understand the instructions of advanced complex tasks and split the meta-operation, combined with the flexibility of structural design, to realize the flexible switching of multiple tasks of the body. The robot can complete multi-mode operations such as handling, loading and unloading, polishing and spraying, picking, laser marking, ground cleaning, and cargo counting. The whole process of raw material storage, warehouse management, assembly line operation, factory transfer and finished products out of storage is nearly unmanned management. In addition, for the first time, the new stone robot adopts a modular jacking installation design, which can be disassembled and replaced according to needs, so that a machine chassis can realize multi-function and multi-application scenarios fast switching.

On the occasion of the product launch, Li Hang said, "We will actively respond to the competitive market environment with the attitude of overtaking on corners." Continue to challenge the "unprecedented", take the pulse of the market rhythm, resonate with the demand, and do the scene pain point solver. With faster product iteration, stronger scenario adaptation ability, and more extreme team execution ability, make the impossible possible!"

03 Achievement industry new paradigm

Stable stone robot has faced many challenges in the development process, but more opportunities. Before the formal establishment of the company has been deeply cultivated in the industry for many years, through many years of time to polish products, and successfully to the highest standard of the vehicle through the German Rhine ce certification - this is the world's only two, China's only.

Core product quality will eventually be recognized by customers, we stand out in the market with innovative products and efficient solutions, and have achieved remarkable results.

At this point, Li Hang describes the company received a large customer orders: "We helped the customer to build a flexible factory, in warehousing logistics management has become a successful example." A European century-old high-end bathroom brand has built a production base of 350,000 square meters in China, the factory's heavy cargo delivery is mainly completed by human driving forklift trucks and push pull cattle, scattered parts are mainly completed by human push pull truck. The annual labor expenditure alone is more than one million yuan, which does not take into account the cost of liability insurance and welfare costs.

After exploring the site, the stabilized stone robot customized the joint solution of pallet handling AMR and integrated skip truck, and realized the independent handling of heavy pallet cargo. At the same time, the AMR's climbing ability is optimized, and after mild treatment on the slope, the AMR can stably drive up the slope of 3°, realizing the automation of the pallet recovery process. In addition, the visual interface of Wenshi AMR robot is simple to use, people with high school or above education level can operate, and there is a strong after-sales service support team, which makes the throttling and efficiency more obvious.

04 Explore the global market and drive innovation

When Li Hang expressed the future development direction of the company, he emphasized the vision of stable stone robot to become a global enterprise. In order to achieve this goal, the company will further build and develop its current product line, uphold the principle of excellence, and provide the highest quality products and services. We are committed to achieving the best performance in our segments and winning more market share through continuous innovation and technological breakthroughs.

At the same time, Stable stone robot will also actively explore overseas markets to expand the company's global influence. Strengthen localization services and provide customized solutions in different regions that meet local needs and habits to better meet customers' needs and enhance competitiveness.

In the pursuit of globalization, Weishi robot will focus on business expansion and market strategy, and constantly look for new business opportunities and partners. We are committed to establishing solid international cooperation relationships and working closely with global suppliers and customers to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results. Through strengthening cooperation and exchanges, Wenshi Robot will continue to improve its competitiveness and innovation ability, and build a world-class intelligent robot enterprise.

In order to achieve this ambitious goal, Li Hang said that he will continue to work hard with the team, gather wisdom and strength, break through technical problems, improve product quality and service level, and provide the best solutions for global customers. By continuously enriching and optimizing products and improving customer satisfaction, Wenshi Robot will show its unique competitiveness and influence on the global stage and become a leader in the industry.