Soft Touch Robot completed tens of millions of yuan in Pre-A round of financing

Recently, the flexible robot end actuator developer soft touch robot announced the completion of tens of millions of yuan Pre-A round of financing, this round of capital by Meihua capital and Gaoluo capital jointly funded, potential energy capital as the exclusive financial advisor.

Soft Touch Robot completed tens of millions of yuan in Pre-A round of financing

This round of financing will be used to further promote the development of new series of products, increase production capacity, and promote the use of flexible end fulfillment to more scenarios.

Suzhou Soft Touch Robot Technology Co., Ltd., located in Zhangjiagang City, Suzhou, is a high-tech enterprise focusing on flexible robot skills and is committed to providing flexible gripper processing plans for industrial automation. Relying on Germany's advanced nano data technology, combined with the concept of bionic planning, the company applies flexible bionic tentacles to diversified industrial scenarios, creating a new field of robot application. The company's primary products are soft touch grippers and their drives, which have been used in 3C electronics, food, car parts, clothing production, medical treatment, robot education, packaging logistics and other fields.

The company grasps the whole process center skills of flexible gripper from structural planning, data manufacturing process, production processing and drive planning, and has an accredited laboratory that meets CNAS and ISO17025 standards, and its self-built 3000 square meter factory has passed ISO9001 international quality system certification, and its products meet United States FDA, EU 1935/2004/EC food-grade testing standards, EU CE safety certification, RoHS certification, and has obtained dozens of domestic and foreign patent skills, and is exported to Japan, Korea, Germany, and other international shopping malls.

Since the epidemic in 2020, the trend of robots replacing people has been unstoppable, and in the industrial field, cars, 3C electronics, new energy, semiconductors, plastic chemicals and other occupations have been widely used; In the field of consumer services, coffee, milk tea robots, and educational robots have also been recognized by shopping malls. At present, China's robot shopping malls account for about 1/3 of the global market share, and are the world's largest robot application malls.

The robot end fulfiller is located in the upstream of the robot industry chain, which needs to match the performance goal of the robot, and also directly determines the application. The use of flexible grippers can jump off the constraints, bionic human hands, higher tolerance of grasping targets and more lightweight, without the need for messy force control algorithms, you can complete the strength control beyond human hands, and are more suitable for fragile, easy to scratch, 3C electronic parts, glass surface or food and other massive grasping targets.

In terms of skills, the soft touch robot has obtained 44 patents, 10 registered trademarks, and 25 patents in the application; It has been recognized as a high-tech enterprise in Jiangsu Province and a technology-based small and medium-sized enterprise in Jiangsu Province; Its R&D center has been recognized as a provincial high-tech enterprise R&D center. The soft touch robot has made technical breakthroughs in many aspects, and the product has the characteristics of softness, strong self-habit, and long practical life, and has built a technical barrier in the internal structure planning of clamping, data deployment and the molding process of composite data.

In terms of team, the center members of the soft touch robot development team have more than 6 years of research experience, composed of professional senior experts, returnees, college skilled talents, etc., and have rich professional experience in product development, shopping mall marketing, automation equipment system integration, and robot center parts. During this period, the founder Zhang Fan, graduated from the University of Stuttgart, Germany with a master's degree in mechanical automation, with a research direction of sealing skills, and successively worked in Bosch and Centrotherm AG in Germany, with more than 10 years of professional product development and project management experience.

In terms of mass production, the soft touch robot has a standard workshop of more than 3,000 square meters, and has been certified by the ISO9001 system, and it has a small number of self-developed flexible robot end fulfillment production lines in China, which have been planned for mass production and handed over. The self-developed digital management system can complete the whole process of digital management from business opportunity insight, development, procurement, production, testing, sales to after-sales, ensure the rapid delivery and high quality of products, and can respond sensitively to the customized needs of customers.

In terms of channels, Routouch began to concentrate on the layout of mobile Internet short video marketing as early as 2020. Compared with the sales + visit mode of most robots to B enterprises, it has space limitations. With the help of the unique online short video marketing method, the cost of shopping mall education for "black technology" products is reduced, and the acceptance time of shopping malls is shortened.

Using innovative information technology and production technology, the product can be quickly iterated to repeatedly stimulate new and old demand, and then optimized and improved after quickly getting feedback from the shopping mall. The fast-paced power matching not only conforms to the consumption concept of the Internet era, but also provides more support for the accumulation of front-end data and the overall promotion and sale of products. In 2021, tens of thousands of flexible gripper products have been shipped, and the production and sales volume of the robot currently ranks first in the world, with a market share of more than 75%, and it is the professional head enterprise in the robot flexible gripper category.

In the view of Zhang Fan, chairman and CEO of Routouch, in the future, with the automation of China's manufacturing industry and the key to machine substitution, the demand for robot skills in 3C, semiconductors, clothing, food, and medical equipment and other advantages or characteristic occupations in China will face an explosive increase, and flexible gripper products based on soft robot skills have gradually become the preferred plan to deal with the above occupational automation problems.

Yi Bo, the managing partner of Gaoluo Capital New Skills Fund, said that the end actuator product of Soft Touch has the characteristics of high power, low cost, easy control and can get used to the messy environment, which better deals with the production difficulties of flexible, special-shaped, fragile and messy environments in the industrial category, and has a very large space for play and broad application prospects in the field of industry and emerging industries. With the abundance of end fulfiller specifications, the soft-touch robot will maintain a high speed increase over a long period of time.

Soft Touch Robot completed tens of millions of yuan in Pre-A round of financing

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