36 learned that the foreign bone robot company MeBotX has recently announced the 10 million yuan pre-A round financing, the investor is a 58 industry fund, and the funds will be mainly used for product mass production, new product development and upgrading and overseas market development.
MeBotX has been reported by 36. It is found by Wei Wei and Dr. Lin Xichuan, is one of the companies that have earlier in China. The company mainly provides auxiliary-wearable exoskeleton product and intelligent solution to emergency rescue, industrial logistics, assembly and manufacturing industries, through lease and sales. Dozen.
The outer bone robot was first applied to the army, enhancing the combat capability of single soldiers in a wearable machine, and gradually been used in the field of rehabilitation medical, logistics, industrial. This is a comprehensive technology that combines sensor, control, information, fusion, and mobile computing, providing the operator to wearable mechanical mechanism to enhance human capacity as the main purpose. At present, foreign bone robots mainly include two categories of rehabilitation and helping robots. The principles of controlling robots belong to trajectory control, mainly completing the strike-assisted support; while helping robots are more in the direction of power and interactive forms, R & D design and production processes are more complicated.
MeBotX provides a helper exoskeleton. At present, there are two series of products that have both waist booster and lower extremity to support external bones, both series include both passive and source waist. The so-called passive power is not active, and is designed for pure mechanical structural structures, mainly using energy storage components to collect potential energy, and release the power to achieve help. During the wear, it can be randomly loose according to the user needs, and does not affect the daily activities of the user; and the active is driven by motor, can fusion the motor, the Internet of Things, etc., and realize artificial intelligence fusion.
The waist boosia is mainly used for logistics handling, automotive assembly workers, construction workers and other physical laborers' professional skeletal muscle disease prevention, while enhancing work efficiency of workers. The outer bones of the lower extremities are used in emergency rescue and military action assistance and the living assistance of the elderly, degenerative knee lesions. Current cooperative customers include large-scale retailers at home and abroad, domestic and famous car companies and various emergency rescue units in China. After verification of wearing exoskeletons in customer floor cases, the energy consumption rate of handling workers can reach 40% -60%.
It is worth mentioning that MeBotX can achieve passive and active two modes on the same machine, while meeting the needs of different scenarios.
In recent years, with more and more exoskeleton manufacturers, more and more enterprises have adopted foreign bone products, their industry life cycle has gradually changed from childkeal. The market is also increasingly high, according to MeBotX, the exoskeleton design should achieve several basic goals:
● First, meet the needs of normal motion of human body;
● Second, there must be sufficient stability and softness;
● Third, can adapt to different environments;
● Fourth, it is possible to automatically identify human body motion intent and follow the human body movement.
In order to achieve these goals, MeBotX from mechanical structure, to core components, to control algorithms, etc.:
The MeBotX Team has experience in the development of foreign skeletal system in the past ten years. The team first combines moving mechanics, biomechanics, establishing a "force-energy-fatigue index" mapping model for training other skeleton precision mechanical control and bionic mechanical structure. design;
Secondly, MeBotX independently designs larger core parts of the outer bone robot, such as the core drive motor, joint, sensor, and puts the sensor mounted with a sense driver algorithm into the joint, forming a perceived body action modularity. "Implant the perceptual drive algorithm in the joint, you can make the outer skeleton earnestly know the action intent." Wei Wei said, "At the same time, the information integration of multiple sensors can improve the system's information collection capacity, providing multimode data foundation for the control strategy."
In addition, MeBotX has also passed the "outer bone + cloud brain" cloud computing platform, collecting the use habits and equipment of the external bone applicable population, the intelligent main controlling algorithm for intelligent, intelligent, intelligent intelligence, and the external skeleton control strategy Intelligent, implementing the external skeleton system and the adaptive parameter adjustment of people, providing users with personalized variable parameter control strategies;
"In theory, the longer the user, the longer use of the outer skeleton, the outer bones will be more and more adaptable to the company's effort, because we are embedded in the self-learning algorithm in the outside skeleton." Wei Wei told 36, "but at this stage, This effect also needs to be worn, we are moving through the market of TO B, engaged in applications, especially some subdivided motion subdivided segments. In the future, with the further decrease in hardware costs, and further product intelligence Improve, we will also push it to the C-terminal market. "
In terms of market strategies, MeBotX uses direct sales, distribution, and establishing a marketing strategy combination combined with experience stores, and builds teams to build MeBotX brands in the market to further open the market. In terms of overseas markets, MeBotX has been built in North America, Europe, and the Japanese market to sell products.
In terms of the target industry, MeBotX has gradually enacted industrial logistics markets, expands to emergency rescue, single soldier and other industries. Wei Wei also said that while the 58-industry fund will also help MeBotX expand in the moving industry.
Previously, MeBotX has also obtained a million-level angel round financing in the ropeway investment.
