No. 9 company released new products again, the world's first ultra-quiet smart lawn mower made a stunning appearance

On September 2, Segway Segway, a brand of No. 9 Company, held a new product launch conference at its headquarters in Beijing, officially releasing a new product in the field of home service robots - Segway Navimow, which is also the "world's first ultra-quiet robot". "Borderless Smart Lawn Mowing Robot".

    Industry insiders believe that the advanced and innovative nature of this lawnmower robot in terms of technology and product functions in the current lawnmower industry is expected to completely subvert the current market for traditional artificial lawnmowers and market The cognition of common lawn mowers has led the industry to enter the era of real lawn mower intelligence.

Epoch-making products come out, cracking "two major industry pain points"

The inherent shortcomings of traditional lawn mowers, such as high noise, labor-intensive, and insufficient safety, provide soil for the rapid popularization of lawn mowers. "Traditional manual lawn mowers not only require a lot of manpower, but their safety performance cannot be guaranteed, and they also generate a lot of noise pollution," said Ren Guanjiao, general manager of the Home Service Robot Division of No. 9 Company. For example, a garden lawn mowing service costs about $40-$80, and it costs about $1,000 a year. In addition, if the lawn area is too large, it will take more time and manpower to maintain it using traditional methods.”

"Applying modern intelligent control technology to lawn mowing allows lawn mowers to operate autonomously, which not only saves human resources, but also ensures worker safety. Compared with traditional lawn mowers, intelligent lawn mowers are more convenient and safe. and efficient." Dr. Ren Guanjiao said.

      According to public information, there are two major pain points in the common lawn mowing robots currently on the market. First, most of the work adopts the random collision method. This method does not have a fixed planned path. The intelligent lawn mower turns at a random angle after encountering the boundary, resulting in repeated coverage and incomplete coverage. The efficiency is relatively low; It is necessary to contact a special person to pre-embed the boundary line at the door. The deployment of manual embedding costs about 300 euros to 400 euros, and it takes nearly half a day, and the layout flexibility is poor.

The Segway lawn mowing robot released to the world this time adopts the original EFLS fusion positioning system. By fusing a variety of sensor information, the robot can achieve precise positioning in various lawn environments without manual thread embedding. The mobile phone APP remote control robot draws a map of the working area in the yard. The map will record the shape of the yard, the location of the boundary, the restricted area to be avoided, etc., and then the robot will plan the optimal mowing path according to this map, so as to The realization of borderless planning mowing greatly improves work efficiency. Compared with traditional mowing robots, it saves an average of 1.5 to 4 hours. On the same grass, the mowing efficiency is increased by 6 times.

In terms of passability, the Segway lawn mowing robot first applies the in-wheel motor technology to the lawn mowing robot. Combined with the equipped orange off-road rear-drive tires, it can pass smoothly even in the face of muddy grass, and can easily climb up to 24° 's slope.

      At the same time, the Segway smart lawn mowing robot has also made great efforts in mowing the lawn.

First of all, different from other lawn mowing robots, the Segway intelligent lawn mowing robot adopts an independent eccentric knife barrel design, which is convenient for cutting the grass boundary better.

Secondly, the original electric height-adjusting cutter head can freely adjust the height of the cutter head directly through the APP, and change the height of the lawn at any time according to your own needs. And its high-frequency precision cutting function can cut the garden once a day to keep the height of the lawn the same, and the small grass clippings can be used as soil fertilizer and fall on the ground, so there is no need to collect them separately.

As a product that requires long-term outdoor operation, the Segway smart lawn mower has reached the IPX6 standard in terms of waterproof ability, breaking through the industry's general IPX4 or IPX5 level, which means that even if it is driven into a mud pit with accumulated water, It also works safely.

In terms of safety, the Segway lawn mower is equipped with multiple sensors, which can sense the surrounding environment in real time, avoid obstacles safely, and avoid collisions. When it detects that it is lifted or tilted, the blade will stop to protect the user's safety. In addition, the Segway smart lawn mower is also the quietest lawn mower in the industry. The maximum volume during operation is only 54 decibels, which is equivalent to the noise level of an electric toothbrush. At present, the volume of products in the same industry is generally around 60 decibels.

At this conference, the Segway lawn mower robot released a total of four versions, priced at H500E, H800E, H1500E, H3000E, ranging from 1199 euros to 2499 euros. The configuration and battery life of different versions are different. The highest configuration H3000E has an applicable area of 3,000 square meters. It is equipped with an ultrasonic sensor as standard, and other models can also be equipped with an ultrasonic sensor.

Gao Lufeng, chairman of No. 9 Company, said that the reason why we chose lawn mowing robots as the main direction of home service robots is because we saw the opportunities of the era in the lawn mowing robot industry. The borderless intelligent lawn mowing robot solution independently developed by Segway Have the opportunity to become the global champion of the sub-category.”

It is understood that the Segway smart lawn mowing robot will be launched globally in March next year. A global public beta is currently being organized (https://z.ninebot.com/url/319).

Borderless planning mowing, or push the market into a "blowout period"

Although the perception of lawn mowers in Chinese households is not high, but looking at the world, the market space for lawn mowers is huge.

According to statistics, in 2020, the annual shipment of the global smart lawn mowing robot market has reached nearly 900,000 units, with a market size of nearly 1 billion US dollars. In 2020, the industry CAGR (compound growth rate) is nearly 20%, and the growth rate is amazing. It can be said that after nearly 20 years of development in the entire market, product demands and business models have been verified.

But even so, there is still huge room for penetration in the global market. Overall, there are currently about 250 million private gardens in the world, 100 million in the United States, and more than 80 million in Western Europe, Northern Europe, and the United Kingdom. However, the types of lawn mowers currently used by these European and American countries are mainly traditional hand-push and riding traditional lawn mowers, but even so, the annual shipment can still reach 11.5 million units.

"The lawnmower robot generally has the characteristics of high demand, heavy experience, and product performance sensitivity is better than price sensitivity. From the market perspective, the current lawnmower robot market has just experienced the initial stage of development and is in the early stage of the mid-term rise." Regarding the current market demand for lawn mowers, Dr. Guanjiao Ren said that the current development of lawn mower robots is very similar to the development of early sweeping robots. Previously, it was because of the emergence of programmable sweepers that the sweeper market achieved rapid growth. Segway lawn mowing robots are the first in the world to realize planned mowing, and the entire lawn mower industry is also expected to be subverted by technology, like today's sweeping robots, to form a blowout development around planned mowing.

The underlying business logic is supported to achieve a wider global business layout

With the rapid rise of the global lawn mowing robot market, market competition will become increasingly fierce. In this regard, Dr. Chen Zichong, Dean of the AI and Robot Research Institute of No. 9 Company firmly believes, "Relying on the technical accumulation of No. 9 Company over the years, the technical strength of the Segway lawn mower R&D team itself, and the advantages of No. 9 Company's supply chain and The advantages of sales channels on a global scale can not only produce the most advanced borderless planning lawn mowing robots on the market, but also take the lead in realizing commercial implementation, filling market gaps, seizing market heights in advance, and building a moat that belongs to the product itself. ."

In 2015, Segway Segway was wholly-owned by No. 9 Company and became a brand of No. 9 Company. It is also under the orderly operation and support of No. 9 Company that Segway Segway has a strong reputation in technology, products, supply chain and channels. The advantages in other aspects have been further strengthened and upgraded. At the same time, in order to further empower Segway Segway to continuously make breakthroughs and innovations in technology, in addition to relying on its own existing global patents, No. 9 Company is also continuing to increase R&D investment to promote Segway Segway technology from the group level. Upgrade, and continue to inject high-quality talents into the Segway brand.

In addition, Dr. Chen Zichong, director of the AI and Robot Research Institute of No. 9 Company, will also join the Home Service Robot Division to gather more energy for the development of the team. As a top global expert in computer vision and robotics, Chen Zichong holds a Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Since joining No. 9 Company in 2015, he has led the research and development of products such as Loomo robots, indoor and outdoor delivery robots, and intelligent shared scooters T60. , this time joining the team will bring advanced technical experience and forward-looking guidance to speed up research and development.

Gao Lufeng revealed that in the near future, some elite soldiers will be recruited from the AI and Robotics Research Institute, and together with the current Home Service Robot Division, an independent subsidiary will be established to develop this business. This team has the world's top R&D capabilities. We also have experience in mass production of hundreds of thousands of products.

    At present, No. 9 Company is focusing on the development of AI and robot algorithms that use vision and other multi-sensors as input. Relying on platform technologies such as embedded, Internet of Things, and cloud computing, it has built "vision-based SLAM technology" and "robot decision-making planning". and motion control technology", "environmental perception technology based on deep learning", "high performance computing platform", "AI algorithm platform" five core technologies.

In addition, the natural advantages of No. 9 Company in technology, channels, supply chain, etc., not only promotes the Segway smart lawn mowing robot to seize market opportunities in advance, but also expands Segway Segway's lawn mowing robot in the future. Further expanding the business territory has laid a theoretical and practical foundation, and formed the underlying business logic that supports the long-term development of the Segway brand.

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