Recently, the "leader" of the domestic artificial intelligence industry - DeepBlue Technology has made another great effort in the field of intelligent epidemic prevention. A disinfection robot independently developed and customized for South Korea's LG Group has achieved stable mass production in the Changzhou factory. The current monthly planned production capacity is 2,000. —5000 disinfection robots, sold all over the world.
It is understood that the contact between LG Group and DeepBlue Technology has begun in early 2020, but until February 2021, South Korea's LG Group has undergone a large-scale screening around the world for nearly a year. Only by winning the first place was it possible to sign a single global order agreement for super-large intelligent robots. According to the agreement, LG Group will continue to purchase intelligent robots from Shenlan according to the global market demand. In order to face the repeated epidemics, the two parties will work together to explore the international market and help the global long-term epidemic prevention through cutting-edge technology.
Completed 21 factory upgrade requirements, laying a solid foundation for mass production
According to the requirements of the Korean side, LG Group products must be produced in a high-standard clean workshop, so four ministers were dispatched to Shenlan Technology to lead Shenlan Technology to complete the construction of the workshop and product production.
The person in charge of Changzhou Robot Changzhou Factory said that in the past year, Shenlan Group has invested more than 10 million yuan, completed various constructions such as dust-free workshops, and completed 21 upgrade requirements proposed by the Korean side, including production line upgrades, electrostatic protection, Test scenarios, etc., are successively equipped with hardware facilities such as electronic laboratories, high and low temperature laboratories, simulation sites, and dust-free workshops, and with the continuous advancement of the production plan, the production lines are continuously optimized and transformed, which provides the basic conditions for the smooth promotion of mass production. .
The robot business representative of LG Group in South Korea believes that LG Group and Shenlan Group are both important companies in their respective countries, and both are technology companies that hope to change the world. The Korean side believes that in the future, the virus will coexist with humans for a long time, and the two sides will cooperate in uninterrupted killing. The LG Cloi product is an excellent product launched in countries around the world to participate in the fight against the epidemic, and will serve the market as a flagship product of the LG Group for a long time. For this product, he himself worked in China for a year, and finally achieved mass production according to the original plan. In the future, the two parties will jointly develop robotic technology products in more fields.
It took more than a year to complete the multi-country market access work, and the project entered the stage of stable mass production and delivery
Since South Korea's LG Group selected Shenlan among dozens of international bidding teams, the Shenlan robot team has been in a state of high-speed operation with high challenges, high pressure and high intensity. "For more than a year, we have been asked 'trouble' by LG almost every day, but these troubles have really exercised and improved us," said Mr. Yue from the Changzhou Robot Quality Testing Team. LG Group proposed a number of customized quality management measures to Shenlan. The demand for system, production equipment upgrade, and testing capability improvement requires us to unconditionally implement one by one. For a single test scene, the Korean side proposed scene requirements including slope, narrow road width, obstacles of different sizes, steps, pit depths, reflections, curves, etc., which all took several months of design and construction. , in order to complete the hotel scene simulation and review.
"As a veteran Fortune 500 company, the standards of LG products are far higher than the industry standards, and some are even several times higher than the national standards," said Mr. Yue. International market access qualifications, the DeepBlue Robotics team is dozens of times more than daily documents, and this does not include the version that has been reworked many times. It is not easy to persevere during the testing and certification process. According to the relevant personnel of the quality certification department, the UL certification of the United States will also be obtained in the near future. At that time, this disinfection robot will be the world's first and so far the only UV disinfection robot that has obtained UL certification. At the same time, Shenlan is also the only one A company that cooperates with UL Safety Laboratory (Underwriter Laboratories Inc) to develop safety certification standards for disinfection robots
"The difficulty of obtaining the mass production license of LG Group in South Korea lies in the need to apply for product and quality certification from certification agencies in many countries around the world." An expert in the robotics industry said, "LG Korea is an excellent company in the world's top 500, and it is very important to The product quality of its own brand is well-known in the industry. If you want to mass-produce it, you need to pass the LG Group's various departments from product, manufacturing to quality inspection. It is extremely difficult to obtain unanimous approval. It can be said that the deep blue research and development This LG brand disinfection robot is currently the only product in China that has obtained market access qualifications in more than 10 countries, and it will also be the world's first UL-certified UV disinfection robot in North America, with conditions for large-scale sales worldwide."
"Using the spirit of "ingenuity" to open the road of "intelligent manufacturing" robots
"As a leading artificial intelligence enterprise, DeepBlue is an early software and hardware enterprise, and is a unique enterprise in the industry from soft to hard. A mass-produced product is a Fortune 500 brand, which is undoubtedly a challenge for Shenlan.”
According to Mr. Jiang, an American Six Sigma black belt master and an international quality system certification expert, after the outbreak of the epidemic, DeepBlue quickly innovated and developed a series of anti-epidemic robots, and passed the 4 (ISO9001) of the global audit company SGS with zero nonconformities for two consecutive years. , ISO14001, ISO45001, ISO27001) system audit, which is the embodiment of the professional spirit of the deep blue robot team. He said that although DeepBlue has received a large number of orders, it still needs to abide by the laws of manufacturing development and insist on investing more time in product development and testing.
In this regard, Mr. Jiang gave several examples. For example, in addition to the various rigorous tests on robots by experts from China and South Korea, the Shenlan team also improved the standards themselves, such as: using the rigorous attitude of medical research to study disinfection The killing rate of robots against various germs; using the thoughtful attitude of hotel service to study the service level of disinfection robots in different hotel scenarios; using the responsible attitude of protecting the environment to ensure the environmental protection of each part; using the picky attitude of users in importing countries Mindset, carefully test and optimize every parameter.
According to reports, in the process of product development, the 5+2 and "white plus black" overtime and staying up late mode is a normal state for the scientific research and production team of Shenlan Robotics. During this period, in order to meet the special needs of Koreans, every Technical difficulties have been overturned and re-verified countless times.
Mr. Zhang, the head of the product R&D team, introduced: Over the past year, the DeepBlue Robotics team has overcome many problems. For example, how to avoid the operator's on-site composition and deployment, the algorithm team has completed the unique "visual exploration-based autonomous composition" of DeepBlue, realizing autonomous operation after power-on; overcoming the industry problem of autonomous navigation of robots without pictures and sticking edges, so that robots can get rid of The traditional scanning mode allows users to operate the robot foolishly with one key; overcoming the technical problem of overcoming the high threshold of the robot, the mass-produced intelligent disinfection robot with a width of 50 cm and a height of 160 cm can smoothly pass through the 2 cm high. The threshold does not fall; it also overcomes the industry problem of glass table obstacle avoidance, and uses the previously developed no-map navigation technology to conduct mass-produced glass obstacle avoidance tests.
"The complex external environment requires a lot of efforts in software algorithms, so that the robot can form a good performance in the environment", an algorithm engineer of the Deep Blue Academy of Sciences believes that the development of such service robots is a very complicated thing. The challenge is to perceive the instability of the device, which needs to be solved by a large number of algorithms. Another challenge is how to place the robot in different operating environments and still perform related functions, which requires a lot of effort.
LG disinfection robots can achieve mass production under extremely strict requirements. In addition to the persevering efforts of the deep blue robot team, it is also inseparable from the supervision and help of the Korean team of partners.
The project representative of the Robot Division of LG Group in South Korea thanked the Chinese engineers of DeepBlue Technology for their hard work and hard work over the past year and a half. He also praised the careful and responsible spirit of the Chinese engineers. He gave an example of testing data and said that a total of 8 rounds of software testing of a sensor were carried out, with a time span of 13 months, and 1,032 test items were completed; a remote upgrade and problem verification of a support robot at any time also carried out more than 500 repetitions BUG test.
"Creating new and refined, never-ending progress", this is the enterprise spirit of Shenlan Technology, development is the last word, and continuous innovation is the core competitiveness of the enterprise.
"From the contact with LG Group to today, it took 2 years for DeepBlue Technology to successfully mass-produce the export products of the world's top 500 brands of disinfection robots, which is a milestone for DeepBlue Technology and highlights the deep blue technology. , products and manufacturing capabilities have been recognized by the world's top 500 and the international market." An important investor of Shenlan said that this is the first artificial intelligence enterprise in China to develop and OEM for the world's top 500. Shenlan Technology has the world's Dozens of world champion technologies in the field of computer science and artificial intelligence, and it is a leading enterprise in artificial intelligence technology in the field of robotics. The only robot company in the AI head camp with full-stack capabilities from software, algorithm, product industrial design to manufacturing; we believe that DeepBlue Robot will develop into a world-wide single-dominant enterprise, and we are full of confidence in this.
It is understood that in addition to LG, there are more than five top 500 companies in contact with Shenlan to develop and manufacture products, including tens of thousands of household and commercial lawn greening isolation belt trimming robots from a European giant, and ten thousand golf courses in the United States. Large-scale lawn mowing robots, Japanese Fortune 500 customized advertising and catering service robots, Australian elderly care robots, and some shopping malls, airports and other products are all gathering in Shenlan. The field of robotics has embarked on a "deep blue road".
