Recently, Shanghai Fourier Intelligent Group completed the 400 million yuan D round of financing, setting a record for a single round of financing in the domestic rehabilitation robot field. Gu Jie, founder and CEO of Fourier Intelligence, said that this round of financing will be used to develop intelligent robot technology, accelerate the implementation and popularization of rehabilitation robot products on a global scale, and continue to improve rehabilitation service capabilities.
According to the statistics of the China Disabled Persons' Federation, there are nearly 25 million physically disabled persons in my country, and the proportion of disabled persons who have received rehabilitation training needs to be increased. "Rehabilitation is for the recovery of human dysfunction, and there is a strong need for it. However, there is a shortage of supply in my country's rehabilitation market. Not only is there a shortage of rehabilitation therapists and rehabilitation hospitals, but many rehabilitation equipment is relatively backward." Gu Jie said. In 2015, the robotics expert, who graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University, founded Fourier Intelligence to apply robotics to the field of rehabilitation. This company has developed the first exoskeleton robot in China to help people with lower limb paralysis and inconvenience to stand and walk, and also launched an upper limb intelligent force feedback rehabilitation robot.
The Paralympic wheelchair fencing champion Yao Fang is the beneficiary of the Fourier lower limb exoskeleton robot. In 1998, a car accident caused serious damage to the Shanghai girl's spine, and she lost consciousness from the waist down, so she could only be accompanied by a wheelchair. But she did not lose faith in life, and wheelchair fencing brought new light to her life. The silver medal in the Beijing Paralympic Games, the gold medal in the London Paralympic Games, and the bronze medal in the Rio Paralympic Games... Yao Fang has won the highest honor in the sports for the disabled.
Yao Fang walks with a lower-limb exoskeleton robot. Source: Shanghai Technology
"For robots, I have only seen them on TV before. I didn't expect that in the city where I live, there is a robot company that enables us disabled people to stand up and walk." Yao Fang said emotionally, "In the robot's With help, I experienced the feeling of standing and walking again, which I haven't felt in a long time. I can straighten my waist and walk with my own legs. Although I need robot assistance, I walk in the same way as everyone else. "
According to reports, the intelligent rehabilitation robot is developed based on the force feedback technology platform, which can simulate rich mechanical effects with precise force control and realize compliant mechanical control. It will output the corresponding auxiliary force according to the user's situation, and guide the user to carry out task-oriented interactive training.
Fourier intelligent emu 3D upper limb rehabilitation robot
While helping disabled people stand up and walk, Fourier Intelligence has developed rapidly, and has taken the lead in undertaking nearly 20 national and provincial R&D projects. The company independently developed core technologies and components such as force feedback technology platform, multi-joint robot motion control card, multi-dimensional force sensor, etc., and got rid of the import dependence of software and hardware. The rehabilitation robot products developed by the company have been exported to dozens of countries and regions, and settled in more than 1,000 institutions at home and abroad.
These achievements have attracted the attention of many overseas venture capital institutions. Aysai Tayib, general manager of Prosperity7, a venture capital fund of Saudi Aramco that participated in the D round of financing, said: "We hope to introduce Fourier Intelligence's rehabilitation solutions into the Saudi medical network, and look forward to providing the world with the most advanced technology through cooperation. Rehabilitation services and solutions to improve outcomes and quality of life for patients in Saudi Arabia, the Middle East and beyond.”
Fourier Intelligent Healing Harbor Solution
In the next step, Fourier Intelligence plans to release a pan-bionic robot platform to apply core technologies to more non-rehabilitation fields, so that robots can bring changes to the lives of more people. After the company completes the financing, it will continue to carry out the research and development of the underlying technology of robots, including the infrastructure and technology of bionic robots, and gradually develop in the direction of a pan-bionic robot platform company to create overall solutions for various application scenarios.
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