Service Robot Industry in Hefei is Entering “Golden Time”

“Optimus Prime” and “Bumblebee” standing at the door greeting guests, “Robot Waiters” taking the order and serving dishes, “Robot Chef” making live cooking in front of customers... These are really happened in a robot restaurant in Hefei but not scenes seen in Hollywood blockbusters. In the future, along with the technology accumulation and the capital input, there will be more “family members” of the service robot being invented with their proprietary intellectual property rights belongs to Hefei, such as welcoming and guiding robot, educating robot, and security and protection robot. Thus the service robot industry will step into its “Golden Time”.

At the end of November, 2015, the “Hot Wheel”, a new generation of robot in serving dishes developed by a local Hefei enterprise — Anhui Guogou Robot Industry Holdings Limited has become a shining “Star” at the World Robot Conference held in Beijing and has received wide social concern. “Our robots are very competitive in appearance, function, price, and other aspects. After our coming back from the Beijing exhibition, more than a dozen of companies has expressed their willing in agent our robots. It shows that robots independently researched and developed by our company received affirmation from the market.”, said Chu Qian, the head of market and brand of Anhui Guogou Robot Industry Holdings Limited.

In the sight of those in the robot industry, compared with industrial robot, the gap in service robot between China and developed countries is not very big, and we are mainly on the same scratch line. Meanwhile, there is an enormous demand for service robots in both domestic and foreign market. In next several years, Chinese service robot market will usher in a phenomenal growth. Therefore, Hefei City, as a “Highland of Innovation”, is zealously taking the opportunities of intelligent manufacturing, and relevant companies and institutions are all eager for promoting the continuous optimization of service robot products and accelerating the marketing.

“Intelligent Catering” will be an important breakthrough point for the development of service robot in Hefei. “Now that the largest Chinese robot restaurant located at Meishan Road (Hefei City) has already been in operation for nearly one year and the business is still hot. Taking intelligent catering as the future entry point, we plan to create a solution for unmanned intelligent restaurant in the year 2016. And it will be applied in the Hefei robot restaurant firstly as a trial with the hope of developing the restaurant into the first unmanned intelligent restaurant in China.”, said Chu Qian.

“Robot Waiter” is just one member of the Hefei “Intelligent Family”. In the future, it will have more ‘brothers and sisters’.

Responsible officer of Anhui Guogou Robot Industry Holdings Limited said that they will continue to rely on the capital operation platform of Anhui Guogou Group and the technology research and development platform of USTC-Guogou Robot Research Center to promote the continuous optimization of robot in serving dishes, accelerate the development of welcoming and guiding robot, educating robot, emotional accompany robot, and property security robot, lay out the intelligent housing system, make the welcoming and guiding robot to guide for people in public places such as the shopping mall, bus station, and hospital, and make the sweeping robot and the security robot work as dedicated “Nurse” and “Housekeeper” in the house of citizens to provide more intimate and convenient services.