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as a "hands liberation artifact", sweeping robot can free people from some housework, has been favored by a large number of users, and is increasingly welcomed by people. According to industry data, in the first and second tier cities, nearly 70% of home buyers said they were willing to buy floor sweeping robots for their new homes, first, to taste the "freshness" of technology, and second, to allow themselves more time to enjoy life after busy work, rather than spend on trivial housework

however, the growth of the sweeping robot market is not as fast as the industry expected. The reason is that most sweeping robots cannot achieve the desired cleaning effect, and there are many shortcomings in the degree of intelligence. It also needs manual assistance for secondary cleaning and finishing, such as the sweeping robot is stuck in the corner, forgetting the way to "go home", mopping the floor is not clean, and manual cleaning of rags is required, Even some floor sweeping robots are like toys, with poor intelligent experience

at the same time, most of the upgrades of each generation of sweeping robots announced by the industry are iterative changes in parameter configuration and appearance, and the actual cleaning level has not been effectively improved. It is precisely based on the understanding of the current situation of the industry that Yunjing intelligence entered the field of sweeping robots and began to build a more intelligent and useful sweeping robot - narwal Yunjing J1

"expressing determination can be heroic and just do it, but in the specific research and development process, the breakthrough of each function requires us to clarify a myriad of problems, and the deeper it goes, the more so," said Zhang Junbin, founder of Yunjing intelligence. From middle school, Zhang Junbin had an indissoluble bond with robots. Until he graduated from graduate school, Zhang Junbin successively studied with top experts in the field of Intelligent Manufacturing in China, such as Liu Haifeng, Gao Liang, Huang Peisen, Li Zexiang, and participated in the design and research and development of robots. It is precisely because of the long-term immersion that Zhang Junbin deepened his love for robots as a lifelong career, and also increased his awe of making robot products

how to stand out among the many sweeping robots is a problem that the latecomers in the industry must consider if they want to stand on it. "We have made preparations for nearly half a year. We visited the major electrical appliance stores in the three cities of Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Dongguan with our partners, and bought all the mainstream brands of floor sweeping robots in the market. One month, our staff spent most of the day overturning floor sweeping robot people, recording their use points and their advantages. In addition, we also did a lot of desktop surveys to ensure that our core R & D personnel were familiar with the market The sweeping robot on the surface has a more three-dimensional understanding and a more comprehensive evaluation of the industry. "Zhang Junbin continued to say," to fight a battle with preparation! Yunjing must take the road of differentiation, recognize the development status of sweeping robots, make sufficient efforts and innovations in areas with insufficient product experience, and return to the essence of the problem is to really solve the problem of home cleaning automatically. "After recognizing this, Zhang Junbin and his partner 3 After the vibration, people officially began the R & D and innovation journey of Yunjing sweeping robot

as the saying goes, one hero has three gangs, and a strong team can create a greater career, especially in the field of robots with deep water. The entrepreneurial team can't grow slowly. The first task before Zhang Junbin and others is to quickly establish an intelligent R & D team that can fight. The usual practice is to recruit people from their peers. Yunjing intelligence immediately began their recruitment path. Through headhunting companies and peer introductions, Yunjing intelligence recruited talents from well-known enterprises such as Huawei, Dajiang, ZTE, Microsoft, Yi, Xiaomi, Emerson, Skyworth, etc, Among them, the number of directors and chief engineers of the original company reached more than 10, and a 69 person R & D team was formed in three months. In addition to the backgrounds of most famous enterprises, this team also has the backgrounds of famous universities. Most of them come from domestic and foreign institutions such as central China University of science and technology, Central South University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Hong Kong University of science and technology, Northeastern University, Duke University, Georgia Institute of technology and so on. The veritable "double height" team enables Yunjing intelligence to make up for the lack of technical accumulation in a short time, greatly shortens the team running in time, and also provides intellectual support for the continuous innovation of Yunjing sweeping robot

"the road of innovation of Yunjing sweeping robot is a dialectical search road that is user-oriented and backward pushed by problems". When it comes to the research and development of Yunjing's first sweeping robot, faced with a few pages of research and development demand list, is it to compromise with cost and market, take the line of mass cost performance, or face the pain points of the industry and take a more complex and huge road of differentiation? The research and development team hesitated and debated, and finally adhered to its original intention, Choose the latter - a cooler and harder way to innovate. Through the consensus reached by Zhang Junbin and the R & D team in countless debates in the conference room, the goal of Yunjing floor sweeping robot to make breakthroughs in automatic cleaning, effective cleaning and multi task management was determined, and the R & D team also opened a tough and difficult mode without holidays

Zhang Junbin and the R & D team found that the sweeping robots on the market have no distance in their ability to sweep solid particulate waste, and they can sweep almost the same, but in the case of mopping, although they are indistinguishable, they all perform mediocrely. Experiments have proved that these sweeping robots can wipe off the floating ash on the ground, but they can only pass by the dry footprints left by pets, as well as the tea stains, coffee stains, milk stains and other stains after air drying. They can't be dragged clean and need to be dragged manually

how to remove these difficult stains? Wipe the stains as hard as your hands. Yunjing has considered increasing its own weight to press and drag, but the sweeping effect will become unsatisfactory, and at the same time, it will consume more energy. Finally, Yunjing uses the way of physical pressure downward through bearing rotation to apply 10N pressure to the rag (generally the force of hand dragging the floor), combined with the 180r/min high-frequency wiping rotation of double rags, which solves the pressure problem and improves the effective operation by more than 30%. "The blunt triangular double rag design is our patent. It is used for the first time in the sweeping robot. It not only makes the high-frequency sweeping area more effective, but also reduces the blind area at the bottom to 2~75px, and the average of other robots is between 8~250px", Zhang Junbin said

after sweeping the floor, the general sweeping robot not only needs to dump the garbage collected in the box, but also needs to manually change the dishcloth, and the manual cleaning dishcloth should grasp the time rhythm by itself, otherwise the dirty dishcloth is easy to bring secondary pollution to the towed area, and the sweeping robot needs too much human intervention, which is obviously very annoying. "Can the floor sweeping robot 'take a bath' by itself?" For this bold idea, Yunjing's research and development team opened their brain holes, divergent thinking, and finally optimized the scheme of "base station + robot" to form an intelligent cleaning system

the base station of Yunjing sweeping robot undertakes the functions of cleaning, recharging and storage. The base station is equipped with clean water tanks and sewage tanks of 5L capacity. The sweeping robot returns to the base station. After the base station receives the cleaning instruction, the clean water enters the turbine cleaning system for high-speed cleaning of the rag, and then controls the moisture of the rag according to the specific requirements of the wet and dry mop. After washing, the sewage enters the sewage tank for collection and treatment. If the Yunjing sweeping robot finishes cleaning, it will automatically return to the base station for storage, and automatically clean and quickly dry the rag. At the same time, the sweeping robot will also return to the base station for recharging. Yunjing, an intelligent cleaning system, is also the first in the field of sweeping robots. The "Trinity" function of the base station also solves the problems that the water tank of the sweeping robot is easy to seep and the recharge signal is not strong. It is praised by overseas media as "the world's first fully automatic sweeping and towing robot"

algorithm is the part that reflects the core strength of the sweeping robot. The realization of various functions of the sweeping robot depends on the implementation of algorithm logic. The integrity and diversity of functions are related to the user experience. Small bugs encountered in use may reduce the experience score, and even hold a negative attitude towards the brand. "The team has a deep accumulation in robot algorithms. In addition to the relevant experience of working in famous enterprises, there is no lack of veterans who have been immersed in the field of intelligence for more than 20 years", Zhang Junbin also said that "every function setting of the Yunjing sweeping robot is based on people's daily use scenarios. As a latecomer, the conventional functions such as app control, fall prevention, obstacle deceleration and so on must be equipped as standard. In addition, we should also achieve 'I'm good for people, so I don't have it after using the tensile testing machine for a period of time', so as to realize the functions more comprehensively and in detail."

other robots use a path algorithm whether sweeping or dragging, while Yunjing sweeping robot relies on its own strong algorithm strength to distinguish two sets of algorithms: sweeping path and dragging path. In the sweeping mode, Yunjing adopts the method of continuous edge sweeping to quickly gather and adsorb garbage for places that are difficult to clean at the corners; In the mopping mode, Yunjing takes the base station as the starting point and cleans all areas from far to near in a humanoid way to avoid re pollution in the process of returning to and from the base station. It is worth mentioning that Yunjing has its own AI learning algorithm, and it will constantly revise and improve the built map in each operation, so as to understand the indoor layout more accurately and make each cleaning more smooth and efficient

in daily use, it is not necessary to clean the whole house every time, nor can it be achieved by multi-step operation every time. When it comes to realizing more functions through algorithms and Yunjing app, Zhang Junbin said "The apps developed by sweeping robots of all brands have common functions such as where to sweep, delimiting virtual forbidden areas, etc., but they are not convenient enough, such as delimiting sweeping areas or forbidden areas every time. Yunjing app can make a multi task cleaning plan, save multiple pre delimited forbidden area maps, and launch the areas that need to be cleaned from the areas that do not need to be cleaned, so that the sweeping robots can be mobilized to clean the designated areas in time, such as in the morning After dressing up, you can call Yunjing to remove the hair falling on the ground in the dressing room; After dinner, take advantage of the market share of lithium copper foil used in power batteries, which accounts for about 1/3 of the market share, and let Yunjing clean the stains in the kitchen and dining area, so that all rooms in the home can be kept clean and refreshing at all times. You can also choose the cleaning intensity, times, start and stop through Yunjing app. "

in order to make up for the common shortcomings of floor sweeping robots in the market and make the differentiation function more perfect and stable, it took more than three years for Yunjing floor sweeping robot J1 to go to foreign KickStarter stations for crowdfunding. "Sharpening a sword in three years" and wiping out the edge at the beginning, it ranked first in the robot crowdfunding rankings with the result of crowdfunding of $1.14 million, becoming a phenomenal product in the scientific and technological community. The capital side also threw an olive branch to Yunjing intelligence, and obtained the lead investment of Qingshuiwan capital, Mingshi capital and Yingfeng capital, providing sufficient financial support for further efforts in the field of sweeping robots

recently, it was learned from relevant people of Yunjing that Yunjing sweeping robot will return to the domestic market with an upgraded version of J1 and will be listed in China on September 15