Editor's note: In the past five years, consumer robotics startups have accounted for 25% of the global robot trade share. Of the consumer robots, 40% are social robots, such as Anki, UBTECH, and Rokid are all engaged in social robot research.
In 2014 and 2015, the number of investment transactions related to educational robots increased by 7 times. According to the current growth rate, the market share of educational robots will continue to increase. The current development situation of consumer robots is excellent, but among the many robots, what kind of development is the best? This article takes you to explore the financing status of various consumer-grade robotic startups and see who is the red-hot chicken? The article was selected from CB Insights and was compiled by Lei Fengnet (searched by "Lei Feng Net" public number) and was not authorized to reprint.
Last year, the investment in service robots exceeded 10, and in 2014, the number of investment was less than 5 times.
The following figure shows the start-up companies that have issued stocks since January 2013. However, there may be some omissions.
Hot investment projects :
1. Social robot
Including family escorts and entertainment robots accounted for the largest share of robotic trading in the world .
This year, humanoid robot company UBTECH will select a B-round financing to obtain a US$100 million investment. Investors include CDH Investment Corporation, Golden Stone Investment Corporation and CITIC Securities International Limited (CITIC); UBTECH will also be successfully included in this category. Unicorn Club.
China’s Turing Robotics Corporation has developed a robotic operating system and announced that the price of the company’s child care robots will be about the same as that of smartphones.
Olly, based in London, received a $10 million investment from Alliance Capital Ventures and Lighting Capital last quarter.
Another startup, Anki , received $52.5 million in investments from companies such as Index Venture, Two Sigma Venture, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Andreessen Horowitz.
2. Consumer drones
In the field of drones, you will see that many large companies, including Intel, Google, and Foxconn, are investing in drone startups. For example, Intel invested $6 million in a Chinese company drone start-up company, Yune Yuneec .
There are also many drone startups in the fundraising stage, such as xCraft , UVify , OpenROV, and EHANG .
DJI Innovation has already started to develop industrial robots and has also produced consumer-grade drones Mavec and Phanthom.
3. Educational robot
In recent years, educational robots have not developed very well.
In this industry, the highest financing was at Wonder Workshop , which received a $36 million investment from CRV, MadronaVenture Group and Google Ventures.
Another startup company, Modular Robotics , obtained investment from the Foundry Group.
The Chinese startup Makeblock received a US$6 million investment from Sequoia Capital China Fund in 2014 A-round financing.
4. Service robots ,
Including robots, walking machines and a variety of other housekeeping robots, can help you cook, sweep, send things, or even clean the fish tank.
So far, five companies have issued stocks, including Ninebot Nubebo , which manufactures transports, and Dobot , which produces high-precision robots on the desktop .
Via CB Insights
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