On September 2, Segway, a brand of Nine Company, officially released the world’s first ultra-quiet boundary smart lawn mowing machine, aiming to provide House home users with transformative home services. This time, the first four models of H500E, H800E, H1500E and H3000E will be released to the world, with retail prices ranging from 1,199 euros to 2,499 euros.
Picture: Dr. Chen Zichong, Director of Nine Company’s AI and Robot Research Institute
According to reports, this intelligent lawn mowing robot uses EFLS (Exact Fusion Locating) independently developed by Company Nine System) fusion positioning system, which allows the robot to achieve centimeter-level precise positioning in the garden by fusing information from multiple sensors.
Based on this technology, users can establish virtual boundaries for the garden through the mobile app. There is no need to install boundary lines in the yard, and the operation is more convenient. It also includes a "bow"-shaped planned cutting path and breakpoints. The continuous cutting function can effectively avoid repeated cutting and greatly improve the mowing efficiency. For traditional lawn mowing robot products currently on the market, it not only improves operating efficiency, but also greatly optimizes lawn mowing costs!
According to statistics, households with lawns in the United States spend an average of more than two hours each time on lawn maintenance. The single cost of hiring someone to maintain the lawn is 40-80 US dollars, and the annual expenditure is 1,000. Above USD, in Europe the figure is even higher due to high labor costs. The Segway smart lawn mower directly eliminates the trouble of burying wires. Machine deployment can be completed with a mobile phone, greatly reducing labor and operation and maintenance costs.
Picture: Segway intelligent lawn mowing robot in planned mowing
Relevant people believe that the Segway intelligent lawn mowing robot solves the rigid needs of House residents and will bring It has brought about changes in the global home smart market, especially in Europe and the United States, and detonated the technological equipment of the lawn mower robot segment. At the same time, this also reflects Nine Company's outstanding market acumen, taking the lead in deploying this blue ocean market. As its global market demand continues to expand, it is expected to become a new support point for its performance growth.
The market potential of the new home service track is huge
Compared with the relatively popular "sweeping robots", intelligent lawn mower robots may be relatively unfamiliar to Chinese users, but from the global market, especially From the perspective of countries and regions with many private lawns such as Europe and the United States, this has a stronger demand than "sweepers". Nowadays, the lawn mowing machine market has completed its initial exploration and is in the initial stage of mid-term growth. According to market research, users generally have demand for lawn mowing machines, value experience, and product performance sensitivity is better than price sensitivity. It is also further promoting the explosive development of intelligent lawn mowing robots with better user experience.
According to relevant statistics, lawn mower robots have begun to enter a stage of rapid growth, with the market’s compound annual growth rate approaching 20%. In 2020, the market sales of lawn mower robots have reached 900,000 units, with the market size exceeding US$1 billion.
The market demand continues to expand, and the penetration rate of home users is low. It can be seen that in the field of home service robots, intelligent lawn mower robots are expected to become another new segment that is about to rise rapidly after sweepers. track. As a blue ocean market with broad prospects and strong growth momentum, this is also the most fundamental motivation for Nine Company to target this market.
Picture: Dr. Ren Guanjiao, General Manager of the Home Service Robot Division of Company Nine.
At the same time, Company Nine, as a global innovative company focusing on intelligent short-term transportation and robots, The company has been operating in an orderly manner for many years, which has given it strong technological accumulation. Its subsidiary Segway also has a strong intelligent robot research and development team to provide the most solid technical guarantee for its product performance. In addition, Nine Company's advantages in market channels, supply chains, etc. will lay a theoretical and practical foundation for subsequent market development of Segway intelligent lawn mowers, as well as its future expansion of product lines in other fields and further expansion of business territory. .
Multiple advantages lead technological innovation
In terms of product performance, as the world's first ultra-quiet and borderline intelligent lawn mowing machine, the Segway intelligent lawn mowing robot has excellent performance. In addition to enabling precise and autonomous operations, it also has multiple advantages such as low noise, high-frequency precision cutting, and precise obstacle avoidance, which is expected to bring disruptive changes to the current lawn mower market.
Segway Intelligent Lawn Mowing Robot
Specifically, the Segway Intelligent Lawn Mowing Machine uses No.9 Company’s technology as its underlying support and innovatively launches a series of software and hardware Combining technology, for example, in the design of motors and control systems, it follows Company Nine’s understanding of outdoor scenes and uses some of the underlying technologies implemented by Company Nine’s patented “balance control technology” to assist in integrating positioning and The realization of navigation function enables the industry’s top centimeter-level precise positioning.
In addition, this Segway intelligent lawn mowing robot uses a wheel hub motor, combined with rich algorithm accumulation, and 50 mm off-road grade rubber wide tires, which makes it more capable and more powerful. It also reduces the complexity of the structure and reduces the noise while driving; and the motor that drives the disk movement also uses a Hall rotation control algorithm to reduce the noise of disk rotation, ultimately achieving the lowest noise level in the industry and the quietest working time. The volume is equivalent to an electric brush at only 54 decibels, which is 4 points lower than the current industry's lowest noise level of 58 decibels.
Picture: Segway Intelligent Lawn Mowing Robot Climbs
The root of the technological innovation of Segway Intelligent Lawn Mowing Robot comes from the technical empowerment and technical support of Company Nine. Talent empowerment. “We believe that home service robots are the most potential and high-growth business in the world. We chose lawn mowing robots as our main direction of entry into home service robots because we see the opportunity of the era in the lawn mowing robot industry and borderless intelligence. The professional lawn mowing robot solution has the opportunity to become the global champion of this segment. This is the same methodology as our consistent track selection. We hope to become the global champion of this track, just like what happened with balance cars and scooters. Story. Next, we will deploy some elite personnel from the AI ??and Robotics Research Institute to develop this business together with our current home service robot division." Gao Lufeng, chairman of No.9 Company, expressed the group level's interest in this business Full support.
Picture: Gao Lufeng, Chairman of Nine Company Its most distinctive EFLS fusion positioning system is a concentrated expression of Nine Company’s years of accumulation in the field of intelligence. At the same time, Dr. Chen Zichong, director of the "AI and Robotics Research Institute" of Company 9, as a global expert in the field of computer vision and machines and a Ph. After launching a variety of products such as smart lawn mowers and scooters, it will further lead the research and development innovation of intelligent lawn mowing robot products.
Continuing to expand into new areas, Company Nine has a bright future
The market as a whole is optimistic about the sales prospects of smart lawn mowers.
On the one hand, in the past 20 years, Chinese electronic products have gone global and accumulated a complete industrial chain, including excellent engineers, automation and digital production chains, etc. This has provided a good foundation for Segway Smart The global mass production of lawn mower robots has established a supply chain advantage. In addition, with the brand awareness of Nine and its subsidiary Segway in the global market, as well as Nine's mature sales channel network at home and abroad, it is very suitable for the global Segway intelligent lawn mowing robot. It will be conducive to the subsequent promotion of the product in the global market.
There is no doubt that the Segway intelligent lawn mowing machine has strong technical development capabilities and good marketing prospects, backed by No.9 Company’s technology, channels and brand advantages. This deployment in the field of smart lawn mowers also verifies Nine Company’s global pattern in terms of industry trends and development strategies. With its first deployment in the segmented fields, Nine Company will further strengthen its position in the field of home intelligent service robots. The leading advantage is also conducive to enhancing the confidence of the capital market.
Looking back, Nine Company, as a smart mobility company, is driven by its mission of simplifying the movement of people and things and making life more convenient and interesting. It is also serving one billion users around the world as an enterprise. It is an important part of the vision. I believe that through the Segway smart lawn mower business, Company Nine will take a step closer to this goal and vision, allowing more users to gain unprecedented happiness and pleasure in the use of the product. As Gao Lufeng, chairman of No.9 Company, said: "We are facing important development opportunities in this segmented industry and look forward to witnessing the birth of this new era with our users and partners."