Launch three new products, "Qibo Technology" battles for commercial cleaning robots

Recently, commercial cleaning robot company Qibo Technology completed an angel round financing of tens of millions of RMB led by Cableway Capital. The financing funds in this round will mainly be used for product research and development and commercial implementation.

It is understood that there are about 14 million people engaged in the cleaning of multi-storey buildings in China, of which about 30% are dedicated to floor cleaning. If calculated based on the average annual labor cost of 60000 yuan per person, there is a blue ocean market worth hundreds of billions of yuan just for floor cleaning.

In addition, the market penetration rate of commercial cleaning robots is less than 1%, and the cleaning industry is facing three major problems: high labor costs, difficult recruitment and difficult assessment. According to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security's ranking of the top 100 professions in the country for the third quarter of 2022, cleaners ranked fifth. More and more repetitive tasks like janitors, no one wants to do them anymore, and companies are gradually adopting cleaning robots to replace some of their labor, especially high-frequency daily cleaning. Machine replacement is the key to solving this problem.

The turning point of the robot landing is exactly where the opportunity that Qibo Technology sees lies.

It is reported that Wang Xuesong, the founder of Qibo Technology, entered the service robot industry as early as 2014. In 2016, he joined the startup team of Orion Starry Sky and worked with the team to develop a series of commercial service robot devices such as Leopard Secret. After that, he was in charge of product and R&D in candela, a commercial cleaning robot company.

Years of accumulation has brought Wang Xuesong rich product engineering experience and application resources. In April 2021, Wang Xuesong officially began his entrepreneurial career and founded Qibo Technology. The complete machine validation will be completed in April 2022. In October, its cleaning robots completed the first batch of customer deliveries and will be delivered to overseas customers before the end of the year.

In Wang Xuesong's view, the moat of Qibo Technology is mainly reflected in two aspects:

On the one hand, it is an insight into the needs of the B-end. Qibo Technology has always focused on commercial cleaning robots, committed to exploring the core demands of B-end merchants, and focusing can bring about an increase in professionalism;

On the other hand, it is the accumulation of key technologies. In terms of navigation, artificial intelligence recognition is introduced, which can achieve "sweeping where dirty". The cleaning module adopts a long-distance floating intelligent floating speed control rolling brush system, which is less noisy and cleaner than traditional cleaning solutions, making it more suitable for use in buildings.

According to reports, in March this year, Qibo Technology had already received an order worth 20 million RMB.

Shi Donghua, founding partner of Cableway Capital, said: Qibo Technology has entered the vertical scene of commercial cleaning from a single point of view, providing convenient, efficient, and safe products and services for intelligent and digital property cleaning. It has created a complete commercial loop from technology to scene implementation. In the future, with the increasing penetration rate and large-scale application of the commercial cleaning market, we believe that Qibo Technology will continue to expand its commercial territory and empower more commercial space cleaning automation services