Water purifiers, rice cookers, thermostat kettles, smart lights ... Xiaomi's layout of the "smart home" began long ago. It was just after dawn in the early morning. About the Xiaomi robot, a fierce material was also ejected - the millet sweeping robot.
Baidu Post Bar A user named “@ Zhang Aunt Gold Medal Beater†exposed three spy photos of the millet robot in Xiaomi’s mobile phone bar, and attached an explanation:
It is said that the research and development time is more than 2 years. Lei Jun’s goal is to spike the existing products on the market and it may be released at the end of this month. Don't ask me how to know, I am second in Foxconn!
Post mill broke the millet sweeping robot spy photos
These three spy photos did not show the prototype of the millet sweeping robot. Instead, they were two boxes and a screenshot of a control app. As of noon today, the number of posts returned was only four, and the authenticity was hard to discern. After learning of the news, Lei Feng first consulted with a number of people in the industry and wanted to confirm the accuracy of the news.
Industry sources broke the news to Lei Feng:
It should have been long since R&D. The company that made this robot should be a millet supply chain company in the same period as FEIMI. It seems to be called Stone Technology. The main creation is 2 former Baidu employees. Now there are dozens of teams, probably doing For more than two years, the company has R&D in Shenzhen and the market operates in Beijing.
The main control plan used by this sweeping robot should also be the same R16 master control platform as the Xiaomi drone. Laser radar may be used on the machine to improve the structure, suction, and obstacle avoidance capabilities. If nothing unexpected happens, it should be released on August 31 this year, and the price is not expected to exceed 2,000.
Subsequently, Lei Feng network (search "Lei Feng network" public concern) thought of "National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System" on the query about the "stone technology" related information, the results of "Rock Technology" as a keyword query Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu There are no companies found to be in compliance with public information in the five regions of Zhejiang, Zhejiang and Guangdong.
Later, Lei Feng Network accidentally discovered a certified "stone technology" in the microblogging search. The certification information was "Beijing Stone Century Technology Co., Ltd.", but did not begin to send Weibo. A public inspection of the publicity system suddenly appeared.
Beijing Stone Century Technology Co., Ltd., legal representative Chang Jing. Combine the insider of the industry and broke the news that "The main creation was two former Baidu employees." Lei Feng.com simply clicked on Google for a moment and found that the former "Baidu Magic Chart" person in charge had the same name as "Chang Che".
The company was established on July 4, 2014. Its business project is "Technology R&D, technology transfer, and technical consultation for software and home smart cleaning equipment; commissioned processing of household intelligent cleaning equipment...".
Whether from the legendary "in the same period with the flying rice" or business scope is very much in line with the point of view. Then we went down and found that there was a non-natural investor in its shareholders: Tianjin Jinmi Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership). It seems that everything is clear.
The executive partner of Tianjin Jinmi Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership) is Liu De, co-founder of Xiaomi and head of Xiaomi's ecological chain. Prior to this, Tianjin Jinmi also invested in Xiaomi VR's supply chain company, Shanghai Moxiang Network Technology Co., Ltd.
About this "Stone Century Technology Co., Ltd.", in addition to the basic information of the publicity system, there is not much else on the Internet. They also simply wrote the company’s profile on the job site and said “has completed tens of millions of dollars in round B financing, led by top VCs in the world. In the near future, it will launch a series of highly intelligent robot products. "The official website is also in a state of loss. It seems that this is probably the "protection policy" of Xiaomi on new products.
So, summarizing the above-explored information:
Former director of the Baidu demons, Chang Jing, founded Stone Century Technology and joined the Xiaomi ecological chain, leading the development of millet/meter sweeping robots. The first generation of products will be released at the end of this month (August 31?). The follow-up direction may be home service robots.
The above is purely speculation, see the real situation at the end of the month. In fact, in the smart home, Xiaomi has always attached great importance to TVs, routers, millet smart home apps, and Mi family products outside the system, all of which focus on smart homes.
According to the release of the Mijia brand before, sweeping robots may use the Mijia trademark. Emphasize quality rather than price/performance.
However, if it is a cost-effective product, such as sweeping robots with laser radar and SLAM algorithms that can automatically model pathfinding, it will change the landscape of the entire sweeping robot market. If millet considers this, it is not known whether the Xiaomi brand is used.
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