Recently, SDIC Venture Capital accomplished the Pre A round investment in Hangzhou Jimu Technology Co., Ltd.( hereinafter referred to as Jimu Tech). This round of investment was led by SDIC Venture Capital and followed by Feitu Kaiyuan, which will help to accelerate the productization and expand the market for its parking robot and software & hardware system in the intelligent garage.
Established in July 2016, headquartered in Binjiang District, Hangzhou, with a R&D center in Silicon Valley, Jimu Tech is an innovative high-tech company specializing in artificial intelligence and key technologies of robots. The company is devoted to the R&D and applications of wheeled robots and intelligent hardware products. The first product of Jimu Tech is the intelligent parking robot with mechanical gripper based on autonomous driving technology, which was officially launched in October 2017. Unlike traditional parking robots, Jimu's parking robot can get to the underside of vehicles directly without the help from auxiliary facilities such as the car-carrying board, comb-finger, or bracket. Through the mechanical gripper, Jimu's parking robot can autonomously adapt to the wheel tread and wheel base of different vehicle models, and directly grip the wheel to move the vehicle. With autonomous driving technology, Jimu's parking robot can achieve precise positioning, navigation, identification, obstacle avoiding and other functions. The central dispatching system coordinates the multi-robot work, carrying out unified task scheduling and optimal path planning for all the robots in the parking lot, which can effectively improve the parking efficiency and utility rate of space of the parking lot. In addition, users can make reservations for parking and picking up the car with the service of automatic payment through the mobile phone APP, which is quite convenient. With the intelligent parking robot as the core, Jimu Tech has created the full-stack intelligent software & hardware solution for the autonomous parking garage.
Dr. Qi Wei, the founder of Jimu Tech, used to serve as the vice president of Lenovo, as well as the co-founder and CTO of Ehang. The key members of this company are the top technical elites from Lenovo, Intel, CMU Robotics Institute etc., covering artificial intelligence, smart device, and robots areas, achieving alliance between cross-industry giants.