Recently, Beijing Zhongke Yuandong Power Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zhongke Yuandong") completed a B2 round of several hundred million yuan financing, which was invested by Anhui Chery Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Chery Intelligent Technology"), a subsidiary of Chery Holdings Group.
This round of financing will mainly be used for new energy intelligent agricultural machinery and embodied intelligent agriculture
RobotCore technology research and development, large-scale product delivery, and accelerated overseas market expansion.
Chery Intelligent Technology and Zhongke Original Power signed a strategic investment agreement
Deeply cultivate agricultural robots and build a complete technical system
Zhongke Motive Power is a national specialized and new "little giant" enterprise and a national high-tech enterprise of agricultural robots incubated by the Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The company is led by Li Deyi, honorary president of the Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence and academician of the CAE Member. Its core team comes from well-known universities at home and abroad, such as Tsinghua University and the University of California, Berkeley. It has long cultivated the fields of artificial intelligence, robots and smart agriculture, built a complete agricultural robot research and development system, and formed the unmanned operation technology capability for the whole process of farmland cultivation.
Faced with the aging of agricultural labor force, continuous rise in production costs, and the demand for large-scale agricultural development, Zhongke Yuandong insists on promoting the transformation of agricultural equipment through technological innovation, and continues to promote the development of agricultural equipment towards intelligence, new energy, embodiment, and platformization.
At present, the company has formed a product system of unmanned agricultural machinery operation system, new energy intelligent agricultural machinery whole machine, embodied intelligent agricultural robots and intelligent agricultural tools, etc., promoting the evolution of agricultural machinery from a single operation equipment to embodied intelligent agricultural robots that can perceive, make decisions, execute and learn sustainably.
Our company's products can achieve round the clock, automated, and precise operations, and have been commercially applied in fields, pastures, orchards, and other scenarios. We have completed over 1 million standardized unmanned operations, covering more than 20 provinces and regions across the country, and have conducted product validation and demonstrations overseas.
Zhongke Yuandong has led the construction of the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Electric Agricultural Machinery Equipment Technology under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, undertaking multiple national level key research and development tasks. It has won important awards such as the National Harvest Award for Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, and Fisheries, the Wu Wenjun First Prize for Artificial Intelligence Technology Progress, and the overall champion of PepsiCo's "Green Accelerator Project". The relevant technologies have been selected as leading technologies by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and their technological achievements and industrialization capabilities have been widely recognized both domestically and internationally.
Zhongke Original Power's unmanned intelligent agricultural machinery carries out cotton day and night automated precision sowing operations in Xinjiang
Deepen industrial synergy and accelerate large-scale development
Chery has profound accumulation in vehicle research and development, engineering verification, supply chain management, production and manufacturing, quality system, and global market layout. Zhongke Yuandong has formed systematic advantages in core technology of agricultural robots, understanding of agricultural scenarios, and product industrialization.
Both parties will leverage their respective advantages in the automotive industry and smart agriculture, deepen collaboration around technology research and development, engineering verification, supply chain, production and manufacturing, quality management, and global market expansion, and accelerate the productization, scaling, and internationalization of new energy intelligent agricultural machinery and embodied intelligent agricultural robots.
Chery Group Chairman Yin Tongyue stated that China's agriculture must accelerate its development towards modernization and high technology, and agricultural machinery and equipment must achieve high quality, high reliability, and international competitiveness. Chery Group will support the development of Zhongke Yuandong in terms of technology, resources, organization, and industrial system, and jointly promote the transformation of advanced technology into agricultural productivity, contributing to national food security and agricultural modernization.
Han Wei, founder, chairman, and CEO of Zhongke Original Power, stated that agricultural equipment is accelerating its development towards new energy, intelligence, embodiment, and platformization. Zhongke Yuandong will fully leverage its technological and scenario advantages in the field of agricultural robots, empower agriculture with the technological advantages of the automotive industry in research and development, manufacturing, supply chain, and globalization, accelerate core technology research and development, product scale delivery, and overseas market expansion, and jointly create new energy intelligent agricultural machinery and embodied intelligent agricultural robots with international competitiveness, contributing to the development of China's agricultural machinery and equipment industry.
Zhongke Yuandong pure electric intelligent agricultural machinery carries out low-carbon and sustainable agricultural cultivation at PepsiCo's Gansu farm
In the future, Zhongke Yuandong will continue to uphold the mission of "shaping a sustainable future for global agriculture with technology", adhere to rooting in agriculture, scenarios, and products, and enable more safe, reliable, and efficient agricultural robots to enter farmland and serve global agricultural production.
