Complete works of slogans for underwater robots

Similarly, drones and underwater drones are moving from the concept of military industry to the concept of consumption;

The difference is that the underwater drone market is still competing with each other, and no company can win the entire consumer-grade (underwater drone) market.

The entrants of underwater drones are competing with each other.

Competition with each other is the characteristic of today's times. In this era, entrepreneurs in various fields will have many "neighbors", such as smartphones and underwater drones.

From the time point of view, around 20 14, many players' underwater drones began to enter the game. According to Lei Feng. com. At present, there are more than ten manufacturers of underwater drones in Beijing, Tianjin, Shenzhen and Shanghai, and most of them started to enter this field during this period, but so far, there is no leading manufacturer like DJI.

The specific time, place and main products of each manufacturer are as follows:

In an interview with Lei Feng. com. Li Qinzhi, founder and CEO of Joken Robot, told Lei Feng. Com said without hesitation, "Joken robots are still mainly C-end products and belong to the excellent enterprises in the second echelon."

Consumer-grade underwater UAV is still a strange scene for most people, and it is also a novel product form.

The freshness of users has brought a brand-new consumer-grade underwater drone industry, and it has also made Joken robots.

Before the establishment of 20 16 company, Li did not immediately position himself in the field of underwater drones, but led the entrepreneurial team to make two products: unmanned vehicles and underwater drones.

At the robot exhibition in the same year, unmanned vehicles were relatively unattended, but underwater drones were frequently asked.

Li told Lei Feng. com: "The underwater drones exhibited at the exhibition are only conceptual products made by our team, and even the most basic underwater sealing problem has not been solved." "It was also the feedback from the scene that made us see the potential of the consumer-grade underwater drone market, so Joken Robotics and our first product BW 1."

There is actually an episode in the middle. Li is actually more optimistic about his unmanned vehicle, and even equipped his unmanned vehicle with intelligent following function. "This is actually a very popular concept of distribution robots in recent years, but at that time we did not dig deep into market demand." Of course, the intelligent following function of driverless cars was finally used by liying in its second generation products, which also appeared in BW Space, the main exhibition product of CES 20 19.

BW 1 and BW Space are both underwater UAV products that focus on underwater shooting, which is also a mainstream direction of consumer-grade underwater UAVs, and its functions are slightly similar to those of consumer-grade aerial drones. Another similarity is the intelligent following function.

BW Space brings the intelligent following function into its underwater UAV. By pressing the corresponding function button of the control terminal (tablet computer or WiFi box similar to UAV), BW Space can enter the intelligent following state.

In this way, compared with many similar aerial drones, underwater drones are regarded as latecomers, so there will inevitably be some technical patent doubts. Li obviously took this into account.

According to official data, the main parameters of BW Space are: the fastest running speed:1.5m/s; Maximum dive depth: 100 m; Battery working time: 5-7 hours (the longest still shooting time in water is 7 hours, and the following shooting time is 5 hours); Video resolution: 4K(3840 x 2 160, 30fps).

According to Lei Feng. com. At present, the mainstream parameters of consumer-grade underwater UAV are: 4K image transmission, 2 m/s running speed, 100 m diving depth and 2-3 hours working time. Thus, in terms of parameters, BW space is still considerable.

When it comes to the realization of intelligent following function, it naturally involves software algorithms.

Li told Lei Feng. Com believes that Jocken's algorithm model can now identify divers carrying oxygen tanks through picture learning, and will be realized through video learning in the future. It can also identify more underwater creatures and scenes.

BW Space is not Joken's first product. As mentioned above, Joken's first product should be BW 1. But on the official website of Jocken Robot, only BW Space was seen, but BW 1 was not seen. The reason is that BW Space is Joken's main product, and two generations of products will have friction and change in the design process.

For BW 1 and BW Space, Jocken tried online crowdfunding, which is very popular now.

On July 20 17, BW 1 started crowdfunding.

"At that time, our hardware was mature and the key sealing problem had been solved, but the shell was always a problem-it could not be as light and beautiful as it is now," Li Qinzhi told Lei Feng. com. "We hired well-known overseas design companies to participate in the industrial modeling design of products."

If you have seen BW 1, you will find that BW 1 looks very similar to BW Space now. "This is because BW Space uses the shell of BW 1. In the process of replacing BW 1 with a new look of BW Space, the Joken team spent 1 month communicating with supporters at home and abroad (crowdfunding supporters), and finally adopted the opinions of supporters and adopted a fashionable and lightweight BW Space design. "

"Since we have a new shell and our ideas for the next generation of products this year, why not directly launch our second generation of new products and raise funds again?" At that time, Li thought and did the same.

20 18 August, three months after the delivery of BW 1, Jocken's second new product, BW Space, started crowdfunding again. "Because the new product has added intelligent following function (including hardware module and software function), the image processing module has been upgraded and the underwater motion control module has been adjusted, and the intelligent directional depth setting function has been completed. The final crowdfunding of BW Space reached nearly 200 units. "

Not long ago, at CES 20 19, Jocken exhibited its third product, BW Swimate. This product is located in diving or water recreation, which can be understood as a booster for diving or swimming. Compared with the first two products, BW Swimate is different in scene positioning.

However, during the research and development of BW Swimate, Jocken's R&D team once again encountered new problems.

The original power cannot realize manned function, and it is agreed to increase the power to 700W. Also due to manned, when the battery capacity is increased to 9000mAh and the speed is still 1.5m/s, the battery life is reduced to 45min and the diving depth is reduced to 40 m..

It is worth mentioning that due to people's close control, the original signal transmission line can finally be dismantled.

According to Lei Feng. com. This product is equipped with locking dial code and speed button on the left and right sides of the "wing" (the speed is divided into two gears), and it is also equipped with a 720P display screen, which can display the equipment parameters in real time. It can also be equipped with a video camera or a GoPro camera for shooting.

Most of Joken's consumer-grade underwater drones are sold abroad. The previous two products were also crowdfunding on two crowdfunding platforms abroad.

The main players and markets are abroad, which is actually the status quo of underwater drones.

At present, Jocken's main sales markets are also in Europe, America and other countries, and it also has branches in Japan.

As mentioned above, the C-end market can promote the popularization of products, and it is also the main market for the second echelon manufacturers. However, I have to say that the B-end market is a bigger cake.

Of course, the B-end market also means stricter technical requirements. First of all, the signal transmission line of underwater UAV is a problem.

How big is the B-end market? High-value industries such as underwater oil exploration, natural gas exploration, dam inspection (engineering inspection), cable inspection and maintenance are all B-end businesses, which also means that underwater drones need not only the function of image shooting, but also the functions of positioning and data processing, as well as better sealing (greater diving depth) and the above-mentioned problem of getting rid of data transmission lines.

Comparatively speaking, because consumer-grade underwater drones are a brand-new market, manufacturers have more autonomy to define products and educate the market, which will also bring greater help to brands and market positions in the future.

Li revealed to Lei Feng. Com understands that Jocken's main products are still oriented to the C-end market, and at the same time, it is also developing B-end products. It is expected that the first B-end product model will be exhibited at CES Asia this year.

At present, although consumer-grade underwater drones have been self-developed, the market scale still needs further development.

Li revealed to Lei Feng. The upgraded version of BW Space will still be launched this year. When talking about the recent development direction of underwater drones, Li Qinzhi summarized as follows:

No matter from the manufacturers and products of 20 18, or from the CES (USA) exhibition that opened on 20 19, the underwater UAV market is booming.

It has to be admitted that the technical research and development of underwater drones is still in its infancy, and problems such as functionality, flexibility and cost still exist. There are few applications in consumer scenes, and underwater pickup needs to be followed up. Most models still have a long tail.

However, more and more buyers are willing to try and pay for underwater robots with underwater shooting function or boosting function.

When Li finally walked out of the general manager's office, he turned on his mobile phone and showed it to Lei Feng. Through distributors and online stores, Jocken got another order for 9 sets of equipment today.

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