Nanjing manufacturer of collaborative robots and indoor AGVs, co-founded by JITRI, building a 20,000 sqm cobot plant targeting 10,000 units/year.
Jiangsu Jicui Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd. (branded Jicui Zhizao, or Jitri Intelligent Manufacturing) is a Nanjing-based robotics manufacturer headquartered in the Jiangbei New Area Research and Innovation Park in Jiangsu province. It was established on 26 September 2016, co-founded through an angel-round investment from the Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute (JITRI) together with a research team led by Professor Luo Minzhou, who serves as the company's legal representative. A second equity-financing round followed in September 2019 from the Jiangbei New Area Research and Innovation Park investment vehicle. Current disclosed shareholding places roughly 60 percent with Nanjing Ruobot Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., a Luo Minzhou-affiliated holding entity, 25 percent with Nanjing Research and Creation Investment Development Co., Ltd., and 15 percent with JITRI itself.
The company's core products are six-axis collaborative robots and indoor autonomous mobile platforms, described in its own materials as spanning six cobot models and nine indoor-AMR variants, alongside portable welding robots and automated production-line equipment. A recurring example product it highlights is a coffee-brewing robot that combines its collaborative-arm and mobile-platform technology into a single demonstration unit. Beyond factory-floor robots, the institute has also developed agricultural harvesting robots for tomatoes, strawberries, and apples, building more than 20 associated hardware components such as end-effectors, manipulator arms, chassis units, and produce-transfer systems for this application.
In September 2025, the company broke ground on a dedicated collaborative-robot industrialization base in Nanjing's Jiangbei New Area, representing a stated CNY 130 million investment and a 20,000-square-meter manufacturing facility built around a modular, dual-pathway production line intended to handle both standard and customized orders. The company states the facility is intended to compress delivery cycles to about 30 days and to eventually support production of close to 10,000 intelligent robots per year, with company materials describing products already exported to more than 80 countries. The institute also reports filing over 300 patents and software copyrights in total, including 57 authorized invention patents.
In January 2026, China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs approved the company as lead organizer of a new Agricultural Robotics Key Laboratory, partnering with the Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the ministry's Nanjing Agricultural Mechanization Research Institute; the lab is intended to address labor shortages in harvesting through 3D vision-guided grasping and multimodal perception research. The company also participates in vocational-education partnerships, including a listed collaboration with Nanjing Institute of Tourism and Hospitality for talent training. Public sources reviewed did not surface a general contact phone number, email address, or social-media accounts for the company.
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2016
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Asia-Pacific
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Early-Stage VC
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