Nanjing JY Robot 南京匠元机器人
Nanjing supplier of AGV and AMR drive corners, steering and differential wheel units, screw and hydraulic lift modules and four-way shuttle gearboxes.
Nanjing JY Robot Technology Co., Ltd., trading as JY Robot, supplies mechanical components for AGVs, AMRs and intralogistics equipment from the Qilin Technology Innovation Park in Nanjing, Jiangsu. It builds no complete robots. It sells the subassemblies that move them to the robot makers and integrators that do, on a manufacturing base the company says comes from the affiliated JP Caster wheel and caster business.
The catalogue has four groups. Drive modules are the core line: steering wheel units, differential drives and omnidirectional wheel assemblies, each packaging motor, gearbox and wheel into a bolt-on drive corner, from a two-tonne steering unit to an eight-tonne differential drive. Lifting modules cover ball screw, trapezoidal screw and hydraulic lifts, the ball screw versions rated 200 to 2,000 kilograms. The third line is gearbox components for four-way shuttles. The fourth, gravity flow racking, is warehouse equipment rather than robotics.
Target sectors named by the company are robotics and automation manufacturers, automotive production and general industrial logistics. Published customer logos include Hikvision, YOUIBOT, FJ Dynamics, Samsung, BYD and Foxconn, though no individual relationship or its scale is described.
For a directory user the position is specific. JY Robot sits one level below the AMR vendors that appear elsewhere in this database, supplying their drive, steering and lift hardware, and competing with other drive-unit makers rather than with the fleet vendors its parts end up inside.
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- Nanjing JY Robot
- 南京匠元机器人
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- drive wheel unit
- steering wheel drive
- differential drive module
- omnidirectional wheel
- ball screw lift
- four-way shuttle gearbox
- agv drive corner
- gravity flow rack
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- Mobile Robot (AGV/AMR)
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