DaRan Robotics builds integrated servo joints and parallel robots, spun out of Tianjin University's mechanism research center in 2015.
Zhuhai Daran Robot Technology Co., Ltd., known as DaRan Robotics, was incorporated on December 28, 2015, growing out of the Center for Advanced Mechanism and Robotics at Tianjin University. The company describes its core team as led by robotics PhDs, and its chief scientist is Dai Jiansheng, a professor known for work in mechanism theory and reconfigurable robotics. DaRan is registered in China as a certified national high-and-new-technology enterprise and is headquartered in the Hengqin district of Zhuhai, Guangdong province, with a branch office in Tianjin, the city where its founding research center is based.
The company's stated focus is robot motion intelligence: reconfigurable robot bodies and the actuator technology that drives them. Its product lines include intelligent integrated joints and a series of intelligent servo actuators that combine a motor, reducer and control electronics into a single unit for use in robotic arms and legged platforms, together with matching robot controllers. On the mechanism side, DaRan builds parallel-kinematic robots, including Stewart-platform and 3-RRU configurations used for precision positioning and motion-simulation tasks. It also offers open-source robotics platforms, such as a hand-eye integrated robot and a ball-control robot, plus an experimental platform for flexible continuum robotic arms, aimed at university and research customers who want to prototype new motion-control algorithms without building actuator hardware from scratch.
DaRan has raised early-stage capital in multiple rounds since its founding: an 800,000 RMB seed round in December 2015, followed by a 5 million RMB angel round in April 2018, and it has subsequently pursued a Pre-A financing round, placing the company in the early-stage venture category by the criteria used in this database. Its client and partner base includes the technology company Huawei and a number of leading Chinese research universities, among them Tsinghua University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and its origin institution, Tianjin University. The company markets its actuator and parallel-robot technology for both industrial automation and robotics education and research use cases, positioning its integrated joints as building blocks that other robot developers can assemble into custom manipulators, legged robots or motion platforms rather than buying a complete robot system outright.
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2015
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Asia-Pacific
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