From power substations with 100-meter-high towers to dark and airtight underground pipe corridors, from high-temperature and toxic refinery areas to subway lines running around the clock, industrial inspection positions that used to rely on operation and maintenance personnel traveling through mountains and rivers and taking risks are now being taken over one by one by the intelligent inspection robots of Hangzhou Shenhao Technology Co., Ltd.
This benchmark company in the field of domestic industrial intelligent inspection has been rooted in large industrial tracks for more than 20 years. It has used more than 10,000 floor-standing equipment and full-category solutions covering more than ten core industrial tracks. It has upgraded the traditional operation and maintenance model of “manual fixed-point inspections and delayed inspections of hidden dangers” to a new intelligent form of “24-hour global duty, AI real-time identification and early warning”, and weaved an all-weather industrial safety protection network for the core areas of the national economy.
From single-point power failure to full track coverage
Steadily building the entire industrial inspection landscape
Shenhao Technology’s intelligent inspection landscape is not achieved overnight.
When the company was founded in 2002, it focused on the industrial equipment inspection track and accumulated solid technical foundation and industry experience in the fields of equipment status sensing, industrial data collection, and complex working condition adaptation, laying the technical foundation for its subsequent entry into the intelligent inspection track.
2015 is a critical turning point in the development of the company.
At that time, the domestic power industry was accelerating its intelligent transformation. Substations, distribution stations and other sites faced pain points such as insufficient frequency of manual inspections, difficulty in reaching high-risk areas, and low efficiency of inspections at night and in extreme weather.
Relying on more than ten years of industrial inspection technology accumulation, Shenhao Technology successfully developed the first power inspection robot for the State Grid, officially entering the industrial intelligent inspection track and filling the shortcomings of unmanned inspection for power stations.
The large-scale implementation of power scenarios has allowed Shenhao Technology to accumulate a mature core technology base and also allowed the team to see broader industry needs.
In major industrial fields such as petrochemicals, rail transit, steel and metallurgy, water conservancy and hydropower, mining, and municipal pipe networks, inspection pain points similar to those of power stations are common.
Based on this judgment, the company uses the general technology of power inspection as a base to carry out customized adaptations one by one according to the working conditions of different industries, and gradually replicates the mature intelligent inspection solution to more large industrial scenarios.
Today, Shenhao Technology’s intelligent inspection robots have achieved in-depth coverage in multiple fields.
From the ground to the underground, from land to water, from open factory areas to closed pipe corridors, the company has formed a full product matrix of wheeled, crawler, rail-mounted, footed, underwater, etc. There are more than 10,000 intelligent inspection robots applied nationwide, covering most provinces and cities in the country, creating thousands of benchmark application cases, and completing the identity leap from “a single power inspection equipment supplier” to a “full-scenario industrial intelligent inspection solution service provider.”
Hard-core self-research builds a technology moat
Comprehensive adaptation to complex and extreme working conditions
Industrial inspection scenarios vary widely. Harsh working conditions such as high temperature and humidity, flammable and explosive, dusty, toxic and harmful are the core technical thresholds that lie ahead of the industry and are also the core advantages of Shenhao Technology.
Since entering the inspection robot track, the company has always regarded independent research and development as its core development strategy, rejected homogeneous product routes, and insisted on using technology to match real industrial needs.
In the construction of the R&D system, Shenhao Technology continues to increase investment in funds, talents and scientific research resources. The company’s scientific research personnel account for more than 40%, and the core R&D team is mainly high-end talents with doctorate and master’s degrees.
At the same time, it has linked up with Zhejiang University and top scientific research institutions in the United States, Singapore and other places to build a joint laboratory to delve into core technologies such as visual recognition, intelligent analysis, autonomous navigation, and multi-sensor fusion. Its visual algorithm and intelligent analysis capabilities have firmly ranked first in the domestic industry.
Up to now, the company has accumulated more than 100 invention patents, led and participated in the formulation of dozens of industry standards, and formed a complete independent intellectual property system.
The massive amount of real working condition data accumulated on the front line for more than ten years is the unique technical moat of Shenhao Technology.
The characteristic data and optimization experience accumulated by tens of thousands of robots operating in various extreme environments for a long time allow companies to accurately address the pain points of inspections in different scenarios and develop targeted and highly adaptable exclusive products.
These products can fully replace manual entry into high-risk scenes and achieve 24-hour uninterrupted, high-precision inspections. This not only avoids personnel occupational safety risks at the root, but also increases the frequency of inspections from 2-3 times per day to all-weather coverage. The accuracy of meter readings and leakage hazard identification far exceeds the level of manual visual inspections.
Relying on its profound technological accumulation, Shenhao Technology has built a full-dimensional inspection product matrix covering “land – sea – air”, and is also equipped with a complete landing service system.
More than 40 channel providers have been deployed across the country, and a full-process service chain has been established including pre-sales program customization, project delivery and implementation, and after-sales operation and maintenance guarantees. It can achieve 3-hour remote technical response and 8-hour on-site problem handling to fully guarantee the customer experience.
Anchoring the new track of embodied intelligence and charting a new future for industrial intelligent operation and maintenance
With the rapid iteration of artificial intelligence technology, industrial intelligent inspection is ushering in an industry turning point of upgrading from “automated execution” to “intelligent decision-making”. Shenhao Technology has already planned a layout in advance to seize the next generation technology track.
Currently, the company adheres to the dual-track development idea of “deep cultivation of mature scenarios + expansion of emerging scenarios”.
On the one hand, we continue to polish products and solutions in core advantage sectors such as electric power, petrochemicals, and rail transit, continuously deepen the depth of scenario application, and optimize inspection accuracy and operation and maintenance efficiency; on the other hand, we actively expand into emerging industrial scenarios such as new energy, data centers, and nuclear power, rely on mature technology bases to quickly complete scenario adaptation, and continuously expand business boundaries.
Recently, the company has successively won large orders for intelligent operation and maintenance of computing power centers, indicating that its “AI + robot” technical capabilities have been successfully copied to the new track of computing power operation and maintenance, and the scenario expansion has achieved remarkable results.
At the same time, Shenhao Technology has closely followed the development trend of embodied intelligence technology and established a subsidiary focusing on embodied intelligence and AI big algorithms to fully promote the intelligent upgrade of inspection robots.
The core goal of the company is to break the limitations of current robots “performing tasks according to preset processes” and realize the coordinated operation of “brain-cerebellum-body”, so that robots have the ability to make independent decisions, path planning, and emergency response, and can flexibly respond to non-standardized inspection needs under complex working conditions, and truly become an industrial operation and maintenance partner with independent intelligence.
Currently, the research and development of related new products equipped with embodied intelligence technology is progressing smoothly and is expected to be officially launched on the market within the year.
The bottom line of safety in industrial production is the constant starting point of intelligent inspection technology.
With the deep integration of AI technology and industrial scenarios, in the future, inspection robots will not only be “job executors” that replace human workers, but also “intelligent guardians” that predict risks and proactively deal with them.
Shenhao Technology will also continue to polish its technology and delve into scenarios, so that the value of industrial intelligence can penetrate into every production line, helping the large industrial field to move steadily towards safer and more efficient intelligence.
