The financing is designed for 2 years, it is planned to be implemented within the framework of the "Commercialization 2021" competition.
The Fund will provide the company with 20 million rubles, subject to equal co-financing from the company. Thus, the total financing of the project will amount to 40 million rubles.
The funding will be directed to the development of a universal robotic platform that has speech recognition functions with a Russian speech recognition quality of at least 96%, speech synthesis, automatic trouble-free movement, navigation, the ability to execute motion scripts, detect and locate people with an accuracy of at least 85%, print documents, accept payments, issue access cards, and also have an API and SDK containing a software development kit and Application Programming Interface (API) for developing software applications.
A universal platform may be in demand among developers of robotic solutions. Thanks to the use of this solution, new generations of service robots can enter the market: for the retail industry, hotels, transport, entertainment and many others.
According to data from the National Association of Robotics Market Participants, in 2018 the volume of the world market of professional service equipment amounted to $9.2 billion — 32% more than in 2017. In 2019-2022, the projected growth of the professional service robots market will be 45%.
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The company "Promobot" was founded in 2015 in Perm. Since the same year, he has been a resident of Skolkovo.
Today Promobot is the largest manufacturer of autonomous service robots in Europe. Promobots work in 40 countries of the world as administrators, promoters, consultants, guides and concierges, replacing or supplementing "live" employees. Promobot robots can be found in Sberbank, the Museum of Modern History of Russia, the centers of public services "My Documents", Baltimore-Washington Airport, Dubai Mall. All the company's products are manufactured and developed in Russia. The Far Eastern High Technology Fund, created by RUSNANO, the Far East and Arctic Development Fund and RVC, invested 200 million rubles in Promobot.
