The launch ceremony for the northern base of Agile Robots is held in the Harbin New Zone. [Photo/Ice City Plus]

The launch ceremony for the new northern base of German-Chinese group Agile Robots – a leading international AI intelligent robotics enterprise – took place on Sept 21 in the Harbin New Zone, located in Harbin, capital city of China’s northernmost Heilongjiang province.
 
The facility when fully finished will consist of three sections – namely the company's North China headquarters, a Sino-German Robotics System and Industrial Technology Research Institute and a Vocational Education Sharing Center.
 
The building is ongoing on the research institute, while the company's northern HQ and the Vocational Education Sharing Center have been completed.
 
The northern headquarters will focus on creating typical cases of intelligent manufacturing and it aims to combine the advantages of intelligent robotics technology, to provide solutions for the industrial upgrading of the old industrial base of Northeast China.
 
The Sino-German Robotics System and Industrial Technology Research Institute will take advantage of the robotics R&D of German scientific research institutes and universities in Harbin. This will be to implement basic technology research in the field of robotics and to train and hire top research people.
 
The Vocational Education Sharing Center plans to adopt a "dual system" teaching mode to undertake the closed-loop training of talent and send them to Chinese and international robotics enterprises.
 
At the launch ceremony, Agile Robots also signed commercial agreements and service deals with the Harbin bureau of science and technology, the Harbin Institute of Technology, the Harbin foreign affairs office – as well as with Heilongjiang Huida Tech, Baidu and Changchun Hexin Machinery Manufacturing Co.
 
Founded in 2018, Agile Robots provides software and hardware. It is engaged in the integration and innovation of artificial intelligence and cutting-edge robotics technologies.
 
It has dual headquarters in Munich, Germany and in Beijing. The value of the company is estimated to top $1.5 billion, making it a so-called unicorn enterprise with the highest valuation in the global intelligent robotic field.
 
A unicorn enterprise refers to a startup or a private company with a valuation exceeding $1 billion.