New | Shenzhen start-up Ingdan.com wins Intel backing for consumer-robot platform

Riding China’s robot boom, Shenzhen-based technology start-up Ingdan.com has teamed up with Intel Corp and Japanese suppliers in ­robotics in a partnership to capitalise on growth in emerging markets.

Backed by Hong Kong-listed Cogobuy, Ingdan.com has signed an agreement with Intel (China) to forge a robotics ecosystem platform to help connect global laboratory resources and overseas chipmakers to Chinese robotics start-ups, which are eager to turn their ideas and technologies into affordable consumer robot products in the mainland market.

The new platform would provide these Chinese start-ups with better, more transparent access to the electronic chip sourcing ­market and institution resources across the world, said Wang Gang, a spokesman for Ingdan.com, as well as taking advantage of China’s well-established hardware manufacturing resources.

Wang said the platform aimed at accommodating more than 1,000 robotics start-ups and 300 upstream suppliers this year.

“Intel and Ingdan are seeing our roles as an incubator and connector to this market on the mainland,” Wang said. “Intel would introduce cutting-edge technologies to the start-ups and sharpen their ideas in chips, key modules and designs as more than 8,000 hardware manufacturing suppliers on Ingdan’s online platform could help build their products.”

Ingdan.com was established in 2013 by Cogobuy to provide a one-stop supply-chain platform that links technology start-ups and entrepreneurs with contract electronics manufacturing partners in mainland China to help design and build their products for the global market.