Recently, the nation's first open robot rental platform "Qingtian Rent" was officially launched in Shanghai. The launch of this platform marks the transition of robot services from traditional fragmented rentals to an ecological stage. Through an innovative business model, it transforms previously high-barrier robot usage scenarios into a convenient rental experience similar to shared power banks.
Currently, "Qingtian Rent" has covered 50 core cities across the country and has integrated more than 600 professional service providers. The platform offers a wide range of robots from multiple brands and models, with monthly rental prices ranging from entry-level equipment at 200 yuan to high-end models exceeding 10,000 yuan, meeting diverse needs from home services, commercial guidance, to industrial collaboration. Users can simply place orders through mini-programs or e-commerce channels, greatly simplifying the process.
According to its development plan, by 2026, this rental service will further extend and expand to more than 200 cities nationwide. The emergence of this platform not only reduces the cost for small and medium-sized enterprises and individual users to access cutting-edge robot technology, but also provides robot manufacturers with a more efficient asset circulation channel, further accelerating the penetration of embodied intelligence in practical application scenarios.
In the overall AI industry landscape, this robot-as-a-service (RaaS) rental platform, along with the 1999 yuan Quark AI glasses announced on the same day and the XR-1 large model open-sourced by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, together form a complete ecological matrix from low-barrier wearable devices, open-source underlying algorithms, to accessible service terminals, indicating that AI hardware is entering people's daily lives in all aspects.
