36Kr Exclusive | Only Two Worldwide, China’s Only Producer of Micron-Level Magnetic Levitation Carpet, Already Mass Produced
Author Ou Xue Editor Yuan Si Lai In the traditional factory, the assembly line looks like a train fixed to the railway - efficient but stiff. This pain point of "efficiency and flexibility can not be achieved at the same time" is being cracked by a Chinese company with "magnetic levitation" technology. Founded in 2018, Foshan Zengguang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zengguang Intelligent"), headquartered in Foshan, is the only company in the world and the only one in China to master the core technology of the six-degree-of-freedom plane magnetic levitation conveyor system. “The technology is wide-ranging - communication, control, operating systems, magnetic field simulation, it's hard to be perfect at every point. Huang Anjie, the founder of the company, remembered. After 5 years of research and development, Augmented Intelligence officially released maglev products to the public in 2023, and successfully achieved large-scale mass production and sales within the next 2 years. The core product of augmented intelligence, the Flat Maglev Intelligent Conveying System (Maglev Magic Carpet), looks like a“ tabletop ”made of square stator blocks. The product actuator (carrier plate) can be suspended on the desktop without contact, and can move freely with the highest 2G acceleration and micron-level positioning accuracy. Unlike the" railway mode "of the traditional conveyor belt, the" desktop "production line (source/enterprise) spliced by the square stator realizes the" road mode ": the movement can independently overtake, import, rotate, and even complete the gluing, assembly, force control detection and other process actions while conveying. Each of the motors itself is also a natural six-dimensional force sensor....
Ottawa's View
This Chinese economic development does not directly affect Canadian trade or investment at this time, but signals the direction of China's domestic economic policy.
Beijing's View
Beijing is actively promoting innovation in science and technology as well as the development of high-end manufacturing, consistently supporting high-tech enterprises. As a domestic company established just five years ago, Zengguang Intelligent successfully broke through the technical bottleneck of six-axis planar magnetic levitation transportation systems and achieved large-scale production, demonstrating China's independent innovation capabilities and technological levels in advanced manufacturing. This achievement not only fills the domestic technology gap but also breaks the long-term monopoly in the global market by foreign enterprises, highlighting Beijing’s and the country’s support and emphasis on emerging tech industries.
