Engineering embodied intelligence tackles the safety pain points of high-altitude operations, and empowers the digital transformation of infrastructure maintenance and repair with hardcore robots.
Recently, MaxStable, a Ningbo-based sci-tech innovation enterprise, announced the completion of tens of millions of yuan in angel round financing, with this round led by United Capital. The raised funds will be invested in the construction of high-altitude operation scenario laboratories, iterative R&D of AI engineering decision-making brain, mass production and landing of robots, and building of market benchmark projects, so as to accelerate the large-scale implementation of engineering embodied intelligence technology in the wind power and large industrial facility maintenance tracks.
High-altitude operation and maintenance is a key link supporting the stable operation of new energy, heavy chemical industry and other infrastructures, and has long faced industry pain points such as high safety risks, shortage of labor supply, insufficient operation accuracy and persistently high operation and maintenance costs. There are constant hidden dangers of a large number of casualties in global high-altitude operations all year round. In China, the problems of aging of certified personnel for special high-altitude operations and talent gap are becoming increasingly prominent. The traditional manual high-altitude operation mode has long been unable to match the development needs of new industrialization and new energy system construction. Aiming at this rigid industrial demand, MaxStable, founded in 2026, focuses on the track of engineering embodied intelligent high-altitude operation robots, and has formed a composite R&D team with members from top universities across different disciplines. The core team members come from domestic and foreign universities such as Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, Central South University, and the University of Alabama in the United States, and have been deeply engaged in special robots, humanoid equipment, and intelligent control algorithms for many years. Founder Dr. Ren Long has 8 years of in-depth experience in the special robot industry, and CTO Chen Qing has 16 years of core R&D accumulation in engineering equipment and humanoid robots. The talent foundation integrating industry, university and research has firmly consolidated the enterprise’s technological innovation foundation.
Relying on the self-developed new generation of aerial intelligent mobile platform AIMP, the enterprise has built three core technological barriers: “extreme stability, full material adaptation, and engineering intelligent brain”. The self-developed MaxStable™ Control OS active disturbance rejection control algorithm large model, combined with precise dynamics modeling, can operate stably under complex working conditions of hundreds of meters high altitude and 8-level strong wind, and continuously guarantee construction accuracy; The multi-layer self-developed adaptation system enables the robot to stably attach to various wall surfaces such as concrete, composite materials, and coated metals, with obvious advantages in heavy load performance; The original verifiable layered security architecture is adopted to build a closed-loop AI engineering decision-making brain of “high-level intelligent planning + bottom-level precise control”, which transforms the experience of front-line engineering experts into a standardized and computable model, realizing independent path planning of equipment and minute-level fault diagnosis.
Focusing on the real demand of high-altitude maintenance, MaxStable has built a complete full-link technology closed loop, and launched two mature product matrices: the W series specializes in the intelligent detection and repair of wind turbine blades and towers, and the T series is oriented to the operation, maintenance and transformation of storage tanks and large industrial structures. Different from single-function wall-climbing equipment, this general AIMP base can be equipped with modular operation terminals, covering a variety of non-standard engineering tasks such as detection, coating, drilling and assembly, creating a “general intelligent operation platform” in the engineering field. This set of technical solutions completely changes the high-altitude operation mode, upgrading from simple manual replacement to a data-driven intelligent collaborative system, and innovatively launches the KaaS (Knowledge as a Service) business model, which precipitates equipment operation and maintenance, defect diagnosis, and working condition analysis data into enterprise digital assets, promoting the infrastructure maintenance industry to shift from “experience-based construction” to “intelligent decision-making”.
From the perspective of industrial value, the autonomous operation of robots greatly saves supporting construction measures such as scaffolds and high-altitude hanging baskets, directly reduces the comprehensive operation and maintenance cost of enterprises, eliminates the risk of high-altitude personnel falling from the root, and builds a solid line of safety production. Under the background of the accelerated promotion of “robot replacing human” and the large-scale expansion of new infrastructure, the high-altitude stock maintenance market has a broad space. As a cutting-edge cross-technology, engineering embodied intelligence is not only a key starting point to solve the pain points of traditional high-risk operations, but also an important support for the digital and green transformation of the manufacturing industry.
The relevant person in charge of United Capital, the capital side, said that the high-altitude special robot track has both social value and industrial prospects. The MaxStable team has both underlying algorithm R&D and engineering implementation capabilities. The technical scheme directly hits the real pain points of the industry, and the commercial implementation path is clear. It is a scarce high-quality start-up enterprise of engineering embodied intelligence in China. In the future, the capital will continue to empower the enterprise’s R&D, mass production and market expansion, and help domestic high-altitude intelligent equipment achieve technological breakthrough and industrial popularization.
At present, relying on the support of this round of financing, MaxStable will accelerate the construction of laboratories and production lines, continuously iterate the AI engineering intelligent brain, and implement more benchmark projects in wind power and chemical industry. Taking the fertile industrial land of Ningbo as the starting point, the enterprise will continue to deeply cultivate the cutting-edge track of engineering embodied intelligence, use independent and controllable intelligent equipment to protect the safety of high-altitude operations, and inject scientific and technological innovation momentum into the digital transformation of the trillion-level stock market of infrastructure maintenance across the country.
Wind turbine blade robot maintenance
Deterministic engineering intelligence is applied to high-altitude operations
