Syrebo: Bridging In-Hospital and At-Home Rehabilitation with Premium Robotics to Unlock a Trillion-Yuan Market

In recent years, driven by the aging trend and policy support, the rehabilitation robot industry has been booming. Meanwhile, with the gradual improvement of the three-level rehabilitation system and the awakening of patients' rehabilitation awareness, the application scenarios of rehabilitation robots have started to expand from within hospitals to outside, and the C-end consumer market is full of potential.

AsA Pioneer in Bridging the In-Hospital and Out-of-Hospital Rehabilitation Robot Markets, SIYI INTELLIGENCE recently announced the completion of a nearly 100-million-yuan A-round financing, itsThe product has entered more than 3,000 medical institutions and over 50,000 households in more than 80 countries and regions, serving millions of people worldwide., one of the rehabilitation robot companies with the largest known number of users. Regarding the company's differentiated growth, Yin Ganggang, founder and general manager of SIYI INTELLIGENCE, has his own unique strategic vision.

"Rehabilitation is a significant issue that concerns the entire society. Compared to clinical medicine, which focuses on treating diseases and saving lives, rehabilitation places more emphasis on improving the quality of human life. In addition to in-hospital rehabilitation treatments, it's crucial to fully consider patients' rehabilitation needs after discharge. Rehabilitation robots that meet the full rehabilitation cycle needs of patients can address both their physical and psychological requirements, allowing them to live with greater dignity." Yin Gangang believes that enterprises should take the initiative to shoulder social responsibility by deeply exploring patient needs.

According to statistics from The Lancet, China has up to 460 million patients with full-cycle rehabilitation needs. However, most rehabilitation products in the industry are limited to hospital settings. After a short period of rehabilitation treatment during the acute and recovery phases within hospitals, many patients are discharged with varying degrees of sequelae, leaving a significant rehabilitation gap outside the hospital. At the same time, with the aggravation of aging, the introduction of the "9073" elderly care model, policy encouragement, and increased investment, rehabilitation scenarios are expanding from hospitals to communities and homes.

"SIYI INTELLIGENCE's original intention is to meet the rehabilitation needs of patients throughout the entire cycle, achieving the vision of everyone having access to innovative rehabilitation services."To meet the full-scene layout of in-hospital and out-of-hospital settings, rehabilitation robot products must also become more comfortable, portable, intelligent, and highly interactive."This means that we have to take on greater challenges." Yin Ganggang was determined to make the product the best it could be.

Since 2017, Yin Ganggang has led his team to explore the rehabilitation robot industry. SIYI INTELLIGENCE focuses on the neurorehabilitation field where the needs of rehabilitation patients are more defined. In its early development stage, the company concentrated its efforts on creating a hand function rehabilitation robot, which became SIYI INTELLIGENCE's first breakout product.

It is worth mentioning that, at that time, most of the similar products in the industry were concentrated in rigid exoskeleton hand function rehabilitation robots. However, the movement of human hands driven by rigid structures has disadvantages such as heavy self-weight and poor adaptability. SIYI INTELLIGENCE, on the other hand, adopts flexible technology for the research and development of hand function rehabilitation.Integrating flexible pneumatic robot technology, electromechanical technology, and artificial intelligence technology, simulating the function of human muscles, with characteristics such as bionic, lightweight, and safe. It can provide various training modes including passive, assistive, resistance, bilateral mirror, voice control, and active gaming, covering the full-cycle rehabilitation needs of patients from the flaccid paralysis stage to the recovery stage.

In order to improve patient compliance and user experience, SIYI INTELLIGENCE made hundreds of detailed adjustments during the design phase of the hand function rehabilitation robot, addressing issues such as one-hand wearability and comfort during movement. Only after achieving an ultimate product experience was it officially launched in the market in 2019.

Compared with the traditional direct sales in hospitals, SIYI INTELLIGENCE has adoptedLarge-scale trial within the hospitalThe special model. Because Yin Ganggang firmly believed that only through the personal experience and recognition of doctors, rehabilitation therapists, and patients could the product truly open up the market. The subsequent success of the hand function rehabilitation robot entering 3,000 medical institutions and receiving a large amount of positive feedback also proved the success of this sales approach.

As hand function rehabilitation products gradually gain clinical recognition, Yin Ganggang has never forgotten the huge demand gap for out-of-hospital rehabilitation. "Neurological rehabilitation is a very long process, and the key lies in out-of-hospital rehabilitation." When discussing the understanding of the C-end market, Yin Ganggang said: "SIYI INTELLIGENCE's home rehabilitation robots have entered tens of thousands of families, and this is just the entry-level quantity."The scale of the off-hospital rehabilitation market will be thousands of times larger than that of the in-hospital market.。” 

Compared to those used in hospitals, home rehabilitation robots have more stringent requirements for products, with deeper considerations needed in terms of function integration, data monitoring, performance stability, and operational difficulty.B-end focuses on functional parameters, while C-end places more emphasis on user experience, with functional design and quality control directly impacting brand image.

Based on such market insights, SIYI INTELLIGENCE has gained a first-mover advantage and a unique strategic layout in the C-end market. As early as 2017, SIYI INTELLIGENCE launched a home-based rehabilitation robot, but products without clinical approval and hospital endorsement are hard to convince consumers to pay for.C-end rehabilitation robot products also need to be validated by the B-end first.SIYI INTELLIGENCE adheres to the principle of driving home scenarios with medical scenarios, launching professional-grade rehabilitation robots for home use.

After three years of technical沉淀 and clinical resource accumulation, in 2020, SIYI INTELLIGENCE successfully launched a home-use hand function rehabilitation robot product. The home-use product retains the core functions of the medical version and incorporates corresponding innovations based on the usage environment; for example, hospital-end products require a dedicated screen, while in a home setting, connection can be made via TV or mobile phone. Meanwhile, Yin Ganggang led his team to focus extensively on product miniaturization, detailed interactions, and operational convenience.

After the initial clinical experience of patients, the promotion of home-use products has been very smooth and successful, allowing patients to "naturally" transition from clinical settings to out-of-hospital rehabilitation. Meanwhile, SIYI INTELLIGENCE continues to strengthen public awareness of rehabilitation, promote the dissemination of rehabilitation knowledge and concepts, and consistently carry out public welfare activities such as science popularization and innovation contests.

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe, hindering market promotion in the medical device industry. However, SIYI INTELLIGENCE did not stop its progress. The company invited experts such as Academician Jian'an Li, Huashan Hospital, and Professor Jie Jia, Chair of the Chinese Hand Function Rehabilitation Committee, to conduct a series of lectures, clinical trial activities, online academic popularization, and market education. The pandemic drove a surge in demand for home rehabilitation, which also promoted the development of SIYI's home hand function rehabilitation products to a certain extent, leading to explosive growth in e-commerce business.

"Let good products go global." Yin Gangang believes that it is imperative for products to enter overseas markets. "The successful clinical applications both in and outside of China have laid a solid foundation for us. Even before the company officially entered overseas markets, foreign users had already sought to purchase our products, proving that good products are being recognized globally."

Original ProductAndMarket AccessThese are the two key factors for product globalization. SIYI INTELLIGENCE's original soft robot boasts a comprehensive patent layout and cutting-edge technology, having obtained certifications such as FDA, CE, and NMPA. The company collaborates with the most professional and largest distributors in various countries to promote its products. Currently, SIYI INTELLIGENCE's rehabilitation robot products have covered Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe, entering more than 80 countries and regions including Germany, Japan, and Singapore, reaching over 50,000 families, and serving millions of people worldwide.

The ultimate product combined with forward-looking market insights has enabled SIYI INTELLIGENCE to achieve a breakthrough from 0 to 1. Yin Ganggang is still contemplating what more needs to be done.

Research and development of new technologies and products are always at the core of progress. Driven by innovation, two globally pioneering products have emerged: the brain-computer interface soft robotic hand function rehabilitation robot and the lower limb soft exoskeleton robot.

At the end of 2021, SIYI INTELLIGENCE launchedThe world's first brain-computer interface soft robotic hand function rehabilitation robot (Brain-Computer Interface Rehabilitation Training and Assessment System) can monitor patients' brain signals and analyze these signals to determine the intention of the affected hand, converting the signals into movement. This achieves "sensory-control" bidirectional closed-loop neural stimulation, gradually restoring motor function to the paralyzed hand.。

This product enhances rehabilitation efficiency and experience in multiple dimensions. From the therapist's perspective, it reduces workload through intelligent systems and scale assessments; from the patient's perspective, it strengthens human-computer interaction, allowing patients to complete rehabilitation exercises independently with the help of voice guidance, providing them with a greater sense of achievement and satisfaction during the rehabilitation process.

At the same time, SIYI INTELLIGENCE took the lead in launching the first domestically produced lower limb soft exoskeleton robot in China, which combines bionic structural design and artificial intelligence control algorithms. It avoids the rigid and mechanical movement forms of rigid exoskeletons, while featuring strong adaptability and providing more optimized walking assistance strategies.

Moreover, the soft exoskeleton robot has a wide range of applications, not limited to stroke patients, but also extendable to individuals with cerebral palsy, Alzheimer's disease (senile dementia), multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and elderly people with mobility issues, indicating a large market potential. Through design optimization and supply chain improvement,The price of this product has been controlled to the ten-thousand-yuan level., which can better meet the rehabilitation needs outside the hospital.

In addition, SIYI INTELLIGENCE has also launched the YiSheng Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robot, an economical and portable upper limb rehabilitation robot that uses an omnidirectional mobile chassis and high-precision optical positioning technology. The product was jointly developed by SIYI INTELLIGENCE and Professor Jia Jie from Huashan Hospital Affiliated with Fudan University, targeting stroke patients. This is the only upper limb rehabilitation robot in China that can be used throughout the entire cycle in hospitals, communities, and homes.

Driven by the popularity of its hit products, SIYI INTELLIGENCE has formed a more complete product matrix, achieving healthy development. In addition to the in-depth innovation of its products, the companyGradually extending from rehabilitation robots and intelligent rehabilitation products to rehabilitation services, forming an integrated intelligent rehabilitation solution aimed at connecting hospitals, communities, and homes., to meet the rehabilitation needs of different scenarios.

According to Yin Ganggang's introduction, the brand name of SIYI INTELLIGENCE originates from the legend of Hou Yi shooting the suns. "Si Yi" refers to Hou Yi, representing a spirit of fearlessly facing challenges and benefiting the people. Hou Yi shot the suns with his arrows for the welfare of the common people. Similarly, SIYI INTELLIGENCE hopes to help patients access full-cycle rehabilitation both inside and outside medical institutions through its state-of-the-art intelligent rehabilitation robot products and services, achieving better rehabilitation outcomes. At the same time, it aims to practice the spirit of Hou Yi and contribute to the cause of human health.

In the future, SIYI INTELLIGENCE will continue to focus on neurological rehabilitation and extend its reach into the broader rehabilitation field. It is committed to building an Internet-based rehabilitation platform that integrates "smart hardware + services + AI" to cover the entire rehabilitation cycle both inside and outside medical institutions. In terms of rehabilitation robot products, SIYI INTELLIGENCE is continuously advancing research in miniaturization and home-use applications while strengthening R&D in soft exoskeletons, artificial intelligence, motion intention recognition, and digitalization. Furthermore, the company adheres to a strategy of "going global and bringing in," providing users worldwide with smarter, more accessible, and more professional rehabilitation robots while incorporating advanced rehabilitation concepts from abroad to further promote industry development.

Yin Ganggang also formulated a "Three-Year Development Plan" for SIYI INTELLIGENCE.Promote SIYI INTELLIGENCE's rehabilitation robot products and services to 50,000 institutions, serving 1 million patients.。

In summary, rehabilitation robots are developing towards miniaturization, intelligence, and personalization, and the out-of-hospital market is becoming a new growth point for the industry. Yin Ganggang believes that China has the largest rehabilitation demand globally, with tremendous room for industry development. As one of the rehabilitation robot companies serving the most users, SIYI INTELLIGENCE has always been committed to producing professional-grade rehabilitation robot products. The company has an obligation to further enhance the standardized application of intelligent rehabilitation, set an industry benchmark, ensure that rehabilitation needs are met throughout the entire cycle, and create greater social value.

"The rehabilitation industry is a lifelong career. The original intention of establishing SIYI INTELLIGENCE is to enable everyone to enjoy innovative rehabilitation services. These numerous unmet rehabilitation needs will inspire our entire team to shoulder the mission and keep striving."