In the Tianjin Free Trade Zone, there is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the research, development, production, and sales of drones and related intelligent hardware and software. This company, Tianjin Feima Robotics Technology Co., Ltd., also provides comprehensive solutions for data acquisition, processing, and dissemination. Yao Na, COO of Feima Robotics, stated that the company is committed to providing customers with one-stop spatial data solutions, focusing on three major areas: aerial surveying and remote sensing, intelligent inspection, and public safety.
1. About Tianjin Feima Robotics Technology Co., Ltd.
Founded in December 2020, Tianjin Feima Robotics is located in the Tianjin Free Trade Zone and serves as a comprehensive base integrating R&D, production, supply chain, operations, services, and training. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Shenzhen Feima Robotics Co., Ltd., responsible for product development, supply chain management, production, and UAV pilot license training and testing. The company has established standardized facilities, including raw material warehouses, machining workshops, production lines, maintenance workshops, finished product warehouses, reliability labs, engineering labs, comprehensive sensor calibration labs, showrooms, and a UAV training center. With advanced equipment and a complete teaching and training system, it aims to accelerate the integration of production, learning, research, and application in the UAV industry.
“Tianjin Feima Robotics is a key technology development enterprise supported by Tianjin’s government. We began constructing the factory production line on August 4, 2021, and the first drone rolled off the line on January 12, 2022,” Yao Na explained. She further highlighted the company’s strategic products, including the 3D mobile scanning and measurement platforms SLAM100 and SLAM2000, which are globally sold and represent the development of locally born solutions from Tianjin. Currently, the company’s production capacity is stable at 3,000 to 5,000 drones annually, with over 10,000 successful flight operations per year. The company also trains over 2,000 people annually, including 200 under CAAC (Civil Aviation Administration of China) licensure programs.
With the support of various government agencies, Tianjin Feima Robotics has rapidly grown over the past two and a half years, achieving national high-tech enterprise certification and recognition as a technology-based small and medium enterprise. The company has also been certified as a "Hawk" enterprise in Tianjin and has obtained certifications such as DCMM, ISO9001, ISO14001, ISO45001, and ISO27001. Additionally, Tianjin Feima serves as the vice president of both the Tianjin Low-Altitude Economic Alliance and the Tianjin UAV Industry Association, and is a member of the Tianjin UAV and New Materials Alliance.
Feima Robotics has developed a unique series of mass-produced civilian drones, covering fixed-wing, multi-rotor, and vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) platforms. These 25 drone models range from 3 to 25 kilograms in weight, with payload capacities of 0.5 to 6 kilograms and flight durations of 1 to 4 hours. The drones can support more than 80 types of mission payloads, including orthophotography, oblique photography, LiDAR, multispectral, hyperspectral, dual-light video, and SAR. The company offers integrated hardware and software solutions for spatial data collection across key sectors, such as aerial surveying, intelligent inspections, and public safety, with applications in topographic mapping, land surveys, engineering reconnaissance, smart cities, power grid inspections, railway inspections, water conservation, forest fire prevention, maritime patrols, emergency response, and security surveillance.
2. Core Drone Technologies
“In terms of performance, compared to other drones in the industry, Feima drones stand out in endurance, wind resistance, flight altitude, and adaptability to high-altitude and large-elevation difference environments,” Yao Na explained. The company holds complete proprietary rights to the entire set of drone-related technologies, including aerodynamics, structure, electronics, power, payload, flight control, ground stations, cloud monitoring, and data processing.
Tianjin Feima has also developed an advanced "adaptive UAV flight control system for wide-area complex environments," which addresses key technological challenges such as multi-sensor fusion, real-time collaborative perception, integrated navigation, precise terrain following, wind speed estimation, and fault isolation diagnostics. This ensures stable and intelligent long-duration flight control for aerial surveying and remote sensing missions. The company is also researching real-time ground visualization and cloud monitoring systems, as well as multi-sensor remote image and LiDAR data processing technologies. These efforts help optimize flight route planning and real-time monitoring in complex environments, ensuring safe and accurate aerial data collection.
Moreover, Feima Robotics has contributed to technological innovations in the domestic drone remote sensing and geographic information fields, working alongside other civilian drone manufacturers. This has significantly enhanced the application level and capability of domestically produced drones, accelerating the industrialization of UAV remote sensing equipment and boosting its effectiveness in various sectors.
3. Future Development
The further deepening of reform and opening up in China has provided Tianjin Feima Robotics with an open market and competitive environment, allowing its products and applications to reach internationally advanced levels. Under the “Belt and Road” initiative, the company's drones are now in use across 54 countries and regions, benefiting from global engineering projects that demand high-efficiency, precision mapping, and geospatial data.
In recent years, Feima Robotics has supported China’s Antarctic scientific expeditions, becoming the only domestic UAV manufacturer to provide full-service drone solutions for these polar missions. Its drones have successfully collected large-scale aerial data during several Antarctic expeditions. In 2024, the University of Gothenburg in Sweden purchased two Feima VTOL drones for scientific research in the Amundsen Sea of West Antarctica, marking a significant international milestone for the company's products.
Yao Na emphasized that the company will continue to invest in research and development, focusing on technological innovation and breakthroughs in key performance metrics such as intelligence, efficiency, safety, and reliability. In the future, Tianjin Feima Robotics aims to expand further into international markets and enhance its global competitiveness.
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