The company, located in Shenzhen’s bustling tech hub Shenzhen, was fast expanding and approaching 1,000 employees. The company set out with a focus on agricultural robots, building tools like unmanned lawnmowers, orchard sprayers and feed pushing machines. The funding, the company said, will allow it to “grow its suite of robotics automation technology across agriculture, facility management, construction and gardening, along with supporting the increasing demand of the company’s ESG product offerings in over 60 countries.” Microsoft Azure is its main cloud partner outside China to allow “elastic deployment while meeting data privacy requirements such as GDPR.”“Our culture is that we don’t want the data,” Wu said.Unlike smartphones or drones that require sophisticated processors, FJDynamics’ products use relatively simple chips that could be found in China, so the firm is likely immune from the recent supply chain disruptions, the founder reckoned. Wu Di, founder and CEO of FJDynamicsIn 2019, Wu left DJI to start FJDynamics. FJDynamics provides the hardware and software while its local partners help deploy the “system” using the data.