Technology - ATRenew

Proprietary Technologies

In 2017, ATRenew began construction of an automated operation system and completed an automated transportation, quality inspection, sorting and storage system of non-standardized pre-owned electronic products in Changzhou. This innovation has completely redefined our industry, traditionally plagued by low efficiency and high cost due to labor-intensive manual quality inspection.

Technology Updates

Dongguan Automation Operation Center of ATRenew

Oct 9, 2022

Dongguan Automation Operation Center of ATRenew is officially put into use. The center is composed of three systems: automated transporting system, quality inspection system and warehousing system. It innovatively adopts digital management kits and undertakes the tasks of transportation, sorting, quality inspection, storage and delivery.

Camera Box 3.0

Mar 21, 2022

Manual inspection, the traditional quality check method, lacks efficiency and accuracy. To solve this problem, ATRenew independently upgrades its proprietarily developed intelligent mobile phone appearance inspection device to “Camera Box 3.0”.

The Camera Box 3.0 is integrated with an artificial intelligence algorithm. It only takes 20 seconds to precisely detect more than 30 types of appearance defects on a mobile phone, with an accuracy rate of over 99%. The quality inspection time is reduced by 90% compared with manual inspection.

Advanced Back-end Processing Capabilities

Digital management kits and brand-new automated equipment are applied to further reduce costs and increase efficiency in transportation, sorting, quality inspection, storage, and other links, and to transform the industry into an intelligent, systematic, large-scale and low-carbon one.

Camera Box module for appearance inspection

007 module for function inspection

X-Ray module for dismantling and repairing inspection

Camera Rubik's Cube module for sales photo shoot

Camera Magic Mirror module for screen inspection

AGV (automated guided vehicle) for automatically transporting, loading and unloading products

Automated shunting system

Sorting system

Storage system

Data-driven Pricing Algorithm

Our smart pricing system, backed by big data and AI algorithms, ensures fair pricing for device recycling and transactions on our platform. Pricing is automatically determined by our central database, based on device physical condition, market demand, depreciation, and other factors that impact retail value. Leveraging these technological capabilities, we create industry benchmarks for pricing, consumer experience, and higher-efficiency transactions.

Inspection Technologies

Device Hero (机大侠), an intelligent inspection tool

Device Hero is our proprietary inspection terminal. Roughly the size of a power bank, Device Hero helps small merchants inspect devices and determine functionality, battery life, the need for parts replacement and many other key features of pre-owned devices. Device Hero automatically begins device inspection once plugged in. After inspection, it transfers the results back to our big data platform for pricing and quality assessment.

Self-service mobile phone recycling kiosks

Consumers place their mobile phones into the MTA, self-service recycling kiosk, by simply following the user instructions. Within two minutes, the device is inspected and a fair sale price is displayed on the kiosk. If consumers are satisfied with the price and confirm their desire to recycle the device, they receive payment instantly. These kiosks are installed throughout our AHS store network and at various other locations, including major phone retailers throughout the country.

AiQingChu (爱清除), our proprietary data wiping technology

To address user concerns about information security, we independently developed AiQingChu, a system that swiftly and thoroughly erases user data. Repeated overwriting and wiping of the recycled mobile phones, tablets and laptops, prevents user data leakage and mitigates the risk of malicious recovery of user data during the circulation process.