The development of robotics in China has increased by nearly 70% in 2017

The transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry structure, the continuous increase in labor costs, and the structural shortage of labor force have all become the driving forces for the development of the industrial robot industry. The era of the development of China’s robotics has come.

As the world's largest industrial robot application market, “In recent years, the industrial robot industry has maintained a rapid growth, and the growth rate is particularly outstanding in 2017. It is expected that the annual output will exceed 120,000 units and the scale will account for about one-third of global production. Luo Junjie, deputy director of the Department of Equipment Industry at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, announced at the China Robot Industry Development Conference held in Chongqing recently.

The "China Robot Industry Development Conference" is sponsored by the China Robotics Industry Alliance and is the most authoritative, most international, professional and industrialized annual industry conference in the Chinese robotics industry.

“In the past, we focused on three-axis and four-axis, or focused on the steel frame type. Now, multi-joint has occupied a major position, which is an increase of 7 percentage points compared to the same period of 2016. This is the sales of domestic key robots from 2015 to 2017. According to the growth data, it can be seen that the country’s industrial policy is gradually playing a guiding role. Through domestic growth and market optimization, it has gradually begun to develop into excellent and high-end robots.” January 4, 2018, China Robotics Industry Alliance Chairman of the board, Qu Daokui, president of Shenyang Xinsong Robot Automation Co., Ltd. pointed out.

Yield growth of nearly 70%

“China will account for 40% of the global robot market in 2020 and will have an increase of 20%-25% annually from 2018 to 2020. China’s market potential is very large. It is estimated that by 2020, China will have the demand for 210,000 robots. "Zhou Chunhua, Deputy General Manager of the Aston Group, said at the China Robot Industry Development Conference.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, from January to November 2017, the output of industrial robots in China reached 118,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 68.8%, and it is expected that the annual output will exceed 120,000 units.

The rapid growth of the industry scale has benefited from the continuous diversification of the robot application scenario.

Industrial robots have even entered the ancient Chinese brewing industry. On December 19, 2017, at the Luzhou-flavor culture cultural summit held in Yibin Jiudu, from the worker to the factory director, the honorary chairman Wu Liangye of more than 60-year-old Wang Guochun mentioned that the things of his ancestors could not be changed and winemaking was an individual force. live. How to make high-quality Luzhou-flavor liquor, the temperature stability of medium-temperature fermentation is very important, and now it is entirely up to the person. Technological equipment should be improved. Intelligent robots can ensure stable technology. Luzhou-flavor liquor is more urgent than other flavor liquors.

In response, Xu Jianshui, chairman of Wuhan Jinjin Intelligent Machine Co., Ltd., stated that the company has been a general-purpose robot since the establishment of the company for a few years and has been a four-axis and five-axis robot. Now it has begun to brewing Chinese traditional liquor. "It's not the handling or the palletizing. It's a special brewing robot. In 2016, we made 50-60 sets, which are now in the process of promotion." He said.

"How should Chinese robots develop? Still need to grasp new fields. In these areas make new processes, new ideas, and provide integrated overall solutions through robots." Shen Xiandong, general manager of Zhuhai Gree Robot Co., Ltd. in the Chinese robotics industry The development conference said.

“In the past, robot applications were mainly concentrated in high-end industries such as automobiles. Nowadays, robots are almost everywhere in the manufacturing industry. This is the basis for the future of the robots that can really break out,” said Qu Dao-kui.

Not only the food and beverage industry including liquor industry, Luo Junjie introduced that industrial robots have been widely used in hardware, sanitary ware, furniture, chemical and pharmaceutical industries after automobiles and electronics. In addition to recreational scenes such as emotional entertainment and family escorts, service robots and special robots are also widely used in medical rehabilitation, rescue and other professional scenes. "Xiao medical" robot passed the national practice examination of clinical practitioners, a new generation of orthopaedic robots reaching the advanced level in the country.

According to statistics, in 2017, domestic industrial robots have served 37 categories of the national economy and 102 industries. From the viewpoint of sales volume, the automobile manufacturing industry, computers, communications and other electronic equipment manufacturing, general equipment manufacturing, and electrical The largest number of industrial robots was used in the machinery and equipment manufacturing industry, accounting for 17.3%, 15.1%, 13.4%, and 10.2% of the total sales volume of domestic industrial robots in the first half of 2017, respectively.

Standard system to be improved

“We have made gratifying breakthroughs in the key components and key technologies of domestic robots.” Luo Junjie said that voice recognition, image recognition and other technologies have reached the international advanced level, robot body optimization design and performance evaluation, high speed, high precision Control and other technologies have made progress. The controller and servo motor have reached the international level. The RV reducer realizes high-volume applications. We have helped reduce the output of the reducer to exceed 500,000 units, ranking second in the country.

Qu Dao-kui pointed out that the Chinese robotics industry is gradually beginning to develop toward outstanding and high-end robots.

However, the robot industry development plan (2016-2020) pointed out that although China's robotics industry has made great progress, but compared with industrialized countries, there is still a wide gap. In addition to the lack of key links in the robot industry chain, robot standards, testing and certification systems need to be improved.

On May 22, 2017, the National Standards Committee, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued the "Guidelines for the Construction of a National Robot Standards System". On October 25, 2017, "China Robot Standardization White Paper" (hereinafter referred to as " White paper ") released. The White Paper provides reference and guidance for China's robotic standardization strategy and planning, and provides scientific basis for the establishment and development of China's robot standards.

On November 4, the "Standardization Law of the People's Republic of China" was published, and one of the revised contents of the "Standardization Law" was to give the group a standard legal status and to increase the effective supply of market standards. This brings convenience to the development of robot standards.

At the end of 2017, 21st Century Business Herald reporter was informed at the scene that at the 2017 China Robot Industry Development Conference, 3 robot alliance standards were released, including “Safety Requirements for Flying Robots”, “General Requirements for the Safety of Helping Old Disabled Children” and “Industrial with Vision” General technical requirements for robot systems.

As early as 2016 China Robotics Industry Development Conference, China Robotics Industry Alliance released three standards, namely "General Technical Conditions for Arc Welding Robot Systems", "General Technical Conditions for Fixed Weight Filling Robots," and "Industrial Robots cable". Among them, the "General Technical Specifications for Heavy Duty Filling Robots" has been approved by the National Standards Committee and will be issued as a national standard.

At the 2017 China Robotics Industry Development Conference, Tian Zhaoying, deputy director of the Industry Standards Division 2 of the National Standardization Management Committee, said: “For the construction of the robot standard system, we have defined the two phases of the goal. The first phase to 2018 requires preliminary improvement of standards. The system will establish about 60 national and industrial standards. The second phase will form a relatively complete standard system by 2020, and about 100 national and industrial standards will be established."