The industrial robot market has been the first high-end application in the world for eight consecutive years

The development plan of robot industry in the 14th five year plan is brewing

The industrial robot market has ranked first in the world for eight consecutive years, and the installed capacity will account for 44% of the world in 2020; In 2020, the operating revenue of service robots and special robot manufacturing enterprises above Designated Size in China was 52.9 billion yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 41%. From September 10 to 13, the 2021 world robot conference was held in Beijing. The reporter of economic reference daily learned from the conference that at present, the scale of China's robot industry is growing rapidly and the comprehensive strength continues to increase. Under the background of the continuous release of intelligent demand in medical, elderly care, education and other industries, service robots and special robots contain great development potential.

At present, the robot industry has ushered in a window period of upgrading and leapfrog development, and more favorable policies will be further released. The reporter learned that the "14th five year plan" for the development of robot industry is being formulated. At the same time, relevant departments will further strengthen basic research and technical research, improve industrial innovation ability, promote 5g and big data integration applications, improve the level of robot intelligence and networking, increase the supply of high-end products, expand the depth and breadth of applications, and tap more market growth space.

The industrial growth momentum is strong

High end applications continue to expand

At present, the strength of China's robot industry continues to increase and the development momentum is strong. At the 2021 world robot conference, Xin Guobin, Vice Minister of industry and information technology, said that China's industrial robot market has ranked first in the world for eight consecutive years. In 2020, the installed capacity accounted for 44% of the world. From 2016 to 2020, China's industrial robot output increased rapidly from 72000 sets to 212000 sets, with an average annual growth of 31%.

With the continuous release of intelligent demand in medical, elderly care, education and other industries, service robots and special robots have great development potential. In 2020, the operating revenue of service robot and special robot manufacturing enterprises above Designated Size in China was 52.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 41%.

"The robot industry has increasingly become an important driving force supporting economic and social development. The robot industry continues to flourish, providing a strong driving force for sustainable economic and social development," said Xin Guobin.

At present, China's robot industry has made breakthroughs in key technologies and core parts, and its basic capacity has been continuously improved. A series of cutting-edge technologies and the latest achievements exhibited during the conference are a true portrayal of the innovation and development of robots in China.

For example, in the field of special robots, Li Yunji, robot R & D Engineer of CETC robotics Co., Ltd., told reporters that the anymal quadruped robot jointly developed by Swiss anybotics company and CETC robotics Co., Ltd. is equipped with lidar, camera, infrared sensor, microphone and other equipment, which can be used in high radiation areas, power plant inspection and other dangerous fields, Complete data collection and relevant environmental testing through remote control or independent operation. Similarly, Xinsong "tanlong" series snake arm robots have flexible movement and small arm diameter. They are suitable for detecting, grasping, welding, spraying, grinding, dust removal and other operations in complex narrow space and harsh environment. They can be applied in nuclear power, aerospace, national defense security, rescue and petrochemical industries.

Xin Guobin said that at present, the high-end applications of robots continue to expand. The intelligent operation technology and system of industrial robots have been successfully applied to many high-end manufacturing industries such as aviation, aerospace, shipbuilding, automobile and engine. Service robots and special robots have achieved breakthrough applications in high value-added service scenarios such as medical surgery, education services, security inspection and post disaster rescue.

Central and local governments speed up the layout

Intensive release of favorable policies

"The development of robot industry is an important symbol to measure a country's scientific and technological innovation and the level of high-end manufacturing industry. With the accelerated evolution of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial reform, and the deep integration of new generation information technology, biotechnology, new energy and new materials with robot technology, the robot industry has ushered in a window period of upgrading and leapfrog development," Xin Guobin said.

He also pointed out that China's robot industry is still in the initial stage of development, many key core technologies still need to be further breakthrough, high-end supply is still insufficient, and the industry application level needs to be further improved.

In view of the pain points and difficult problems in the development of the robot industry, a new round of policies are intensively released from ministries and commissions to local governments. Zhang Yuzhuo, Secretary of the Party group of China Association for science and technology, vice chairman in charge of daily work and first Secretary of the Secretariat, said that in the future development of robot science and technology and industry, we should strengthen basic research and technical breakthrough, improve the original ability, and constantly expand the breadth, depth, speed and accuracy of robot innovation. We should further strengthen the dominant position of enterprise innovation, promote the integration and mutual promotion of industry, University and research, strengthen the popularization of scientific and technological resources, and create a social atmosphere for the healthy development of industry.

Xin Guobin said that the Ministry of industry and information technology is taking the lead in formulating the development plan of the robot industry in the 14th five year plan, hoping to build China into a source of global robot technology innovation, a gathering place of high-end manufacturing and a new highland of integrated applications.

In terms of improving industrial innovation capability, the Ministry of industry and information technology will firmly grasp the development trend of robot technology, jointly break through common technologies such as robot system development, develop cutting-edge technologies such as bionic perception and cognition, promote the integrated application of new generation information technologies such as 5g, big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence, and improve the level of robot intelligence and networking.

In terms of increasing the supply of high-end products, the Ministry of industry and information technology will take the application demand as the traction, create new demand with new supply, and tap more market growth space.

All localities have also launched active layout. For example, Beijing said that it is accelerating the construction of an international science and technology innovation center, and the robot industry is one of the key areas. It will give full play to its scientific and technological advantages, support enterprises to carry out robot R & D and industrialization, promote the coordinated development of robot enterprises and intelligent manufacturing industry chain, and continue to create a good ecology for the development of robot industry. Gather all kinds of innovation elements with a market-oriented mechanism, stimulate innovation and creativity, and cultivate individual champions and industry leading enterprises.

Further expand the depth and breadth of application

In the view of the industry, with the rapid development and in-depth application of artificial intelligence, big data, 5g, intelligent sensing and other technologies, the next step is to further accelerate the evolution of robots to intelligence and expand the depth and breadth of robot applications.

Experts pointed out that the robot has mainly experienced three stages: the first stage is the automation stage. The second stage is the intelligent stage, that is, human-computer cooperation, environmental perception, data acquisition, human-computer interaction, etc. The third stage is autonomy. "At present, robots are mainly at the second level and have been gradually put into practice. The third stage is the autonomy to be developed in the next step, including cognition, learning, collaboration, scene, big data analysis, etc., which is currently being studied and has begun to be applied in small quantities." said Qu Daokui, founder and President of Xinsong Robot Automation Co., Ltd.

Wang Yaonan, academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering, said that the manufacturing industry has accelerated the promotion of the robot industry in the case of transformation and upgrading. At present, robots play an important role not only in the field of high-end manufacturing equipment, but also in major projects. In the future, robots will be developed in the direction of autonomy, better integration and multi machine cooperation. They are complete, intelligent, autonomous and networked control systems.

In fact, facing the actual needs of intelligent transformation and upgrading of various industries, robot enterprises continue to innovate products and solutions. Taking the domestic industrial robot as an example, it has been widely used in 47 industry categories and 129 industry categories.

Under the trend of accelerating the evolution to intelligence, the depth and breadth of robot applications are expected to be further expanded. The Ministry of industry and information technology said that it will actively promote the opening of robots to more application scenarios, further plough in the fields of automobile, electronics and other large-scale applications, meet the needs in the fields of mining, construction, agriculture and medical rehabilitation, and develop and expand new application products and solutions. At the same time, we will promote robot system integrators to develop advanced, applicable and easy to promote customized solutions for specific subdivision scenes, links and fields. Encourage user units and robot enterprises to jointly carry out technical experimental verification, support all parties to jointly build a robot application promotion platform, and promote the accurate docking between robot enterprises and the application industry. (reporter Guo Qian Zhong Yuan)

Source: Economic Information Daily