How does the industrial robot inflection point burst into a revolutionary turmoil?

As a hot spot of investment in China in recent years, industrial robots have been receiving much attention and the market is also rising. In the past, affected by factors such as parts supply, related technologies and processing technology, industrial robots in China's market were basically occupied by foreign robot brands, and domestic robot companies could only compete in the remaining 8% of the market. With the gradual improvement of China's industrial robot industry chain, domestic industrial robots have gradually stepped onto the market stage.

The market has huge potential

However, from the current market situation, China's industrial robots are still in the early stage of development. The cost of domestic industrial robots is subject to the high import premium of core components, and it is still difficult to fully improve in the short term; the density and possession of industrial robots in China It is far lower than the developed countries; the degree of automation in China's manufacturing industry is still at a relatively low level, and there is still a big gap from the developed countries. Therefore, in general, there is still a certain distance between the level of industrial robot technology and its engineering application in China, and the problem is coming. Under the huge cost gap with foreign countries, how should the industrial robot market in China break out?

It is gratifying to note that the current Chinese industry is facing a transformation and upgrading, labor costs are rising and robot production costs are falling. The domestic robot industry is facing an inflection point of accelerated growth. The domestic equipment manufacturing industry is in the period of transition from traditional equipment to advanced manufacturing equipment, which brings huge business opportunities to robotic automated production line research and development; artificial substitution and industrial upgrading are considered to be the driving factors driving the rapid development of China's industrial robot market. At the same time, China's current robot density (the number of robots per 10,000 production workers) is relatively low, which also provides room for future market development; at the same time, local governments are also actively introducing relevant preferential policies to support the development of the robot industry. For example, the robot industry park can use land for free, plus capital subsidies, and each can even get a 20% subsidy. This also prompted China's industrial robot industry to embark on the fast lane, the sales growth of self-owned brand industrial robots is strong, and the prospects are highly promising.

Driven by the huge market prospects, industrial robots will present three major development trends in the future.

Collaborative robots become hot in the industry

With the increasing popularity of robots, the original operators should be freed from simple labor positions and engaged in more complex management, design, technology development and maintenance work, which are more suitable for human work. mode.

It can be seen that the collaborative robot represents the latest trend in the development of robots, because it can better adapt to the requirements of the industry in terms of flexibility and perception of robots, and the flexibility, adaptability and problem-solving ability of humans and robots. The combination of strength, durability and accuracy of motion brings model innovation to the production and assembly process. This allows Chinese robotics companies to see the opportunity to “get rid of the role of followers”. China's collaborative robots are welcoming the opportunity of “overtaking”. .

Robots will become more and more intelligent

A very important trend in the future is that robots will become more and more "high IQ." Nowadays, many robots are constantly changing in terms of cost and technology, becoming more and more intelligent and more in line with the needs of production and life.

The perception of robots used in the industrial field has always been on the robotic arm for simple repetitive work. At present, information technology such as microelectronics, big data, cloud computing, mobile internet provides a powerful guarantee for the intelligent development of robots. The robot can sense changes in the external environment through the camera and sensor, and can obtain superior computing processing power through powerful computer processing power and big data and cloud computing technology.

With these advanced information technologies, robots will become smarter, more humane, and more in line with people's production and life needs.

3C industry development momentum is rapid

At the same time, in the future, with the gradual wide application of industrial robots, the traditional 3C manufacturing industry will also develop from labor-intensive to technology-intensive.

As a labor-intensive industry, the 3C manufacturing industry has always used manual labor to repeat high-intensity labor. With the improvement of industrial automation, robots are gradually being applied to the 3C manufacturing industry, and robotics has brought efficiency to 3C manufacturers. In order to meet the increasingly stringent requirements for assembly and processing of electronic products, robots are also tailor-made, compact, and simplistic in accordance with the requirements of 3C manufacturing to achieve high-precision, high-efficiency production of electronic assembly. While improving product production efficiency, it reduces the footprint of equipment and reduces the cost of land for enterprises.

Although the current 3C industry's robot penetration rate is not enough, it also proves that the future market prospect is large, and it is a research and development direction worthy of grasping by robot companies.

Robot companies get together and small

However, while we are seeing the market prospects, there is one point that cannot be ignored: that is, under the policy urging, the number of Chinese local robot manufacturers has soared to nearly 1,000 in the past two years, but the main low-end and core technologies are scarce.

Although China has mastered the related technologies of industrial robots such as ontology design and manufacturing, control system software and hardware, and motion planning, the overall technical level is still far behind that of foreign countries. China lacks original and innovative ideas of core and key technologies. The technical gap between high-reliability basic functional components such as precision reducers, servo motors, servo drives and controllers is particularly prominent. Long-term dependence on imports has made it difficult for domestic robot products to Foreign product competition.

Therefore, there is no doubt that in the future, the robot industry will face enormous challenges in transforming and upgrading high-end new products that are intelligent, networked and human-machine coordinated. However, China's specific industrial structure and social needs will produce a corresponding robot demand structure, which also creates a huge market opportunity for the development of China's robot industry. The full-scale explosion of the robot industry is still promising.

FROST & Sullivan, a world-renowned consulting services company, recently released the 2017 Global Technology Trends Report: China is a big country with “super robots”. At the same time, China has become the world's largest robot market. In 2017, as the proportion of “humans and robots” continues to increase, China will exert its great potential in the field of robotics, making competitors “unreachable”.