Nowadays, the global economy has begun to change from the Internet to the direction of intelligence, the most prominent performance is that the application of industrial intelligence is more and more extensive, and in this field, Japan was once the world's unique hegemon, how did Japan do it?
Industrial intelligent robots are only emerging in China in recent years, but everyone may not know that as early as 37 years ago, Japan was already a world robot power, when the domestic economy had not yet developed to a high level, Japan had 100,000 robots.
Maybe people don't quite believe that 37 years ago was 1985, how could Japan have such a smart product at that time? But it is, but it is true, and the development of industrial robots in Japan is far more than 37 years.
In the 1940s and 1950s, after the war, Japan lacked adult labor, and in 1967, Japan introduced technology patents for intelligent industry from the United States, and in 1968, the Japanese Kawasaki Company created the country's first industrial robot.
Since then, the development momentum of Industrial Robots in Japan has been out of control, so that by 1985, there were 100,000 industrial robots in Japan.
At that time, the American scientific research institution that taught industrial robot technology to Japan said that "Japan has become a robot kingdom with the support of the United States."
Since then, with the impact of Japan's low fertility rate, industrial robots have increasingly become an irreplaceable product in Japan, and even in the 21st century, Japan has also taken robot manufacturing and export as an important channel for economic development.
By the beginning of 2021, Japan's Fanuc and Yaskawa Electric have successfully joined the ranks of the world's top 4 industrial robot companies, and monopolized global industrial robots with Kuka in Germany and ABB in Switzerland.
Perhaps we do not know much about the importance of industrial robots, with industrial robots, most industrial and manufacturing production lines no longer need a large number of labor to support, so that you can liberate manpower and develop other industries.
Most importantly, the accuracy and efficiency of industrial robots are far more than manpower, and they do not have to rest, eat and pay wages, which is of great significance to the development of national industry and manufacturing.
China has always been a populous country, and has also become a manufacturing power because of the huge scale of labor, but because manpower is far less efficient than robot manufacturing, Chinese manufacturing has always been hovering in some low-end areas.
In order to solve this problem, China began to spend time on independent research and development of industrial robots, and from 1985, when Japan formed a huge monopoly on the world, China's industrial robot research and development program was officially launched.
However, Japan has been controlling the world robot market share for many years, and even the technology of some high-end products has not been leaked, so that China's industrial robots have not made major breakthroughs.
However, fortunately, China's industrial system is complete and huge, and there is enough market to test and improve, so in 2014, The domestic monopoly was successfully broken for 29 years, and surpassed Japan in terms of production capacity and sales.
It is worth mentioning that at the end of the same year, Japanese industrial robot manufacturers were still waiting for Chinese companies to purchase products, and it turned out that most of China's factories had already used domestic products.
According to statistics, from 2014 to the end of 2021, China has won the first place in the production and sales of global industrial robots for 8 consecutive years, and in 2020 alone, China's industrial robots have obtained 44% of the world's installed capacity share.
In addition, the huge potential and advantages of the Chinese market have made the former global industrial robot 4 companies feel threatened, in order to avoid being excluded from the market, they took the initiative to choose to cooperate with China.
Japan's Fanuc felt China's strength keenly in 2014 and quickly built a factory in Baoshan.
In 2020, Japanese companies Yaskawa also spent 5 billion yuan to open factories in Jiangsu.
What is even more incredible is that the former German giant KUKA was even acquired by the domestic home appliance brand Midea in the fourth quarter of 2021.
According to Midea, due to the need to expand the production scale of the group's home appliances, it is necessary to expand the production line and production scale, and KUKA in Germany has rich experience in industrial manufacturing and is the best choice for Midea.
Since then, China has not only carried forward the industrial robot market, but also surpassed the former giants one by one, and even acquired them, so that the speed of progress is difficult for other countries in the world to match, and China's strength can also be seen.
What miracles will domestic robots create in the future? We'll see.