In 2012, South Korea announced the "Robot Future Strategic Outlook 2022", officially laying out the international market for robots;
In 2013, the United States proposed the "Robot Development Roadmap" to make long-term plans for the robot industry;
In 2015, the Japanese government officially announced the "New Strategy for Japanese Robots", which set the standard of scientific and technological innovation in the direction of robots.
In 2013, Zhejiang Province took the lead in launching the machine substitution action in China, and Dongguan City followed suit, promoting the machine substitution project in 2014.
Robotics has become an important indicator to measure a country's innovation ability and industrial competitiveness.
20 years ago, when it comes to robots, many people's minds will have those sci-fi blockbusters in the omnipotent "humanoid artifact", today, robots have entered all areas of people's work and life, up to aerospace, down to deep sea submersible, robots also into the workshop skilled assembly line operations, robots instead of underground workers down the "dark" world tirelessly implement coal mining operations, as well as sweeping, glass cleaning and other household robots, robots have become an indispensable member of work and life. In order to comply with the needs of national construction and the international development trend, in 2016 the Ministry of Education approved the establishment and focus on supporting the engineering major of "robot engineering", this robot-related major officially entered the university classroom, into people's field of vision, with the development of China's intelligent manufacturing, this major is more and more favored, becoming the darling of colleges and universities, the upstart of national high-tech development.
Robot engineering is a composite major that integrates new materials, new processes, new energy, positioning and navigation, cloud computing, big data, automation and other disciplines and technologies.
In recent years, the robot engineering major has focused on the attention of many universities at home and abroad, the first to intervene in the major, MIT, Stanford University is the preferred choice of robotics researchers, followed by the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University have successively added the master's program of the major, domestic universities are also eager to try, and strive to take the lead in this future technology highland. According to the statistical analysis of "2022 College Entrance Examination Big Data", by summarizing the change data of the college entrance examination in ten years, there are ten major rushing to the hot search, artificial intelligence has ranked first for three consecutive years, and the robot engineering major has also shined on the list, it can be found that from the country to the individual began to pay attention to cutting-edge technology majors, the choice of majors is increasingly inclined to technical and practical.
Robot engineering has been on the hot search for 10 years
As of 2022, 323 undergraduate colleges and universities in China have opened robotics-related majors, what is the strength distribution of robotics engineering majors in domestic universities? Which universities are already ahead of the curve in this major?
5th place: Northeastern University. In 2015, Northeastern University, together with the Shenyang Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shenyang Siasun Robot Company, jointly established the first School of Robotics Science and Engineering in 985 universities in China, and cooperated with MIT and Stanford to combine international teaching and industry-university-research. The school has built an unmanned aerial vehicle system platform, cloud robot platform, intelligent mobile robot, human-machine collaboration and other academic and research innovation platforms, and established 7 laboratory platforms such as bionic mobile robot laboratory, scientific research conditions and platforms are very good, and the research direction and characteristics are industrial robots.
Fourth place: Beihang University. Beihang University established a joint research center of intelligent technology and robotics as early as May 2014, with a research base such as the Institute of Robotics, and Beihang's research direction and focus in the field of robotics are modern mechanism, robotics and service robots, which is at the leading level in China.
Third place: Zhejiang University. One of the earliest universities in China to carry out undergraduate education in robotics. In 2002, the robot research and teaching practice base was established.
Features and features: Zhejiang University robot engineering professional features: first, long-term teaching has accumulated rich practical experience, second, relying on a number of scientific research institutions to provide support for teaching, third, pay attention to teaching competitions, "promote learning with competitions", and cultivate students' innovation ability.
Second place: Harbin Institute of Technology. Harbin Institute of Technology is an earlier university engaged in robot research in China, as early as 1986 established the Robotics Institute, but also has the State Key Laboratory, the National "863 Plan" Intelligent Robot Institution Network Open Laboratory, the National "863 Program" Achievement Industrialization Base, Sino-German Space Robot Technology Joint Laboratory and other research and practice platforms, known as the "Huangpu Military Academy of Robots".
Special advantages: Harbin Institute of Technology's research in the fields of space robots, micro-nano robots, medical robots, service robots, bionic robots and other fields is at the forefront in China and also has a certain status in the world. Harbin Institute of Technology has created the "three firsts" in China: the first arc welding robot, the first spot welding robot, and the first space on-orbit maintenance robot in mainland China.
First place: Southeast University. Southeast University is the first university in China to try the "robot engineering" major, and successfully filed the major in 2015, which opened the first shot of the university's research on robot engineering.
Features and advantages: In 2016, Southeast University took the lead in establishing a robot engineering major in the country and began enrollment; In 2021, the robot engineering major of Southeast University became the only institution in China selected as a national first-class undergraduate major construction point; In 2022, the robot engineering major of Southeast University was selected as the first batch of professional construction points of industry-education integration in Jiangsu Province, and in 2021 and 2022, the robot engineering major of Southeast University ranked first in the ranking of professional soft subjects of Chinese universities. Southeast University has developed the first robot in New China, published China's first robotics journal "Robot Technology", and independently developed a domestic controllable three-robot collaborative fixture-free welding system.
National and provincial key disciplines of Southeast University
Robot Engineering Professional Ranking 2022
Job prospects: Since 2012, China's robot market has grown at an average annual rate of 30%, becoming the world's largest robot market, and the robot market has great potential. With the improvement of automation and intelligence, robots have been applied to all walks of life, and the demand for coastal developed cities is even stronger, and Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen have become the three cities with the largest demand for robots in China.
From the perspective of salary, intelligent robots have higher salaries in smart homes, warehousing and logistics application positions.