Source: China Agricultural Machinery Industry
Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Education and other 17 departments issued the ""Robot +" Application Action Implementation Plan (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), proposing that by 2025, the density of manufacturing robots will double compared with 2020, the depth and breadth of application of service robots and special robots will be significantly improved, and the ability of robots to promote high-quality economic and social development will be significantly enhanced.
The "Plan" pointed out that in order to accelerate the expansion of robot applications, it was decided to carry out "robot +" application actions. The "Plan" clarifies the main objectives, proposes to focus on ten key application areas, break through more than 100 innovative robot application technologies and solutions, promote more than 200 typical application scenarios of robots with high technical level, innovative application mode and significant application results, create a number of "robot +" application benchmarking enterprises, and build a number of application experience centers and test verification centers.
The "Plan" clearly deepens the application of "robot +" in key areas, enhances the basic support capacity of "robot +" application, proposes to build a collaborative innovation system for robot production and use, build a "robot +" application experience and test verification center, accelerate the development and promotion of robot application standards, carry out industry and regional "robot +" application innovation practices, and build a "robot +" application supply and demand docking platform.
In agriculture, it has developed robots for land preparation, breeding and seedlings, seedlings, seeding, irrigation, plant protection, harvesting, sorting, inspection, milking, etc., as well as robot products such as feeding, cleaning, disinfection, disease prevention, environmental control, and animal product collection for livestock and poultry aquaculture. Develop special control systems, autonomous intelligent mobile platforms and operating components, promote the adaptation of robots to farmland, agronomy, and varieties, and realize online information perception, fine production control, unmanned autonomous operation, and efficient operation and maintenance management. Create agricultural robot application scenarios such as hilly mountainous areas, fields, facility horticulture, animal husbandry and aquatic products, storage, transportation and processing. Accelerate the intelligent transformation of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery infrastructure and production equipment, promote the deep integration of robots with agricultural planting, breeding, forestry and fishery production, and support the development of smart agriculture.
In recent years, with the acceleration of the digital transformation of agriculture, the development of agricultural robots in mainland China has also ushered in a highlight moment, becoming the core equipment for major agricultural enterprises to develop intelligent manufacturing. The "14th Five-Year Plan" robot industry development plan released at the end of 2021 has made it clear that it is necessary to accelerate the research and development and application of agricultural artificial intelligence, focusing on the development of agricultural robots such as orchard weeding, precision plant protection, picking and harvesting, livestock and poultry feeding, and silt cleaning. Some institutions predict that by 2026, the market size of the agricultural robot industry will reach 1.044 billion yuan.
Qiao Hong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and researcher of the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that mainland agriculture presents the characteristics of large population, more arable land and more crop types, but less labor and less arable land per capita, and opening up the interface between agricultural artificial intelligence and robots is expected to achieve better autonomous, efficient, accurate and low-cost agricultural application and development with Chinese characteristics.