At the 2023 World Robot Conference, all kinds of domestic robots were unveiled

Beijing, August 18 -- China Securities News published an article on 18 August entitled "Strengthening Independent Innovation Capabilities and Accelerating the Upgrading of the Robot Industry." The article said that the "InSight" underwater robot completed 5100 meters of seabed testing, and auxiliary rescue teams such as drainage robots and drones carried out flood relief tasks... The mainland robot industry has emerged a vivid picture of innovation and development.

On August 17, Xin Guobin, vice minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at the 2023 World Robot Conference Forum that China has become the backbone of the development of the global robot industry, and the robot industry is gradually approaching the critical point of change.

China Securities News reporters went to Wuhu, Shenzhen, Beijing and other places to investigate and found that giving full play to the advantages of industrial agglomeration, improving independent innovation capabilities, solving key common technical problems, accelerating the promotion of robot products in the high-end application market, and becoming the direction of upgrading the mainland robot industry.

Industrial agglomeration bears fruit

At present, the mainland has formed four major industrial agglomeration areas in the Bohai Rim region, the Yangtze River Delta region, the Pearl River Delta region and the northeast region.

In the Bohai Rim area, a group of enterprises with outstanding innovation capabilities have created characteristic brands of service robots. The reporter noticed that Yunji Technology food delivery robot has almost become the "standard" waiter in chain hotels such as Huazhu Group.

At the site of the 2023 World Robot Conference, the relevant person in charge of Beijing Yunji Technology Co., Ltd. told reporters that since its establishment in 2014, the company has completed six robot iterations and developed three generations of robot prototypes, accumulating experience in indoor positioning and navigation, robot movement, big data, etc., and improving technical strength. At present, the hotel market segment coverage reaches 90%, and is exported to 25 countries and regions overseas.

The Yangtze River Delta region has gathered a number of international leading enterprises, forming a relatively complete robot industry chain, and the output of industrial robots ranks in the forefront of the country. The person in charge of the market department of EFORT told China Securities News: "The company's robot products are widely used in photovoltaic, lithium battery and 3C electronics and other industries, and shipments are growing rapidly. At the same time, the company's characteristic products spraying robots and welding robots have good performance in small-batch, multi-variety manufacturing scenarios such as construction steel structures, shipbuilding, and containers. ”

According to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, in the first half of 2023, the output of industrial robots in mainland China reached 222,000 sets, a year-on-year increase of 5.4%, and the output of service robots reached 3.53 million sets, a year-on-year increase of 9.6%.

High-quality enterprises have developed and grown, and the industry has played a significant role in driving the industry. According to Xin Guobin, the strength of mainland robot leading enterprises has been continuously enhanced, and the annual sales of local industrial robot enterprises have successively exceeded 10,000 units, playing a good role in industrial driving. The development of small and medium-sized enterprises has also achieved positive results. The number of national-level specialized and special new "little giant" enterprises reached 273, and the number of single champion enterprises in manufacturing reached 10. In 2022, the financing amount in the field of robots will exceed 30 billion yuan, and high-quality robot enterprises will be recognized by the capital market.

Industrial agglomeration brings upstream and downstream synergies. Xin Guobin said that the technical level of key parts of mainland robots has been continuously improved, and reducers, controllers and servo system products have become increasingly rich. Among them, the RV reducer covers various load capacities such as small, medium and large, and enters the supply chain system of international leading enterprises.

Strong traction of scientific and technological innovation

The China Robotics Technology and Industry Development Report (2023) was released at the 2023 World Robotics Conference.

Xin Guobin said that the functional performance of mainland robot products has been continuously enhanced, and the speed, precision, reliability and load capacity of industrial robot products have gradually improved. The continuous improvement of the innovation chain has effectively promoted the high-end upgrading of the mainland robot industry.

Chen Ying, vice president and secretary general of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, introduced that Continental has accumulated a number of patent achievements in the technical directions of robot modularization and multi-task planning, intelligent control, information perception and navigation.

The person in charge of the marketing department of EFORT told reporters that the company's popular product "desktop robot" has the characteristics of high speed and high precision, and its positioning accuracy reaches ±0.02 mm, which is widely used in 3C electronics industry handling, detection, loading and unloading and other scenarios and teaching systems in the education industry.

Innovation drives robot products to the high-end application market.

In the workshop of the automobile main engine factory, the huge robotic arm is waving in the air, and the intersection of the body-in-white and the robotic arm is sparkling. "Automotive spot welding is a high-end field for industrial robot applications, and automobile manufacturing giants have always been keen to use overseas welding robot brands." Ma Cheng, industry manager of SIASUN Robot, said that the company continues to overcome technical difficulties, realize the application of automotive spot welding robot process, and has successfully promoted its own brand 210Kg load automotive spot welding robot to a number of automotive OEMs, achieving nearly 100 units put into production.

Chen Ying said that robots, as a carrier and platform of cutting-edge technologies, have accelerated the deep integration with cutting-edge technologies such as biotechnology, new materials, and brain-computer interfaces in recent years, which has a far-reaching impact on the morphological functions and application scenarios of robots.

The industry leaps forward and seeks development

As an important symbol to measure the level of national scientific and technological innovation and high-end manufacturing, the world's major economies regard the robot industry as an important means to enhance the competitive advantage of the manufacturing industry. "The robot industry is gradually approaching the critical point of change and leap, which contains huge investment opportunities and surging development momentum." Xin Guobin said.

At present, leading enterprises attach importance to global strategic layout and patent layout, enrich technical reserves, and improve the construction of industrial chain. Robot technology innovation competition is intensifying.

Chen Ying said that with the in-depth development of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, the robot industry has entered a period of intensive and active technological innovation and in-depth expansion of product applications. Agricultural production, industrial operations, life and health, life services, national defense and military fields have ushered in a new stage with robots as the key support.

The "14th Five-Year Plan" robot industry development plan proposes to strengthen cutting-edge common technology research, accelerate the transformation and transfer of innovation achievements, and build an effective industrial technology innovation chain. "At present, the mainland robot industry has some common technologies and key technical problems, and it is necessary to aggregate relevant research resources of the industry and academia, jointly carry out key research, form a joint force in the research and development of common technologies, and promote the high-end development of the industry." Chen Ying said.

Looking forward to the future, Chen Ying said that high-end, intelligent and ecological construction are the keywords for the future development of China's robot industry. New technologies accelerate integration and innovation breakthroughs, robot application scenarios continue to expand, large models will become the intelligent brain of robots, robots will promote the digital transformation of the industry, and the robot ecology will accelerate integration and symbiosis.