In many large city shopping malls, sweeping robots, mowing robots and educational robots have gradually become the “new darling†of consumers. Thanks to the rapid development of industrial robots, the scenes of zero manual handling and zero manual welding have been More and more enterprise workshops have become a reality.
China has become the world's largest consumer of robots, and domestic robotics companies are facing a "home" competition with multinational giants. As the "pear of the top of the manufacturing crown", how does the domestic robot industry rely on its own advantages to highlight the encirclement, lead the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, and slap the banner of "Made in China"?
Service robots are expected to "overtake"
According to the classification of the International Robot Federation, robots are divided into industrial robots and service robots. The development of the industrial robot market is relatively mature. The technical research in this field in Europe, America and Japan started early and accumulated deeply. At present, it occupies the vast majority of the industrial robot market at home and abroad. At the technical level, in addition to Shenyang Xinsong, Harbin Bosch and a few other domestic leading enterprises in some areas of industrial robot technology can break the monopoly of technology and reach the international leading level, most domestic robot companies are still in technology follow-up The position of the person.
"Industrial robot technology has been done abroad for decades, and China is still in the process of quantitative change. The market development of service robots at home and abroad is at the beginning stage, and the level is similar. Therefore, domestic robots should have more in this field. The opportunity is expected to 'curve overtaking'." Qu Daokui, president of Xinsong Robot Automation Co., Ltd. made the above judgment.
On August 19th, the reporter saw a mechanical dexterous hand in the robotic laboratory of Harbin Institute of Technology. It has 5 fingers, 15 joints, and has a tactile sense. It can be held without a broken egg and can be operated remotely. Jiang Zaonan, technical director and associate professor of Harbin Institute of Technology, said that the dexterous hand project is now the fourth generation of products, leading the international level of technology, and has won several international awards such as the first prize of EU technology transformation. "It will be very competitive in the field of robotic smart operation."
Xu Fang, dean of the Central Research Institute of Xinsong Robot Automation Co., Ltd., said that in the technology of service robots, the company has made breakthroughs after years of research. “Industrial robots only need to be fixed in an environment, but the service robots must walk autonomously in the space, avoid obstacles, and charge. This technology has been solved. The academic name is to build a map, which is actually a way of knowing.â€
Some companies are still in the low-end of the industry
Under the stimulation of favorable policies in the past two years, the domestic robot industry has presented an unprecedented scene of excitement. According to the data, in the first half of this year alone, there were thousands of robot companies registered in China, and more than 4,000 Chinese robot registration companies.
"Although the number of domestic robot companies has gone up, the quality is still not good. Compared with the giants abroad, the vast majority of domestic robot companies are just 'small sailboats'." Xu Fang said.
Wang Zongyi, chairman of Harbin Xingjian Intelligent Robot Co., Ltd., has been focusing on the research and development of domestic intelligent welding robots for more than 20 years. He said in an interview: "China's robotics companies are too small, and the robot project is heavily invested and the cycle is relatively long. Ours Enterprises do not have this accumulation. The state has been calling for companies to become the main body of R&D, but such a small volume cannot be achieved."
In addition, information from the China Robotics Industry Alliance shows that in 2014, foreign-invested industrial robot companies used their technology, quality and other advantages to account for more than 70% of the domestic industrial robot market, and the products are mainly high-end industrial robots, while domestic enterprises Sales accounted for only 30% of the total, and its products are mainly in the low-end of the industry.
Qu Daokui said that the prospect of the robot market is indeed vast, but if the low-end expansion of homogenization continues, and the pursuit of high-end breakthroughs, the future result of domestic robots can only be that others "eat meat" and we "drink soup."
Say goodbye to small and weak, rely on cluster development
"Foreign robotics companies are just a dozen giants. We cannot rely on small enterprises and small money to develop the robot industry." Qu Daokui believes that China needs a large-scale robot enterprise. “This scale refers not only to the scale of the industry, but also to the comprehensive strength of the company.†In the “Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Development of the Industrial Robot Industry†issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in 2014, it is also proposed that by 2020, 3 to 5 international A leading company in competitiveness.
Based on this judgment, the Harbin Institute of Technology Robotics Group, which was established at the end of December last year, is regarded as an important step for domestic robots to integrate resources and take the group development model. Bai Xianglin, vice president of the group, said: “The basic idea of ​​Harbin Institute of Technology Robotics Group is: platform traction – full chain integration – innovation and entrepreneurship – cluster development, with the goal of creating a national-level robot and intelligent equipment innovation and entrepreneurship platform.â€
“The technological revolution is often accompanied by changes in the corporate model.†Qu Daokui believes that from the earliest industrial revolution to the present, the corporate model has changed from a factory model to a corporate model to a platform model. "The Internet era needs to be open, not to emphasize how much resources you have, but to emphasize how many resources you can schedule. So many companies become platforms, such as Apple, and even the manufacturing process is gone."
Qu Daokui said that Xinsong is implementing a large platform development strategy, hopes to open up the innovation chain platform, coordinate development with industry platforms and fund platforms, introduce more capital operations, and pay attention to the field of venture capital. "At present, the domestic maker space is mainly the finger maker, that is, the software maker. But with the development of the future technology, the new hardware era is coming, the robot will be the best combination of hardware and software."
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