China produced 366,000 industrial robots last year, a record high, according to a report by Beijing-based China News Weekly and Guangzhou-based 21st Century Business Herald. The output of service robots is 9,214,400 units, with a market size approaching 40 billion yuan (the same below).
In addition, in the whole year of 2021, the number of financing cases in China's industrial robot industry exceeded 90, and the financing amount exceeded 20 billion yuan.
According to public reports, the unmanned economy includes areas such as unmanned retail, autonomous driving and service robots, all of which have considerable room for growth. Take service robots as an example. In 2020, the sales of service robots in China reached 22.2 billion yuan, and it is expected to exceed 60 billion yuan in 2023. The market is in rapid growth.
The companies supplying robots in the Winter Olympics didn't take long to get started. Orion star was founded in 2016, 2018, cheetah mobile chairman and CEO, Orion star chairman Fu Sheng revealed that had seen the trend of the development of industrialization and informationization, intellectualized, technology of artificial intelligence to the underlying support, at the same time the combination of technology and services have imagination, then select throw themselves into the work of service robots.
According to public information, in 2021, nearly 30,000 Orion Sky robots will be on duty, serving more than 10,000 customers, with an average daily voice interaction frequency of more than 15 million and a total number of people served more than 300 million. In the severe epidemic and shortage of manpower overseas, Orion Sky has also expanded into France, Germany, the United States and other markets.
But as with many service robots, there are always questions about whether robots are smart enough. Ji siliang said that robots or AI are not mainstream in social development at present. They can only meet basic needs, such as delivery, epidemic prevention and cooking, and they only need to be programmed and not require too much computing power. If robots encounter mistakes, they tend to overreact and directly break down or do not respond, which is the current problem.
Ji Siliang, director of The Beijing Big Data Association, believes that technical problems are not the biggest. Problems in standards make it difficult to popularize robots on a large scale. On the other hand, high research and development costs will also slow the progress of commercial development.
Fu Sheng believes that it is not a matter of a day for a technology to be put forward from the principle, to the launch of the prototype, and finally to be productized. Behind the emergence of "black technology" is the support of a large number of details. At present, the hardware definition of service robot has been completed, followed by software and intelligence. He realized that global artificial intelligence is in its infancy, and it will take time for service robots to be popularized and market education to take a while. Perhaps how to improve service efficiency and reduce service cost will be the task to be completed in the next stage.
