Robot is known as "the pearl on the crown of manufacturing industry", and its research and development, manufacturing and application is an important symbol to measure a country's technological innovation and high-end manufacturing level.
In recent years, China's robot industry has developed rapidly. Despite the impact of the epidemic, China's industrial robot market still contributed about 40% of the global share in 2020, and remained the world's largest robot consumer for many consecutive years.
The continuous high application market demand has strongly stimulated technological innovation, product research and development, system integration, talent cultivation and public service system construction of the robot industry, and created a good ecological environment for the development of China's robot industry.
At present, China's robot market has entered a period of stable growth. Although there was a slight decline in the market size during 2019, the robot market showed a trend of accelerating recovery due to the first breakthrough of the impact of the epidemic. A large number of "contactless" services also provide a broader application space for robots.
01 China's robot market leads the world
It is the backbone to support the development of robot industry
It is understood that the size of China's robot market is expected to reach 83.9 billion yuan in 2021, with an average growth rate of 18.3% from 2016 to 2023. This included 44.57 billion yuan for industrial robots, 30.26 billion yuan for service robots and 9.07 billion yuan for special robots.
1. Industrial robots: Intelligent manufacturing is accelerating and upgrading, and the market size continues to grow
At present, the pace of digital and intelligent transformation construction of Chinese manufacturing enterprises is accelerating, which strongly promotes the rapid development of industrial robot market. According to IFR statistics, when the global robot market declined due to the impact of the epidemic in 2020, China's industrial robot market has begun to recover, with the number of installed machines increasing by 18.8% compared with 2019. It is estimated that in 2021, the scale of China's industrial robot market will reach 44.57 billion yuan, and by 2023, the scale of the domestic market will further expand and is expected to break through 58.9 billion yuan.
2. Service robot: Huge demand potential, market space continues to expand
China's service robot market will grow rapidly in 2020, with demand in medical, education and public services becoming the main driving force. Under the influence of market demand fluctuations, the market growth rate will be adjusted back in 2021. However, with the accelerating trend of population aging and the continuous strong demand for medical and public services, there is a huge market potential and development space for service robots in China, and the market size and overall proportion will continue to grow. China's service robot market is expected to reach 30.26 billion yuan in 2021, faster than the growth of the global service robot market. With the rapid development of emerging scenarios and products such as visual guidance robots and accompanying service robots, the market size of Service robots in China is expected to exceed 60 billion yuan by 2023.
3. Special robots: The application scenarios continue to expand, and the application market is poised for development
China has a vast territory, changeable climate, complex geological conditions, and obvious characteristics of diversified social development. In response to earthquake, flood disaster, extreme weather, as well as mining disaster, fire, security and other public safety events, there is an outstanding demand for special robots. China's service robot market has seen an average annual growth rate of 27.5 percent since 2016. In 2021, China's special robot market is expected to reach 9.07 billion yuan, with a growth rate of 36.3%, higher than the global level. By 2023, the domestic market size of special robots is expected to exceed 18 billion yuan.
02 Rapid breakthroughs in key robot technologies in China
Industrialization foundation and development environment continue to optimize
At present, China's industrial robot research and development to breakthrough robot key core technology as the primary goal, government, industry, university, research and use to cooperate, and constantly improve the speed reducer, controller, servo motor, operating system and other core links of domestic replacement rate. In addition, the intelligent and personalized level of service robots is rapidly improving, and the demand for special robots is constantly expanding, pushing China's robot industry to a new height of development.
1. Industrial robots: the localization of autonomous process is accelerated, and the application fields are expanded to more industries
The pace of the independence of core parts of industrial robots has accelerated significantly. As a typical representative of China's high-end manufacturing industry, industrial robots have focused on breakthroughs in key technical difficulties in recent years, and have successively overcome the common problems of "bottleneck" in the field of core parts such as reducer, controller and servo motor. The localization rate of core parts has been improving, and gradually formed an independent and controllable ecology of the whole industrial chain.
For example, Suzhou Green has mastered a number of core technologies of harmonic reducer, and has 9 invention patents and 72 utility model patents in the fields of new anti-wear materials, new lubrication technology, bearing optimization, tooth profile modification, and unique material processing. Qinchuan Machine Tool Group takes the lead to undertake the national science and technology major project "industrial robot joint reducer production line" project, has developed 5 kinds of robot joint reducer core parts special processing equipment, forming an annual output of 10,000 sets of industrial robot joint reducer capacity.
Build intelligent factories to expand the application range of industrial robots. The traditional application fields of industrial robots in China include automobile, 3C, household appliances, metal processing, plastic processing, food, tobacco and beverage industries. With the continuous deepening of the upgrading and transformation of the manufacturing industry, the pace of industrial Internet construction is accelerating, and the experience in the scheme design, architecture construction and construction organization of intelligent factories is becoming increasingly mature, creating a good application platform for industrial robots.
For example, Hubei Huaqiang Technology Co., Ltd. and Siasun Robot co., Ltd. cooperated to complete the overall layout of the smart factory of butyl rubber plug for COVID-19 vaccine bottles, realizing the intelligent control of production, logistics, warehousing and other processes, and achieving the development goal of intelligent logistics, production automation and maximum capacity.
2. Service robot: Intelligent technology is in the forefront of the world, and innovative products are emerging in large numbers
Intelligent related technology and the international leading level basically run. The integrated application of navigation and positioning, motion control, artificial intelligence and other core technologies is an important foundation for the intelligent development of service robots. In recent years, China's technology innovation and transformation of scientific research achievements in the field of artificial intelligence to speed up the progress, leading both algorithm, and scale and the quality of the construction of the application scenario is now among the world's highest, city level public service demand driven effect obviously, incubation produced a batch of have the typical intelligent robot innovation enterprise.
For example, Unibe developed humanoid service robot WalkerX, which uses U-SLAM visual navigation technology to realize autonomous path planning. Object detection and recognition algorithm based on deep learning can recognize faces, gestures, objects and other information in complex environments and accurately understand and perceive the external environment. Based on the ability of object recognition, sorting and operation, WalkerX can independently control refrigerator, coffee machine, vacuum cleaner and other household appliances. With the end compliance control technology, WalkerX can complete household tasks such as massage, bottle cap screwing, serving tea and pouring water. Meanwhile, it can also actively interact with users by using the built-in emotion analysis algorithm.
The epidemic has driven the demand for service robots and inspired many emerging scenarios. During the epidemic, face-to-face services have been greatly reduced, and demands for intelligent reception, unmanned delivery and unmanned retail have increased, bringing new development opportunities to service robots such as reception robots, delivery robots, new retail robots, temperature measuring robots and disinfection robots.
For example, yunji Technology Co., LTD., relying on the full chain artificial intelligence technology and the integration of software and hardware, has launched a variety of products such as heavy-duty delivery robot, restaurant service robot, hotel delivery robot and so on, integrating the two performance of interaction and delivery, widely used in chain restaurants, hotels and other scenes.
3. Special robots: Enterprises improve their independent research and development capabilities and develop general products for common needs
Take independent research and development as the core to achieve multi-point breakthrough. In recent years, China's special robot industry has developed well, innovative enterprises have accelerated the process of independent research and development, and the functionality and reliability of products have been greatly improved, which have been further promoted and used in security patrol, electric power inspection, explosion-proof fire fighting, pipeline detection, mining, underwater operations, military operations and other scenarios.
Intelligent patrol robot developed by emerging robot company, for example, in the military, Banks, such as enterprise park scene are applied, the launch of the police security patrol robot high solution fusion monitoring, security police, police patrol intelligent information system, such as auxiliary police in key areas and major activities perform tasks effectively, improve the incident response speed and efficiency.
Develop general standardized products for the common needs of complex scenes. China's special robots from scratch, varieties continue to enrich, the level of intelligence and environmental adaptability continue to improve, the application fields continue to enrich. The commercialization of special robots is very dependent on the requirements of the scene. Relatively vertical application fields have high requirements for product availability. Providing efficient and reproducible standardized products for the scene is the standard path for the commercialization of special robots.
Independent research and development, for example, its intelligence wheeled power inspection robot system, can assemble different function according to the actual demand, has the inspection, fire control, in addition to the different function such as ice, insulation coating, inspection, to cope with indoor and outdoor substation, transmission lines, underground tunnel pipe gallery a variety of scenarios such as demand, is a representative of the power in the field of robot standardized products, At present, large-scale production has been achieved.
Independent research and development and investment and acquisition of dual-wheel drive
The robot innovation application ecology is maturing
At present, China is in a historical opportunity period of manufacturing transformation and upgrading. The production capacity of high-end manufacturing industries such as semiconductors, display panels, intelligent consumer electronics terminals and new energy is steadily expanding. The trend of automation, intelligent and networked manufacturing is obvious, which gives rise to more diversified r&d and application demands of industrial robots. Vigorously promote the double growth of China's overall industrial robot installation and per capita use density, and continue to expand the market capacity.
Under this trend, enterprises with strong innovation ability and large revenue scale have the ability to strengthen r&d and M&A capabilities, raise product barriers, and continuously obtain market returns to feed back r&d and innovation. In such a virtuous cycle, leading enterprises in the industry are expected to gradually grow bigger and stronger, and will further accelerate the differentiation of China's robot pattern and the phenomenon of head clustering.
1. Industrial robots: Leading enterprises build an ecological matrix and further accelerate their overseas expansion
Traditional industry leader layout robot ecological matrix. With the widespread popularity and strong drive of intelligent manufacturing, leading enterprises in traditional industries in China have obvious demands for autonomous and controllable robot industry ecological chain, and focus on the layout of robot ontology manufacturing and system integration.
For example, The GR608 industrial robot produced by Gree has the advantages of light weight and easy to carry. It can be carried on the AGV without moving on the rail or truss. GR608 robot provides universal flange interface, can be easily used in machine loading, deburring, grinding, general assembly, welding, packaging (packaging), palletizing and other fields. In addition, Gree has completed the independent research and development of robot servo motors and servo drivers, among which the servo motors have reached the international leading level of similar products.
Head enterprises through investment, mergers and acquisitions layout of overseas markets, gradually form international competitiveness. With the continuous improvement of China's robot enterprises in terms of technology, market and capital, some of the leading enterprises through investment or mergers and acquisitions to accelerate the layout of overseas markets, expand their own industrial territory, while building a complete ecology for the whole robot industry chain.
2. Service robot: The product research and development is practical-oriented, promoting the continuous sinking of robot application scenarios
The goal of scene design is constantly clear. At present, the product research and development and technological innovation of service robots mostly focus on the improvement of practical functions, highlighting the core attributes of service robots as products and commodities, and effectively meeting the needs of different user groups.
For example, Orion Sky developed the full chain artificial intelligence technology, covering intelligent speech, microphone array, full perception visual recognition, indoor navigation platform, 6-axis manipulator, chip algorithm software and hardware, which effectively reduced the development cost and improved version iteration speed.
The product application scenario continues to sink. The application development of service robots depends on the requirements of scenarios. Household sweeping robots with early development and mature application have gradually entered thousands of households. Typical manufacturers include Stone robot and Kovos Robot. In addition, food delivery robots in restaurants, unmanned delivery robots in hotels, and public service robots in the halls of government and financial institutions have been planned and applied, and the landing scenes of robots have been verified and widely recognized in some fields.
For example, The Kruzer robot of Ube co., Ltd. acts as a customer in party construction and government affairs scenarios. It can answer common questions and guide the process, store relevant information in the cloud for query records and personnel identification, and also make appointment services and data collection. Through the functions of welcome reception, business consultation, secondary marketing and so on, The service robot of Covos Bank provides customers with intelligent and humanized service experience and enables the intelligent transformation of the bank.
3, Special robots: new products continue to emerge, continue to explore layout in emerging application fields
Further progress was made in the application of special unmanned aerial vehicles and underwater robots. At present, China has initially formed a series of products such as special uav, underwater robot, search and rescue/explosive disposal robot, and has formed application advantages in some fields.
For example, the special underwater robot equipment developed by Shenzhilan company for the south-to-north Water Diversion project can be divided into general type, long distance type and high flow resistance type, which can realize high-definition underwater observation, acoustic scanning, THREE-DIMENSIONAL reconstruction and other functions, and solve the water detection problem under various working conditions such as open channel, long tunnel, inverted siphon, box culvert, culvert and so on.
Construction and coal mine have become hot scenes for special robots. With the gradual disappearance of China's demographic dividend, the demand for special robots has shifted from professional-intensive to labor-intensive fields. As typical labor-intensive industries, construction, coal mining and other fields are expected to become a new direction for the commercial use of special robots.
For example, Prizilin, a subsidiary of Country Garden, is developing nearly 50 construction robots and intelligent products, 18 of which have been commercialized and successfully delivered the first batch of 43 construction robots of 9 types. The research project of driving face robot hosted by China University of Mining and Technology, facing the problem of hidden danger of coal mine safety production, adopts new technology and new design scheme, breaks through the technical bottleneck of long supporting time, and realizes the unmanned operation of driving, supporting and anchoring parallel operation. The ratio of driving and supporting time is reduced from 1∶2 or 1∶3 to 1∶1.04. The support efficiency increased by more than 5 times, and the total efficiency of excavation support increased by more than 25 times.
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