The application of 5G and industrial Internet will bring new opportunities to the robot industry

The robot industry is becoming an important driving force to promote the conversion of old and new kinetic energy and create high-quality economic development. The reporter learned from the 2019 World Robot Conference main forum that China has become an important production base and consumer market for global robots, and has been the world's largest industrial robot application market for six consecutive years. At present, localities are racing to build a high ground for the development of the robot industry. Beijing, Hebei, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places are accelerating the deployment and implementation of relevant plans for the robot industry, focusing on high-end robots, industrial robots and other high-tech industries, and fostering a number of industry leaders. Enterprises and 10 billion and 100 billion industry clusters.

The industry pointed out that the application of 5G and Industrial Internet will bring new opportunities to the robot industry. In addition to automotive, electronics and other industries, machinery, product production and processing, and medical rehabilitation will become the focus of the next step in the robot industry.

5G Industrial Internet releases new opportunities

China's robot industry is entering a period of vigorous development. The reporter was informed that in the first half of 2019, the size of China's robot market was 4.25 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for nearly 30% of the global robot market. The industry is expected to reach 8.68 billion U.S. dollars in the full year. The industry pointed out that robots are rapidly expanding in areas such as more intelligent and sophisticated advanced manufacturing, medical health, and life services.

It is worth mentioning that China has become the world's largest industrial robot application market for six consecutive years. From 2016 to 2018, the annual output of Chinese industrial robots increased from more than 70,000 units / sets to more than 140,000 units / sets, with an average annual growth. More than 40%. The "China Robot Industry Development Report (2019)" issued by the Chinese Institute of Electronics predicts that the size of China's industrial robot market in 2019 is expected to reach 5.73 billion US dollars, and will exceed 7 billion US dollars by 2021.

Xin Guobin, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that the demand for flexible manufacturing, the emergence of emerging markets, and the development of innovative technologies will expand the application field and development space of robots. The integration of 5G, Industrial Internet and robotics will increase the application potential of robots and push them into the fast lane of development.

Chen Dan, deputy director of the Industry Research Department of the China Robotics Industry Alliance, told the reporter of the Economic Reference News that the 5G downlink peak rate is 20Gbps, and robots are more efficient and fast in receiving information and task instructions. At the same time, 5G significantly reduces the transmission delay, and the interval of 1-2 milliseconds is almost the same as the operation in the field. Under the 5G wave, the robot industry will develop to a new height.

Zuo Shiquan, director of the Policy Planning Division of the Equipment Industry Development Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, told the reporter of the Economic Reference News that with the increasing demand for intelligent transformation and upgrading, the new installed capacity of industrial robots in China is expected to continue to grow at a rapid rate. The application of 5G technology will expand the space for innovative applications of robots, and further meet the needs of intelligent production and intelligent life.

Many places scramble to build industrial highlands

Local governments are taking the robotics industry as an important direction for cultivating and developing new kinetic energy, and are racing to build a robot industry development highland. Wang Gang, director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economics and Information Technology, revealed on the 21st that Beijing is formulating a "Beijing Robot Industry Innovation and Development Action Plan" and plans to build a robot industry innovation and application demonstration highland with global influence by 2021. Xi'an City proposes to build the country's important robot industry base and application demonstration area by 2021. Anhui proposes that by 2027, it will become a high ground for the development of the entire industrial chain of robots of national and even global significance.

Chen Dan said that as a strategic emerging industry, the robot industry chain is relatively long, which can effectively improve the local industrial structure, promote the integration of upstream and downstream related enterprises, and promote the development of engineering services, financial services and other industries. At the same time, the application of robots in the manufacturing industry will promote the transformation and upgrading of local manufacturing industries and enhance the overall competitiveness of local manufacturing industries.

It is worth noting that "high precision" is becoming an important direction for the layout of the robot industry. Zhejiang Province has recently announced that it will highlight precision, compound, and intelligence to improve the reliability of application robots in key manufacturing and production links. Hebei Province proposes that by 2022, the performance, accuracy and reliability of high-end robots will reach the level of similar foreign products, and the level of key technologies and core components will be greatly improved; the promotion of industrial robots and special robots will be obvious, and the R & D intensity will be more than 3%. Xi'an City made it clear that by 2021, key breakthroughs in key robot technology and high-end products will be achieved, with a total output value of the robot industry of 20 billion yuan.

"The Chinese robotics industry is in a period of adjustment and upgrading. From the pursuit of quantity in the past to the present, it has begun to emphasize the quality of development, starting from a low-level positioning in the past to the high-end development," said Qu Daokui, director of the China Robotics Industry Alliance.

With the support of a series of favorable policies, a group of industry leaders and 10 billion and 100 billion industrial clusters are expected to accelerate their rise. Wang Gang revealed that Beijing plans to gradually improve the supporting system of the robot industry by 2021 and cultivate 3 to 5 leading companies in subdivided fields; Anhui Province has clearly established that by 2022, it will build 8 industry “leaders” and 15 individual champions. Jiangsu said it would build a 100 billion-level industrial cluster by 2020. Shanghai Baoshan District also recently stated that it will strive to gather more than 300 robot-related companies to form an industrial cluster with an output value exceeding 50 billion yuan, and build a manufacturing base for the robotics and intelligent hardware industry in China.

Improving quality and efficiency into the future focus of the industry

The industry pointed out that China's robot industry still has problems such as core components that are yet to be broken, corporate operating pressures are large, professional talent gaps are large, and the standard system needs to be further improved.

Huai Jinpeng, Secretary of the Party Committee and Executive Vice Chairman of the Chinese Association of Science and Technology, said during the conference that robots are currently facing bottlenecks in basic research and key core technologies, and the foundation should be further consolidated to provide stamina for solving neck problems and developing core technologies. , Technology, capital, personnel exchanges. Xin Guobin also said that the robot industry has entered the stage of in-depth adjustment. Expanding new application areas and improving quality and efficiency have become urgent needs for the healthy development of the industry.

Chen Dan said that the next step is not only to solve the technical shortcomings of traditional robots, but also to make breakthroughs in key areas of intelligent robots such as intelligent sensing, new material applications, and new drive systems.

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