Opportunities and challenges coexist, AI+robotics technology promotes the development of intelligent manufacturing

"With the accelerated breakthroughs of new generation information technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence, the rapid development of artificial intelligence and robotics technology, and the deep integration of large models, robots and intelligent manufacturing, it will promote revolutionary changes in manufacturing production methods, development models and enterprise forms. , accelerating the promotion of new industrialization." Su Guobin, member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, said at the "AI+ Robot Empowering Intelligent Manufacturing Global Forum Special" event held on October 20.

The "AI+ Robot Empowered Intelligent Manufacturing Global Forum Special" event is guided by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology and Beijing Federation of Industry and Commerce, hosted by Haidian District Federation of Industry and Commerce (Chamber of Commerce) and China Industry Overseas Development Association, and hosted by Zhongguancun Robot Industry Innovation Development Co., Ltd. The company and Mecamander (Beijing) Robot Technology Co., Ltd. will host the event.

Beijing provides institutional guarantee for high-quality development of the robot industry

"The robot industry is highly consistent with the strategic positioning, resource endowment, and industrial foundation of the capital's development. It is a strategic industry that promotes the high-quality development of the capital." Su Guobin said that Beijing's robot industry started early and has concentrated innovative resources. Through years of accumulation, it has formed a A number of breakthrough cutting-edge technological achievements and products have cultivated a number of specialized new enterprises and entrepreneurial teams, which have formed leading advantages in medical, service, logistics, special and other application scenarios.

In June this year, Beijing formulated the "Beijing Robot Industry Innovation and Development Action Plan (2023-2025)". In August this year, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology issued "Several Measures in Beijing to Promote the Innovation and Development of the Robot Industry" to provide institutional guarantee for the high-quality development of the robot industry. At the event, Huang Zihan from the Intelligent Equipment Division of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology conducted policy exchanges and sharing on 16 measures focusing on "Beijing's robot industry technological innovation, industrial ecology, scenario application, and element guarantee". He said that through the implementation of hundreds of new robot product projects and hundreds of application scenario demonstration projects, Beijing has made every effort to create a "dual drive" of product innovation and scenario demonstration; through the construction of public service platforms and the establishment of new industrial development Ecology, create characteristic agglomeration areas, strengthen element guarantee and layout agglomeration, and fully promote ecological optimization and industrial synergy "co-linkage".

The robot industry is one of the fastest-growing emerging industries. In recent years, robot companies in my country have sprung up like bamboo shoots after a rain. Lin Weimin, member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice Chairman of the Beijing Federation of Industry and Commerce, hopes that the majority of private enterprises will seize the window period for rapid development, jointly create new advantages in cooperative development, seize the commanding heights of future industrial development, and use diversified new models and new business forms of "robots + applications" to Promote robots to enter thousands of households faster, integrate into thousands of industries, and outpace the acceleration of technological innovation. The Beijing Federation of Industry and Commerce will continue to play the role of bridge and link, focus on enterprise demand orientation, and continue to build a platform for private enterprises to innovate, cooperate, exchange and exchange, gather resources, promote the formation of a good industrial ecology of innovation, cooperation, and win-win, and guide private enterprises to consciously Take the path of high-quality development.

Beijing Haidian District, as the core area of Beijing International Science and Technology Innovation Center, currently has 9,764 national high-tech enterprises and 328 national-level specialized and new "little giant" enterprises. It has gathered a large number of robotics companies, including about 40 key robotics companies. Lin Hang, deputy director of the Beijing Haidian District Government and chairman of the District Federation of Industry and Commerce, said that in the future, Haidian District will continue to create a market-oriented, legalized, and international business environment for enterprises, and will continue to work on basic education, talents, housing, infrastructure, and computing. Provide increasingly perfect public services in areas such as power; actively integrate into the global scientific and technological innovation network, promote international scientific and technological innovation cooperation, so that scientific and technological innovation can better serve the yearning of people of all countries for a better life, and make positive contributions to promoting the development of science and technology in the world.

In order to further promote the steady development of the robot and intelligent manufacturing industry to more applications and deeper levels, at the event site, the China Industry Overseas Development Association and Zhongguancun Robot Industry Innovation Development Co., Ltd. signed a "Strategic Cooperation Agreement". The two parties will explore international markets and introduce talents. Carry out in-depth cooperation in aspects such as international technological exchanges and economic and trade investment.

Opportunities and challenges coexist in the era of intelligent robots

According to the International Federation of Robotics, the global robot market will be US$25 billion in 2020; it is expected that the global robot market will reach US$160-260 billion in 2030. However, the rapid growth of the era of intelligent robots brings many opportunities, but it also comes with certain challenges. A roundtable forum was set up at the event site, where guests discussed the theme of "Opportunities and Challenges in the Era of Intelligent Robots." Shao Tianlan, founder and CEO of Mekamande (Beijing) Robot Technology Co., Ltd., was the host of the session.

Li Ruipeng, senior vice president of CITIC Securities and senior analyst in the machinery industry, said that the development of intelligent robots faces many opportunities and challenges. Opportunities include underlying technology upgrades (such as motion control and environmental perception), as well as stimulation of the need for "machine replacement". Challenges involve the complex issues of industrial chain coordination and domestic substitution. In the next 3-5 years, intelligent robots will see accelerated commercialization and gradually achieve commercial applications. Especially in the manufacturing field, the application of automation and intelligent technology will play an important role in some sub-sectors, such as automobile manufacturing, electronic production and medical equipment manufacturing. In addition, humanoid robots will move into the future as the final form of development.

Many, the general manager of Xiaomi Robotics Division, said that a widely concerned issue in the era of intelligent robots is how Chinese companies go overseas and how to deal with competition in the international market. The first is to continuously improve demand insight and demand management, clarify product direction, increase R&D investment, and make full use of local and global industrial resources to improve product competitiveness. The second is to build a comprehensive ecosystem. The future competition will be the competition of the overall scale efficiency of the industry chain, which requires core products, core manufacturers, and many industry chain partners and application scenarios to form a huge industrial ecosystem. Chinese enterprises should actively establish cooperative partnerships to promote the improvement of integrated comprehensive effects and scale efficiency. The third is to deeply cultivate the underlying technology, continue to invest in the research and development of underlying technology, achieve deep integration of software and hardware, give full play to the enabling role of artificial intelligence, and ensure that products are competitive in the international market.

Liu Min, senior partner of Zhongguancun Industrial Research Institute, said that intelligent robots have brought new paths to many industries. First of all, "AI+" fields such as intelligent manufacturing, intelligent driving, and intelligent medical care are worthy of more exploration, towards improving efficiency and reducing costs. cost, improve product quality and service. Secondly, while enterprises continue to exert their efforts in the layout of various key scenarios, the government also needs to help enterprises promote the integration of the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain. This will promote the upgrading and development of the industry and provide more opportunities for continuous innovation in the manufacturing industry.

Song Bin, vice president of Luoshi (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd., said, “With the further advancement of intelligent manufacturing, industrial robots have been widely used in many aspects of production and manufacturing, but in the face of new scenarios and complex tasks, we need to further expand The ability of robots to improve their intelligence." For example, by deeply integrating robots with vision/force perception technology, using machine learning technology to build intelligent systems, and giving robots capabilities in visual and force perception, skill learning, intelligent safety, etc., can It can better cope with various complex tasks and be applied and extended on a large scale in more industries and scenarios, thereby promoting the development of intelligent manufacturing.