Milton Guerry, president of the International Federation of Robotics, said: "China is by far the largest and fastest growing robotics market in the world. It has the largest number of robots installed each year and has the largest number of operational robots. This rapid development is unique in the history of robotics." By installed capacity, he mainly means that China accounts for nearly half of the world's industrial robot installed capacity, which is also the largest market in robotics.
According to the Report on The Development of China's Robot Industry (2021), China's robot market is expected to reach 83.9 billion yuan this year, of which 44.57 billion yuan is for industrial robots. If we look into the future, 44.57 billion yuan is still a small number. According to the Boston Consulting Group, the global robot market will expand from 160 billion to 260 billion by 2030. There is still room for 100 billion, and the Chinese market will expand with it.
44.57 billion is also a big concept, Deppon Securities believes that industrial robots can be used in automobile parts, metal products, vehicle, household appliances, electronics, lithium batteries, photovoltaic, food and beverage, automotive electronics, medical supplies, chemical products, warehousing logistics, semiconductor and other scenarios.
With the gradual transformation of domestic manufacturing industry, the demand for automation of industrial production began to shift from single equipment to automatic equipment, automatic production line, and put forward the demand for flexibility of fully automated production line. The emergence of flexible demand makes the traditional robot with poor adjustment ability and low intelligence gradually unable to adapt to the production line, and the birth of intelligent cooperative robot adapted to flexible manufacturing. Flexible, safe and compact intelligent collaborative robots can not only meet the flexible production needs of enterprises, but also solve the problems of large investment scale, long investment return period and limited flexibility of traditional industrial robots, so that enterprises of different sizes can easily realize intelligent automation, and accelerate the popularization and landing of "intelligent manufacturing".
In today's world, major developed countries are competing to develop and improve new technologies, so that intelligent manufacturing technology is more widely used, in order to obtain more economic benefits. With the coming of intelligent manufacturing era, the application of flexible manufacturing system will be increasingly widespread, and the application of intelligent cooperative robot in industrial production will become the development trend of the industry.
A collaborative robot is a robot designed to interact directly with humans in a collaborative area. In terms of its working mode, cooperative robot has three working modes: human-machine cooperation, human-machine cooperation and individual operation. When working alone, the machine is separated from each other by a certain distance, which is similar to the working mode of industrial robot. Human-machine cooperation when the machine to perform different tasks; Human-machine collaboration is the most widely used working mode at present, which requires dynamic communication and interaction between robots and staff to achieve the purpose of improving quality, increasing efficiency and reducing cost.
As the cooperative robot technology becomes more mature, its advantages over traditional industrial robots will become more prominent, especially with the support of intelligent technology, traditional cooperative robots will evolve to intelligent cooperative robots. Intelligent collaborative robots will pay more attention to the deep interaction and real-time interaction between machines and people. In the future work scenes, robots can quickly respond to staff's instructions (including oral and action, etc.), and can carry out in-depth communication and learning with humans and other robots, greatly improving production efficiency.
In the future, with the development of cooperative robot technology, the aging of Chinese society, the continuous decline of birth rate and the gradual disappearance of demographic dividend, cooperative robot will have a bigger market in China.