The development trend of the robot industry in 2022

From the perspective of the market development of Chinese robots and the characteristics of this round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, "integration and collaboration" is an inevitable trend in the future development of China's robotics industry technology.

Expensive labor and aging promote the development of the robot industry

China has entered a new stage of development.

The main direction of the new stage is high-quality development.

In the past, we (manufacturing industry) were the largest in scale, and now we need to transform to high quality, and transform a manufacturing power into a manufacturing power.

There is no doubt that smart manufacturing is an important way for us to transform.

First, let's take a look at the country's policies and guidelines:

China's current strategic direction is intelligent manufacturing. Made in China 2025 has been proposed. The integration of industrialization and industrialization is the main line, and intelligent manufacturing is the main direction.

Including the planning outline of the 19th National Congress and the 14th Five-Year Plan, as well as the long-term goals of 2035, intelligent manufacturing is regarded as a key point.

In addition, the foundation of high-quality development depends on each enterprise.

Many practical problems are forcing enterprises, especially the development of robot enterprises.

Robots are a typical representative of intelligent manufacturing and an important carrier for the integration of manufacturing and IT technologies.

This involves the problem of expensive recruitment in our country.

In terms of population ratio, in 2020, China's total population over the age of 65 has accounted for 13.5%.

What is this concept? The norm for an aging society is 7%, and for a moderately aging society it is 14%.

We are now on the brink of a moderately aging society.

In addition to the aging population, there are also problems such as the disabled population and rising labor costs.

Now in the Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta and other places where our manufacturing industry is intensive, the problem of difficulty in recruiting has become very prominent, and even some jobs cannot be recruited no matter how high the budget is.

These problems are forcing enterprises to develop in the direction of automation, digitization and intelligence.

In addition, many new application scenarios are emerging, and robotics is constantly infiltrating other scenarios:

For example, aerospace, rail transit, photovoltaics, construction and mining, etc., these industries have put forward new demands and challenges for the development and application of our traditional robot technology.

For example, smarter, more dexterous, mobile, friendlier, safer, etc., the needs of these applications have put forward higher requirements for industrial technology, and also put forward new requirements for the integration of robotics technology and industry.

The above status quo indicates that the development prospects of China's robot industry are very broad.

New technology promotes the transformation of the robot industry

Let's take a look at the changes brought by the new round of technological revolution to the robotics industry.

The rate of evolution of emerging technologies is very fast.

For example, communications, from 1G to now 5G, and even 6G are already under intensive research and development.

Before 4G, communication and the Internet improved the convenience of the network in many scenarios.

After 5G, communication technology is penetrating into the industry.

The high speed, low latency, and ultra-high capacity of 5G itself are all good applications in industrial scenarios.

In addition to communication, artificial intelligence technology is also developing rapidly, such as from computational intelligence to perceptual intelligence to cognitive intelligence, AI technology is also developing rapidly.

After the real realization of smart manufacturing in the future, smart homes, smart communities, and smart services will have a foothold.

In addition to 5G and AI, new materials have also played an important role in boosting the development of the robot industry, and even changed the product form of robots in the future.

For example, many robots now have mechanical structures, and in the future, muscle materials, liquid metals, etc., will have a great impact on the changes in the robot structure in the future.

The perception of robots today may require a variety of sensors, and in the future new materials may have perception functions themselves.

I have seen a test version of a medical robot that feeds patients and is entirely made of flexible new bone materials, with no trace of mechanical products.

Therefore, new materials will also revolutionize robotics.

The last part is the application of cloud computing.

Cloud computing has been used very maturely on the toC side, but the application in the industrial field is actually not as popular as imagined.

The Industrial Internet as a whole is inseparable from hardware platforms, software platforms, and application-layer products.

From a certain perspective, the Industrial Internet is to connect people, machines and things.

These all need to rely on cloud computing to achieve.

Robots need to be further integrated with the industry

No matter how fast technology develops, it needs to be integrated with the industry and transformed into productivity.

And now new technologies have begun to appear in many very good applications at the end of the industry chain.

New models and new formats will become catalysts for the integration of technology industries.

For example, the Internet of Vehicles and unmanned driving, and the development of future robots to intelligent robots, and even flexible manufacturing.

Only when these emerging technologies are truly integrated with the industry will the digital economy be possible in the future.

The multi-point breakthrough of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and the deep integration of industrial applications and multi-disciplinary cross are an important trend in the development of the robot industry.

For example, the coordinated development of robots and 5G enables the working range of robots to achieve remote service and remote monitoring capabilities.

Another example is the real-time requirements of industrial scenarios, such as the monitoring of production and manufacturing processes by inspection robots.

There is also the first surgical operation in our country that is remotely operated through 5G, which is supported by 5G communication.

As well as collaborative robots, perception technology, cognitive technology, etc. are integrated with new materials, and some manufacturing principles in the future will change.

The collaborative integration with cloud computing will definitely improve the collaboration of robots in the industrial Internet.

Therefore, the collaborative integration of robots with 5G, AI, cloud computing, big data, and the Internet of Things, etc., and then landing on the industrial side is an important trend in the future integration of robotics technology and industry.

Our country is now transforming to high-quality development, so there are many types of manufacturing scales, and the market potential for the robotics industry is huge.

The typical feature of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is that emerging technologies pay more attention to the penetration of different application scenarios in vertical industries.

From the perspective of the development of the robot industry, it should also go in this direction.

Deep integration with emerging technologies is the only way for the development of robotics industry technology.

From the perspective of the robot industry itself, this kind of synergy between the integrated application of the whole machine parts and the user industry must be an important way to speed up the overall improvement of the robot industry and the industrial chain.

Judging from the development trend in recent years, meeting the needs of a wider range of intelligent manufacturing intelligent organisms and integrating with emerging technologies, such as autonomous mobile human-machine collaboration, is an important trend in the development of the robotics industry.