At the Hanover industrial fair in Germany, a new breed of roboticists are making their debut, cooking soup, carrying luggage, assembling mobile phones and precision welding. International federation of robotics, according to a new report due to the large data, cloud computing, a new generation of information technology such as mobile Internet fusion with robot technology to speed up the pace, the future robot revolution will create trillions of dollars in the market. According to the report, in 2013, China has become the world's biggest consumer market, industrial robot predicts 2017, the Chinese in the use of robots will reach 428000, become a robot using the first power. At the same time, China itself is working hard to cultivate local robot manufacturers.

Extension robot

It can create more jobs

Robot is regarded as the pearl at the top of the crown of manufacturing industry, and its r&d, manufacturing and application are important indicators to measure the level of scientific and technological innovation and high-end manufacturing in a country.

International federation of robot's latest market research, according to the report in the next few years, robot markets around the world will see double-digit growth rate, mainly driven by the following factors: upgrading production line of modern globalization competition, energy saving technology and the development of new materials to production tools innovation, man-machine dialogue open up new applications, new market, shorten the product cycle, increase on the flexible production requirements, and so on. It is expected that industry 4.0, which is characterized by production intelligence, will play an increasingly leading role in global manufacturing upgrading.

ABB, the swiss-based group, said in a news release to the financial times that becoming the world's largest robot market is only the first step in the process of China's robot industry catching up. Currently, 30 robots are used per 10,000 Chinese workers. By contrast, robots are five times denser in the United States than in China, and 10 times denser in Germany. Given that the density of robots used in China is still very low, the future development of the market is obvious. 'over the past two or three years, we have experienced almost explosive growth in China's robotics industry, which is beyond our expectations,' said Brian nessett, head of the company's robotics business.

Overall, the international federation of robotics said, the use of robots has not increased unemployment, but created more jobs. All over the world & other Serving 1 million robot created 3 million jobs directly, and will in the next five years to become the main engine of employment, in the consumer electronics, food, wind and solar energy, advanced battery manufacturing and other fields to create 1 million jobs. Manufacturing employment in countries with increased investment in robots is also growing.

Stay competitive

Production automation needs to be vigorously promoted

The secretary general of the international federation of robotics, gudrun lizen beagle, told the financial times that automation is a guarantee to increase productivity and promote energy conservation and environmental protection. China is the world's largest and fastest-growing consumer market, with a large middle class increasingly demanding consumer goods, medical services and quality of life. The trend towards automation in manufacturing will drive continued investment in China's robotics industry. In addition to modernising existing factories, companies in different industries have set up production bases in China to win market share. Both foreign auto makers and local Chinese companies have announced large-scale investment plans for automation, either to produce fuel-efficient cars or to improve modern production capacity.

One of the largest robot manufacturers, iRobot, founder and CEO colin Angle in an interview with our reporter said that China's robot market is growing fairly rapidly, and sustained growth trend is obvious. The market includes both industrial robots and consumer robots such as smart home cleaning robots. As the world's leading manufacturing nation, China's rapid economic growth has also led to a rapid rise in wages. To keep manufacturing competitive, Chinese enterprises need to develop production automation. This will help drive the increase in the use of industrial robots. Mr. Angle said iRobot has positioned China as the most important growth market. The company also actively develops products for the Chinese market and continuously optimizes the functions and types of cleaning robots according to local conditions. He said that China has mature technology and conditions for robot manufacturing, which is also an important factor for the company to choose China as its production base.

Mizuho bank industry survey experts matsuda by oneself, in the process of transition from the labor-intensive to technology-intensive, the large-scale application of industrial robots, can improve the production efficiency, reduce labor costs. It is expected that China will more actively introduce industrial robots and promote the all-round development of the robot industry in various fields in the future.

Make a big leap

We will transform manufacturing to high value-added

China's voracious demand for automation reflects the end of mass, low-cost production. The economist magazine recently commented that the Chinese government clearly recognize that to overcome faces many challenges, must carry out a large span, the push to high-end manufacturing high value-added transformation.

China's ministry of industry and information technology (miit) has proposed a series of support measures aimed at forming a complete industrial robot industry system by 2020, with the share of domestic robots in the high-end market reaching more than 45%. By 2014, China had 30 robot industrial parks under construction or completed, with an investment of $80 billion by 2020.

The economist, said to be successful experience in the development of the industrial robot, replication, Japan and China also needs to strengthen policy, business and cultural aspects of the comprehensive measures, implementation of the whole industrial upgrading. If successful, the density of robots in China will double, which is worthy of worldwide attention.

The Japan times commented, the current major share in the Chinese market accounts for enterprise or a few large international robot, but the Chinese local manufacturers pursued rapidly, especially in terms of simple functional robot sales performance. The landscape of China's robot market is likely to change soon as the government, companies and investors support the industry. A us-based consultancy says the booming infrastructure projects in the asia-pacific region will require more and more domestic robots. However, the initial investment in the introduction of automatic production lines is very large, which may deter many small and medium-sized enterprises.

At the Hanover expo in 2015, the 3D photocopying printer developed by three college students from the school of Chinese and German engineering of Shanghai tongji university won the first prize of the global xplore electrical automation award. Dong qi, a public member of the education department of the Chinese embassy in Germany, said that the work reflects. other The personalized and rapidly updated design concept of industry 4.0 is also the result of more than 10 years of cooperation between Chinese and German universities in the cultivation of high-level application-oriented talents.

Mr Lietschenberger says competition among domestic and foreign robotics companies will intensify over the next few years. China has no shortage of examples of lagging behind. These robots are easy to use, quick to market and low in price. But similar single-function robots cannot replace more sophisticated high-tech robots, such as in car production or other processes that require high-quality, lean production. The huge potential of the Chinese market has made possible the development of various kinds of robots.