Development and independent innovation direction of industrial robots

At present, China has become a global robot consumer market. More and more enterprises apply robots to all aspects of product production; Machine replacement” The tide is rising. Behind this wave, it should also be noted that China's industrial robot industry is still in the growth stage, and there is still a certain gap between the technical level and that of foreign countries. Middle and high-end robots mainly rely on imports in servo motors, controllers, reducers and other core components. If domestic enterprises want to seize this market opportunity, they also need to strengthen the technology research and development of key parts, pay attention to the deep integration with information technology and artificial intelligence, develop towards the middle and upper reaches of the industry, and seize the opportunity period for the development of the global robot industry.

In recent years, the industrial robot industry has developed rapidly. A group of American information technology enterprises represented by Google, Intel, Microsoft, etc. have quietly laid out the robot field and will lead a new round of reform in this industry. With the advent of the intelligent manufacturing era, the robot industry will integrate with many advanced technologies such as big data, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and become a part of several intelligent service platforms. Luo Jun, CEO of the International Robot and Intelligent Equipment Industry Alliance, calls it the robot industry 2.0 era.

The deep integration of China's robot industry with information technology and artificial intelligence technology is about to begin. At present, China has basically mastered the technologies of industrial robot body design and manufacturing, software and hardware design, kinematics and trajectory planning. Today, China has become the application market of the global robot industry.

Although the robot market in China is very good, the products produced by more than 500 robot enterprises, large and small, have only 20% market share in the domestic market. The upstream of the robot industry is the core component, which is equivalent to the robot's“ Brain”, In this field, high precision servo motor, high-performance controller, precision reducer and other core technologies are basically imported. The middle reaches of the industry are robot bodies, that is, robot“ Body”, The downstream of the industry is a system integrator. At present, 95% of domestic enterprises focus on this link.

In the above three core technology fields, the number of patent applications submitted by domestic and foreign applicants is the same, but in terms of technology development level, there is a significant gap between domestic and foreign enterprises.

“ At present, the United States is active in robot technology innovation. Europe and Japan are major suppliers of industrial robots, and have achieved full autonomy of core components such as sensors, controllers, and precision reducers& rdquo; In terms of harmonic reducer, there are alternative products in China, but the input torque, torsional height, transmission accuracy and efficiency of the products are far behind those of Japanese companies, and the application in industrial robots has just started. In the field of servo motor, relevant enterprises in China have also carried out high-power AC motor, especially the patent analysis of foreign powerful enterprisesAnd reduce the risk of patent infringement.