The first draft of the "13th Five-Year" Development Plan for the Robot Industry has been completed and is expected to be released before the end of the year. The "Plan" puts forward the main development direction of China's robot industry in the next five years. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will focus on promoting the promotion and application of industrial robots in raw material industries such as tires and ceramics, dangerous operations such as civil explosions, metal industries such as forging and casting, and national defense and military industries. The "Plan" also carried out a top-level design for the development of the service robot industry, and family auxiliary robots liberate human hands with higher cost performance, it is conservatively estimated that the market space will exceed 100 billion yuan.

The reporter learned from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology yesterday that the "Thirteenth Five-Year Development Plan for the Robot Industry" (referred to as the "Plan") has completed the first draft and is in the stage of revision and improvement. It is expected to be released before the end of the year. Industry insiders believe that there is a large gap between the number of robots in China and the market demand, and the robot market has great potential.

According to reports, China has become the world robot market for two consecutive years, but the industry is large but not strong. How to promote the healthy and orderly development of the robot market is a matter of great concern to the management.

Lu Tie, director of the Industrial Development Research Office of the Institute of Industrial Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said: "Take industrial robots as an example. At present, most of the core components of robots such as precision reducers, controllers, servo systems, and high-performance drives in my country rely on imports. Parts account for more than 70% of the overall production cost."

Among them, 75% of the precision reducer is monopolized by Japan, and domestic high-priced purchases account for 45% of the production cost, while in Japan it is only 25%. The cost of purchasing core components in China is already higher than the overall price of the same type of robots abroad, and it is impossible to compete with foreign brands in the high-end robot market.

A person from the competent department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that in order to guide the robot industry from large to strong, the Plan puts forward the main development direction of China's robot industry in the next five years, including strengthening basic theory and common technology research, improving the industrialization capability of independent brand robots and key components, promoting the application demonstration of industrial robots and service robots, and establishing and improving the test verification and standard system construction of robots.

This year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will also focus on promoting the promotion and application of industrial robots in raw material industries such as tires and ceramics, dangerous operations such as civil explosions, metal industries such as forging and casting, and national defense and military industries.

Service robot hundred billion market to be developed

In recent years, industrial robots have developed rapidly, but service robots are relatively weak. Therefore, the "Planning" has carried out a top-level design for the development of the service robot industry.

According to a source from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the "Plan" puts forward the development principles of market-led, quality first, strengthening the foundation, and innovation-driven, to achieve demonstration applications in key areas such as the elderly and the disabled, consumer services, and medical fields, and to carry out core components. Key tasks such as research and development of cutting-edge common technologies, and application of medical rehabilitation robots.

According to Wang Rui, secretary-general of the Chongqing Robotics and Intelligent Equipment Industry Development Alliance, at present, housework assistance robots appear in our lives at a growth rate of more than 10% every year. "To liberate individuals from heavy housework, home robots will Become another wave of technological and industrial development after computers."

Wang Rui said that family assistance robots liberate human hands with higher cost performance, and it is conservatively estimated that the market space will exceed 100 billion yuan.

According to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), it is estimated that 22 million personal/domestic robots will be sold between 2013 and 2016. Among them, the sales volume of domestic robots is estimated at 15.5 million units, with sales reaching 5.6 billion US dollars.

IFR believes that with the major breakthrough of cloud robot technology, small household assistive robots will greatly reduce production costs and form an emerging market of at least $41.6 billion by 2020.

"Service robots generally need to be developed in combination with specific markets, so from this point of view, it is easier for local companies to develop in combination with specific environments and cultures, occupy a good market positioning, and maintain a certain competitive advantage." Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said.