Artificial intelligence has become an irreversible trend sweeping the world. With the continuous maturity of the technology, human beings or robots have gradually become a reality. In industries such as industry and commerce, medical care, education, finance, public security, procuratorate and law, the demand for "machine foundry" has surged, driving the rapid growth of robot sales, and for enterprises, how to gain a foothold and rise in this accelerated era of "machine foundry" has also become a major issue.

"Artificial intelligence" is the era of machine foundry or accelerating.

Market hot abnormal

Driven by the market and policies, the development of China's robot market is very rapid, and the major domestic companies have vigorously deployed them. After the Chinese home appliance giant Midea acquired Kuka of Germany, it also established the "Future Technology Center" in Silicon Valley in the United States in 2017, stating that it will continue to invest US $0.25 billion in the center in the next five years to strengthen research and development in robotics, artificial intelligence and other fields; Gree also Continued to develop the robot industry, and has now realized independent research and development and production of three key components of industrial robots, and the intelligent equipment products produced cover more than ten fields.

In addition, a number of emerging intelligent manufacturing enterprises have also continued to make efforts in the field of robotics, such as DJI and Yihang, which have continuously innovated and completed the global launch of a number of new UAV products.

Foreign giants are also unable to resist, have raised the Chinese market. Kawasaki Heavy Industries and No. 2-Yue have decided to increase production in Chinese factories. Swiss company ABB has factories in China and other countries, and plans to more than triple the global production capacity of industrial robots in the next two years.

The data also confirms the popularity of China's industrial robot market. According to the International Federation of Robotics, by 2020, global sales of industrial robots will increase by 77% over 2016, of which China's industrial robot sales are expected to soar 2.4 times.

The general trend of machine foundry

There are several main reasons for the formation of the trend of "machine foundry.

First of all, "machine foundry" is the inevitable trend of China's industrial upgrading. China has risen rapidly by virtue of the demographic dividend, but with the gradual aging of the population, China's demographic dividend is gradually disappearing. If we want to achieve sustained growth, we can only carry out industrial upgrading, from relying on the development of demographic dividend to relying on the development of artificial intelligence and robot technology.

Secondly, technological breakthroughs provide the possibility of "machine foundry. Huge demand and social trends have promoted the rapid development of technology. In the past year, artificial intelligence technology has made major breakthroughs in the fields of medical care, finance, and law.

In addition, cost factors force the development of the robot industry. There are many labor-intensive industries in our country, and in recent years, the "labor shortage" has become more and more intense, making the low-cost growth model based on low wages and high work intensity unsustainable.

After that, policy support is also a major driving force for industrial development. At present, China is vigorously promoting the "made in China 2025" national strategy, innovation-driven as one of the important principles of building a manufacturing power, which has created a good soil for the rise of industrial robots.

Development still bottleneck

Although the development of China's robot market ushered in a good opportunity, but there are still some problems and development bottlenecks.

From the enterprise itself, first, the domestic industrial machine manufacturing enterprises are technically weak. Domestic enterprises lack of product innovation ability, the production of industrial robots can only complete simple processes, high-end products also need to rely on imports. Second, the application range of domestic robot products is not wide. The application of domestic robots in China is mainly concentrated in the middle and high-end manufacturing industries such as automobiles, machine tools and electronics, and is not widely covered in the labor-intensive low-end manufacturing industry. Third, domestic industrial robots are expensive and cannot be widely used.

Data show that the high-end market of robots has formed an oligopoly. The top four companies ABB, Kuka, Fanaco and Yaskawa currently occupy 60% of China's high-end market. On the other hand, China's local industrial robots are mostly aimed at the low-end market with low barriers; on the other hand, the domestic industrial robot standard testing and certification system and other industry norms are still not perfect, which seriously restricts the development of the industry.