With the rapid development of industrial robots and the extensive media coverage, industrial robots seem to have reached a state of full swing. So how hot are industrial robots in China? According to statistics, China has become the largest industrial robot consumption since 2013 China last year saw 36,860 industrial robots sold nationwide, accounting for 1/5 of global sales, up 41% from 2012. In the first half of 2015, the number of China’s industrial robots imported amounted to 65,487 sets, an increase of 92% over the same period of last year. In China, foreign-funded robotics companies are growing at more than one day. Experts predict that the output value of robots and systems will reach 100 billion yuan and bring about 300 billion yuan of parts and components by 2020. Some studies have reported that over 26 million people in China exit the manual labor-force population each year in the coming years, With only 16 million new posts added, the scissors effect will reduce the annual workforce age population by 10 million and reduce the effective workforce by 100 million in a decade, making the demand for industrial robots very strong.
37,000 units / year in 2013, and 740,000 units / year in 2023; the market size of ontology is 87 billion yuan and the ontology market is about 15 times more space for growth; the market for system integration is about 250 billion yuan and the market growth is about 13 times.
With the gradual opening of our country’s portal, the technological level of industrial robots will be greatly enhanced. At the same time, the use of robots has been expanding, such as dangerous environment, medical and bionic environment, making industrial robots enter a period of rapid development.
Which one will be hotter? Robotics or intelligent equipment?
The rapid development of the robot industry has brought a boom in the development of intelligent equipment. Robot is the leading technology, robot heat, the intelligence behind its support will be more hot. The penetration of intelligent technology into traditional industries depends on intelligent equipment, but there is also a phenomenon of “two skins” of scientific research and application. At present, the technical development of domestic laboratories has reached a certain level, but the conversion rate is relatively low.
The rapid development of the robot industry has brought a boom in the development of intelligent equipment. Robot is the leading technology, robot heat, the intelligence behind its support will be more hot. The penetration of intelligent technology into traditional industries depends on intelligent equipment, but there is also a phenomenon of “two skins” of scientific research and application. At present, the technical development of domestic laboratories has reached a certain level, but the conversion rate is relatively low.
The gap between China and foreign countries may not be that big.
The huge market in China, in recent years, international robots giants have robbed the Chinese robot market, investment in production bases, the competition is fierce. abb, Yaskawa, KUKA and FANUC four families occupy 70% of the domestic robot market share, the market share is very high. In the industry view, 2014 will be the first year of industrial robots, robotic industry era has come.
The four major families in China such a high market share, China’s domestic robot industry has brought considerable pressure. At present, we pay more attention to industrial robots and pay less attention to service robots. We pay more attention to hardware and pay less attention to software. “Upstream is the core components, the main reducer and control system, which is equivalent to the robot’s” brain “, the middle is the robot body, is the robot’s” body “, the downstream system integrators, 95% of domestic enterprises are concentrated In this session. ”
At present, the robot has the highest profit value in the upstream, only the reducer accounts for about 35% of the robot cost, and the motor and controller parts account for about 10%. Due to the high cost of key components and the negative gross profit margin, the domestic robots maintained a relatively high gross profit margin in all aspects of the robot industry chain, with the highest margin of medical robotic robots reaching nearly 70%.
From the above figures can be seen that the lack of domestic core technology of robots, compared with foreign robots lost a certain competitive advantage, it is not. At present, domestic robots are rapidly developing. Compared with foreign robots in China, domestic robots do have a gap. However, the market share in auto parts is large, and there is no doubt that the biggest use of robots is in the field of automobiles.
Occupation of the robot market rural encircling the city.
Faced with such a high market share of foreign robots and the development gap between Chinese and foreign robotics industries, Cai Hegao, a robotics and mechatronics expert and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, believes that the route of “encircling the cities from the countryside” should be taken. He believes that China’s national robot industry will gradually grow, the Chinese robot industry to serve the Chinese robot market, to develop under the Chinese market demand, can not be divorced from the development needs of China’s real productive forces. The face of competition from foreign robots, the Chinese robot industry may be in the car, the electronics industry to fight hard. We still have a big market. SMEs in China have strong demand for machine replacement, and they can develop the robotics industry to meet the demand of SMEs. After they grow and develop, they will compete with foreign enterprises in the field of automobiles and electronics. Called “rural encircling the city.
(Source: China Education Equipment Purchasing Network)