It is not late to start the overall arrangement now, if China desires to obtain the speaking right in the global robot field in the next ten years. The 2nd International Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Equipment (ICRIE) was opened yesterday, with the domestically-listed companies attended to jointly discuss new ways to survive in the age of robot 2.0, such as Greatoo Inc. (002031.SZ), Shenzhen Han’s Motor S&T Co., Ltd., a subsidiary under Han's Laser Technology Industry Group Co., Ltd. (002008.SZ), Siasun Robot & Automation Co., Ltd. (300024.SZ), Zhuhai Longhua Helicopter Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary under Loncin Motor Co., Ltd. (603766.SH), Guangdong Jaten Robot & Automation Co., Ltd. with 20 percent equities held by Guangdong Dongfang Precision Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (002611.SZ) and GSK CNC Equipment Co., Ltd..
Luo Jun, CEO of the International Robotics and Intelligent Equipment Industry Alliance, said in the ICRIE opened yesterday: “Most of the robots we currently mentioned are some automation equipment without the function of man-machine interaction or even mutual communication. In ten years, the human society will basically enter the intelligent manufacturing age. The robot industry will develop and integrate with various advanced technologies, including the big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, 3D printing and etc., to become a part of various intelligent service platforms, which is the age of robot industry 2.0.”
It is worthy of the attention that most of current robots in China are low-end with 3 or 4-axis, however, the high-end robots of 6-axis or above applied in high-end manufacturing are mainly occupied by the overseas market. The data from China Robot Industry Alliance shows that ABB Group of Switzerland, Fanuc Corporation of Japan, Yaskawa Electric Corporation of Japan and KUKA Robot Group of Germany are four magnates, taking up over 70 percent of market shares in China’s robot industry, almost monopolizing the robot market in high-end industries. Along with the proposal of Made in China 2025, the robot and high-grade numerical control machine tool are regarded as a part of the ten key fields, which will be intensively developed.
Li Yizhong, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, deputy director of Economic Committee and also the original minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, revealed in the conference: “The robot industry is a subsystem under the Made in China 2025 and also a significant measure to realize the intelligent manufacturing. Related authorities of China are accelerating the formulation and implementation for the industrial development planning and direction, which is expected to search for public opinions in October.”
Li Yizhong also indicated: “China’s robot industrial development should primarily expand the market application positively, enhance the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing industry, focus on the breakthrough in research and development of the key products based on the demands of different industries, and push out a series of reliable and personalized products of high cost performance.
To this respect, Luo Jun said: “It is impossible to achieve a great-leap-forward development in a short run in the traditional robot industry. New ‘core’ components and parts will be produced in the age of robot industry 2.0, replacing the traditional ones. In such age, we should pay more attention to the deep application of information technology (IT) on software and hardware in the robot fields. It is a new signal that a large number of leading enterprises in the IT industry have made overall arrangements in the age of robot industry 2.0 one after another, including Google Inc. (GOOG.NASDAQ), Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.NASDAQ; 04338.HK), Intel Corporation (INTC.NASDAQ; 04335.HK) and Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO.NASDAQ; 04333.HK). It is not late to start the overall arrangement now, if China desires to obtain the speaking right in the global robot field in ten years.”
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