China’s industrial robot market, which has been developing rapidly since 2013, has stepped on the “sudden brake” in the past two years. In the first half of 2019, the cumulative sales of independent brand industrial robots fell for the first time year-on-year. However, people in the industry believe that the robot industry has a good future, and now is the key period for unswervingly hard work

MTL4850  Recently, the 2019 China Robot Industry Development Conference sponsored by the China Robot Industry Alliance was held in Chongqing Liangjiang New Area. Qu Daokui, chairman of the China Robot Industry Alliance and president of Shenyang Siasun Robot Automation Co., LTD., said at the conference that since 2013, China has become the world’s largest robot market, ranking first in the world for six consecutive years. China has become an important production base and consumer market for global robots, while its research and development capacity has steadily improved, and a number of landmark achievements have made new progress.

R&d and production capacity has advanced by leaps and bounds

MTL4850  “China’s robot industry has developed by leaps and bounds in recent years, especially during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, with remarkable results.” Luo Junjie, deputy director of the equipment Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said.

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From the perspective of industrial scale, the number of industrial robots installed in China in 2018 is about 154,000 units, more than the total number of installed robots in Europe and the Americas, and the output and installation volume are more than one-third of the world.

MTL4850  In this regard, Wang Zhijie, executive deputy director of the Management Committee of Liangjiang New Area, has deep feelings. He also remembers that when the robot industry began to develop in 2014, the density of industrial robots in China was only 30 units / 10,000 people, and it reached 140 units / 10,000 people in 2018, and the development speed is amazing.

At the same time, the innovation capability of China’s robot industry has steadily improved, and some key component technologies have also made breakthroughs. Luo Junjie introduced that in the industrial field, the research and development of key common technologies such as binocular vision positioning technology, flexible claw design technology, and dual-arm coordination control technology has made breakthrough progress. The collaborative robot realizes the MTL4850  integration of reducer, motor, encoder and drive control, and the repetition accuracy of some products can reach plus or minus 0.05 mm.

Wang Jiegao, general manager of Nanjing Estun Robot Engineering Co., LTD., said that the robot industry has changed a lot in recent years. In recent years, the company has closely combined design technology and application technology to develop products suitable for customers’ pain points, and the effect is very good, such as photovoltaic robots and woodworking robots have sold a lot.

“Domestic robot research and development and production capacity is gradually improving.” Song Xiaogang, executive director of the China Robot Industry Alliance, said that from the perspective of production capacity, from 2013 to 2018, the average annual growth of domestic industrial robot sales reached 35.3%, and multi-joint industrial robots have continued to grow rapidly in the past three years.