Robots have become a major point of view at the ongoing 9th National Assembly. The Fourth China International Intelligent Robot Innovation and Development Conference, held on the afternoon of June 16, in-depth discussion of robot scenario-based application, development direction and trend. In the view of industry insiders, humanoid robots may be the ultimate form of AI.

All robots gather in the intelligent robot zone

At the scene of the meeting, a “cute sister” robot that resembles a real person attracted a lot of people’s attention.

Wang Lei, founder and CEO of Shanghai Qingbao Engine Robot Co., LTD., said that it has functions such as human-computer interaction, face recognition and tracking, pattern recognition, emotion recognition, action planning and robot learning. “As a chat companion robot, she can answer various questions, and when she sees others unhappy, it will join the algorithm and talk about some happy things.”

In the Minimally invasive robot exhibition area, a robot with “four hands” gently taps the fingertips, and flowers are cut into various shapes. It is reported that this is the treatment scene after the doctor controls the robot arm and the surgical instrument into the human abdominal cavity.

It is understood that the National Assembly has set up a special area for intelligent robots to demonstrate the comprehensive application of artificial intelligence technology in intelligent terminals. Among them, including the first approved domestic four-arm endoscopic surgery robot, minimally invasive vascular interventional surgery robot and so on.

Zhou LAN, deputy director of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, said that we have gathered various robots that are active in factory workshops, warehousing and logistics, vegetable gardens and orchards, and shopping malls in the intelligent robot application area, allowing intelligent robots such as medical surgery robots, logistics and distribution robots, guidance robots, exoskeleton robots, and collaborative robots to show their skills on the same stage. The multiple functions of “hand”, “eye”, “foot” and “brain” are combined to contribute to the digital transformation of the city.

The service robot market space is huge

What is the future development trend of robots and what are the application scenarios? At the fourth China International Intelligent Robot Innovation and Development Conference, many industry insiders discussed.

“Robots are the pearl at the top of the crown of manufacturing and an important sign to measure regional technological innovation and the level of high-end manufacturing.” Yang Hui, deputy director of the Shanghai Intellectual Property Office, said that China is the world’s largest robot market, the number of related patent applications accounted for more than 40% of the global total, “with the depth of digital technology empowerment and urban digital transformation, the robot industry will also have a broader space for development.”

In the view of Gu Chenhao, chief researcher of Shanghai Hui Zheng Financial Consulting Co., LTD., the development of industrial robots is currently relatively into a more mature stage, the future development of service robot market is very huge, the future will gradually penetrate from traditional industrial robots to service robots, “from the perspective of service robots, humanoid robots may be the ultimate form of AI.”

Dai Liu, president of Shanghai Robot Industry Association, said that with the support of policies, how to seize the opportunity, take the robot ontology as the leading, cooperate with artificial intelligence, autonomous navigation, smart joint and other technologies, empower smart medical, smart finance, smart health, smart business circle, smart community, smart education and other digital application scenarios is the direction of the robot industry.

Liu Hong, general manager of Shanghai Robot Industrial Park, introduced the dilemmas and difficulties faced by the robot industry. The first is the control of production costs in enterprise innovation. Innovation requires a large amount of R&D investment and trial and error costs, which is a huge challenge for enterprises and entrepreneurs. How to open the application scenario, the application scenario of intelligent robots seems to be many, but it is difficult to expand; How the government should give more support and support in the policy; It is necessary to build a complete industrial ecology to form a agglomeration effect and a virtuous cycle.

Shanghai strives to reach 100 billion yuan in robot industry by 2025

Shanghai is the leader in the development of China’s robot industry, and its industrial scale and technical strength have maintained a leading level for a long time. The recently released “Shanghai Three-year Action Plan to promote the high-quality development of manufacturing industry” clearly mentions increasing the use density of industrial robots in the manufacturing industry, forward-looking layout of humanoid robots, intelligent robots and other tracks. According to the Action Plan, by 2025, Shanghai will add no less than 20,000 industrial robots, and the use density of industrial robots will strive to reach 360 units/million people.

The “Shanghai Intelligent Robot benchmarking Enterprises and Application Scenarios” released in January this year revealed that by 2025, Shanghai will build 10 industry-leading robot head brands and 100 benchmarking demonstration robot application scenarios, driving 100 billion yuan of robot related industry scale.

As the first robot theme industrial park in Shanghai, there are 243 enterprises settled in Shanghai Robot Industrial Park, gathering a number of well-known robot enterprises at home and abroad, including some chip enterprises, forming an industrial cluster with leading + small and medium-sized enterprises for common development. According to Liu Hong, the future goal of the park is to achieve the goal of 100 billion, which will attract more enterprises to settle and promote the rapid development of the robot industry.