Ten years ago, Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, asserted that robots would take over the world. It sounds premature, but robots are everywhere in our lives right now. From unmanned cars driving on the road to drones flying in the sky, from intelligent logistics robots working in the front line of the war to food delivery trucks serving daily life, from intelligent robot arms deep in coal mines to intelligent patrol robots in data rooms, robots have long been from the plot of science fiction movies into real world application scenarios, infiltrating into all walks of life.

Recently, the SoFlu software robot with China’s original technology is available, an ordinary programmer + a SoFlu software robot can realize software back-end development, front-end development, testing, operation and maintenance, equivalent to one person one project, which means that the software has entered the era of automated development, will also promote the rapid development of robots. Authoritative data show that China has become the world’s largest consumer of industrial robots for eight consecutive years, and the application field of industrial robots has covered 52 industry categories and 143 industry categories such as automobiles, electronics, metallurgy, light industry, petrochemical, medicine.

The development prospect of industrial robots is promising

At present, the digital wave is in the ascendancy, and digital transformation has become an inevitable choice for enterprises to upgrade their business models and achieve cost reduction and efficiency. According to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, from 2016 to 2020, the scale of China’s robot industry has grown rapidly, with an average annual compound growth rate of about 15%, of which the output of industrial robots has increased from 72,000 sets to 212,000 sets, with an average annual growth rate of 31%. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the annual output of industrial robots in 2021 was 366,044 sets, an increase of 44.9% year-on-year, and the output reached a record high.

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The annual 618 e-commerce mid-year promotion is coming soon. In the Jingdong logistics warehouse in the Zhuongyuan Valley e-commerce Park in Huangpu District, Guangzhou, the reporter saw the logistics robot known as “ground Wolf” carrying the shelves quickly shuttle, and the staff does not need to walk around to get the goods they want from the shelves. It is understood that in the selection operation of the warehouse, the use of Wolf AGV (automatic logistics robot) to move the shelves to a fixed workstation for selection, these automatic walking robots subvert the traditional “people looking for goods” selection mode, into “goods looking for people”. Unmanned operation in the warehouse, the staff only need to get the corresponding task at the workbench, waiting for the “ground Wolf” to move the shelf.

Jingdong’s logistics robot is just a microcosm, and such robot operation scenarios are everywhere in today’s intelligent manufacturing. Previously, the “14th Five-Year Plan” robot industry Development Plan issued by the Ministry of Industry and other relevant departments proposed five task requirements for the robot industry, such as improving innovation ability, consolidating the foundation of industrial development, increasing the supply of high-end products, expanding the depth and breadth of application, and optimizing the industrial organizational structure. The agency predicts that the scale of China’s industrial robot market will be close to 60 billion yuan next year, and the robot industry will usher in a new spring of development.

Zhang Yi, CEO of IIMedia Consulting, a third-party authority, told Yangcheng Evening News that the use of complete sets of industrial robot automation equipment will greatly promote the rapid development of its industry and enhance the level of manufacturing technology in its industry. The industrial robot industry is a rapidly growing emerging industry that will play an increasingly important role in future production and social development.