The implementation plan focuses on ten major areas, including manufacturing, agriculture, medical and health care, elderly care services, and education. So why focus on these 10 areas?

Liang Liang: “These fields have the characteristics of good application foundation, wide coverage and strong radiation driving effect, and have the typical promotion and application. Taking these fields as the entry point, it will play an effective demonstration and driving role in cultivating new formats and expanding new scenarios for the robot industry.”

Robot is a kind of highly flexible automatic machine. It has some intelligent abilities similar to humans or organisms, such as perception, planning, action and coordination. According to the application field, robots are divided into industrial robots and service robots, and exoskeleton robots are service robots. There are many kinds of service robots, mainly used in retail, logistics, medical, education, security and many other fields closely related to people’s lives. At Peking Union Medical College Hospital, a teratoma removal operation is well underway. However, the surgeon, Dr. Sun, did not stand in front of the operating table, but sat next to the computer. It turned out that he was operating on a patient using a single-aperture endoscopic surgery robot. 20 minutes later, the surgery was over.

The single-aperture endoscopic surgery robot used by Dr. Sun was developed by Beijing Kului. Driven by 68 high-precision servo motors, the single-hole endoscopic surgery robot can rotate 540 degrees freely, and can achieve thousands of sub-millimeter precision manipulations per second, completing work that cannot be done by human hands. Such operations used to require four piercings in the patient’s body; now they require only one.

Endoscopic surgery robot represents the development direction of surgical operation in the future, with high technical barriers. American companies have long held a monopoly, exporting to China only the multi-cavity robot, which requires four or five holes in the patient’s body, while the more technologically advanced single-hole robot is banned from export to China. Beijing Zhuorui breaks this technological blockade.

The implementation plan points out that it is necessary to promote the application of robots in hospital rehabilitation, telemedicine, health and epidemic prevention and other scenarios. Hospitals with conditions and needs are encouraged to use robots to perform precision minimally invasive surgery.

Xu Kai, founder of Beijing Zhuorui Technology Co., LTD., professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University: “Our specific implementation plan is to build clinical training centers with influential hospitals in different regions. It is believed that the new generation of surgical robots can be spread out on the land of China as soon as possible with the help of the ‘robot +’ policy.”

Service robots are good assistants in People’s Daily lives, while industrial robots are mostly used in industrial scenes, accounting for the majority of robots, which can greatly improve production quality and efficiency. In 1982, China’s first industrial robot was born in Shenyang.

Industrial robots have the characteristics of precision, efficiency, stability and intelligence, which can help enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency, make up for labor shortage and reduce production risks. After years of development, Shenyang Siasun has mastered the three core automation application technologies of welding, assembly and logistics, has more than 1,300 invention patents, and has developed hundreds of robots in ten categories. Siamatsu people divide these products into “hands” and “feet”. “Hand” refers to various robotic arms.

Reporters at the scene also saw a lot of “feet”, that is, mobile robots. For example, mobile robots can be used in the logistics industry, medicine delivery robots can be used in medical institutions, and chassis integrated mobile robots for automotive manufacturing.

Since 2013, China has been the world’s largest and fastest growing industrial robot market for nine consecutive years. At present, China’s manufacturing robot density ranks fifth in the world, reaching 322 robots per 10,000 workers, but only one-third of the number of ranked South Korea. Therefore, the “Robot +” application Action Implementation Plan released this time plans to double the density of robots. In the future, with the maturity of core technologies such as high-end chips and operating systems, industrial robots will be widely used in more fields.

At present, the aging trend in our country continues to intensify, and the problems of labor force reduction and labor cost rise are increasingly obvious. Experts say automation is the surest way to increase the productivity of existing workers. In 2022, China’s robot market is expected to reach 118 billion yuan. The robot industry will achieve explosive growth with the expansion of application scenarios.

The application of robots is a general trend, with the integration of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, 5G, big data, and cloud computing in the field of robotics, the level of intelligence and networking of robots will continue to improve, and it will also change the production mode of manufacturing and other industrial fields. The strategy of independent innovation gives us the foundation, confidence, and ability to seize the opportunity of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, seize the opportunity, make great achievements, and consolidate the foundation of national prosperity and security of scientific and technological self-reliance.