With the iterative progress of computer control, electronics, materials and other technologies, the performance of industrial robots has reached a high level. However, from an application perspective, global industrial robots have not fully penetrated all aspects of all industries, even in developed countries. Therefore, the localization alternative path for industrial robots also has a long way to go.
As an integral part of the manufacturing industry, industrial robots are closely related to the economic laws of the development of the manufacturing industry. Therefore, research on industrial robots must first have a clear understanding of its development history and trends.
Industrial robots are an important modern automated manufacturing equipment that integrates advanced technologies such as machinery, electronics, control, computers, sensors, and artificial intelligence. Since the United States developed the world’s first industrial robot in 1962, the robot technology and its products have developed rapidly, and there have been nearly 50 years of history.
With the iterative progress of computer control, electronics, and materials, industrial robots have become automated tools for flexible manufacturing systems, automated factories, and computer-integrated manufacturing systems. The performance of industrial robots has also reached a high level.
At present, the development of industrial robots in the deeper and wider direction and the improvement in the level of intelligent robots, the application of robots Fan Zhou is still expanding, from the automotive manufacturing to other manufacturing industries such as electronic appliances, and then extended to such as mining robots, Various non-manufacturing industries such as construction robotics and hydropower system maintenance and repair robots.
At present, the United States is active in the innovation of robotics. Europe and Japan are the main suppliers of industrial robots, and they have realized the complete autonomy of core components such as sensors, controllers, and precision speed reducers. However, from an application perspective, global industrial robots have not fully penetrated all aspects of all industries, even in developed countries.
At the same time, the continued economic growth and the advancement of urbanization, especially the development of domestic Internet and mobile Internet, have activated the terminal consumer business ecosystem, and consumers have demanded the function, quality, differentiation, diversification, and individualization of the commodities. Increasingly high, this puts forward higher requirements for the middle part of the manufacture of goods, and also puts forward higher requirements for industrial robots.
With the increase in labor costs and the transformation and upgrading of economic structure, the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry is also steadily advancing, and "machine substitution" has become a new phenomenon in the manufacturing industry in recent years. From the perspective of market size, at present, China has become the world's largest market for industrial robots for many years, accounting for 30% of global industrial robot sales, and it maintains rapid growth.
However, the competitiveness of China's industrial robot manufacturing industry is still relatively weak, especially in the core component parts at a disadvantage. However, all this is quietly changing, and the Chinese robotic industry is accelerating the substitution of localization in key components and other fields. For example, in terms of harmonic reducers, although the input torque, torsional height, transmission accuracy, and efficiency of the products are not much different from those of Japanese companies, there are alternative products available in the country, and the application of industrial robots has already started.
The Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Deputy Director of the Economic Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and former Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Li Yizhong, President of the China Federation of Industrial Economics, stated that the technological content of industrial robots in China has gradually increased. Manufacturing companies have basically mastered the technology of ontology design and manufacturing of industrial robots, control system software and hardware design techniques, kinematics and orbit planning, and are particularly advanced in micro-control and microprocessor.
As a whole, at present, China has made breakthroughs in key robotic core technologies as an important strategy. Domestic manufacturers have overcome some of the challenges in the key core components, such as retarders and servo motors, and have initially achieved localization of controllers and localization of core components. The trend has gradually emerged. In the future, Chinese industrial robots will continue to advance toward the goal of becoming a strong country.