Where will consumer robots begin to spread?

Industrial robots have been used for decades. Its first and most widely used area is automobile manufacturing, and until now, the business cycle of industrial robots has maintained a certain degree of pride in the automotive industry. With the development of technology more mature, the rise of the auto industry has spawned a great demand for industrial robots-called "killpoint" by economists, and the industrial robot is naturally moving towards its spring.

Many years later, people expect consumer market-level robots to meet a "killpoint" that can fulfill them, but demand has been unclear. Small and colleagues this trip to hit the mechanical College of Shenzhen Research Institute of Bo Guide Zhu, she did a lot of robot projects, is doing a shot Gastroscope capsule robot, previously also used to explore the tomb of the archaeological robot and so on. Talking about the market demand for civilian robots may detonate in what field, Zhu said she and some foreign robot operators agree: Sweeping robot may be the first consumer machine robot large-scale application of the field. What, sweeping the floor? Small knitting and colleagues are stunned: this demand ... That's a surprise.

Xiao Bian doesn't question people's enthusiasm for sweeping the machine, but how much time do you spend on sweeping the floor in a day? 5 minutes? All converted into manpower, the volume of the market is not much, perhaps people need to spend on the robot research and development of human resources has far exceeded the sweeping itself.

Consider, what are the requirements for the wide application of robots?

First, the robot as a tool without an autonomous consciousness, can only be used to solve a number of highly standardized work, the more single action of the working robot to replace the possibility of higher, so the automobile manufacturing line screw welded What is the most love, if the robot to distinguish between the use of the scene, it is estimated that they will be down; , must have a certain market volume of the field, if a market itself only 500 million of the market demand, automated transformation will not let it become 1 billion; third, of course, its own robot technology to be more mature. Whether industrial or consumer-level robots, their mission is to replace people, if it is to commercialize, it is to be able to use less cost to replace the people-the market is driven by profit, right?

And sweeping, this small eye area, market capacity is actually not low: a new research data (source) shows: 2009 500 million U.S. dollar sweeping robot market in 2016 is expected to reach 2 billion U.S. dollars. 2012 Global sweeping robot sales of about 4 million units, but also in the trend of rising.

Demand is a factor, but it is not the most important factor, because more than sweeping more urgent problems to solve the problem, just in terms of housework, cleaning the kitchen and toilet needs certainly not weaker than the sweeping, and then back to standardization. The least action required to sweep the floor is the simplest. Robot is also the most capable of solving the problem, may not be solved-Lei Feng Net bought a sweeping robot (click to have evaluation), look very clumsy, do not know is the Lei Feng net please it to sweep the floor, or it please the editor of Lei Feng Network to take care of it.

In short, it is so wonderful, the field of robotics is still in the seller's market, I have what you buy: Sweeping demand is not the most intense, not the most urgent problem is the most likely to be resolved at this stage of technology. Demand and technology have reached a delicate balance, so it is possible to say that consumer-grade robots have become popular from the sweeping. Google "sweeping the robot", found that the field of manufacturers, researchers, people who are really concerned about a lot.