China's "smart-made" robot: the arrival of explosive growth period

The robot released its earnings show that this 1 ~ September, the company's main business income of 829 million yuan, an increase of 9.88%, attributable to the parent company's shareholders net profit rose 30.36% to 153 million yuan.

In its earnings, the company said the first three quarters of this year, the company around the annual business plan, relying on products, technology and the advantages of comprehensive strength to continue to expand the market, of which, new orders grew 51% Year-on-year, the company's business income continued to grow steadily, the first three quarters of the new orders about 1.6 billion yuan, an increase of 51%.

This good momentum is reflecting the current development trend of China's robotics industry. Biare, president of the Shenzhen Robotics Association, even said in a media interview that the number of manufacturing enterprises using robots is increasing.

Zhao, chief operating officer of China Robot Network, said in an interview with the first financial daily that robots are mainly divided into industrial robots, service robots and other major categories, of which in the field of industrial robotics, China's annual output value of about 20 billion.

This reporter learned that, as far as industrial robots are concerned, the current export is very small, mainly for domestic enterprises, mainly used for some thick plate welding links. 2012 Industrial robot sales of about 26,400 units, if the service robot added in, the number to increase to hundreds of thousands of units.

Biare said in an interview with the media, the current use of robotics manufacturers are increasing, "China's robotics industry has begun to enter a burst of growth period." According to him, in the Pearl River Delta region, robot use of the annual growth rate has reached 30% to 60%, especially in the assembly, dispensing, handling, welding and other industrial fields, many manufacturers set off a wave of robot use.

May 2012, the national Ministry of Industry issued "intelligent manufacturing Equipment Industrial" Twelve-Five "development Plan", robot as an important component of intelligent manufacturing equipment, is ushering in its strategic development opportunities. "Twelve-Five" related policies are also gradually clear to some domestic robots to support about 10 manufacturers, including robot Industrial park in the country to find 3 to 5 key support.

Zhao told our correspondent, the future, construction, electronics, machine tools and other industries, will be the demand for robots, because the robot industry represents the advanced direction of manufacturing, conservative estimate "Twelve-Five" period of 20% growth no problem. "All over the establishment of the robot Industry Park, the government's enthusiasm is also relatively high, because the industry is expected to become the next hot plate, the policy is indeed tilted in this direction." "he said that from 2011 onwards, the robot industrial park everywhere has a tendency to blossom."

However, the domestic robotics industry, especially in the field of industrial robotics, the number of practitioners are still relatively small, the participation of the company is not many. "Now this industry is still in the initial stage of growth, although the domestic enterprises hundred home, but from the size of the company, including the entire enterprise research and development, financial strength, or small and scattered." Zhao said, like a robot like this, domestic also 35.

At present, more than 90% of the robots used in China are imported, the fundamentals of the Chinese robot market dominated by foreign companies remain unchanged. "Like the general robot, a single station is hundreds of thousands of of the price, a little more than dozens of on the inventory of hundreds of units, many enterprises can not stand, there is no strength to do, and spare parts are also more expensive." Industry insiders say.

Zhao Analysis, single from the assembly robot to see, the threshold has become lower, "because the current core parts are mainly foreign procurement, domestic enterprises as long as the processing of a mechanical body can be." In terms of capital and talent, the gap between Chinese and foreign enterprises is not big, even in government subsidies, domestic enterprises have more advantages.

He also believes that the robot industry does have a certain threshold, not only for the enterprise's capital requirements, technology is relatively high. "Technical level we have a certain gap with foreign countries, especially research and development capabilities, want to go beyond the foreign, not short-term can be achieved." ”