Whether the robot industry will repeat the mistakes of the auto industry

China's robot industry into the blowout period, but the problems faced by people worry, will not go back to the car industry, lost the market did not attract core technology?

Quoted a group of information, as a manufacturing powerhouse, China is currently the fastest growing market with robots in the future. 2008-2013, China's robot sales growth rate of 36% per annum, 2013 year sales climbed to 36560 units, the year-on-year growth of 60%, become the world's first robot power, but also the fastest growing global robot market. Even so, there is still a lot of room for robot ownership, and the number of robots per million workers in Chinese manufacturing is 23~25, below the global average of 58 units.

2014 by the industry known as "the first year of robotics", according to incomplete statistics, as at the end of 2014, there are more than 70 listed companies or investment in robotics, intelligent automation projects, and the number of Chinese robot-related enterprises even more than 4,000.

The domestic robot industry has inherited many inferior genes and must be improved. The Government intervenes excessively, the subsidy unreasonable, the enterprise herd, cannot form the fittest mechanism, just like the original automobile industrial park, has the condition not to have the condition all to be on, causes the resource the enormous waste, each place comparative superiority cannot highlight.

At present the robot industry park is everywhere. There are more than 30 robot-related industrial parks (bases) in China which have been built or proposed. Investment quota, the existing local robot industrial park to 2020 planning investment of more than 500 billion yuan.

The lack of core technology in the robotics industry is not surprising for countries with weak industrial base, but it is urgent to rectify the practice of non-industry-led research and the neglect of market titles.

Industry insiders are not denying the lack of core technology, RV reducer, harmonic reducer, servo motor and drive, controller and other industrial robot core parts and components technology still has a considerable gap with foreign brands, most of the domestic robot enterprises gathered in the robot ontology and other fields for the meager profits, struggling in the profit and loss line.

Government investment in a large number of "863" research seems to have no fundamental breakthrough, get funds published papers on the shelf. Nanjing Eston Automation Co., Ltd. Chief engineer Wang Jiegau think, research and development results "not to the test platform, not into the market" phenomenon is widespread, some major scientific and technological projects are produced by universities and research institutes, scientific research institutions often pay attention to the results appraisal and award, published a paper, teacher evaluation title, students have degrees The only unexpected thing is how to apply it, and the project becomes an academic tool.

Robot industry patents, there are insiders blunt, domestic patents, less international patents, the transformation of the value of small, these patents or to use the news, is to get the project, evaluation title for use, not market-based. The 2014 International Robotics Association released a report that China's robotics industry lacks technological innovation, including innovative ideas and creative achievements; there is no backbone enterprise that can participate in international competition, the scale is very small, the quality and reliability of key parts are 5-10 years behind the world advanced level. Some local governments, enterprises of large-scale robot replacement program is difficult to launch, because of the lack of marketable products.

There should be definite measures for the transformation of scientific research. Dongguan Ying-Move hi-Tech Automation Co., Ltd. Zhangdezin and its team to develop the world's leading level of absolute encoder, which is closely related to the servo motor of a basic core parts, breaking the monopoly of foreign industry giants, the product has been included from Germany and other industries authoritative recognition, and the sale price is only one of dozens of points of foreign industry giants. The problem is that companies are not willing to use, business concerns are justified, there is no long-term stability test, who dares to risk this? At this time, the government for domestic robot core technology consumption incentive mechanism is particularly important.

Let the research team that really delve into technology and market prospects gain market rewards and learn the experience of high-speed rail in introducing imported technologies. Only the real introduction of core technology to open the market, while the standardization of the robot has a fundamental progress, lest thousands of thousand planes-the above measures may not let the Chinese robot industry jumped to the top of the world, but not to do so, domestic robot industry will be reluctant.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)