Ye Tan: In the face of the robot wave China can only porridge?

Remember the modern-day man who remembers the modernity of Chaplin's times and the final insanity of the workers on the assembly line.

Modern manufacturing is not synonymous with assembly lines, and Foxconn, the world's largest foundry, has begun to develop robots on a large scale, hoping to replace them with machines in the future. I see in the auto parts factory, as long as there is a large number of stable orders, the first thing business owners is to buy mechanical arm to replace artificial.

In order to stabilize the manufacturing plant, the robot benefits a lot, no cost to increase the problem, not because of emotional changes to produce unqualified parts, improve the standardization rate. Almost all business owners say the purchase of mechanical arms is expensive, but in the long run costs are lower. And in the clean, dangerous operation, logistics and other fields, the robot also play a manual difficult to play a role.

2013, China's industrial robot sales reached 36560 units, an increase of 60%, has surpassed Japan to become the world's first robot market. However, the number of robots used in China is still relatively low in the developed countries, in terms of the quantity per thousand robots, there are only 23 units/thousand people in China, less than one-tenth of Japan, and the world average level of 55 Taiwan also has a big gap. From the highest level of automation, robot application most of the automotive industry, the five world Advanced car manufacturers in Japan, Germany, France, the United States, Italy, the automotive industrial robot density reached more than 1000 per million people, China even if the big increase is only 213 units per million.

Some people blame why the assembly is not as good as Germany and the United States and Japan, there is only one reason, process and standardization is not as advanced as developed countries, and the degree of standardization of robots is much better than artificial. The specifications of some of the Apple's micro screws are required to be accurate to 1% mm, and the robot operates much better.

China's robot industry has developed rapidly, with a growth rate of 50% in 2013. Statistics show that in 2013, China's manufacturing workers in the number of 50 million people, and industrial robots in the traditional alternative areas such as automobiles, electronics, chemicals and food industries such as the number of workers in 30 million people. Assuming that the average industrial robot density reaches 100 units per million in these industries around 2020 years, there are 300,000 alternative space for industrial robots.

The robot industry is not as high as high-speed rail, China as the largest market for robots, the lack of core technology, the core components of a serious bottleneck, domestic robots in the domestic robot market share of only 13%, in the High-tech robotics field, we usually earn or assemble the hard money.

Japan, Korea and other countries to implement the strategy of robot power, such as Guangzhou CNC Deputy Chief engineer Mr. He Yingwu said, "South Korea attaches importance to service type robots, leading the standards of this type of robot; US-led high-end robots, such as exploration, explosion-proof light functional robots; Japanese industrial robots are excellent and cheaper ABB of Sweden represents Europe's technology, craftsmanship, and the most complete and best industrial chain ", and China needs all of these robots, and the question is, are those busy horse-racing companies ready?"

According to the Institute of Engineering Robotics Industry statistics, as of June 2014, the country has built or proposed a robot-related industrial park has more than 30. The planned investment by 2020 exceeded 500 billion yuan. Robot is not real estate, not to take much, the park area has a core industry, the concept of stock market also can not break through the core technology bottlenecks.

Chinese robots need to use the global open source system, so that young people willing to hand in the garage using low-cost domestic spare parts, to create a creative robot, and ultimately not only into the enterprise, but also into ordinary people's homes. For Chinese entrepreneurs, the question, system and technology is the real problem, not the other.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)