U.S. International Data Corporation recently released report shows that China (mainland) will continue to be the world's largest and fastest growing robotics market, spending on robotics will account for more than 30% of global spending. China is expected to spend $59 billion 400 million on robotics in 2020, more than double the estimated $24 billion 600 million in 2016. This amount will account for about half of the $133 billion in robotics spending reached by the Asia Pacific region in 2020.

With the "made in China 2025", "machine substitution" has become a trend, which makes the Chinese robot for four consecutive years ranked first in the world. All over the robot industry in the development of priority position. According to statistics, the domestic focus on the development of the robotics industry in the province reached 28, the robot industrial park reached more than and 40, more than 500 robotics companies. In contrast with this fiery degree is that in China's huge robot consumer market, local brands of robots accounted for only 4%, a large number of domestic robots rely on imports of key components.

Market driven rise of the domestic robot industry

In the old and new kinetic energy conversion, the robot industry has become a new bright spot. MIIT data show that in 2016, China's industrial robot production has reached 72 thousand and 400 units, an increase of 34.3%, the growing size of the industry.

Man-machine cooperation robot robot has high technology content to the market, has realized the Department of orthopedics surgery robot used in hospitals, speech recognition, image recognition and other proprietary robot technology has reached the international advanced level, the service robot has been applied in many fields of medical surgery, rehabilitation, catering etc..

One is the "machine substitution plan is like a raging fire, many local government subsidies to enterprises on the robot; robot industrial park is on the side of big and small began to emerge," robot stocks "become a stock market darling......

According to incomplete statistics, has been built around and plans to build a robot industrial park or industrial base up to dozens of related enterprises on the industry chain from the beginning of 2014 the total number of more than 200 to now thousands of home, and in the A shares of listed companies, the so-called "robot stocks" is more than 50.

Dongguan fiscal year to come up with 200 million yuan to support the enterprise machine substitutions". Songshan Lake International Robot industrial base was established in November 2014, the base plans a total investment of about 2 billion 700 million yuan.

Guangzhou CNC Equipment Co., Ltd. He Minjia lamented: the domestic robot industry really hot up.

Repeat the construction of low-cost robots "excess capacity"

The whole industry chain into the robot industry three levels lower upstream core components, main reducer and control system, which is equivalent to the "brain" of a robot; robot robot that is in the middle, the "body"; the downstream is the core equipment of system integrators, according to Lai in the upstream and midstream in the finished product.

Not only is the Pearl River Delta region, 90% of the domestic robot enterprises are in the downstream link." This is a reporter visited the robot business owners of the convergence of the current situation of the industry.

Songshan Lake Science and Technology Industrial Park in Dongguan, now has gathered more than and 30 robot related enterprises. Jiang Shilong, President of the Dongguan Association of robotics industry, said the city of Dongguan engaged in robotics related enterprises have more than and 200, of which less than 1/3 of intellectual property rights. Although the number of considerable, but there are few influential companies in the industry, the development of the industry scattered." The industrial chain presents the characteristics of "the large downstream, the middle reaches of decentralization and the lack of upstream".

Due to the lack of core technology, get together industry chain downstream of the vast majority of robotics companies are still small and medium enterprises, and ABB, Fanuc, Kuca and other international giants far away, not in an order of magnitude. Correspondingly, these enterprises have low level of robot application and intelligence. He Minjia said that the German and Japanese enterprises generally take 6 axis robot or more high-end industrial robots, monopoly automobile manufacturing and other robotic applications of high-end industries, and the Pearl River Delta and even the country's production is more than the lower end of the robot to handling and unloading.

The general manager of R & D and production controller of the Shenzhen solid high-tech Co., Ltd. Wu Hong told reporters that the current domestic robot enterprise products from the type is mainly based on Cartesian coordinate robot mainly in the low-end industries, innovation and application level with the international advanced enterprises gap is too big.

90% key parts imported

The Pearl River Delta into the implementation of the machine substitutions plan workshop will find that can carry out intelligent automation of industrial robots, robot is Swiss ABB, KUKA Germany (Kuka), Japan Yaskawa electric (Yaskawa) and Fanuc (Fanuc) products. According to the Guangdong Provincial Institute of intelligent robotics, to represent the four foreign companies occupy more than 70% of China's industrial robot market share.