On November 23, Vice Chairman Li Yuanchao attended the opening ceremony of the 2015 World Robotics Congress and read the congratulatory letter from President Xi Jinping and the instructions of Premier Li Keqiang, clearly indicating that China has incorporated robotics and intelligent manufacturing into the priority areas of national science and technology innovation.

"We are willing to strengthen cooperation with the scientific and technological circles and industries of various countries to promote the research and development and industrialization of robotics, so that robotics and its products can better promote development and benefit the people."

The clear message from President Xi’s congratulatory letter indicates that China will have more relevant support policies, funds and resources to tilt toward robotics and smart manufacturing in the next ten to ten years. Robots and related industries will become the next slogan.

As early as eight years ago, Bill Gates predicted in the "Scientific American" magazine that the robotics field is about to repeat the path of the rise of personal computers; as long as robots enter the track of universal production, this revolution will be like a personal computer. Revolutionize the way of life in this era.

As predicted by Bill Gates, the United States currently in the leading position in the robotics field, different types of intelligent robots have been reduced from tens of thousands of dollars to less than 2,000 dollars each; robots like the computer in the early 1980s Into the American daily office and ordinary consumer families.

In contrast, although the growth of robots in China is very strong, there are still two major problems:

First, the use density is extremely low;

Second, the service robot has not yet broken through the bottleneck;

Before the conference, in recent years, the annual growth rate of domestic robots has exceeded 50%; China has become the world's largest market for robots for two consecutive years, maintaining its position as the world's number one in terms of volume and growth rate.

However, in terms of the density of use of robots, China lags far behind the United States, and Japan, South Korea and other countries can not match, currently only 0.3%, 99.7% is still manual work. Of this 0.3% utilization rate, nearly half of the robots are used in the automotive industry, followed by the electronics industry, followed by metals, rubber, food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and other industries. In other words, robots are currently used primarily in industry in China.

Service robots still have huge room for development.

Different from the "production" function of industrial robots, the essence of service robots is "services."

Service robots can be divided into personal/home service robots and professional service robots.

During the past “Double Eleven”, the Cobos sweeping robot with a sales volume of 276 million yuan was the representative of the family service robot; and the third large-scale mine demolition in the Yunnan section of the Sino-Vietnamese border that began in early November The demining robot used in the operation represents a professional service robot.

According to experts, in the next 30 years, China will continue to maintain the dominance of the world's largest robot market; and in the next three years alone, there will be more than 15 million service robots, which will create more than 20 billion sales. .

With clear policy support, China will trigger a new wave of robot development under the temptation of huge market. It is reported that on the night of the conference, Soft Control Co., Ltd. plans to raise 1.27 billion yuan to invest in robotic and tire intelligent manufacturing.

Intensive policy red envelopes, huge market potential, the extremely active layout of listed companies in the field of robots... As the scope of robot applications continues to expand, the robot industry and the service robot industry will become computers 30 years ago, 15 years ago. The next vent after the phone, under the vent, who is the next Bill Gates, Jobs, we will wait and see.