Robots are accelerating their integration into production and life

Recently, the 2023 China International Welfare Expo and China International Rehabilitation Expo were held at the Beijing Shougang Convention and Exhibition Center. The picture shows the staff demonstrating various functions of the "Single Lower Limb Hemiplegia Rehabilitation Robot" at the expo.

Photo by Du Jianpo (People’s Pictures)

Robots do housework and also serve as commentators... Recently, at the 8th China Robot Summit, well-known brands competed to demonstrate the latest applications of robots, and many cutting-edge technologies made stunning appearances, attracting attendees to stop and watch. . Experts believe that China's robotics industry is developing rapidly, opening up new tracks for many industries, and its governance system also needs to be continuously improved.

Intelligent manufacturing is booming

Walking into Shenyang Brilliance BMW Tiexi Factory, several huge orange robots are "dancing". They work according to customized operating trajectories, quickly reaching from one point to another, and accurately controlling spot welding accuracy. , and automatically replace the welding gun. Entering the 40,000-square-meter factory building of Sany Heavy Industry's Beijing pile driver factory, robots take over most of the dirty, tiring, and heavy work. Everything from the sorting of a steel plate to the assembly of a mast of more than 10 tons is automatically completed by robots. The production pace of the "reborn" factory has been greatly accelerated, and the monthly production capacity has reached 300 pile drivers.

This is the epitome of the robot industry empowering Chinese manufacturing. Industrial robots are widely used in China's manufacturing industry. The "China Robot Industry Development Index Research Report" released by the China Robot Summit Expert Committee shows that China has become the world's largest application market for robots and the country with the most active innovation and development. The consumption of industrial robots has ranked first in the world for nine consecutive years. With the further advancement of intelligent manufacturing, the application of industrial robots has rapidly expanded from the automotive and electronics industries to metallurgy, light industry, metal processing, petrochemicals, food and beverages, medicine and other industries. The number of domestic industrial robots continues to grow, and the density of manufacturing robots is also increasing.

Widely used in service industry

In addition to manufacturing, robots have begun to enter all aspects of people's lives, and service robots are increasingly used. At the Intelligent Robot Rehabilitation Center of Shanghai Seventh People's Hospital, robots used for different functions such as upper limb and lower limb rehabilitation are neatly arranged. With the help of the robot's "hand-in-hand", patients can actively and passively move up, down, left and right, and cooperate with The diverse scenes on the screen, such as grinding flour, frying salmon, catching small fish, etc., make recovery more accurate and interesting.

Driven by the integration of artificial intelligence, new sensing, bionics, new materials and other technologies, robots are still exploring and completing more "impossible tasks" for humans. In terms of deep-sea operations, the deep-sea cable-laying robot developed by Shandong Future Robot has the country's first large-water depth intelligent operation capability and can carry out submarine optical cables, cables, pipelines and other laying operations that cannot be completed manually in the 1,500-meter-deep ocean. In terms of polar operations, Shandong Guoxing Intelligent developed a crawler-type intelligent reconnaissance robot, which adopted a damping and buffering characteristic suspension system with independent intellectual property rights. It has successfully participated in the completion of the 38th Antarctic expedition mission.

Dong Kai, director of the Industrial Policy Research Institute of China Electronics and Information Industry Development Research Institute, said that as life helpers, service robots represented by sweeping robots, cooking robots, companion robots, rehabilitation robots, etc. have entered life and entered families. Achieve large-scale applications in fields such as education and entertainment, cleaning services, and medical rehabilitation. As special equipment, special robots have a high degree of flexibility, mobility, and adaptability, and their ability to cope with complex environments continues to increase. They are used in emergency disaster relief, fire inspections and other urgent and dangerous tasks, as well as space exploration, marine resource exploration and mining, polar scientific expeditions, etc. Innovative applications in the field of major national projects have been able to partially or completely replace manual work, helping to reduce work burdens and ensure health and safety.

Strengthening the security of industrial chain supply chain

Experts believe that domestic robots have overcome some problems in precision reducers, controllers and other fields, and the localization rate of products has gradually increased, but material research and development, processing technology, etc. are still relatively weak. In terms of operating systems and related basic software, domestic industrial robots started relatively late. To keep pace and lead in the fierce competition, we must strive to improve the localization level of core robot components and software and strengthen the security of the industrial chain and supply chain.

Looking to the future, artificial intelligence still has great development potential and space, and basic theories and key technical fields still need to be explored. Zhao Jie, a professor at Harbin Institute of Technology and director of the Robotics Research Institute, believes that China’s robot industry needs to take four capabilities as its starting point to take a high-end and high-quality development path, namely, the ability to continuously supply innovative foundations and the independent capability of common technologies for core basic components. control capabilities, the ability to continuously improve the quality and application of major technical equipment, and the ability to support quality infrastructure services.

Industry insiders believe that it is necessary to build a governance system including policies, regulations, ethical norms, technical standards, etc., to integrate ethics and morality into the life cycle of robots, and to better promote the robot industry to benefit all industries and families. (Overseas Network Wu Huimin)

"People's Daily Overseas Edition" (Page 08, June 7, 2023)

Editor: Zhang Rongrong

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