"Made in China 2025" stands at a new height of history, from the strategic overall situation, clearly puts forward the action plan of the first ten years for China to implement the strategy of building a strong manufacturing country, takes "high-end CNC machine tools and robots" as one of the key areas to be vigorously promoted, and puts forward that the development of robot industry should "focus on automobile, machinery, electronics, dangerous goods manufacturing, national defense and military industry, chemical industry and light industry" Industrial robot applications such as industrial robots, medical and health services, family services, education and entertainment services, and other service robot applications need to actively develop new products, promote the standardization and modular development of robots, and expand market applications. It breaks through the technical bottleneck of the robot body, key parts such as reducer, servo motor, controller, sensor and driver, and system integration design and manufacturing technology. " In the road map of technological innovation in key fields, it is clear that the development focus of China's robot industry in the next ten years is mainly in two directions: one is to develop a series of products of industrial robot body and key parts, to promote the industrialization and application of industrial robots, to meet the urgent needs of the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry; the other is to break through the key technologies of intelligent robots and develop a batch of intelligent machines People should actively respond to the challenge of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial reform.

High grade CNC machine tools and robots are one of the key areas of the strategic plan of strengthening China

1、 Demand oriented, enhance innovation ability and expand market application

According to different application environments, the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) divides robots into two categories: industrial robots in manufacturing environment and service robots in non manufacturing environment. Industrial robot is the general term of robots used in industrial production, and is an important factory automation equipment in modern manufacturing industry. Service robot is a non productive robot serving human beings. Service robot technology is mainly used in unstructured environment, with complex structure, which can obtain information of external environment according to its own sensors and through communication, so as to Make decisions and complete corresponding tasks.

1. China has become the world's largest industrial robot market, and its potential remains to be explored

Industrial robot mainly refers to the multi joint manipulator or multi degree of freedom robot facing the industrial field, which is used in the handling, welding, assembly, processing, coating, clean production and other aspects in the industrial production process. In 2014, global industrial robot sales reached a record high, reaching 225000 units, an increase of 27% year on year. The market growth is mainly driven by Asia, especially China and South Korea.

In recent years, the demand of Chinese robot market is growing rapidly, and it has become an important global robot market. In 2014, the sales volume of industrial robots in China reached 56000, an increase of 52% year-on-year, once again becoming the world's largest industrial robot market. Users have developed from wholly foreign-owned enterprises and Sino foreign joint ventures to domestic enterprises and even small and medium-sized enterprises. Many enterprises in the developed coastal industrial areas export their products with high quality requirements. More and more enterprises use robots to replace industrial workers.  In the Pearl River Delta region, the average annual growth rate of using industrial robots has reached 30%, especially in the fields of assembly, dispensing, transportation, welding, etc., which has set off a boom in the use of robots.

Although China has been the largest market of industrial robots in the world since 2013, the density of industrial robots in manufacturing industry is still very low. In 2013, the density of industrial robots in China was only 30 sets / 10000 industrial workers, less than half of the global average level, compared with Korea (437 sets / 10000 industrial workers), Japan (323 sets / 10000 industrial workers) and Germany (282 sets) with high degree of industrial automation/ 10000 industrial workers). The domestic industrial robot market still has great potential.

As a big manufacturing country, China has been in a backward position in the application of industrial robots. In addition to the automobile industry, the application of robots in general manufacturing industry is basically spontaneous, decentralized or scattered. With the development of factory automation in China, industrial robots will be rapidly promoted in other industries, such as electronics, metal products, rubber and plastics, food, building materials, civil explosion, aviation, medical equipment and other industries.

The application degree of industrial robot is an important symbol of the level of industrial automation in a country. The development of China's industrial robots should focus on accelerating the development demand of China's intelligent manufacturing, cooperate with both the supply and demand of robots, on the one hand, improve the innovation ability of China's robot manufacturing enterprises, promote the development of robot standardization, modularization and systematization, reduce the cost of use, and improve the level of integrated application, so as to expand the scope of market application; on the other hand, actively develop independent brands The application pilot of robots should focus on a number of typical application demonstration projects with outstanding effect, strong driving force and high relevance, and promote the use of industrial robots to transform and upgrade the traditional manufacturing industry.

2、 Breaking through the technical bottleneck and improving the industrialization ability

Robot, which integrates modern manufacturing technology, new material technology and information control technology, is a representative product of intelligent manufacturing. Its R & D, manufacturing and application have become an important symbol to measure the level of a country's scientific and technological innovation and manufacturing industry, and have attracted the attention of the world's manufacturing power.

The development of China's robot industry can be traced back to the 1980s, when the Ministry of science and technology listed industrial robots in the scientific and technological research plan. The former Ministry of mechanical industry led and organized the research of spot welding, arc welding, painting, transportation and other types of industrial robots. Other ministries and commissions also actively supported the research, forming the first climax of China's industrial robots. Since then, due to the market demand, the independent R & D and industrialization of robots have experienced a long-term stagnation. Since 2010, the installed capacity of robots in China has been increasing year by year, and started to face the development of the whole industry chain of robots.

The development of robot industry includes R & D test, industrialization of robot body and parts, system integration technology, service and so on. Each link is very important. The development of China's robot industry chain is a long process. On the whole, most of China's robot enterprises are concentrated in the field of integration, and most of them are processing and assembly enterprises. There is a considerable gap from developed countries in the original research of core and key technologies, high reliability basic functional components, system process application solutions and host batch production. In terms of key components, precision reducer, servo motor, driver and other key components rely heavily on imports. Although the state has also made great investment and support in this area for many years, the original market scale and industrialization level are not high enough to drive the development of core components, resulting in unsatisfactory results.

It can be seen that the insufficient strength of China's robot technology restricts the scale of industrialization, and the small scale in turn restricts the development of technology, which affects the process of robot industrialization. If we want to improve the market competitiveness of domestic robots, on the one hand, we need to expand the production of domestic robots and improve the production capacity of domestic robot enterprises; on the other hand, we need to promote the localization of key parts of domestic robots, improve the production capacity of key parts, and meet the needs of capacity expansion of domestic robots.

In the past two years, China has attached great importance to intelligent manufacturing and robotics. The Ministry of industry and information technology, the national development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of science and technology and other departments are pushing forward the development of the robot industry, starting from top-level design, finance, taxation, demonstration application, talent training and other aspects to promote the development of the independent brand robot industry, and supporting policies are more and more comprehensive and detailed. China's robot industry roadmap and related work of the 13th five year plan of the robot industry are also steadily advancing. This will play an important role in breaking through the technical bottleneck and improving the industrialization ability of Chinese robot enterprises.

At present, for China's robot industry, it is not a matter of attention or not, but a matter of what kind of vision to look at the industry and what kind of thinking to cultivate and orderly develop the industry. For the market demand, technological innovation mode, financial support and other aspects of the robot industry, the support policies of local governments are expected to be refined.

3、 Accelerate the R & D and production of next generation robots, and seize the next commanding point of robot technology and industrial development

With the development of robot technology, according to different functions, robots are divided into general robots and intelligent robots. Among them, general robots refer to robots with only general programming ability and operation function. At present, most of the robots produced in China belong to this category. There is no unified definition of intelligent robots. Most experts believe that intelligent robots should have at least the following major functional features: first, they should have the adaptability to uncertain operation conditions; second, they should have the flexibility of complex objects The third is to have the ability of close coordination and cooperation with people; the fourth is to have the ability of natural interaction with people; the fifth is to have the characteristics of human-computer cooperation security. Both modern industrial robots and service robots will eventually develop into intelligent robots with learning ability. We generally call intelligent robot the next generation robot. With the continuous progress of 3D visual perception / cognition, force sensor and other technologies, and the deep integration with the new generation of information technology such as industrial Internet, cloud computing, big data, etc., the intelligent level of the next generation robot will be further improved, and the perception ability to the outside world will be further enhanced, which can complete dynamic and complex tasks, realize multi machine cooperation, and cooperate with human beings 。

In order to further seize the international market and enhance the competitive position of manufacturing industry in the world, the economic powers are eager to try and make development plans to seize the development opportunities of advanced robot technology. At present, the German government implements the strategy of "industry 4.0", constructs "intelligent factory" and "intelligent production". One of its key topics is the interaction and cooperation between people and machines, machines and machines. In 2013, the United States put forward the "roadmap of robot development in the United States", which will focus on the manufacturing industry to overcome the key technologies such as strong adaptability and reconfigurable assembly of robots, smart operation of humanoid, model-based integration and supply chain design, autonomous navigation, perception of unstructured environment, education and training, and intrinsic safety of robots working with people. At the beginning of 2015, the Japanese government published the new strategy for Japanese robots, and in its five-year action plan, it clearly proposed to "research and develop the data termination, networking, cloud computing and other technologies to be realized in the next generation of robots". In recent years, the South Korean government has issued a number of policies aimed at supporting the research and development and application of the third generation of intelligent robots. In 2012, South Korea published the robot future strategic battle net 2022, which focuses on supporting South Korean enterprises to enter the international market and seize the opportunity of intelligent robot industrialization. In the past five years, the next generation of robot prototype, demonstration application and even practical systems have been emerging under the strong promotion of the United States, Japan, Europe and other technological powers.

At present, the demand market for the next generation of industrial robots in China is not fully mature, but the research and development and storage of common technologies with strategic significance are particularly urgent. At present, in order to develop the next generation robot industry in China, we should first pay attention to consolidating the technical foundation of the robot industry, strive to promote the industrialization process of existing robots, and accelerate the promotion and application of self brand robots in the domestic market. Explore new technology R & D mode, encourage research institutes and enterprises to give full play to their respective advantages, establish national level platforms for R & D and storage of next-generation industrial robots in many ways, break through the core technology of next-generation robots, develop next-generation robot prototype system and products based on China's national conditions and needs, and promote the industrialization process to seize the next-generation machines People's international commanding point. For robot products applied in different fields, different development strategies should be implemented: on the one hand, take the enterprise as the core, take the common technology platform as the support, give priority to the development of the next generation of industrial robots, promote the docking of production and demand, and seize the development commanding point; on the other hand, take the market as the guide, grasp the characteristics of domestic demand, develop service robots such as medical care, elderly care and disabled assistance, and special service Special robots working in the environment.