At present, it has become a common challenge for all countries to realize the continuous transformation of new and old kinetic energy and promote strong and sustainable economic growth. At the Skilled Talents and China Manufacturing Summit Forum held a few days ago, Luo Junjie, deputy director of the Equipment Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, pointed out that in recent years, my country's economy has entered a new normal, and the development of intelligent manufacturing is to realize the cultivation and development of emerging industries and traditional industries. The best way to organically combine transformation and upgrading. In the next step, we will further implement the special intelligent manufacturing project, continue to promote pilot demonstration, speed up the revision and promotion and application of standards, actively cultivate system solution suppliers, deepen international cooperation, improve the intelligent manufacturing ecosystem, improve the quality and efficiency of the manufacturing industry, and accelerate the formation of new advantages made in China.

Become a national strategy for countries

Luo Junjie introduced that after the international financial crisis, the global economy has entered a period of in-depth adjustment, the growth rate has slowed down significantly, and the recovery has faltered. Major countries and regions in the world have stepped up planning and layout. At present, whether it is the German "Industrial 4.0" or the American Industrial Internet, its core is to promote the digitalization, networking, and intelligence of the manufacturing industry, which is actually intelligent manufacturing. "Made in China 2025" takes intelligent manufacturing as the main direction and breakthrough, which effectively drives breakthroughs in key technologies and equipment such as robots, promotes the integrated innovation of complete sets of intelligent manufacturing equipment, and forms a number of typical new intelligent manufacturing models. Production efficiency, energy utilization, operating costs, product development cycle and so on have been significantly improved.

Nowadays, with the accelerated integration of the new generation of information and communication technologies such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence with the manufacturing industry, the development of digitalization, networking, and intelligence, as well as the vigorous development of intelligent manufacturing, has brought a new era to the robot industry. In the spring, robots and human production and life are becoming more and more inseparable.

New trends in industrial development

Luo Junjie believes that overall, the future development of the robot industry shows the following trends:

First, new materials will be widely used in the field of robotics. Composite materials such as lightweight high-strength steel, magnesium aluminum alloy and carbon fiber will be widely used in the manufacture of robot bodies and key parts, promoting the lightweight of robots and improving motion performance, and greatly reducing the weight-to-load ratio of robots. At the same time, cutting-edge technologies such as liquid metal control technology and electrical signal muscle control technology will also strongly promote the use and popularization of new materials in the field of bionic robots and flexible robots.

Second, cloud service technology accelerates the overall improvement of robot application level. The robot only needs to connect to the cloud server to effectively realize data exchange and knowledge sharing, and provide users with a new robot service mode with unlimited expansion and on-demand use.

Third, artificial intelligence will promote the continuous enrichment of robot application scenarios. With the help of artificial intelligence technologies such as speech recognition, semantic understanding and visual processing, and under the influence of sensitive tactile technology, brain-computer interface technology and virtual reality control technology, robots can break through the existing cognitive limitations and significantly improve human-computer interaction experience.

Fourth, robots are gradually shifting from simple product competition to complex and integrated ecological competition. In the future, the market competition in the field of robotics will go beyond the boundaries of enterprises, and the form will gradually change from the original product competition to the competition of industrial ecology. Only by forming an ecosystem of mutual dependence and symbiosis can the market subject develop and improve in the competition.

Industry development faces new opportunities

Luo Junjie pointed out that the current economic development of my country has entered a new normal, the global technology and industrial structure are undergoing profound adjustments, and the development of the robot industry is facing new major historical opportunities.

First, positive progress has been made in terms of scale, technology, application and agglomeration. The scale of the industry is expanding rapidly. According to statistical analysis, the output of robots in China reached 72400 in 2016, and it was close to 72000 from January to July this year, an increase of 56.7 percent over the same period last year. Breakthroughs in research and development of key technologies and components. At present, speech recognition, image recognition and other technologies have reached the international advanced level, robot body optimization design and performance evaluation, high-speed and high-precision control and other technologies have made positive progress, and the controller has approached the international level. Diversified application scenarios continue to expand. Industrial robots, after automobiles and electronics, have been increasingly widely used in industries such as hardware and bathroom, furniture and home appliances.

Second, it has good development opportunities in terms of market potential, open cooperation, and intelligence. The market foundation is solid and there is still great potential to be tapped. With the transformation of population structure and production mode, the demand for industrial robots and service robots in China continues to grow significantly.

Third, the rapid development of emerging technologies, the field of intelligence is expected to break through. my country is basically at the same starting line as the world in terms of artificial intelligence technology, especially in the fields of image recognition, speech recognition, and semantic recognition, which have partially approached and reached the global leading level.

China's robot industry should be clear-eyed, physical fitness, solid and yuan.

Luo Junjie requires that we must correctly grasp the trends and characteristics of the development of the global and my country's robot industry, clarify the positioning and direction, improve the ability and level, improve the foundation and environment, and promote the healthy and sustainable development of my country's robot industry. First, it is necessary to "clear the mind" and further clarify the positioning and direction of the development of robots. At present, the robot industry is in a period of rapid development. The actual demand of the robot market, especially the potential demand, is very huge. The depth and breadth of the development of robots are very broad, and they have become the darling of various resources such as policies, capital, and talents.

The second is to "strengthen the body" and further enhance the ability and level of robot development. From the actual development of the robot industry, the main task is to accelerate the ability and level of industrial development.

The third is to "consolidate the foundation and cultivate the yuan" and further improve the foundation and environment for the development of robots. Robots are the product of cross-disciplinary cross-integration and development. They need group-style integrated innovation and more professional and efficient R & D design and market services. They need to inject more "vitality" into industrial development and lay a stronger foundation for industrial development. Firmness also creates a better external environment for industrial development. On the one hand, we should strengthen the construction of innovation capacity. Promote the construction of the National Robot Innovation Center, carry out key common technologies and cutting-edge technologies such as human-computer interaction, compliant control, functional bionics, and intelligent perception, and open up industrialization channels. On the other hand, it is necessary to build more carriers for exchanges and cooperation. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will actively implement the "Manufacturing Talent Development Planning Guide" with relevant departments, and encourage key enterprises to establish a joint talent training mechanism with domestic and foreign universities and research institutions