1/3 of global robot production in China, 1/3 of Chinese robot production in Shanghai
The Shanghai Newstar Smart Factory, with a total investment of 690 million yuan and an annual output of 10,000 industrial robots, was put into production in Jiading; the third phase of the Shanghai FANUC Smart Factory cooperating with Shanghai Electric and the global robot giant Hair Neck started construction... Recently, Shanghai Robot Industry Good news spread frequently.
Robots are known as "the jewel in the crown of manufacturing" and are an important indicator of a country's technological innovation and high-end manufacturing level. The latest data show that 1/3 of the global robot output is in China, and 1/3 of China’s robot output is in Shanghai. The robot industry has become a new business card of "Made in Shanghai".
Faced with the epidemic rising against the trend
Last year was an extraordinary year for the robotics industry. "Affected by the decline of the automotive industry and the impact of the new crown epidemic, Shanghai's industrial robot output value was once faced with a crisis of decline, but leading companies such as Xinshida and Zhongke Xinsong have actively turned crises into opportunities and achieved bucking the trend." Said Han Dadong, Director of the Intelligent Manufacturing Promotion Division of the Information Committee.
Faced with the difficulty of face-to-face communication caused by the epidemic, Newstar built the same application scenarios as the customer's application sites in the factory, benchmarking the technical level of international first-line brands, and the sales, marketing, engineering and R&D teams cooperated to achieve major technological breakthroughs. , Especially in the core technology of robots-motion control algorithms have made great progress.
In April last year when the epidemic prevention situation was severe, the beat of the SP120/2400 palletizing robot of Xinshida exceeded 1,000 packs/hour, an increase of 54% compared to the original. During the Industrial Fair in September, this indicator broke through 1,200 packs/hour, achieving a parallel run with international first-line brands. Ji Yi, chairman of Newstar Electric, revealed that in the first three quarters of last year, the company's net profit was about 76.52 million yuan, a sharp increase of 36.64% year-on-year.
Zhongke Xinsong, China’s largest seven-axis robot manufacturer, focuses on small batches and diversified demand trends. Last year’s newly launched GCR5 collaborative robot has a load of 5 kg, an arm span of 910 mm, a joint angular velocity of 225 degrees per second, and repeated operations. With an accuracy of ±0.03 mm, it is the fastest collaborative robot in the industry.
Zhongke Xinsong President Yang Li said, “Although foreign demand slowed down last year, domestic demand continued to be released.” Domestic automobile OEMs, flexible chip production, and medical robot surgical trials have become the company’s The main battlefield.
The recovery momentum of the domestic manufacturing industry has begun to play a role. At the beginning of December last year, Shanghai FANUC's third-phase plant, covering an area of about 431 acres and a total investment of 1.58 billion yuan, was officially opened in Shanghai. This will be FANUC's largest robot base outside Japan. It is expected to be completed. The annual output value reaches 10 billion yuan. Qian Hui, general manager of Shanghai FANUC Robotics, said that last year the company's national sales reached a record high.
Service robots welcome the golden decade
Industrial robots look for opportunities in adversity, and service robots usher in explosive growth. In the fields of medical, commerce, education and people's livelihood robot applications, a number of industry rookies such as Dada and Gaoxian have emerged.
"The order is too late to make, and the demand is beyond imagination." Wang Bing, chairman of Dart Robotics, said frankly that since the epidemic, he has been watching the scene to catch up almost every day. As the leader of domestic service robots, Dart Robot's outstanding performance in the epidemic has made it a "hot commodity." In Wuhan, Dart Robots built the country’s first "smart shelter hospital"-Wuchang shelter hospital in just one week. Under the intelligent dispatching command of the cloud brain, it uses medical robots, patrol robots, cleaning and disinfection robots, and transportation robots. 24-hour online operations such as temperature measurement robots, etc., to improve the operating efficiency of the entire shelter hospital in real time; in Shanghai, the Dart 5G cloud cleaning and disinfection robot at Shanghai Children’s Hospital can efficiently and autonomously complete the cleaning and disinfection tasks in the hospital, reducing the working hours of staff , To avoid cross infection.
At present, Dart Robot's intelligent flexible joint SCA production and robot production line in Shanghai have entered the mass production stage. Wang Bing said that he now hopes that the Dana Intelligent Robot Industrial Base in Minhang will be completed as soon as possible, in order to build a world-class intelligent manufacturing base for core parts of robots.
Titanium robots, which were born in Pudong, have also emerged in the fight against the epidemic. Multifunctional disinfection robots have become "explosive models", and orders from hospitals have increased rapidly. Pan Jing, general manager of Titanium Robotics, said that currently, hundreds of Titanium Robotics and nearly ten medical robot products have been applied to more than 200 large-scale tertiary hospitals in China. Aiming at the direction of "medical robots", Titanium is sprinting into the science and technology innovation board.
Dai Liu, president of the Shanghai Robot Industry Association, said that in the development of the robotics industry, service robots are coming from behind, and China's development is almost synchronized with the international ones. As an obvious terminal product after the combination of manufacturing and AI, with the development of China's AI technology, the accompanying service robots will also usher in the golden growth period of the next ten years.
Promote the industry's fixed chain to replenish the strong chain
After rapid growth in previous years, the robotics industry has become an important pillar for Shanghai to promote technological innovation and develop intelligent manufacturing.
Today, Shanghai’s industrial robot production accounts for about 1/9 of the global scale. The “four major families” of international robots-FANUC, ABB, Yaskawa, and KUKA have established a Chinese headquarters or robot headquarters, and the leading domestic robot company New Times , Siasun, HKUST, etc. have expanded their investment layout. At the same time, a large number of leading companies in sub-sectors, such as Xiaoi, Dada, Gaoxian, and Titanium, have grown rapidly and have emerged as a new generation of industry forces and technology sources.
Accompanied by it is an increasingly complete industrial ecology. Fudan University established the Intelligent Robot Research Institute, dedicated to forming a series of intelligent terminals with independent intellectual property rights and a new industrial R&D economic model with robots as intelligent terminals. The Robotics Research Institute of Shanghai University, Shanghai Electric Apparatus Research Institute, Shanghai Electric Central Research Institute, ShanghaiTech University Advanced Robotics Laboratory, Shanghai Jiaotong University Medical Robotics Research Institute, and Shanghai Jiaotong University Robotics Research Institute are also helping the key core of Shanghai's robotics industry. Technology breakthrough.
In terms of spatial layout, Shanghai’s robotics industry has initially formed a “3+X” spatial layout. “3” refers to the Shanghai Robot Industrial Park in Jiading District, Baoshan District, and Pudong New District, and “X” refers to the joint development of multiple industrial parks. . Recently, Pudong officially released the robot industry map and the "One Valley, One Park" plan. It plans to form a robot industry development space of 3.9 square kilometers and 5.5 square kilometers in Zhangjiang and Jinqiao, respectively, and create a world-class technological innovation center, medical robot highland, and discrete Intelligent manufacturing characteristic industrial park, innovative functional service platform cluster, forming a cross-border integrated development ecology. By 2023, Pudong will be built into a top-level domestic robotics industry development highland with high international influence, with an overall industrial scale reaching 50 billion yuan.
Regarding the next development direction of the Shanghai robot industry, the relevant person in charge of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology stated that it will accelerate the expansion of the promotion and application of robots in all walks of life, create a benchmarking project for industrial robot application, and carry out the "10030" special project throughout the city. The empowerment of robots promotes the construction of 100 smart manufacturing factories and drives the addition of 10,000 robots.
At the same time, speed up the implementation and promotion and application of major industrial projects of service robots, focus on service robot companies in the fields of medical care, education, security and customer service, and strive to cultivate 3 to 5 domestic leaders in service robots, create an industrial highland for service robots, and support Shanghai's “online” New economy" development. (Reporter Liu Kun)
