Recently, the State Council issued the "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan", which has pushed the artificial intelligence industry to the outlet of capital. Industrial robots, as a subdivision of capital layout in the field of artificial intelligence, show great investment potential. The integration of artificial intelligence and manufacturing is of great significance in promoting the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry.

In recent years, manufacturing enterprises have used industrial robots on a large scale, which not only improves the intelligence level and production efficiency of the manufacturing industry, but also brings about a substantial increase in the output of industrial robots.

At present, with the coordination and cooperation of artificial intelligence technology standards, commercial applications, product data and the promotion of industrial upgrading, industrial robots have ushered in a golden period of development. Today's manufacturing industry is gradually transforming from automation to intelligence with the help of the emerging technology of artificial intelligence. Industrial robots are also "the jewel in the crown of the manufacturing industry", and gradually reflect their own value in the process of the development of my country's manufacturing industry.

Taking Dongguan as an example, in the past three years, it has promoted the substitution of machines on a large scale. Now, a whole ecological chain of intelligent manufacturing has been built on this basis.

According to the Prospective Industry Research Institute, in the first half of this year, the output of industrial robots in my country increased by 52% year-on-year, and the year-on-year increase in June reached 61%, ranking first among various industrial products.

This data represents the "both supply and demand" brought about by the accelerated transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry. On the one hand, the large-scale operation of industrial robots is an effective response to the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry and to cope with rising labor costs; release cycle.

Moreover, the industrial robot industry is also undergoing tremendous changes. From the previous automated production to now with more cutting-edge technologies, such as visual perception, big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence technologies, industrial robot products have been able to provide downstream Manufacturing enterprises bring greater value and even lead the transformation of downstream industries.

Guangdong, a major manufacturing province, can be seen as a frontier for industrial robot applications. In 2016, the total number of industrial robots in Guangdong reached 60,000 units, almost 20% of the total number of robots in the country. These industrial robots are applied to all aspects of manufacturing production, such as handling, polishing, grinding, welding, assembly and testing, etc., which greatly improves the quality and efficiency of production.

The popularity of the industrial robot application market has also attracted a large number of industrial robot companies such as Dalian Machine Tool and Huazhong CNC to settle in Guangdong, which has also pushed my country's industrial robot market to a new height.

In fact, in general, there are still many areas in the industrial robot market that have not been developed. For example, monitoring, analyzing, judging, and adjusting production equipment, these tasks were difficult to do by humans in the past. Therefore, the positioning of industrial robots is not only to "replace" humans, but also to "superior" humans in order to have more room for development.

The article is excerpted from: China Automation Network