Four months ago, in the video released by Boston Dynamice, the scene of 10 SpotMini pulling a large car "kaka" once again refreshed people's robots (perhaps the robot dog is more accurate) Cognition. The “2019 World Robot Congress” at the time of the exhibition clearly shows another scene. Under the mutual rise of industrial robots and intelligent manufacturing, the high-quality development of Chinese manufacturing industry is showing positive changes.

A number of robots from the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (hereinafter referred to as the Rocket Institute) of Aerospace Science and Technology Group Co., Ltd. appeared, more than half related to intelligent manufacturing.

Among them, the 3kg/5kg cooperative robot arm developed by Rocket Institute 18 has successfully attracted the onlookers. It can grab 3kg to 5kg items in 360 degrees, and the precision can be achieved in the legendary millimeter (0.1mm range). .

Wang Yanbo, director of the 18 Intelligent Robot Innovation Center of the Rocket Institute, said that in order to ensure safety, most of the robots currently operating in the industry can only work alone. This cooperative robotic arm breaks the "human-computer interaction barrier" and can be helped by the operators. They work.

Producing data and performing production tasks, a variety of industrial robots are increasingly appearing in the business processes of various manufacturing companies, becoming an important production tool for intelligent manufacturing scenarios.

Lenovo and Motorola branded mobile phones, tablets, SIoT devices and other products are produced at the Lenovo (Wuhan) industrial base and sent to the world. Here, not only all kinds of industrial robots are the main “labor” on the production line, but 65 AGV automatic freight robots developed by Lenovo independently operate the control system in 11 lines, and will avoid personnel and obstacles. The whole process does not require any labor. Intervention, more than 13,000 raw materials are delivered every 1.5 hours.

Yang Yuanqing, chairman and CEO of Lenovo Group, told the Science and Technology Daily reporter: "Lenovo has achieved a good start in the first quarter of this year, and its operating profit and net profit have doubled compared with the same period of last year. In particular, this is to promote intelligent manufacturing and intelligentization. The transformation cannot be separated."

The intelligent manufacturing mentioned by Yang Yuanqing, including the intelligent transformation of the whole process of R&D, production, supply, sales and service, is now a universal path for high-quality and advanced manufacturing in China. Lenovo is exporting its own intelligent transformation as a model to other companies, and has provided comprehensive intelligent manufacturing solutions for hundreds of Chinese manufacturing companies.

The “industry intelligence” mission is the Lenovo Data Intelligence Business Group (DIBG), which operates independently in June this year. Luo Haoyuan, a partner of China-Guangdong Co-investment, said: "From the performance of the quarter, the overall turnover of Lenovo's business has grown rapidly, reaching four times that of the same period of the previous year. This figure tells us that China's manufacturing industry has high demand for high quality. As an important carrier of intelligent manufacturing, industrial robots will continue to sit on the throne of the world's largest industrial robot market, and will also feed back the development of the Chinese robot industry."
"China is promoting the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry, and accelerating the development of the robot industry is an important direction for the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry." Miao Wei, Minister of Industry and Information Technology, said, "This year, due to the impact of the international economic development environment, global industrial robots are growing. At the same time, the robot industry still faces many problems and challenges in the development process. But overall, as an important carrier of the new round of technological revolution and manufacturing integration innovation, robots are still promoting the transformation of new and old kinetic energy and promoting economic quality. An important driving force for development."

According to Miao Wei, in 2018, China's industrial robot production reached 148,000 units (sets), and global production accounted for more than 38%.

Luo Haoyuan said: "This number is exciting, but it also said that the four major families of industrial robots, ABB, Germany, KUKA, Japan's Fanuc and Yaskawa Electric, together account for more than 70% of the Chinese robotics market share, almost Monopolize high-end fields such as robot manufacturing and welding. China's industrial robot industry still has to work hard to make up the short board."

Academician Tan Jianrong, a mechanical engineering expert, once said: "The core controller is one of the core technologies of robots and is the most important area in China."

As one of the core components of industrial robots, the controller is the brain of industrial robots and plays a decisive role in the performance of robots. It is understood that as one of the 35 core technologies that China urgently needs to overcome, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has listed it as one of the key technical shortcomings that China needs to make up for, and is included in the “Industrial Strong Foundation Project Implementation Guide (2016-2020)” Dragon" application plan.

Source: Technology Daily

(Editor: Yang Yibo Luo, Lu Wei)