With the desirable marker demands and favorable policies, robot industries (43.270, 1.56, 3.74%) have been ready to boost in our country. However, the competition of low technology is also coming. It was known that at the end of October this year, there have been about 430 enterprises producing robots in our countries and there are two new enterprises on average every week. Over 30 provinces have been set up industrial parks of robots and over 50 listed companies have the idea of robots. Therefore, there will be the golden age of developing robot and fierce competition in the next five to eight years, especially 2015 will be the key point of robot industries in China. Daokui Qu, the chairman of the board of listed robots companies said in the first World Conference and Exhibition of Robots and Intelligent Equipment Industry(Abbreviated Robots Conference)
On the conference, many experts thought that though there are many robots industries in our country, the key components of robots,like servo motors, controllers and reducers, depend much on import. At the urgent time, dealing with the technology problems and finding out proper developing patterns by merger have become the key factors of developing robot industries.
On this conference, listed companies, like GreatooInc(13.79, -0.88, -6.00%) and Qingchuan Machine Tool(11.61, 0.57, 5.16%), presented their new products.
GreatooInc presented products, like 6-Dof robot weighted 50 kg and 20kg on the conference. Xuxu Zheng, the president of the company, told reports that GreatooInc has produced a series of light and heavy loaded industrial robots weighted 20 kg, 50kg, 100kg, 200kg and 300kg and invented a new robot product which can be applied in 3C products like mobile phones and IPads. Robot Division, established in 2013, has got a lot of orders and will soon have profits. He also said that GreatooInc is researching in Delta Robots applies in medicine and food safety, which will be sold in 2015.
Qingchun Machine Tool also presented many products like joint reducers of BX industrial robots. Employees said that at present, the company has produced two reducers and there will be more types of reducers sold and complete reducer series in the first half next year. As one of the few companies which produce domestic reducers, the price of Qingchuan machine tools is the half the that of Japan. Nowadays, the company only produce and sell a small number of reducers. However, it has won many desirable customers.
Besides, Zuoming Lin, the president of Aviation Industry Corporation of China, said: “From this year, our corporation has developed robot industry as strategic new industry and achieved great success. The invented robots have been produced in branch and sold in market. Robots of the Broadcasting Authority have been used in State Grid Corporation of China. Besides, our company has finished researching third-generation intelligent wheelchairs which have functions of holding, identifying, automatically following and climbing stairs. All these have provided a good foundation for the later development. We will speed up the transformation from aviation scientific and technological achievements to robot and intelligent equipment industries and invent products with high technology and sound price.”
On forum, Qu said that there will be a golden age of robot industries in China in the next five to eight years, which does not mean that China will lose opportunity after the golden age. It is possible that there will be a new global distribution after five and eight year and China will fall into catching other countries again. Therefore, it is important to seize the golden age.”
Meiying Zhang, the vice chairman of the 11st Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said “Our country sold 35 thousand robots in 2013 and will exceed 50 thousand this year. In the future, our country will keep a rapid growth of 40% in robot market for a long time, which is a positive signal.”
In terms of policies, Jun Luo, the Executive President and Secretary-General of International Robot and Intelligent Equipment Industry Alliance, said: “Nowadays,Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Ministry of Science and Technology have investigated in robot industry and will introduce a series policies to support robot and intelligent equipment industries in the first half year in 2015. In this year, relevant ministries have given a lot of support to robot industry in policy. Next year, the State Council will introduce more policy and allocate more funds to support robot industry.