Nowadays, more and more people believe that robots will make breakthrough progress in the 21st century and play an increasingly crucial role in promoting national competitiveness. How are the global and Chinese robotics and application development levels? How does a robot rise to a national strategy? How does China layout robot development? A few days ago, top Chinese and foreign robot experts gathered in Beijing to discuss robot hot topics at the World Robotics Forum. Preliminary progress in the application of robotics From the sweeping robots that entered the home, to the unmanned cars that are hot in concept, to rehabilitation medicine, national defense, space exploration, and natural exploration in recent years... Since the birth in 1959, the market for robots has become more and more promising. R&D has made great progress. Robots have played an increasingly prominent role in improving the quality of human life and raising productivity. Zvi Shiller, chairman of the Israel Robot Association, said that robots are a multidisciplinary system. To cross over from technology to products, it is necessary to integrate various hardware and software technologies, including perception, action planning, dynamics, control, and mechanical design. Some of the core technologies, any robotic products that go to market, require a large team that takes a long time. Ding Han, Dean of the School of Mechanical Science and Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China, recalled that the earliest robot in the world was a robot controller. Since then, with the development of analog sensors, robots can make some autonomous decisions, and then the intelligence of some groups began to appear, from the initial simple industrial robots, to slowly begin some complex interactions. The data provided by the Russian Robotics Association shows that from 2000 to 2015, the annual growth rate of industrial robots in the world is about 12%, and 75% of the supply comes from China, South Korea, Japan, the United States, and Germany. The growth rate of China It reached 17%. The country with the highest density of robot use is South Korea, with an average density of 69 per 10,000 people; China has a density of 49 per 10,000 people and has become one of the leading countries in this industry. However, there is still a big gap between the reality of robots and people's imagination. Ding Han said that most of the current industrial robots can only work in some structured environments. The on-line sensing capability is relatively poor. The service robots can currently only accomplish some simple tasks. The special robots need to complete certain operations through teleoperation. jobs. Zhao Jie, director of the Institute of Robotics at Harbin Institute of Technology, believes that although Chinese industrial robots have made great progress in technology and products, several major host companies have developed almost complete series from light to heavy loads. Products, but the performance and reliability of some products have yet to be verified. In particular, some key core technologies have yet to be broken through, and some key components need to be imported from Japan, Germany, and other countries. Robots rise to national strategy Including China, the United States, Europe, and its neighbors, Japan and South Korea, have all included robots in their national development strategies and have become a strong driving force for enhancing national competitiveness. In recent years, the United States regards the "return of manufacturing industry" as the core strategy for the country to enhance its competitiveness, and robots are its core elements. In 2012, the United States put forward the return of manufacturing industry, and classified digital technology and robotics as the main supporting technologies; in 2013, the United States proposed “from the Internet to robots†to draw a new roadmap for the development of robots, and explicitly include industrial robots, including Defense, space, health care and services are included in the new category of robotics development; in October this year, the United States proposed a new national artificial intelligence research and development plan. Europe, the most typical of which is Germany, put forward “Industry 4.0â€. The core idea is that the Internet, Internet of Things, robotics, big data, etc. support each other and lead the development of the entire manufacturing industry again through “Industry 4.0â€. France, which is adjacent to Germany, also proposed a new robot action plan. Qu Daokui, chairman of the China Robotics Industry Alliance, believes that the French plan shares many similarities with China, including encouraging companies to develop international cooperation, setting standards, and building the entire scientific research institution. The United Kingdom proposed a robot self-help system strategy. Japan also proposed the robot revolution, including the goal of becoming an innovation base for robots in the world and the world’s most common robots. The main methods include the establishment of the Robot Development Committee, the holding of robot competitions, and promotion of the robot industry from multiple levels.