The robot industry development plan for the 14th five year plan (hereinafter referred to as the plan), drafted by 15 departments including the Ministry of industry and information technology, was recently issued. According to the plan, by 2025, it will become the source of global robot technology innovation, high-end manufacturing agglomeration and a new highland of integrated application. The average annual growth of operating revenue of robot industry will exceed 20%, and the robot density of manufacturing industry will double.

“China has become the world’s largest consumer of industrial robots for eight consecutive years. In 2020, the density of manufacturing robots will reach 246 sets / 10000 people, nearly twice the global average.” Wang Weiming, director of the first Department of equipment industry of the Ministry of industry and information technology, introduced that during the 13th Five Year Plan period, China’s robot industry achieved breakthroughs in scale, technology and products. In terms of scale, the operating revenue of the robot industry will exceed 100 billion yuan for the first time in 2020; During the 13th Five Year Plan period, the average annual compound growth rate was about 15%, of which the output of industrial robots increased from 72000 sets to 212000 sets, with an average annual growth of 31%. In terms of technology and products, key technologies and components such as precision reducer, high-performance servo drive system, intelligent controller and intelligent integrated joint have accelerated breakthroughs, innovative achievements have emerged, the performance of the whole machine has been greatly improved, the functions have become richer, and the product quality has been optimized day by day.

During the 13th Five Year Plan period, China’s robot application level has been greatly improved. The application field of industrial robots has covered 52 industry categories and 143 industry categories such as automobile, electronics, metallurgy, light industry, petrochemical and medicine. Service robots and special robots have realized large-scale applications in the fields of warehousing and logistics, education and entertainment, cleaning services, security inspection, medical rehabilitation and so on. “China’s robot industry has basically formed a whole industry chain system from parts to complete machine and then to integrated application. The innovation of core technology and key parts has been promoted in an orderly manner, the R & D and batch manufacturing capacity of complete machine has been continuously enhanced, and the adaptability and collaborative development capacity of the industrial chain have been continuously improved.” Wang Weiming said.

Aiming at the problems of insufficient technology accumulation, weak industrial foundation and lack of high-end supply in China’s robot industry, the plan puts forward five tasks: improving industrial innovation ability, consolidating industrial development foundation, increasing high-end product supply, expanding application depth and breadth, and optimizing industrial organization structure, And actions such as “robot key foundation improvement action”, “robot innovative product development action”, “robot +” application action “.