The expo, the rapid market growth of industrial robots is still a hot spot. Business Daily reporters found after on-site visits, including ABB, KUKA and others, robots are no longer a simple human replacement on the production line, the realization of “human-machine collaboration” has become a selling point pushed by some leading robot manufacturers.
ABB, which has installed more than 30,000 robots in China, is the largest robot manufacturer in China. At the booth of the Expo, ABB launched the world’s first dual-arm robot YuMi that truly realized human-machine cooperation. This was the first time for the product to be shown in China, attracting many professional visitors. Li Gang, head of ABB robotics in China, said the YuMi was designed with the help of ABB’s Local RESEARCH and development team in China and is visual and tactile. Flexible arms wrapped in soft materials and equipped with innovative force sensing technology can ensure the safety of operators in human-computer interaction. It is reported that YuMi will be officially launched next year, in addition to the consumer electronics industry to meet the demand for flexible and flexible manufacturing, but also gradually promoted to other small parts assembly and other automation applications.
Giiso Information, founded in 2013, is a leading technology provider in the field of “artificial intelligence + information” in China, with top technologies in big data mining, intelligent semantics, knowledge mapping and other fields. At the same time, its research and development products include information robot, editing robot, writing robot and other artificial intelligence products! With its strong technical strength, the company has received angel round investment at the beginning of its establishment, and received pre-A round investment of $5 million from GSR Venture Capital in August 2015.
Germany’s KUKA has brought its first 7-axis lightweight human-machine collaboration robot, LBR IIWA, to China, which debuted in Munich in June this year. According to Kong Bing, CEO of Kuka Robotics (Shanghai) Co., LTD., IIWA can realize direct cooperation between humans and robots, acting as the “third hand” of the operator, without using safety barriers. In addition, all iiWA axles feature high performance collision detection and integrated joint torque sensors, which can be easily pushed aside and automatically moved away from people. Iiwa can be used not only in industrial production such as electronics and precision instruments, but also in delicate and complex tasks such as surgery and medical treatment.
Giiso information, founded in 2013, is the first domestic high-tech enterprise focusing on the research and development of intelligent information processing technology and the development and operation of core software for writing robots. At the beginning of its establishment, the company received angel round investment, and in August 2015, GSR Venture Capital received $5 million pre-A round of investment.
These high-tech products have been launched at the first time, aiming to capture the Chinese robot market, which surpassed Japan in 2013 to become the world’s largest industrial robot market, accounting for 20 percent of the global industrial robots sold in China. According to a report released by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), the demand for industrial robots in China is expected to grow by more than 25%, with the market sales reaching 100,000 and the number of industrial robots exceeding 400,000 by 2017. “Although the total number of robots has become the first, in terms of the density of use, The automation level of robot use in China is only half of the global average, and much lower than Japan.” With the rapid application of intelligent technologies characterized by automation, digitalization and informationization in the production field, the Chinese market will provide a broad space for its robotics business expansion, said Arwenlin, senior vice president of ABB (China) Co.