Black technology starts from the steel suit

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"The professional ones are indeed different. Although I am considered a semi-expert in this area, my understanding of the current situation of the industry is still far behind yours!" Wang Feng said with emotion. If you don't listen, you won't know. It scares you when you hear it. Jump, some things are just like this. If you don’t understand it, you will think that it is a peaceful and prosperous age.

But when you go to understand it, you will know how serious the current situation is.

"That's not the biggest problem. The bigger problem is the next question." Wei Mingli smiled wryly, feeling that his junior didn't even know what the situation was at that time!

But thanks to him not being clear, otherwise, it would be impossible for everyone to do things to this extent!
"Oh, why do you say that?" Wang Feng had a vague guess in his heart.

"Why are domestic robots not good enough?" Wei Mingli took out a piece of A4 paper and wrote a big "environmental problem" on it.

First of all, the industry chain is weak:

The localization of the three core components of the control system, reducer, and servo system has just started. The direct consequences of the lack of high-performance components are: first, the performance of the entire robot cannot be guaranteed; second, the failure to guarantee performance will affect sales, resulting in inability to Gain higher supplier bargaining power.

In particular, foreign businessmen intentionally suppress domestic technological development. Companies that are truly interested in technology cannot get orders at all and cannot complete a virtuous cycle of technological upgrading. In the current environment, capital does not favor these physical manufacturing industries, so now This business is actually very embarrassing, and it is already very difficult to maintain it without dying.

The second is the technology gap:
Domestic robots started relatively late. Except for Siasun, most of the famous brands in the market should have been established after 2008. The technology accumulation is not the same as the 30-40 years of accumulation of the four major families.

But here is one thing to mention, unlike artificial intelligence, machine vision and other robotics fields that are hot spots in theoretical research, the control technologies currently used in traditional industrial robots (forward and inverse kinematics, forward and inverse dynamics, trajectory planning, parameter identification, Error compensation, etc.) is already very mature in theory, what domestic robot companies lack is a certain amount of time to provide a sufficiently reliable and efficient implementation.

But unfortunately, what we lack at present is time. When we finally catch up, people may come up with more advanced technology, or start dumping on a large scale, and we will fall behind step by step.

The third is the disconnect between industry, education and research, and the conversion rate of achievements is low:

As the traditional robotic arm technology is relatively mature, it is difficult to publish academic papers with high influence. At the same time, there are no industrial robot companies in China to provide enough horizontal projects for universities, resulting in the lack of first-class scholars in the field of industrial robots in China to lead the industry. technology development.

Correspondingly, let’s take a look at two well-known foreign companies, Universal Robots (UR Universal Robots) and Rethink Robotics.The establishment of these two companies should be earlier than most people's first impression.

UR Collaborative Industrial Robotic robot Arms: Founded in 2005 by Esben stergaard, Kasper Sty and Kristian Kassow when they were doing research together at the University of Southern Denmark. The current CEO Esben stergaard was an assistant professor at the University of Southern Denmark at the time. The three discovered the importance of robots to small and medium-sized enterprises. new demands and finally launched the first UR2009 collaborative robot in 5.

Rethink Robotics Rethink Robotics: Founded by MIT professor Rodney Brooks in 2008, it is committed to reducing the level of offshoring of American manufacturing and increasing domestic employment by providing suitable robotic products for small and medium-sized enterprises. Rodney Brooks is also the co-founder of iRobot, another leading robotics company.

In foreign countries, there are still many start-up companies founded by leading scholars in the robotics industry or providing technical support behind them, and they all have a bright feeling in terms of technology or main attack direction.In contrast, the cooperation between domestic academic circles and business circles shows that everyone basically does things in their own way.

Scholars use special funds for research and development and publish papers; business circles use banknotes to introduce outdated technologies abroad, and they are still complacent, changing their names and starting selling products directly...

The academic world has long given up on the ugly corporate world and has chosen to break away from reality; after experiencing the misdeeds of the academic world, the corporate world no longer trusts them...it's just a piece of cake, so don't mention it.

The last one is the orientation question:
Subsidy chaos, huge subsidies and weak regulatory capabilities have caused many people in the non-robot industry to fish in troubled waters and defraud subsidies, directly damaging robot manufacturers and users who really need subsidies.Those who want to do things are tight in the front line, and those who don't do things are tight in the rear, but you can't say anything, otherwise you will offend your colleagues, don't talk about doing things, you will not be able to stay.

There are many related reports on the Internet, such as the investigation of the robot subsidy chaos and the local "***" sounding the overheating alarm.This is a very complicated issue, the water is deep, and it cannot be changed for the time being, and it is not convenient for us to make a judgment, but in the long run, it will definitely undermine the confidence of companies that really do things.

That is to say, we are not short of money, and we can meet our own needs without financial transfusions. Otherwise, if we invest hundreds of millions in one go, and just make a control system for a robotic arm, who can bear it?
政策制定部门的低效率：直到2015年5月份才发布具有国家级影响力的制造业战略规划“华国制造2025”，而关于工业机器人细分领域的规划”机器人产业发展规划(2016-2020年)“直到16年的3月底才公布。

As a comparison, let’s take a look at the timelines of related plans and plans in other countries/regions:
Industry 4.0： 2011年4月份首次提出，2013年4月发布发布最终报告；
SMErobot: The project period is from March 2005 to May 3. It studies how to manufacture industrial robots that better meet the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises. Part of the driving force for the currently popular collaborative robots comes from the research results of this project.In addition to the government and related organizations behind the project, familiar well-known manufacturers such as ABB, KUKA, Comau, Rice, and Güdel are all involved.

Advanced Manufacturing Partnership Program: Proposed by the US government in June 2011, it aims to reshape the leading position of the US manufacturing industry.In addition, USA Robotics VO also released two robot development roadmaps in 6 and 2009 to guide the development of the U.S. robot industry. It is worth mentioning that the title of the roadmap "From Internet to Robotics" shows that the robot The industry's attention and optimism.

You must know that each policy needs to go through years of detailed research and analysis before it is released. The release time is 3 years late, and the in-depth research of academics and industries may be 6 years or more late.

"Six years, with the huge capital and scientific research advantages of Europe and the United States in these six years, how far can the other party go first!"

Putting away the two full A4 papers, Wei Mingli closed the pen cap: "I won't talk about other trivial matters. At present, these two most important problems are the main problems. At present, we have solved the control system. It is a big step forward, but it is still unknown whether it can go far!"

(End of this chapter)