China is the robot used the largest number of countries, but the development of industry is relatively small and weak competitive power. Mechanical and electrical engineering and computer science at the university of Florida in the United States a tenured professor Wu Xinzhang in accept the China securities journal reporter in an interview, "domestic robot industry level, but also in the Internet industry development to 1995 levels, but the industry's huge growth." The robot industry is expected through "made in China 2025" corner overtaking.

The robot industry development space is enormous

Wu Xinzhang pointed out that in the past decade, the United States attaches great importance to advanced manufacturing technology, in recent years has also been called for manufacturing regression. "The return of the American manufacturing" largely refers to use robots to replace human labor. "In the next decade, the United States will also push the advanced manufacturing, from precision medical treatment, brain plan, advanced automobile, wisdom city, clean energy, energy saving technology, education, technology, space exploration, new areas, such as computers, cut, robots will play an important role in these fields."

While China's high-end manufacturing also ushered in a rare historical opportunity. Wu Xinzhang analysis says, the government attaches great importance to the "public entrepreneurship, peoples innovation", which brought good environment for industry development, the robot industry in China is expected to pass through the "made in China 2025" strategic opportunities to realize corner overtaking. But China's industrial capital investment in the field of robot is still less than one percent of the total amount of capital, investment and huge development space in the future. At the same time, China's industrial system is complete, complete industrial chain, for the fabrication of end products provide a good condition. "In the past more than a year of time, have hundreds of robot enterprise was born in China, many VCS also actively follow up."

Motor technology is the industrial "heart"

"This wave of outlet should be called 'intelligent mechanical and electrical system. Regardless of the robot, or unmanned aerial vehicle (uav) or simple electric vehicles, in fact is a motor drive system as the core. This is why the motor industry was known as the pearl in the field of robot, is equivalent to the heart of the industry." Wu Xinzhang said.

In the field of motor development is crucial, but China is now the robot enterprises mainly in the use of foreign motor. Luo Jun, chief executive of international robot and intelligent equipment industry association has said that on the high side reducer, controller and motor, China's basic rely on imports.

Wu Xinzhang, said China's motor in terms of quality also can not reach the most advanced level abroad. "Motor production is not only a design problem, and process problems. Domestic haven't solve the problem of process production especially mass manufacturing process. Although the defence manufacturing craft enough, but the precision of the civilian motor needs to be improved."

Chinese Wang overtaking robot industry development opportunities

Mechanical ball bearing, for example, more than domestic enterprises in the use of the finished product of other countries. If there is no good bearing, mechanical and electrical systems will not be able to achieve high speed, large power, small vibration, long service life of good performance. "Japan yaskawa motor company also produce the robot, we can buy his motor to create your own robot. If the motor prices soared, we build robots, there is no advantage on cost."

In addition, the technology of companies rarely "publicly available", "everyone is silent on technology, also can not find a patent, the paper is less." Wu Xinzhang said, in the United States, a lot of big technology companies with a batch of scientific and technological elite "captive", but a lot of core technology often in the hands of a small company. Such companies usually has a strong ability to innovate, their products a single, but there are enough core customers, does not seek to rapidly expanding into a business empire. Encounter the difficulty, will receive special government funding, in order to ensure the continuation of its innovation ability. "How to draw lessons from international experience, to produce excellent domestic motor, the core components are particularly crucial."

For the industry's future development, Wu Xinzhang think, will from two dimensions of horizontal and vertical presents huge growth space. Crosswise, the intelligent electrical system is not only one mobile terminal products, more important is to bring the prosperity of the whole industry chain, including robot assembly, battery, motor, reducer, robot control, software, data, artificial intelligence and so on each plate. And from the point of the longitudinal, the plate can be subdivided specialized fields. Motor areas, for example, subdivided into research and development and drive; Big data subdivided into big data in the field of software and pattern recognition, etc; Semiconductor contains mechanical processing and supply, etc. "Every niche eventually connected by the enterprise, each plate will also present different style and features of mergers and acquisitions."

Internet business layout

"Is different from the software industry, the development of hardware production capacity problems, must invest enough, open enough, buy enough high quality CNC machine tools, coupled with first-class technology, to produce high quality end products." Wu Xinzhang said.

In recent years, Google acquired several advanced robots, has attracted widespread attention of the industry; To inject the first bucket of gold of Japan's richest man son jack ma, companies are starting to invest robot; Mr Ma himself ready to involved in this field.

"Capital especially the Internet companies began quietly layout," Wu Xinzhang said, "the Internet in the past 20 years to make software, communication is very convenient and developed, in the coming decades, hardware business will have a big breakthrough."

According to the current international popular practice, many big technology companies often through cross-border acquisitions or become a big shareholder, core quality in the industry enterprise, the core technology of resource integration of the reentry after. Cooperate with famous universities, for example, thus forming the integration of production, the production process. "China does not lack of capital, when the capital into a new field, need the guidance of experts, have a good effect on the market eventually." Wu Xinzhang forecast, the future development of robot will subdivide out a lot of different areas, each area are full of competition and continuous industry mergers and acquisitions, the acquisition and even in international scope. Investors to invest in not only a growth potential of start-ups, more on the medium level in mergers, restructuring, integration of resources.