Einstein bio-robot explains physical knowledge to audiences, security robot detects stadium safety constantly and intelligent disinfection robot sprays “water mist” to sterilize the environment, etc. Reporters saw at 2021 World Robot Conference that various robots have been widely applied to production and life and played more significant roles.

　　According to the statistics, the Chinese industrial robot market is booming and ranks the first 8 years in a row worldwide. With continuous release of intelligent demand in all walks of life, application of robots is more ubiquitous and extends from industry to medical treatment, education, catering and other industries. The robot industry is becoming a significant driving force to support economic and social development.

Robot assisting intelligent development of traditional industry

　　With deep advancing of a new round of technical and industrial revolutions, robots are honored as the “pearl on top of manufacturing industry crown” to change production methods of the manufacturing industry profoundly.

　　Currently, Chinese industrial robots have been widely applied to 129 intermediate types in 47 major industrial categories. At present, the intelligent manufacture enjoys deep development and industrial robots have become a significant part of intelligent plant construction. Networking coordinated manufacture turns flexible production line into “rigid demand” in intelligent plants and industrial robots are the main productivity on flexible production lines. Reporters saw industrial robot application based on Industrial Internet + Digital Twin in the innovation exhibition area of “Robot + Industrial Internet”. On the exhibition platform, operation procedure of mechanical arms is projected to a large electronic screen via Digital Twin technology, making production lines clear at a glance. On YASKAWA Shougang intelligent production line for “support”, several mechanical arms “wave” constantly, perform good teamwork and complete production soon. Xin Guobin, Deputy Head of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said the intelligent manufacturing system that takes industrial robots as its core provide a solid support for improving production efficiency and reducing production cost and energy consumption of the manufacturing industry effectively. Application of robot technology also speeds up the step of transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry to intellectualization.

　　In agriculture, coal and other emergency management fields, the robot technology combines with traditional production equipment to bring out special intelligent roboticized equipment such as agricultural cultivation, coal mining, explosion-proof inspection and emergency rescue. Reporters saw a “bumblebee” like firefighting robot attracts audiences. According to the introduction, it is a good helper for fire extinguishing rescue, with water flow up to 120L/s, spout height up to 95m and over 16h of uninterrupted work in fire extinguishing.

　　Facing the realistic demand of intelligent industrial transformation and upgrading, the robot technology integrates deeply with AI, big data, 5G, intelligent sensing and other technologies to provide solutions for more industries and scenes. Its industrial application also extends to furniture, entity, metallurgy, construction, textile, casting, forging, ceramics sanitary and other traditional industries gradually. Application of robots also solves difficulty in employment of labor-intensive enterprises effectively, and industrial pain points such as adverse environment and high risky operation.

　　Robots becoming “a good helper” in human life

　　Nowadays, robots are widely applied to people’s lives. In other words, intelligent roboticized equipment are everywhere. Disinfecting and contactless indoor delivery robots play a significant role in fighting COVID-19 epidemic, and they are widely applied to restaurant, hotel, hospital, quarantine place and other scenes to guarantee people’s health and safety effectively. Staff of Beijing Hollycon Co., Ltd. introduces the automatic nucleic acid extraction work station to reporters in medical robot area. The automatic nucleic acid extraction work station sets free hands of medical personnel and shortens nucleic acid extraction from 1.5-2h by hands to 60-90min. This not only lowers infection risks of medical personnel effectively but also makes results more reliable, assisting in accurate epidemic fighting.

　　Robots are applied to the medical industry to assist medical treatment in taking a new step. Reporters saw a staff operating four mechanical arms to “peel eggs” in front of a console. The huge mechanical console forms a strong contrast with fragile eggs. Actually, it is an endoscopic surgery robot. The staff told reporters that it is a domestic endoscopic surgery robot with total independent intellectual property rights and controllable whole industry chain and it has been applied to Clinical Urology Department under Shanghai Changhai Hospital. According to big data statistics, doctors’ medical treatment has been improved significantly and ordinary doctors can also hold difficult surgeries after applying the surgery robot.

　　In the medical rehabilitation field, innovative products such as exoskeleton, nursing and rehabilitation robots are emerging constantly, and have become a good aid for coping with aging population and other issues. Unmanned delivery robots are common in catering, hotel, and other service industries.

　　This year is the first year of “the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan”. It is learned that Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is taking a lead in making the robot industry development planning for “the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan” to accelerate pushing forward the robot industry development and provide a new driving force for sustainable economic and social development.