The "robot" industry accumulated billions of dollars in six months
At Tianji Automobile Changsha Ingenuity Factory, robot production has become a "standard". Ke Ming, reporter of Changsha Evening News
Changsha Evening News all media reporter Li Guangjun correspondent Ke Ming Hao Lixia
The development of artificial intelligence technology is making more dreams come true. This is the development of robots, temperature robot, go robot, food delivery robot, climbing the wall robot, car robot... They appear in restaurants, schools, factories, and become "intelligent helpers" in people's work and life. Changsha has a profound manufacturing base and broad application market. Industrial parks represented by Yuhua Economic Development Zone and Changsha High-tech Zone have attracted a large number of robot enterprises to land and take root, gather into chains, and grow rapidly and develop rapidly on this fertile soil.
Data from the city's artificial intelligence and sensor (including CNC machine tools) industry chain promotion office shows that in the first half of the year, the industry chain is expected to achieve revenue of 10.91 billion yuan, a year-on-year growth of 12.7%. Among them, Yuhua area is expected to increase by 21%.
Changsha grabs the opportunity to accelerate the layout
In recent years, the scale of China's robot industry has continued to grow. In 2021, the output of industrial robots reached 366,000 units, with a year-on-year growth of 67.9%. Artificial intelligence and robots are ushering in a period of rapid development.
In the first half of the year, Changsha actively grabbed the development of the new generation of artificial intelligence technology and industrial energy tuyvents, made good use of its own industrial, academic and research foundation advantages, improved the industrial chain, promoted scene construction, and enhanced the industrial atmosphere, and made remarkable achievements.
A number of key enterprises show bright performance. In the first half of this year, the output value of Xianhui Intelligent, Changtai Intelligent and Changtai Robot increased by 256 percent, 51 percent and 60 percent respectively. Changsha High-tech Zone CNC machine tool industry revenue growth of 10.8%.
Enterprises are also steadily promoting investment. The reporter learned that in the first half of the year, the city artificial intelligence and sensor (including CNC machine tools) industry chain office went out to attract investment 7 times, the introduction of industry chain key projects 31, planned total investment of 47519.5 billion yuan, the introduction of 21Vianet, Sanxiang Yuan and other investment of 29 million yuan projects.
It is worth mentioning that, as the agglomeration area of the city's artificial intelligence and sensor (including CNC machine tools) industry, Yuhua Economic Development Area in the first half of the year to introduce intelligent manufacturing equipment production base construction projects, Jiangneng wisdom and other "three categories of top 500" projects 2; It has contracted to invest in 1 project of over 5 billion yuan and 3 projects of over 200 million yuan and less than 1 billion yuan.
The emergence of various innovation carriers has also continued to inject innovative power into the artificial intelligence and sensor (including CNC machine tools) industry in Changsha.
The Xiangjiang Laboratory, which was inaugurated in July, has established more than 200 innovation platforms, including the National Engineering Laboratory of Robot Visual Perception and Control Technology, the National Super Computing Changsha Center and other state-level innovation carriers.
The robot can meet the requirements of multiple scenarios
In Changsha High-tech Zone, the intelligent pipeline robot developed by Hunan Zhilun Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. can achieve independent intelligent operation in a closed environment without relying on external navigation technology. The robot is also equipped with specially developed sterilization and disinfection equipment, which can realize sterilization and disinfection of large ventilation system without dead Angle and secondary pollution.
"We have a variety of sensors on the robot, including lasers, radar, infrared and high-precision cameras." Liao Yongzhong, technical director of the company, said that the robot has been used in subway ventilation pipes and ventilation pipes of large hospitals for cleaning and disinfection. "In the future, it will be mainly used in airport, subway, hospital, large public theater, large supermarket pipeline detection, cleaning and disinfection. Through the replacement of different kits, it can also be further applied to a variety of hidden, narrow, dangerous space unmanned detection, such as mine detection and exploration, seismic search and rescue, weld detection, industrial gas, oil pipeline detection, etc."
Robots are a new force in manufacturing and a good helper in service industries. "Spiderman" hanging in mid-air to wipe glass and clean building exterior walls is one of the common high-risk operation scenes in cities. Hunan Jian 'an Xin Information Technology Co., LTD. Intelligent cleaning leapfrog robot body is tied wire rope, lying on the glass wall, according to deep learning instructions, in the set track to horizontal and vertical direction of leapfrog cleaning. Zhang Jianping, the project leader of the company, said that the products developed by the company still belong to the blank state of the market at home and abroad. The second generation of products have been researched and developed to obtain relevant invention patents and utility model patents, and will soon be put on the market.
And in the field of life services, the appearance of robots is more convenient. "The robot is specially designed for disinfection of large indoor public Spaces such as hospitals, shopping malls and waiting halls, and can cover an area of 10,000 square meters of disinfection map. The disinfection robot is equipped with five sets of high-power ultraviolet disinfection lamps and a large-capacity disinfectant storage unit, which adopts two disinfection methods: spray and ultraviolet." According to Li Jinbo, general manager of Changsha Wanwei Robot Co., LTD., the disinfection robot can reach the disinfection area by remote control, timed tasks, autonomous navigation, obstacle avoidance and moving, and carry out 360-degree disinfection without dead Angle around the disinfection target.
Today, robots enable thousands of industries and are deeply integrated with the new generation of information technology. As artificial intelligence accelerates its penetration into all walks of life, traditional manufacturing industry is also accelerating its upgrade in this wave of intelligence.
"The automation rate of our workshop is as high as 90%, and most of the work is carried out by robots, which can greatly save manpower and apply manpower to design, quality control, operation and other links to greatly improve efficiency." Li Wentao, head of Tianji Automobile's Changsha Ingenuity factory, said that robots have become the "necessary partners" in the production of most car companies. Tianji Automobile's factory, which covers an area of more than 30,000 square meters, only needs the assistance of more than 50 people to produce at full capacity, and the rest can be fully automated and robotic.
"Give money to people" helps companies pack light
In late July, Lugu Enterprise saw Bit Robot again welcomed good news: it completed the B round of financing of 300 million yuan, which has been the sixth financing obtained by the enterprise since its establishment 4 years ago.
The extreme optimism of the capital market is the recognition of the innovation ability and product strength of the enterprise, but also inseparable from the financial support of the industrial park.
Financial "running water" has come, enterprises in time to "quench their thirst", the pace is faster.
"In 2021, the company achieved more than 10x revenue growth compared to the same period in the previous year. Business grew more than 50% in the first half of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021." Deng Wenping, chairman and CEO of Serbit Robot, told reporters that Serbit Robot, founded in 2018, has ushered in a spurt of development in just four years.
Before its establishment in 2018, they visited several enterprises in the fields of logistics, heavy industry and automobile manufacturing, and found that the handling and testing positions in workshops showed characteristics of high intensity, high load, repetition and boring, and successively developed a series of robot products to be put into the above scenes.
The continuous improvement and deepening of enterprise services also make enterprises travel light.
This year, Changsha High-tech Zone sent more than 500 cadres to more than 4,000 enterprises to provide services, so that 700 help enterprises, 712 "four enterprises" enterprises, 2800 key small and micro enterprises in the industrial real estate incubator, 97 key projects of joint enterprise work full coverage.
After all, the iron still needs its own hard, constantly temper technology, products and delivery ability, is the hard truth.
In July this year, through the Yuhua open Zone, Pusset, Chuangyan intelligent, First step information, Chizhong robot, Firster, Qianshi Electronics and other companies reached cooperation with Changsha Intelligent Manufacturing Research Institute to accelerate digital transformation and upgrading, enhance market competitiveness.