Bluetooth headset glue ‘not shake at all’, for automotive manufacturing precision welding, for China's sky eye ‘cauldron’ for ‘scrubbing’... ...Entering the Shanghai ‘big zero Bay’ science and technology innovation curbing functional area of the section of JAKA Robotics Co., Ltd., comes into view are rows ‘short and tall, fat and thin’ robots, can be used in different applications in different scenes ‘play a role’.

‘From large-scale industrial manufacturing into the era of flexible manufacturing, intelligent manufacturing, product iteration cycle accelerated, personalised design, rapid production feedback requirements are higher, which in turn, human-machine interaction, human-machine collaboration put forward higher requirements.’ Li Mingyang, chairman of JAKA Robotics Co. said.

JAKA Robotics in the precision manufacturing industry. (Photo by the interviewee)

Freeing human hands and lighting up the spark of wisdom. The rapid growth of JAKA Robotics is a microcosm of Shanghai and even China's intelligent manufacturing and digital transformation, represented by a number of local robots, ‘new forces’, has become China's new quality of productivity of the eye-catching business card.

In the Shanghai Xinshida Robotics Super Factory, a robot made in the Yangtze River Delta comes off the production line every 12 minutes: bearings from Wenzhou, servo motors from Quzhou, harmonic reducers from Suzhou ...... combine with 12 enterprises from upstream and downstream to create a ‘full Yangtze River Delta-made’ robot with higher efficiency and lower cost. The ‘All Made in Yangtze River Delta’ robots, which are more efficient and low-cost, have been rolled out more than 4,700 units. ‘All YRD-made’ robots are used in the Geely Linhai base's body-in-white welding production line. (Photo by the interviewee)

Freeing human hands and lighting up the spark of wisdom. The rapid growth of JAKA Robotics is a microcosm of Shanghai and even China's intelligent manufacturing and digital transformation, represented by a number of local robots, ‘new forces’, has become China's new quality of productivity of the eye-catching business card.

In the Shanghai Xinshida Robotics Super Factory, a robot made in the Yangtze River Delta comes off the production line every 12 minutes: bearings from Wenzhou, servo motors from Quzhou, harmonic reducers from Suzhou ...... combine with 12 enterprises from upstream and downstream to create a ‘full Yangtze River Delta-made’ robot with higher efficiency and lower cost. The ‘All Made in Yangtze River Delta’ robots, which are more efficient and low-cost, have been rolled out more than 4,700 units. Picture 2: ‘All YRD-made’ robots are used in the Geely Linhai base's body-in-white welding production line. (Photo by the interviewee)

Zhang Zhenkui, special assistant to the chairman of the board of directors of Xinshida Electric Co., Ltd, said that the Yangtze River Delta region is a high-quality development of China's robotics industry agglomeration area, with robot production capacity accounting for more than 50 per cent of the country's total, empowering thousands of industries.

Shanghai is the first city in China to include robot density in its statistics. The so-called robot density refers to the number of robots per 10,000 employees. At present, Shanghai's key industries on the industrial enterprise robot density of 426 units / million people, ranking the world's leading level.

Chinese robots, but also to speed up the world, ‘circle of friends’ is getting wider and wider. Not long ago at the Hannover Messe in Germany, section card robot debut of the first exhibition of new products, showing the Chinese robot self butterfly and industrial automation global layout and practice. In particular, Setska became the first domestic collaborative robot manufacturer to obtain SRCI (Standard Robot Command Interface) certification, which means that JAKA is integrated into the supply chain system of international head industrial users, providing greater opportunities and potential for its expansion into overseas markets.

‘Based on the process library accumulated by artificial intelligence and big data, and constantly optimising the robot's intelligent perception, trajectory planning, operation precision, and interaction capabilities, collaborative robots allow “machines to learn from people”, and the experience of using them is much simpler, so that workers can use them after simple training.’ Li Mingyang said.

The industry expects that with the production model gradually from standardisation, batch, scale to personalisation, small batch, multi-frequency development, the robot will be the smallest work unit, embedded in the full production chain, new applications to drive the new industry, small scene prying the big market.

According to the ‘Robot+’ Application Action Implementation Plan jointly issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other 17 departments in 2023, by 2025, the density of manufacturing robots will double compared to 2020, the depth and breadth of application of service robots and special robots will be significantly increased, and the ability of robots to promote high-quality economic and social development will be significantly strengthened. Obviously strengthened.

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Zhang Ying, director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, said that ‘robotics +’ is serving people in more fields. Relying on ‘one industry, one policy’, ‘hierarchical classification’, ‘one factory, many scenes’, Shanghai is promoting 10,000 industrial robots into the smart factory, is expected to key industries in 2025, the density of robots reached 500 per 10,000 people. 500 robots per 10,000 people.

At the same time, Shanghai is accelerating the construction of a national humanoid robot manufacturing innovation centre, accelerating the research and development of open-source humanoid robot prototypes, tackling key technologies such as large models of body-shaped intelligence, and creating an innovation ecology that integrates technology research and development, incubation of achievements, talent cultivation and platform support.

Source: Xinhua