Reporter of the Economic Business: Zhang Honglei Editor of the Economic Business: Chen Junjie
In just past 2018, with the launch of Ecovacs , the service robot performed very well. The "Robot Industry Development Plan (2016-2020)" predicts that the annual sales revenue of service robots will exceed 30 billion yuan during the 13th Five-Year Plan period. The other side of the
coin, a reporter from "Daily Economic News" learned at the 2019 China Robot Industry Annual Conference held on January 10 that service robots are still in the "big brother era" of the mobile phone industry, and have just gone through fission and towards the rooting stage.
Speaking of the development trend of service robots, Liu Xuenan, founder and CEO of Beijing Kangli Youlan Robot Technology Co., Ltd., told reporters that service robots will have more opportunities to combine with artificial intelligence. Specifically, underlying technologies will gradually converge, with several large companies in each field, and even giants will appear; at the same time, in some sub-sectors, they will be further fission and subdivided.
Audiences visit the fighting robot battle. Image source: Photo provided by the organizer. Whether
can take root in the market depends on the audience's perception.
Liu Xuenan is a "veteran" in the service robot industry. At the end of 2016, that year was also hailed by the industry as the "first year of service robots". Liu Xuenan once told the "Daily Economic Reporter" that service robots are in a period of rapid fission, and the trend of giants in the underlying technology convergence, and "new stars" from different application sides will emerge in the subdivided fields, and representative service robots will appear in various industries.
"The era of service robots has begun. The EU, Japan, and South Korea have invested much more in this regard than industrial robots. The future market for service robots is almost without a ceiling." Previously, Qu Daokui , president of Shenyang Xinsong Robot Automation Co., Ltd., also told the reporter of "Daily Economic News" that he is quite optimistic about the prospects of service robots.
Two years later, when the reporter talked to Liu Xuenan again about the development stage of service robots, the keyword he gave was "take root". In Liu Xuenan's view, with the changes in the industry, various service robots have emerged. In recent years, we need to think about how to truly enter people's lives and take root in the market.
The feelings of practitioners are closely related to changes in the industry. From the rise of concepts to accelerate fission to the rooting of the market, service robots currently cover customer service, hotels, medical care, education and other fields. In 2018, the most exciting thing about the robot market was that the first stock of service robots, Ecovacs, was listed. This incident was called a landmark event in the field of service robots by the outside world, and it also means that the development of service robots has entered a new stage. Related research reports of
Tianfeng Securities show that my country's service robot sales increased from US$340 million in 2012 to US$1.03 billion in 2016, and it is expected that my country's service robot sales will be close to US$3 billion in 2020. In addition, taking the sweeping robot as an example, the penetration rate in the United States is 16%, the penetration rate in coastal areas of my country is about 4% to 5%, and the inland is only 0.5%. In analogy, my country has huge room for growth.
service robots also need to look at their appearance
According to the industry consensus, in terms of core components of robots, my country still has some "bottlenecks" compared with developed countries, but in the field of service robots, the world is still on the same track.
Guojin Securities research report shows that based on technology iteration and cost reduction, the prices of various service robots are declining, and the industry has entered a virtuous cycle. In terms of financing, since revenue generation is the biggest demand of service robot companies that continue to burn money, shareholders who bring channel resources to help business land become the first choice for financing.
In addition to technological iteration and capital changes, consumers' concepts also need to be changed. Liu Xuenan told the reporter of "Daily Economic News" that there are certain pain points in the promotion of service robots. Taking service robots as an example, the rendering of related film and television works gives consumers certain expectations for robots, hoping to obtain high expectations through low costs. In the future development process, if you want to make service robots go to the family, you also need to improve consumers' awareness.
In Liu Xuenan's view, the entire service robot industry has shown iterative development from 2016 to 2018. On the one hand, a large number of companies have been eliminated, and on the other hand, new companies have continued to pour in, constantly reshuffling the fittest. But even so, the entire service robot industry is still in the era of "big brother" of mobile phones, and the era of computers, and there is still a lot of room for development in the future.
As robots continue to develop, Liu Xuenan said that the appearance economy has also become a major factor in the accelerated development of service robots, and more and more users want to have good-looking and useful service robots. But he also reminded that no matter how the industry changes, basic scientific research on service robots is essential, just like bakeries cannot lack bread and cream. Only by laying a solid foundation in basic software and hardware can more scenarios be extended.
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