Russian factories will be restarted by Chinese robots, Russian media laments: Korean robots are too expensive
On September 6th, the Russian Free Media Network published an article titled "The dying Russian factory will be restarted by Chinese robots. The future that we never dreamed of has already become a reality in China", written by Dmitry Kapski. The article is compiled as follows:
The future has arrived and created a strange situation: Chinese robots have begun to exclude higher cost counterparts from other countries in the labor market, such as South Korean robots. The price of Korean food delivery robots is five times higher than similar products in China.
South Korea is one of the main purchasing countries for robots. According to the Financial Times, Korean restaurants alone currently employ nearly 5000 delivery robots. Of course, most of them are rented.
Although people generally believe that Korean robots have good quality, the latter has faced strong competition from Chinese products. The price of any product produced in China will be much cheaper. In the past, it used to be clothes and shoes, later it was telephone and television, now it is robots.
Other countries have already lost the technology competition, let alone the United States. In order to compete with imported Chinese robots, South Korean robot manufacturers are demanding government subsidies.
However, such competition may not necessarily arise, as the cost of Chinese robots is constantly decreasing. After all, in China, robots are also manufactured by robots, and the latter type of robots is becoming more and more common in Chinese factories.
In recent years, Yancheng City in Jiangsu Province has been actively developing the new energy industry guided by green and low-carbon development. Staff are inspecting intelligent robots in the production workshop of Weijing Energy Storage Yancheng Intelligent Manufacturing Base.
China is a world leader in the field of industrial robot manufacturing. At present, China's industrial robot production accounts for more than half of the world's total, far exceeding Japan's once leading position.
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The COVID-19 has provided a strong impetus for the development of robots. When Chinese workers stay at home, robots are working for them in the factory.
Chinese people install nearly 300000 industrial robots around the world every year. It is expected that by 2024, Chinese people will be able to earn a record 11 billion US dollars in robotic arm manufacturing alone, while the global market total in this field is only 20 billion US dollars. According to data from Economic Analysis Research Company, the total amount of this market is expected to increase to $150 billion by 2031.
The electric vehicle manufacturing industry has opened up huge opportunities for industrial robots. Do you think these electric cars are manually assembled? Of course not. But the assembly work of expensive electronic products such as mobile phones can only be entrusted to humans at present. However, so-called collaborative robots are increasingly entering Chinese factories. They are robots that work together with workers on the same assembly line.
The "Think China" website, which focuses on the Chinese technology market, stated that industrial robots were mainly used to complete the simplest tasks in the past, such as loading and unloading of goods and low-level welding. However, with the development of artificial intelligence, industrial robots are gradually mastering increasingly complex skills - assembly, polishing, bonding, and spraying.
Why doesn't Russia carefully study China's robots? The Russian economy is facing a severe shortage of labor, which is suppressing industrial growth. At the same time, the human resources available to supplement the workforce have almost been depleted. New companies can not only hire foreign immigrants, but also use robots. The maintenance cost of the latter is almost the same as the wages of workers.
Chinese robots can not only deliver meals and assemble cars, but also participate in rescue work. They can not only imitate humans, but also well-trained dogs.
At present, there are micro robots in the equipment depots of rescue personnel from around the world that can "smell" toxic gases and drill into enclosed spaces to illuminate their interiors.
Of course, most of these robots need to be controlled by humans, and currently they can only perform their full abilities under laboratory conditions.
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