Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, Oct. 21 (Reporter Hu Zhe, Yang Na) 21, at the 2016 World Robot Conference main forum, Russian robot Association chairman Vitali Nedelsky said that the number of industrial robots in use in the world at the end of 2015 reached 1.6 million units, Asia is still the largest market, the Chinese market growth rate of 17%, The use density of industrial robots in China is 49 per 10,000 people, and the market potential is huge.

According to Vitaly Nedelsky, at present, the highest density of industrial robots is South Korea, the average density is 69 per 10,000 people, taking into account the difference in the number of people in China and South Korea, the use density of industrial robots in China still has huge room for growth. It is expected that the average growth rate of global industrial robots will be about 13% in the next few years, the main trends include industry 4.0, human and machine collaboration, mobile robots and mobile production, as well as ultra-light robots, sensors and visual sensing integration robots.

At present, the world's industrial robots are mainly supplied in the automobile manufacturing, electronic and electrical industries, the use of robots reached 95,000 and 53,000 respectively; In 2015, the main industries promoted by robots include metal, machinery, automobiles, rubber and plastics, etc., of which the growth rate of metal and machinery industry reached 39%, the automobile was 20%, and rubber and plastics were about 20%.

Ding Han, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and dean of the School of Mechanical Science and Engineering of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, said that there are three representative achievements in the current major research plans of China's robots, including robot processing, rehabilitation robots and robot operating systems.

In recent years, driven by a series of policy support and market demand, China's robot industry has developed rapidly. At the second press conference of the 2016 World Robot Conference, Qu Guochun, deputy director of the equipment industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that China has been the world's largest industrial robot market for three consecutive years.

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