When the fourth industrial revolution and the era of artificial intelligence are changing human life with "acceleration", the robot industry, as one of the important carriers of artificial intelligence, has ushered in an investment boom in China, and a new commercial outlet has begun to appear. At the same time, the robot industry is also expected to become a new economic growth point in China under the background of China's full development of new infrastructure.
Recently, Purdue technology, which is mainly engaged in commercial service robots, announced that it had completed the round C financing of 500 million yuan. This news made the robot industry, which has been silent for several years, attract extensive attention from the industry again.
Although the first robot (industry) was developed by Shenyang Institute of automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1982, China's robot industry has been developing slowly in the following 30 years. Until recent years, with the rise of artificial intelligence, a large amount of capital has entered the robot industry, making China's robot industry develop rapidly.
At the beginning of this year, CIC Industrial Research Institute released the report on investment analysis and prospect prediction of China's robot industry from 2021 to 2025. In the report, it is expected that the scale of China's robot market will reach 81.3 billion yuan in 2021, the average annual compound growth rate in the next five years (2021-2025) will be about 15.80%, and it will reach 146.3 billion yuan in 2025.
At present, China's robot industry is divided into three types according to the use function: industrial robot, service robot and special robot. These three categories can also be subdivided into several sub categories. For example, industrial robots are divided into automobile manufacturing, 3C manufacturing, warehousing and logistics, etc. In terms of service robots, they are used for catering, medical treatment, household use, etc. (medical robots are often listed separately in the current market.) Special robots are used in some special public areas, such as security, construction, nuclear industry and so on. Most enterprises develop and produce one of these small categories.
The R & D and production enterprises of these robots, as well as the enterprises that provide supporting support for robot production (such as providing visual equipment, systems, charging equipment, welding integration, software supporting, etc.), together constitute the current surging robot market.
So what segments do capital prefer to invest in? From January to April this year, the financing of domestic robot enterprises showed an explosive growth trend. In just four months, a total of 67 enterprises received financing, with funds of more than 10 billion yuan, and more than 30 enterprises received a single financing of more than 100 million yuan. In 2020, only 115 enterprises in the domestic robot industry will get financing in the whole year. It is expected that the number and scale of financing enterprises in 2021 will far exceed that in 2020.
The largest investment distribution in the robot industry is industrial robots, that is to say, capital is very optimistic about the wide application of robots in industry in the future. In fact, this distribution just confirms why the era of artificial intelligence is also called the fourth industrial revolution, because the strength of the country depends on industry.
In the future, robots will be applied to more fields. In industry, as long as it is repetitive production, it may be replaced by industrial robot system. In terms of people's daily life, there will be more scenes for robots to serve, and people's life will be more convenient.
The new air outlet has come quietly. I believe that more and more capital will enter this industry in the next few years.