Accelerate the transition of humanoid robots from stage to factory
2025-04-25
At the 2025 Spring Festival Gala, a group of humanoid robots wearing small flower jackets twisted Yangko, stunning everyone. Recently, the world's first humanoid robot half marathon was held in Beijing, attracting a lot of attention. Outsiders watch the excitement, while experts watch the tricks. Behind the humanoid robot's ability to stand, walk steadily, and run fast lies a comprehensive competition in dynamic balance, ground perception, control systems, endurance, and other aspects. Humanoid robots are accelerating their transition from being used on stage to being used in factories, and the entire industry and even China's manufacturing industry will usher in a more promising future. Humanoid robots are a clear future industry landmark product in China. The industry believes that humanoid robots integrate advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, high-end manufacturing, and new materials, and are expected to become disruptive products after computers, smartphones, and new energy vehicles. They will profoundly change human production and lifestyle, reshape the global industrial development pattern. China is an important force in the development of humanoid robots. Public data shows that the market size of humanoid robots in China is expected to exceed 8.2 billion yuan in 2025, accounting for about 50% of the global market. The transition of humanoid robots from the stage to the factory is an inevitable choice for the resonance between technological value and industrial demand. Although stage displays can showcase the charm of technology, their commercial value is limited. As the core battlefield of the real economy, factories provide real scenarios for the large-scale application of humanoid robots and the necessary soil for technological iteration. In industrial production, intelligent carriers with environmental adaptability and task flexibility, such as humanoid robots, are also needed to solve practical problems such as replacing high-risk environmental operations, increasing labor costs, and flexible production demands. From the perspective of industrial upgrading, robot density is an important indicator for measuring the modernization and intelligence level of manufacturing. The entry of humanoid robots into factories means a larger stage and will reshape the production mode and industrial pattern of manufacturing. From stage to factory, the prerequisite is to break through a series of core technologies. In stage performances, humanoid robots only need to complete specific actions, while factory environments require them to operate continuously in dynamic and uncertain scenes. This requires further improvements in high-precision motion control, multimodal perception, multi machine collaboration, energy management, software and hardware integration, and other technologies. For example, in the past, robots had poor adaptability and flexibility in complex environments. Nowadays, the application of deep learning and artificial intelligence technology has endowed humanoid robots with powerful self-regulation and learning abilities. For example, the application of new materials in the joints of humanoid robots has significantly improved their flexibility and motion performance. The key from the stage to the factory is cost reduction. The industrial sector is much more sensitive to costs than stage scenes, and high costs are one of the biggest obstacles to the industrialization of humanoid robots. The cost of developing and manufacturing a humanoid robot in the early days was as high as tens of thousands or even millions of dollars, which made the vast majority of factories hesitate. With the upgrading of technology and the synergy of the industrial chain, the economies of scale have emerged, and the purchase and operation costs of humanoid robots have significantly decreased, opening the door to economic feasibility for their entry into factories. In the future, with the deep integration of humanoid robots with technologies such as artificial intelligence, 5G, and the Internet of Things, their costs are expected to further decrease, ultimately transforming from expensive tools to inclusive productivity. China has multiple advantages in developing humanoid robots. China is one of the few countries in the world that has already produced humanoid robots and has a first mover advantage. The robotics industry has formed a relatively complete industrial chain system, with strong upstream and downstream coordination capabilities. Some enterprises have international competitive advantages and are major global producers and consumers of robots. Although there are still problems on the road ahead such as weak industrial development foundation, insufficient supply of high-end products, and insufficient depth and breadth of application expansion, with continuous technological innovation and continuous improvement of industrial ecology, humanoid robots will play a greater role in the industrial field, promoting the acceleration of manufacturing towards intelligence, efficiency, and flexibility, injecting strong impetus into high-quality economic development, and creating a new Chinese manufacturing business card. (New Society)
Edit:He Chuanning Responsible editor:Su Suiyue
Source:ECONOMIC DAILY
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