“Hello, my name is Baymax and I am your personal healthcare assistant. I will understand that you need health care at the voice of ‘Ouch’.” This is the scene that comes out in Big Hero 6. Each watcher of this movie wants the scene to come true in our daily life.
Intelligent service robot sees great prospect
Compared to industrial robots, in a standardized workflow, service robots need to interact with people or more complex environments, and therefore need to be more intelligent than industrial robots. This kind of intelligent robots must have a certain degree of autonomy and give response to the command and other information.
From the current market situation, the reason why intelligent service robot can flourish contains policy support, human cost increase, the aging of the social population, the rise of artificial intelligence technology and other aspects are indispensable factors.
On the one hand, China has issued "Made-in-China 2025", "Development Plan for the Robotics Industry (2016-2020)" and other programmatic documents, creating the outlets for the development of the robot industry; On the other hand, the data show that in 2016 the average annual wage of urban non-private employees increased by 6.7%, labor cost growing higher and higher.
By the end of 2016, China's population aged 65 and above has accounted for as much as 10.8%. Thus, the society requires intelligent care robot for the elderly to improve efficiency and save costs, to narrow the huge demand gap in the pension, rehabilitation, care, companions and other aspects of large elderly population. These are creating new opportunities to boost the development of intelligent service robot.
Meanwhile, with the third rise of artificial intelligence, the voice recognition and facial recognition, which are considered as the core factors of intelligent service robot, goes into the new development stage, to improve the simulation degree greatly.
Under the energization of these factors, intelligent service robot welcomes the emerging development. According the data prediction from IDC, the commercial service robot in health care, retail, public service and traffic in the global world is expected to reach $17 billion and that may reach up to RMB trillion in China.
Service robot is expanding to more industries
With the development of service robot, robotics professionals start a new talk about the future relation of robot and human beings. Kaifu Lee from Sinovation Ventures considers that, “In the future 10 years, 90% workers of translator, journalist, assistant, security, driver, sales person, dealer, accountant and nanny will be overtaken by robots.”
At present, intelligent service robot began to be gradually applied in the catering, medical, shopping, logistics and other industries, has taken the first step to replace or assist labor. While the development of robotics in healthcare bears the brunt of the market. According to research firm GCiS in 2016, data show that China's medical robot market value is 791 million yuan, with growth of 34.4% compared with last year. And by 2021, the value of medical robotics is expected to grow to at least 2.2 billion.
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