China's intelligent robot developing extremely fast

In 2015, Chinese government issued the plan of the “Made in China 2025” program. The goal of the program is make China the global leader in hi-tech industries such as medical equipment, aerospace equipment, and robotics.

   

Jeff Burnstein, the president of Industrial Robot Automation, has also noticed the changes China have been creating. He stated, “China now has the world’s fastest growing artificial intelligent robot, and the 2025 plan will only speed up that process.”

According to the International Federation of Robotics, China has the largest share of the global robotics market. And now, the robotics market has reached 30 billion USD. The federation’s report also found that in 2015, China accounted for 27% of the world’s total robotics sales and by 2019 China will account for 40% of the world’s total robotics sales.

China’s steady and sustained investment in advanced AI robot has even received attention from entrepreneurs and venture capitalists such as Mark Cuban. Last December, Mark Cuban wrote a letter to then President elect Donald Trump (now President Trump) to invest 100 billion USD into the United States’ robotics industry in order to compete with China.

“We must win the robot race. We are nowhere close to our competitors.” Tim Cook wrote.

Matt Bane, a robist expert and a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's digital economy project, pointed out, “China will never deliberately oppose other major powers.” But, what they are doing is focusing on the future by investing billions of dollars in innovative AI robotics and similar technologies such as artificial intelligence, and they do not need to depend on other countries to provide the factories.

“China’s long-term goal is to become the source of low cost labor for the hi-tech industry,” Frank Toby. Frank Toby, editor and chief of the magazine “Robot Report” stated that “This major technological shift is a top priority of China.”

This July, Jeff Burnstein saw great changes at this year’s CIROS exhibition event in Shanghai.

“Both the new old companies are more advanced than they were ever before. You cannot say that they are imitating other companies” Bernstein said. Bernstein also stated, “China hopes to become the world’s leading supplier of artificial intelligence robotics, and they are well on their way to achieving that goal.”