June 13 -15, China (chengdu) international modern industrial technology expo was held in chengdu. In the industry, this professional exhibition is referred to as chengdu industrial fair. Today, the expo officially closed, attracting more than 10,000 professionals to visit.

Chengdu industry fair introduced China international industry expo, schneider, Volkswagen, Toyota, dongfeng and other industry giants are frequent visitors.

The total exhibition area of the expo is 50,000 square meters, the number of booths reached 2,500, the same period there are a series of peak BBS activities. The hottest booth this year is industrial robots. In the exhibition hall, industrial robots account for about one third of the exhibitors, covering more than half of the total exhibition area.

Chengdu's industrial robot craze has long had its beginnings. In the economic operation data of chengdu in the first quarter of this year, the industry with the fastest growth rate was industrial robots, which increased by 4.6 times.

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"Before changing careers, we researched many industries and found it difficult for many labor-intensive enterprises to recruit workers." Chengdu kaijing robot co., ltd. is a new company, just started operation at the beginning of this year, before this, the company's main business is machine tool manufacturing, the company's general manager zhou Ming told reporters, because the company has been with manufacturing enterprises have business contacts, feel "difficult to recruit" trend, began to enter the industrial robot. After the investigation, the company has carried out industry-university-research cooperation with xihua university, and has completed several projects.

The site, fanuc is one of the hottest points, from time to time there are enterprises take the data. Just a few days ago, on June 13, Shanghai fanuc robot co., ltd. signed a contract with xinjin and settled in chengdu. Fanuc is the only company in the world that makes robots out of robots.

The signing of fanuc engineering research and development and application of new technology promotion center in western China, will focus on electronic information, equipment manufacturing, medicine and health, the advantage of local pillar industries, such as new materials, green industrial robots in production automation and manufacturing application promotion, display, research and development, training, and enhance the level of chengdu, and intelligent manufacturing technology in western China.

Why did they land in chengdu? Qian hui, general manager of the company, talked about the manufacturing industry in chengdu.

Harbin Institute of Technology robots also appeared at the chengdu expo. Staff member zhu qiao told reporters that the group in chongzhou has a "I yao robot" company, specializing in the production of industrial robots, has completed the plant planning, the near future will be moved into operation, "the demand for robots in recent years.

Can robots replace people? Experts say there is still a lack of cost competitiveness

Yao Yang, director of the national institute of development at Peking University, has proposed that the fourth industrial revolution is artificial intelligence, which is mainly characterized by super-capacity storage and free computing from manual control. Bring what? "AI and automation will replace 180 million Chinese jobs in the next three decades by driving up the skill requirements for employment," yao said.

So what about industrial robots replacing workers? Wu hequan, an academician at the Chinese academy of engineering, said that at present, artificial intelligence = artificial + machine intelligence, it is still necessary to create an environment in which people and AI work together, and the experience of engineers and craftsmen is still needed in the era of AI. And not all jobs in big business are going to be better for machines than people."

"When do machines replace people? Now labor costs are rising, labor shortage needs to use machines, but to buy a robot back, or to program. There are already intelligent robots, such as the robot arm in the picture, which do not need to be programmed in advance, and they learn how to move when they see the human hand next to them. During the training, he can program automatically." Wu hequan said, the robot needs to be in accordance with the requirements of the process of programming in order to use, the enterprise needs to be familiar with the software architecture and programming staff to help, "in the enterprise has a number of production lines and with many jobs in the process of only cost-effective, that is, a programming can serve a large number of robots.

"The cloud brain can be used to control a group of robots, eliminating the need to configure complex control systems for each robot. Intelligent robots can be trained to program themselves, but at present they are only suitable for jobs that are not too complicated." WuHeQuan said that for the dangerous and harmful, poor working conditions, labor intensity big jobs, use of robots has obvious social significance, "but not all the jobs, robots are capable of, perhaps only less than 49% of the jobs are can use robots to replace, more jobs need others."