Why Accelerate the Layout of Home Service Robots?
The growth rate of global service robot market slowed down, and the scale of home / personal service robot market grew rapidly
According to IFR's statistics, as of 2016, the global service robot market was about US $7.28 billion; It is estimated that the total size of the global service robot market from 2017 to 2020 will be about 46.1 billion US dollars. According to forward-looking estimation, the global service robot market in 2017 was US $7.79 billion. From the year-on-year growth rate, the growth rate slowed down from 2016 to 2017.
Service robots can be divided into professional service robots and family / personal service robots. Combined with the sales scale in different fields, it can be seen that although the sales scale of home / personal service robots is far less than that of professional service robots, the growth rate of home / personal service robots has exceeded that of professional service robots in recent years. In 2017, the sales scale of home / personal service robots was 2.94 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.86%; The sales scale of professional service robots was 4.85 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.24%.
Further, combined with the sales of professional service robots and home / personal service robots, the sales volume also increased significantly with the significant popularity of home / personal service robots around the world; On the other hand, with the continuous development of artificial intelligence and Internet of things technology, technology upgrading and cost reduction, the application field of professional service robots is also expanding, and the sales volume has also increased significantly.
Global service robots have broad prospects, and the development trends of professional service robots and home / personal service robots have their own emphases
With the continuous development of artificial intelligence and Internet of things technology, as an ordinary hardware, service robot products will intelligently transform traditional equipment by deepening the integration with software, and continuously realize more powerful functions and richer application scenarios by adding image recognition, chip, positioning and navigation, voice recognition, operating system, 3D camera, etc, It covers housework, company, entertainment, rehabilitation, logistics, national defense and other fields; As the information exchange center in the Internet of things ecosystem, the service robot will also provide information input anytime and anywhere for other networked devices with the help of the Internet, and further replace users to independently control other networked devices through artificial intelligence technology, so as to provide intelligent services for users. The market prospect is very broad.
From a wide range of applications, the interactive nature of robots can be used for most kinds of service robots. However, the actual situation is that most interactive robots can only meet the broad needs of one aspect, but can not meet the rigid needs refined to a certain application point. So, what is the future development trend of service robots?
Professional service robots have broad development prospects in various commercial industries. In the fields of medical treatment, finance, warehousing / logistics, customer service / catering, professional service robots have great market potential and are the development hotspot at this stage. Among them, storage robots will take the lead in realizing explosion and popularization because their tasks are easy to be systematized and quantified; Customer service, welcome, catering and other scenes have low requirements for robot technology. At present, software and hardware technologies such as voice interaction, environmental perception and lidar have basically met the needs of these scenes. With the mass production of robots and the decline of cost and price, large-scale machine replacement can be realized quickly; As an important field of the generalized service robot industry, due to the high requirements for technical level, infrastructure, policy and regulatory support, unmanned driving is expected to remain in the stage of technology improvement, data accumulation and facility laying in the next two years; With the support of national policies, special robots such as national defense and rescue will continue to develop in the direction of specialization, precision and depth.
In personal / household and other consumer fields, the product form and technology of floor sweeping robot are mature, and the number of players has increased. It has become the first category in the household field, and the market penetration will continue to increase in the future; At present, accompanying intelligent robots are still mainly accompanied by children, focusing on early education, life assistant and other functions. Some products highlight the characteristics of programming, interactive entertainment and so on, and have strong toy attributes. On the whole, there are many products in this field with uneven quality. Product experience, appearance and functional diversity will become important evaluation indicators for consumers to buy. As companies with core technologies gradually open technology platforms and solutions, product categories and forms will show a trend of diversification in the future, while functions will be gradually integrated or provided to different consumer groups in a modular manner; Although there is a market gap for elderly care robots, they have complex scenes and tasks, high technical requirements, difficult research and development, and high production costs. At present, they are still in the exploration stage. In the future, they may be integrated with other household robot products, or promoted and popularized in the community.
The above data sources refer to the analysis report on the development prospect and investment strategic planning of China's service robot industry in 2018-2023 issued by forward looking Industry Research Institute.
