With the rise of labor costs and industrial transformation and upgrading, it is an inevitable trend to replace human beings with robots to do repetitive work. According to IDC's recent report, the consumption of robots (including UAVs) and related services in China has continued to grow at a high speed. It is expected to reach 77 billion US dollars (about 529 billion RMB) by 2022 and a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26.3% in 2018-2022. China is the world's largest robot market and is expected to account for more than 38% of the global total by 2022.

Regionally, China will become the largest robotic geographic market, contributing more than 30% of robotic expenditure over the entire forecast period, followed by Asia-Pacific (excluding China and Japan), the United States and Japan. The United States will be the largest regional market for UAV spending in 2018, reaching $4.3 billion, followed by Western Europe and China. However, China's exceptionally strong spending growth (a compound annual growth rate of 63.2%) will put the market ahead of the United States by 2022.

Facing the huge market of industrial robots in China, the veteran robot giants from Sweden ABB, Japan Fanaco, Japan Anchuan and Germany Kuka have already begun their strategic layout. Among them, ABB and Anchuan Electric Machinery have established production bases in China. The industrial robot factory built by Anchuan Electric Machinery in Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, not only produces robots for assembling automobiles, handling, welding and painting, but also involves the development, design and production of accessories and components. In 2015, Nabotsk Corporation of Japan and Shanghai Mechatronics Co-invested in Wujin High-tech Zone, and the Kuka Robot Engineering Center signed a contract with ABB in Shunde. Zhuhai has set up a wholly-owned subsidiary company and developed the Robot Application Integration Business; Anchuan Electric Machinery United States Group has entered the Chinese household appliances manufacturing market in an all-round way.

By cooperating with Chinese local enterprises and increasing R&D efforts, these giants constantly innovate product forms and optimize product performance, which also objectively promotes the progress of China's robotics industry. The so-called demand to promote industrial progress, since ancient times, new things are born or grow by market demand. With the deepening of intelligent manufacturing, the future prospects of robotics industry will be considerable, and the market scale is also very worthy of expectation.

From the perspective of robotics technology, the expenditure of robotics system in China market includes industrial robots, commercial service robots and consumer robots ontology, accessories, application software, network equipment, and related consulting services. China's demand for industrial robots continues to be strong. In 2018, discrete manufacturing (including automobiles, electronics, metal processing, etc.) is expected to invest 44% of the total market in robotics technology.

For a long time, "domestic robots force foreign similar products to reduce prices" has been regarded as the competitiveness of domestic robots. But this competition mode is obviously unsustainable, when the price war spreads to the "price war" between domestic manufacturers, it may evolve into low-end overcapacity. At present, compared with the products standing at the top of the robot field, the domestic robots still have a big gap in the core parts. However, through unremitting efforts in recent years, a large number of robotic enterprises have made great progress in the function, accuracy and stability of the domestic robots. I believe that under the stimulation of the market and foreign products, the domestic robots have made great progress. Robots will make greater breakthroughs.