On March 9, in the power supply control room of Liugang Group's cold rolling plant, an inspection robot is scanning the control panel.

China News Service, Liuzhou, March 9, in the power supply control room of the Liugang Group's cold-rolling plant in Liuzhou City, Guangxi, a milky white intelligent inspection robot twisted its robotic arm and used the camera on the top to collect functions such as temperature measurement and data collection. , and check the data of the equipment in the control room one by one. This is the company's first intelligent inspection robot.

"The use of manual inspections before, not only consumes manpower and material resources, but also has relatively broad criteria for judging whether the data is running normally. With this inspection robot, it can not only achieve real-time inspections 24 hours a day, but also in data collection and operation. The monitoring is also more accurate and efficient, which greatly improves the efficiency of daily inspections.” said Shi Zhiguang, the champion of the National Equipment Inspection Skills Competition and an electrical technician of the cold rolling mill.

The intelligent inspection robot is a new type of service robot. It is mainly used to monitor production equipment and provide timely feedback of equipment status in the system, so that technicians can quickly find problems for maintenance. In recent years, such new inspection robots have been widely used in electric power, tunnel, metallurgy and other fields, and the sales market is also further expanding. Relevant statistics show that from 2018 to 2020, the total demand for China's inspection robot market is about 47.7 billion yuan, with an average annual demand of about 15.9 billion yuan. It is expected that the future market in the field of intelligent inspection will reach 100 billion yuan.

With the gradual integration of artificial intelligence with traditional industries, the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and 5G technologies have brought considerable economic and social benefits to enterprises, and promoted the restructuring and upgrading of the source end of the industry. The adjustment of China's industrial structure has brought inspection robots to us. Rapid development. Taking the State Grid of China as an example, the intelligent power grid inspection robot can overcome the shortcomings of traditional manual inspection of substations and distribution stations, and the inspection results cannot be digitized, effectively saving inspection costs and improving the intelligent operation of the power grid system. level.

According to the requirements of the development plan formulated by the State Grid of China, from 2016 to 2020, the intelligent rate of newly built substations should be 100%, and about 8,000 new intelligent substations should be built. According to statistics, in 2019, the overall industry scale of China's substation inspection robots will reach 40 billion to 55 billion yuan. In the future, such power grid inspection robots may become the "standard configuration" of the smart grid system and integrate with the construction of the entire grid intelligent system.

At present, although the market demand is strong, the market competition of intelligent inspection robots in China is not fierce. Relevant analysis points out that due to the multi-disciplinary knowledge involved in mathematics, mechanics, automation control and computers, and the need to pass strict certification by the state or a third-party authority, there are certain barriers to the manufacture of intelligent inspection robots, so there are few competitors in the industry. . At present, the only manufacturers are Shandong Luneng, Yi Jiahe, Zhejiang Guozi and so on.

The strong rigid demand and the high entry threshold have made the overall gross profit margin of the intelligent inspection robot industry reach more than 60%, with a high level of profitability. At present, the global intelligent inspection robot has entered industrialization from research. China clearly requires that the intelligent inspection robot industry needs to increase by 30% by 2021. In the future, the industry competition of intelligent inspection robots will become increasingly fierce.