The Application of Intelligent Robots

The robot has been widely used in the world since the 1970s, which is another kind of “tool” for the human’s latest invention, and the mainly function is artificial substitution. Combined with the experience of developed countries, the robot industry can be divided intofour stages: technical preparation period, industry incubation period, industrial development period, and intelligent period.

The robot industry of America, Japan, and Europe, has completed the first four stages, now all of them keep in an intelligent period. The United States was the birthplace of the industrial robots. As early as 1959, the USA company UNIMATION invented the first industrial robot UNIMATE, however, as the manufacturing capacity moved to Asia, its industrial robotics industry grows slowly.

In the 1980s, the Japan robot industry has surpassed the United States, became the “kingdom of robots”. In 2000, the mature countries such as the USA and Japan were committed to developing more precise technology, the robot technical entered a rapidly developping period, and moved on the intelligent stage. In such circumstance, China’s robot industry is still in the incubation period, while the industrial economy robot was in the 3/4 stage.

The whole world is experiencing its fourth industrial revolution.Industry 4.0 is based on the information geography system, 80% of innovation is driven by the Information Communication Technology (ICT).  Automation and informatization are the keys to the advanced manufacturing, the robot, as the successor of the automation technology, still is one of the most important technical facilities of the Industry 4.0. In a manner of speaking, the robots still are the basement of the Industry 4.0, especially the development of industrial robots, connecting closely with the global manufacturing shifts, and robots replace humans will be the future direction of the manufacturing.

Let’s speak in a widely way, such automated devices that can programmed freely will be considered as robots, which can realized the artificial replacement. According the structure of industrial robot, robots currently can be divided into orthogonal coordinate, multi-joint, joints, and joint coordinates.

In a plastic-based manufacturing company, to reduce human labor scheme is adding robots in the injection molding machine, vacuum molding machine, automatic bottle blowing machine, cooperated with automatic feeding system, automatic identification equipment, token-up platform, automatic conveyor, and automatic warehouse system, to realize the normal automatic manufacturing.  

News source: gongkong.ofweek.com