The vast majority of robots in Guangdong machining plants are used in manufacturing and other repetitive tasks, such as painting cars and simple assembly. In 2000, there were about 100000 new robots in the world, nearly half of which were in Japan, so Japan was the largest user. At the end of 2002, there were nearly 800000 industrial robots, and this number is likely to increase to nearly 1 million by the end of 2004.
In the past decade, the use of robots in Guangdong machining plants has increased, while the price has been declining. Today, robot manufacturing has a 1-2 year payback period. In North America, the price of robots has dropped to 26 relative to the labor cost, and it will be as low as 12 if considering the improvement of quality. Sales of industrial robots have reached record levels, and they have great potential in housework, such as lawn cleaning and carpet cleaning. Many new application robots
With the improvement of robot intelligence and the improvement of sensor, transmission and operation mechanism, the application of precision machining has greatly increased. Now there are thousands of underwater robots, destruction robots, and even remote robots to dismantle surgery. Dozens of experimental search and rescue robots searched the collapsed twin towers of the World Trade Center for debris. The robot expert team operated the experimental robot in the first field to explore the debris. The robots used in the war in Afghanistan are the tools of the US military. They are sent to caves, buildings or other areas as vanguards of the troops to prevent casualties. Giant walking robots are used to cut wood. It uses six joints to move forward and backward, cross and oblique, and can also turn around and cross obstacles. At Berkeley, a tiny insect flying robot called micromechanical has a very natural rhythm of precision and flapping its wings. Their goal is to build a small and flexible device that can detect the surface of Mars and safely monitor the leakage of dangerous chemicals, such as secretly detecting the enemy,
Guangdong Machinery Factory expects the number of home robots for dust collection and weeding to increase significantly. Nowadays, it is very practical to use robots to do housework. A cheap house cleaning robot has been launched recently. One of the best-selling small electric car vacuum cleaners (Roomba) is priced at 9, it goes around the whole floor, during which it is cleaned and dusted everywhere it goes.