2023-11-07 00:30:27
China believes that humanoid robots They are an industry “with great potential” and the official goal has been set to boost their mass production by 2025 and make them among the most advanced globally by 2027.
THE Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), which oversees the country’s industrial sector, published a guideline in which it plans to boost mass production of this type of robots by 2025.
Thus, the country will create “numerous small and medium-sized companies specialized in the market of humanoid robots” that will be “equipped with cutting-edge technologies.”
“We will have two to three companies with global influence by 2025,” says the ministerial document, released by the state agency Xinhua.
For 2027, humanoid robots They have to become “a new and important engine of economic growth” for China, he adds.
The document notes that by that year “the technological innovation of humanoid robots will have improved significantly, a safe and reliable industrial supply chain system will have been formed, and we will be at the level of advanced countries in the world.”
Humanoids perform at the World Robot Conference in Beijing, China, on Friday, August 18, 2023.Image: TANG KE/Avalon/Photoshot/picture alliance
To achieve this goal, the country will work to “consolidate the production of basic components and promote software innovation in terms of product development,” while creating “scenarios for their manufacturing.”
“China has certain foundations to develop the industry, but still needs to combine resources and efforts to drive key technological innovation,” the ministry says.
Development of the Chinese robotics industry
According to the newspaper South China Morning Post, The document demonstrates “China’s latest attempt to accelerate the development of its robotics industry” and to promote technological self-sufficiency at a time of maximum competition with the United States in that field.
The newspaper points out that China is the fifth most automated country in the world, according to the World Robotics Report 2022, and that it expects humanoid robots to represent a significant advance at the level of computers, smartphones or new energy vehicles.
“Variety of advanced technologies”
“They can profoundly change production and the way humans live,” the ministerial guideline says, in addition to “reshaping the pattern of global industrial development.”
The development of humanoid robots, according to the portfolio, incorporates “a variety of advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence, high-level manufacturing and new materials.”
The ministry added that China plans to build laboratories, industrial organizations and open source communities to serve the humanoid robotics industry.
With a view to setting global standards for the nascent industry, “China would participate in establishing international rules and standards and contribute to the development of the global humanoid robot industry,” the guideline added.
FEW (EFE, South China Morning Post)
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