Yes, China Tengfei does have the ability to develop industrial robots. After all, China Tengfei is already world-class in the fields of system control and precision machinery. Coupled with a relatively complete industrial chain, industrial robots are really important to China Tengfei. It's not a difficult thing.
The key question is whether the product can be recognized in the market and make money. After all, the cost of some key components is ridiculously high.
For example, the main material of the harmonic reducer used in the nb-36p industrial robot is silicon carbide used in helicopter reducers, and the internal wear-resistant parts are made of nickel-based alloy used in aerospace engines. Materials. In order to reduce the total structural weight of the nb-36p industrial robot and make its movements more flexible, the shell and base use a large number of materials such as carbon fiber and titanium alloy.
Even the matching grippers and cutting tools are high-strength machining tools made of high-strength and wear-resistant ceramic composite materials.
This set does not include the huge expenses incurred by the internal execution software and advanced algorithm architecture specifically for aviation and aerospace control systems, as well as the convenience brought by access to China Ascendas Industrial¡¯s big data.
The costs and processing fees of various advanced materials alone are astronomical.
Because of this, China Tengfei cannot make products like the nb-36p industrial robot into low-end products. There is no way. If these materials alone are used to make low-end products, it would be a waste.
So China Takeoff initially targeted NASA¡¯s space robotic arm on the space shuttle, because only this type of high-end goods are worth so many valuable materials.
What¡¯s more, the domestically revised manned space project has included the space station. As the most important component of the space station, the flexible space robotic arm is naturally indispensable.
The "Canada" type 2 space robotic arm used on the International Space Station has already proved this very well, because the space station with this type of robotic arm not only has good self-repair capabilities, but more importantly, it is facing the challenges of docking with itself. Spacecraft and other spacecraft also have safer and more efficient reception methods.
Of course, it¡¯s not a problem to occasionally eliminate ¡°space junk¡± or catch a ¡°scrap satellite¡±. All in all, for the space station, this thing is equivalent to its own tentacles, which can swing as desired in outer space.
In addition to the space station, this type of space robotic arm is also indispensable equipment for manned landings on the moon and even Mars in the future. Because of this, the development of this type of space robotic arm is very important for domestic manned spaceflight and even for the future. Deep space exploration has great practical significance.
Therefore, the National Space Administration conducted a feasibility assessment of such equipment as early as 2005, and the results were very unsatisfactory.
The space robotic arm is essentially a comprehensively upgraded version of an industrial robot. After all, an industrial robot is just a robotic arm. It¡¯s just that the industrial robot sounds taller and more technological. In fact, the basic difference is not that big. .
But the problem is that the domestic industrial robot industry at that time was not even a bud. There were a few related start-ups, but at most they were doing DIY or helping companies that imported foreign brands to crack control software. Business, as a whole, is living in a gray area that seems dark but not dark.
The reason for this situation is mainly due to the lack of market environment for industrial robots in China.
Not to mention anything else, the number of industrial robots owned by China Tengfei Company accounts for 87.25% of all domestic industrial robots.
In other words, excluding the nearly 10,000 industrial robots that have taken off in China, the total number of industrial robots in the country is less than 3,000.
The reason why this is so is at least because manpower is too cheap.
Based on the labor costs at the time, one imported industrial robot could hire three teams of workers, which was boring repetitive work. The three teams working 24 hours a day, not only were not worse than industrial robots, but had higher output.
The most important thing is that after you buy an industrial robot, you have to give it electricity, you have to give it oil, and you have to maintain it; but what about the workers? Apart from the meager salary and three meals a day, there is nothing to worry about. As long as you don't die in your own factory, there is no additional burden on the factory.
Under such circumstances, why buy those industrial robots that are just like our ancestors? That's what people with a broken brain do.
Therefore, China Tengfei, which is equipped with a large number of industrial robots, has become an alternative in the eyes of most domestic manufacturing-related units, because it is obvious that Zhuang Jianye, the leader of China Tengfei, is the one with a broken head. It is difficult to find a three-legged toad in China, and two-day legs are hard to find. Isn¡¯t that a good person?
whatLeave good people behind and use equipment with high cost and higher maintenance? Such a waste, isn't the head a watt or something?
To be honest, Zhuang Jianye didn¡¯t want to do this either. Anyone who can use cheap manpower can do something so complex. But the problem is that aviation and aerospace manufacturing are different from other industrial categories and have very high requirements for employees.
There are only so many relevant professional talents and technical workers who graduate in one year in China, and most of them are targeted allocations, leaving very few in the hands of China Tengfei.
High-end talents can be poached with high salaries, but what about a large number of ordinary skilled workers? We can't all dig with high salaries.
Of course, in recent years, Zhuang Jianye has been advocating the expansion of university enrollment and the development of technical education in order to fundamentally solve the problem of talent shortage. However, it is said that it takes ten years to cultivate trees and a hundred years to cultivate people. Although the country has made great efforts to cultivate talents in recent years, But after all, it will take some time to see the effect.
During this long waiting period, will China Takeoff stop producing? Are Project No. 10 and Project No. 20 going to lie dead waiting for talents and technical workers to arrive?
It is obviously impossible. In this case, Zhuang Jianye can only find another way to replace the serious shortage of ordinary skilled workers with high-precision industrial robots and integrate them into his own aviation and aerospace production lines. This is the situation today.
But precisely because of this, China Tengfei has always been the company with the smallest number of employees among similar domestic companies, but it is also the company with the highest production efficiency.
Behind this considerable investment is China Tengfei¡¯s continuously improving product quality and its deep understanding of industrial robots and its in-depth experience in use.
Coupled with China Ascendas's years of technological accumulation in outer space such as satellites, launch vehicles, and hypersonic vehicles, experts in the manned aerospace project finally recommended that the domestic space robotic arm project be handed over to China after a feasibility study. Let China take off.
The nb-36p industrial robot is a low-end space robotic arm derived from this project
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