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Recently, the Anhui Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology recently released the "Anhui humanoid robot industry Development Action Plan (2024-2027)" (draft for comment)(hereinafter referred to as the "Action Plan"), which mentioned that by 2027, around the "23456" target system, the initial construction of Anhui humanoid robot innovation system and industrial ecology, Form industrialization capacity.

In today's era, humanoid robot technology is developing at an unprecedented speed, leading to profound changes in industry, services and even daily life. With the improvement of computing performance, advances in machine learning and control theory, and breakthroughs in new materials science, humanoid robots are gradually moving from the pages of science fiction to the real world, becoming an important force to promote social progress.

Recently, CCTV finance reported that humanoid robots are a representative industry with a sense of the future, and institutional reports show that it is expected that by 2026, the scale of China's humanoid robot industry will exceed 20 billion yuan. In the current outbreak of generative artificial intelligence technology, future humanoid robots are very likely to achieve more than expected growth.

According to the report of the "Saidi Consulting Research" of the China Electronic Information Industry Development Institute, the humanoid robot industry will enter the outbreak period in 2023, and the future functional machine will gradually occupy the mainstream and have great development potential. In the environment of human work and life, humanoid robots can handle complex and diverse work tasks and assist or replace human work. Humanoid robots are expected to take the lead in the industrial field to achieve demonstration applications, will gradually replace humans in special fields, and will achieve large-scale applications in the field of people's livelihood after higher maturity.

According to previous reports, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Humanoid Robot Innovation and Development Guidance" in November last year, and proposed that by 2025, the humanoid robot innovation system will be initially established, and a number of key technologies such as "brain, cerebellum, and limb" will make breakthroughs to ensure the safe and effective supply of core components. At the same time, the whole machine products have reached the international advanced level, and achieved mass production, and have been demonstrated and applied in special, manufacturing, people's livelihood services and other scenarios, and explored the formation of effective governance mechanisms and means.

From the perspective of effective technology patents, China has entered the forefront of the world in the field of humanoid robot technology competition. According to public data from the People's Daily Online Research Institute, as of May 31, 2023, the number of effective patents for humanoid robots in China was 3,110, ranking first in the world; The number of patent applications for humanoid robots was 6,618, also ranking first in the world. From the perspective of institutional patent situation, among the top ten applicants with the largest number of effective patents for humanoid robots in the world, China Youbi Science and Technology, Dataru and Tsinghua University/Beijing Institute of Technology (parallel) ranked first, ninth and tenth in the world respectively; In addition, Japan has five players in the top 10, while South Korea and the United States each have one player in the top 10.

Humanoid robots will continue to integrate new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, etc., to achieve higher autonomous decision-making capabilities, more accurate perception, and more flexible movement. The innovation of these technologies will promote the development of humanoid robots to a higher level and expand a wider range of application scenarios.

Humanoid robots will gradually expand from the traditional industrial field to the service field, such as medical care, education, and home services. In the medical field, humanoid robots can assist doctors in surgery, rehabilitation training and other work; In the field of education, humanoid robots can be used as teaching AIDS to help students better understand knowledge; In the field of household services, humanoid robots can take on tasks such as cleaning, caring for the elderly and children. These new application scenarios will bring more market opportunities for humanoid robots.

At present, humanoid robots have ushered in a period of industrial explosion. At the same time, the current industry is facing problems and challenges such as low technology and product maturity, large scale manufacturing and maintenance difficulties, limited high-value application scenarios, and difficult commercial landing.