2021年协作机器人市场实现40%增长反弹

Cobot Market Sees 40% Growth Rebound In 2021
2021年协作机器人市场实现40%增长反弹

After a serious contraction in sales in 2020, the cobot market experienced a resounding 40% growth rebound in 2021, exceeding its 2019 market size. The period out to 2026 will see further strong expansion in sales and our forecasts show that by 2026 the cobot market will be worth over $2bn. The challenge will be for the sector to maintain growth over the longer term. How will they do this? 

经历了2020年销量严重萎缩之后，协作机器人市场在2021年实现了40%的强劲增长反弹，超过了2019年的市场规模。到2026年期间，销售额将进一步强劲增长，我们的预测显示，到2026年协作机器人市场规模将超过20亿美元。挑战将是该行业如何长期保持增长。他们将如何做到这一点？ 

Logistics and services will be the long-term growth drivers
物流和服务将成为长期增长动力

We expect the overall robotics sector to see strong year-on-year growth of around 20% out to 2030. Industries are recalibrating after the turbulence caused by the pandemic and are responding to the challenges of current labor shortages by investing heavily in automation solutions. The key to maintaining long-term growth in the cobot market will lie in diversifying the range of application scenarios and achieving scale. There are many opportunities that the cobot industry can explore, notably in the burgeoning logistics and services markets. In fact, logistics is forecast to be the fastest-growing market for cobots in the next 5 years, with revenues more than doubling, and we believe that logistics and services will be the long-term drivers of growth. There is also the potential for expansion in key existing markets such as electronics, automotive and food and beverage through the introduction of more advanced technologies.

我们预计到2030年，整个机器人行业将出现约20%的强劲同比增长。各行业在经历了大流行病造成的动荡后正在重新调整，并通过大量投资于自动化解决方案来应对当前劳动力短缺的挑战。协作机器人市场保持长期增长的关键在于应用场景的多样化和规模化。协作机器人行业可以探索许多机会，特别是在蓬勃发展的物流和服务市场。事实上，物流预计将成为未来5年协作机器人增长最快的市场，收入将增加一倍以上，我们相信物流和服务将成为增长的长期驱动力。通过引入更先进的技术，在电子、汽车和食品饮料等关键现有市场也有扩展的潜力。

（数据来源：Interact Analysis）

New technologies enabling dedicated industry solutions
支持专用行业解决方案的新技术

Collaborative robot technology is becoming more sophisticated and focused. Vendors are moving away from simply selling concepts of ‘collaboration’ or ‘safety’ and are concentrating on offering specific solutions for different user scenarios. Potential market growth in industrial manufacturing lies in the development of high-precision sensors, machine vision, end arm tools and safety control software, enabling flexible production and cooperation between humans and robots.

协作机器人技术正变得越来越复杂和专注。供应商正在摆脱简单地销售“协作”或“安全”的概念，而是专注于为不同的用户场景提供特定的解决方案。工业制造领域的潜在市场增长在于高精度传感器、机器视觉、端臂工具和安全控制软件的发展，从而实现柔性生产以及人类和机器人之间的合作。

These more advanced technologies when applied to collaborative robots offer the potential to replace or assist manual work in the completion of pick and place, packaging, quality inspection and other operations. Where the services sector is concerned, advances in machine vision and machine learning technology are opening new opportunities for the deployment of cobots in education, medical care, retail, logistics and catering. Making serious incursions into these service industries will be key to the long-term future market success of the cobot sector.

这些更先进的技术应用于协作机器人时，有可能取代或帮助人工完成拾取和放置、包装、质量检查和其他操作。就服务行业而言，机器视觉和机器学习技术的进步为在教育、医疗、零售、物流和餐饮领域部署协作机器人开辟了新的机遇。深入这些服务行业将是协作机器人行业未来长期市场成功的关键。

Cobots are making inroads into the industrial space
协作机器人正渗透工业领域

We predict that by 2025 collaborative robots will account for ~10% of total industrial robot sales. There are certain sectors of the industrial robot market where cobots will fail to make any significant penetration. These include areas where there are higher speed and accuracy requirements and where there is no human interaction. Automotive is a typical case in point. There is already a very high level of mature automation solutions in this industry, for instance in body shops for welding tasks and final painting. Traditional industrial robots will maintain their high-level presence in these scenarios, but opportunities do exist for collaborative robots to grow their presence in automotive.

我们预测，到2025年，协作机器人将占到工业机器人总销售额的10%左右。在工业机器人市场的某些领域，协作机器人无法取得任何重大的渗透，包括对速度和精度有更高要求的领域，以及没有人工干预的领域。汽车是一个典型的例子。这个行业已经有了非常高水平的成熟自动化解决方案，例如车身车间的焊接任务和最终喷漆。传统工业机器人将在这些场景中保持其高水平的存在，但协作机器人确实有机会在汽车领域发展。

（数据来源：Interact Analysis）

Universal Robots, for instance, offers cobots with functionality in the powertrains, electronics, and interiors production stages, including machine tending, inspection, and assembly. Finally, industrial SMEs, which generally produce smaller batches of customized products, have tended to find traditional industrial robots too expensive. This is not the case with cobots and so SMEs represent a totally new industrial robot market opportunity that is open only to cobots.

例如，优傲机器人在汽车的动力系统、电子设备和内饰生产阶段（包括机器维护、检查和组装）可以提供协作机器人。最后，通常生产小批量定制产品的中小制造企业往往发现传统工业机器人过于昂贵，而协作机器人则不然，因此中小企业对协作机器人而言，代表了一个全新的工业机器人市场机会。