At present, the most widely used is the mechanical arm on the factory production line, which can replace some regular operations. This can completely replace some repetitive operators. Since the concept of industrial robots is so popular. But why are only a few large factories deploying industrial robots. I think we can analyze it from these aspects.
1. High cost, difficult to popularize and apply
Nowadays, these industrial robots also belong to precision devices, requiring a relatively high level of technology and investment in research and development. Therefore, the cost of producing robots is also very high. Therefore, in general, factories without strong capital are difficult to deploy industrial robots, and even if they are reluctantly invested, it is difficult to generate economic benefits. Due to the excessive investment in the early stage and the need for significant funds for maintenance in the later stage, industrial robots are still a gimmick for many ordinary factories, with high costs that can deter many factories. If we want industrial robots to be vigorously promoted and popularized, we must lower the entry threshold and lower maintenance costs. Otherwise, the mainstream manufacturing industry operated by workers will continue for a long time.
2. Different factories have different production needs
Each factory has its own products and production processes, which may vary. If robots are to replace workers. So different factories need to customize robots differently, and each factory also has different production processes, which also require customization of robots. This not only incurs high investment costs, but also increases the difficulty of maintenance. This completely increases one's own troubles, after all, robots are an emerging thing. For some large manufacturing enterprises, it can indeed improve efficiency, increase product accuracy, and improve product yield. For some small and medium-sized enterprises, these needs are less obvious.
3. Workers have stronger mobility compared to robots
For factories, if robots are invested, they need to invest manpower and material resources for maintenance. No matter how many or few orders you have, whether your robot is working or stopping, it will need to occupy the corresponding space and resources. Supporting maintenance personnel are also needed. But for workers, our mobility is relatively strong because they have mobility and have a lot of orders. When business is good, we can hire more workers to carry out production. If there are fewer orders, we can hire fewer people to maintain the saturation of factory production. The input of this production cost can be dynamically adjusted. Robots are different, no matter how good or bad your business is, robots need to continuously invest in costs.
4. Robots are currently unable to replace workers on a large scale
I think this is still very important. Robots are developed by us humans, and they can only execute according to the processes or actions we set. In real work, many actions or operations require human thinking and operation. This involves human thinking. This thinking is difficult to replace by current robots. Of course, robots are also slowly moving towards artificial intelligence. They also have a certain level of learning ability, but ultimately cannot compare with humans, and many actions still need to be completed manually.
Summary:
Although artificial intelligence robots are currently developing rapidly, they still cannot replace humans in many application scenarios. Due to the high cost of investment, this is an impassable threshold for small and medium-sized factories. So currently, the operation of factory workers is still mainstream. But with the development of technology and technology, robots will gradually replace a portion of human work. This can also liberate a lot of labor force. Perhaps some people may consider that if human work is replaced by robots, wouldn't workers be unemployed? In fact, from this perspective, we don't have to worry at all. If robots can replace humans to do some heavy work, then we workers can liberate more labor. Do something that creates more value. At present, many factories prefer to relocate their factories to underdeveloped countries to reduce production costs, rather than widely promoting industrial robots.