As a typical representative of traditional industries, the total output value of China's construction industry reached 23.5 trillion yuan in 20 18.
It increased by 9.9% year-on-year, but there is a shortage of labor, low labor productivity and poor working environment.
According to Yang Guoqiang, member of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of the Board of Directors of Country Garden Group, China is a big building country, and its construction market ranks among the top in the world. However, the construction industry is large but not excellent, and the degree of informationization and intelligence is low. At present, the characteristics of "dangerous, miscellaneous, dirty and heavy" are outstanding, which is incompatible with the development and progress of the times, and the industry urgently needs innovation and transformation.
Another prominent problem is the shortage of labor. According to the data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, the number of migrant workers engaged in the construction industry in 20 152300 accounted for 18.9% of the total number of migrant workers in China, down 0.8% year-on-year. With the acceleration of the aging trend of society, the supply of young and middle-aged labor is becoming scarcer and scarcer.
In fact, in developed countries where labor costs are high, the problem of labor shortage is more prominent.
In order to break through the bottleneck, the global construction industry has turned its attention to robots. The prototype of fully automatic bricklaying robot Hadrian was developed by Australian engineer Mark Pivac in 20 15, and developed into Hadrian X. It can work 24 hours, bricklaying 1000 bricks per hour, and a house can be built in two days. Sam, a bricklaying robot developed by an American company, can build 300-400 bricks in an hour, which is 5-6 times faster than ordinary bricklayers.
Commissioner Yang Guoqiang imagined that if 70% of the workers in a 30-story building are completed by construction robots, 30% of the skilled construction workers are retained, and 20% of the new construction workers are trained to operate the construction robots, which will not only fundamentally solve the safety and quality problems, but also greatly improve the labor productivity and save a lot of costs.
At present, China's new urbanization process is still continuing. In 20 18, the construction area of housing enterprises nationwide reached 8.223 billion square meters, up 5.2% year-on-year.
In reality, real estate development itself is a big user of construction robots, such as wallboard installation robots, bricklaying robots, painting robots, welding robots and so on.
Many enterprises and institutions have announced to enter the field of engineering robots.