(Original title: The bottleneck of the development of the service robot market will reach a breakthrough in the development phase) "Five years later, all robots delivered to you are robots." Liu Qiangdong, chairman and chief executive officer of Jingdong Group, has been looking forward to the future. Logistics needs to achieve "unmanned", can catering be far behind? The reporter recently learned from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology that the competent authorities will guide the development of the catering robot industry through the formulation of standards and standards and the establishment of standard platforms and other measures. "Not long afterwards, robots are provided for you to cook and deliver meals." Service robots have huge market potential According to a person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, catering service robots are a kind of service robots, including cooking robots and meal delivery robots. With a large population and a prosperous catering industry in China, the demand for robots in the catering industry will continue to grow as the cost of labor increases, and catering service robots have huge market potential. The data shows that in 2015, the food and beverage industry had a labor shortage of about 8 million, and in 2016, the food and beverage employment gap exceeded 10 million. Basically, there is a certain scale of catering enterprises, and the number of staff is less than four. First-line service personnel are the most gap-filled jobs. Basically, each restaurant is recruiting waiters for years. Labor shortage has become the biggest problem for the catering industry. In the hopeless situation of recruitment, companies began to seek other ways, such as robotics. The above-mentioned sources believe that: “In recent years, catering service robots have had a certain industrial scale and application in China, but they are still in the period of market development, domestic technology reserves are weak, standards are missing, and products are not stable.†The reporter learned that at present, common robots in the market are moving along pre-set orbits. It can only serve on the "runway" and cannot "point where it goes". After the robot has brought the food to the table, it will not be able to complete the plate and can only be done by the customer himself. Wei Wei, an associate professor at Xi'an University of Arts and Science, who once participated in the restaurant robotics project, pointed out that at present, restaurant robots cannot achieve all the functions of the waiters and do not have the ability to provide independent services. “There is still a technical threshold to the real sense of intelligence.†Why is the development of catering robot industry so slow? A salesperson gave the answer: “In terms of technology, our robot manufacturing companies can fully increase the degree of intelligence. But now the restaurant robot production is low, high-tech value-added products cost, even if it is produced there is no market price ." Therefore, companies can only temporarily give up the pursuit of performance. But low-performance products are like chicken ribs, which makes it harder for the catering robot market to be opened. Several listed companies are actively laying out In response to the “pain points†of the market, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will organize experts in relevant fields to research and formulate relevant standards and testing and certification conditions for catering service application robots, further standardize the industry order and ensure product quality. Next, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will also set up docking platforms with relevant departments and industry intermediary organizations to actively guide and promote the cooperation between domestic catering companies and robotics companies, understand the needs, and define the direction of development. At the same time, the above-mentioned policies and measures are comprehensively used to encourage and support the robot companies and catering enterprises to jointly develop industrialized catering service robot products, and select mature regions for demonstration applications. At the same time, the competent authorities will also guide catering companies to introduce high-tech mechanical equipment such as robots through taxation policies. According to reports, “After the full implementation of the VAT reform pilot on May 1, 2016, the catering industry will change its value-added tax. The purchase of robots and other fixed assets, as well as the value-added tax of purchased goods and services, can be carried out according to regulations. Deduction." As the "pain point" of the industry is resolved, the catering robot industry will enter the track of sound development. At the same time, other service robots, such as logistics robots and cleaning robots, are also rapidly developing. According to a report released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Chinese service robot market has entered a period of rapid growth, and it is expected that by 2020, the annual sales of service robots will exceed 30 billion yuan. Forward-looking industry research institute reports that service robots have a larger market size than industrial robots. In the coming years, the growth rate of global industrial robots is expected to be 6%, and the growth rate of service robots will be as high as 17%. At present, a number of listed companies have already deployed in the field of service robots and will benefit from the high growth of the industry in the future. For example, Baoqianli has expanded its research in the field of machine vision and artificial intelligence, focusing on the research and development of core technologies for service robots, perfecting software development platforms, and conquering many key technical problems. Now it has successfully developed a number of smart robot products. The intelligent mobile robot (IAGV) developed by Hangzhou Nanjiang Robot Co., Ltd., a gorgeous family subsidiary, is a robot with autonomous map construction, autonomous positioning, and autonomous mobility capabilities. The company is actively upgrading and developing IAGV-related functions.