A Current Status and Future Prospect of Service Robot Industry

Abstract

The robot industry has been carrying out simple repetitive tasks in the process of industrialization on behalf of human beings. These robots are now used in more complex and diverse areas including intelligence in simple and repetitive tasks. In this study, we describe current trends and developments in robotics industry. Methods/Statistical analysis: Most of the tasks performed by existing robots have been performed on behalf of human beings in the production site in simple and repetitive tasks. In this study, we investigated the technology field which robot is used in more complex and diverse fields including intelligence. The trends of technology development in Japan and the United States, which are representative technologies of robot industrial technology, and future prospect of robotic industry was examined. Findings: Intel's Robotics strategy, which Jimmy has unveiled at Intel, is to build Jimmy as a robot platform and open source, which means that many participants are encouraged to build robots with Jimmy platform. In other words, Intel is expanding its PC or server platform to the robot platform, and it is analyzed that it aims to maintain the leadership of the robot platform in the robot market by making the chipset of semiconductor products such as Intel CPU.From the current and future growth prospects from 2000 to 2025, we can see that the results for the year are higher than expected. Therefore, this development is expected to continue to increase in the future. Improvements/Applications: In this paper, we describe the contents related to robot, which is a representative example of the 4th industry. As the development of artificial intelligence technology is highly likely to proceed rapidly in the future, it is expected that the intelligence of the related robot industry will also change very rapidly.