With the aging population and diversified social service needs, service robots usher in huge market opportunities. To truly allow service robots to "fly into the homes of ordinary people", we need to improve our scientific and technological innovation capabilities, actively expand application scenarios, continuously optimize the development environment, grasp the key points, and work together.

  A robot dog who can act coquettishly, a sweeping robot who can climb stairs... The 137th Canton Fair has added a service robot area for the first time to showcase more possibilities for future life. How to accelerate the entry of service robots into daily life and benefit thousands of households is becoming a major issue in promoting the sustainable development of the service robot industry.

  With the aging population and diversified social service needs, service robots usher in huge market opportunities. The relevant report predicts that the scale of my country's service robot market will reach 85 billion yuan in 2025. The current market situation is that many service robots have not yet covered a wide range of user groups, have not fully reached families in need, nor have they achieved accurate matching in functions, and effective docking between supply and demand has not yet been formed.

  At present, the popularity of service robots still faces many practical problems. First, technical issues, service robots require high intelligent decision-making capabilities and precise operation capabilities, which puts higher requirements for technological development; second, application scenario issues, although service robots have been applied in many scenarios, many actual needs have not been effectively covered in more open, dynamic and complex environments; third, price issues, robot equipment prices are generally high, restricting the pace of popularization.

  To truly allow service robots to "fly into the homes of ordinary people", we need to grasp the key points and work together.

  Improve scientific and technological innovation capabilities. Technological innovation is an important supporting force for serving the blooming of all kinds of flowers in the robot industry. At the Canton Fair, whether it is a cleaning robot that can clean the curtain wall at a height of 100 meters or a millimeter-level surgical robot that holds a knife, it is inseparable from key technical support such as intelligent perception, decision-making execution and human-computer interaction. We must strengthen cooperation among the government, enterprises and academic circles, strengthen core technology research, further improve the intelligence level of service robots, and build core competitiveness of the industry with scientific and technological strength.

  Actively expand application scenarios. From early cleaning and serving food to today's emotional companionship, intelligent education, and medical assistance, the technological content of service robots is getting higher and higher, and application scenarios are constantly enriching. In the next step, we should focus on more complex, high-frequency and real-time scenarios, focus on key areas such as elderly care, medical care, education, and public services, encourage user units and robot companies to jointly carry out technical tests and verification, develop customized products closer to use scenarios, promote service robots from "available" to "good use", and expand their environmental adaptability and service depth.

  Continuously optimize the development environment. At present, service robots are in a stage of rapid development as an important field for the deep integration of intelligent manufacturing and modern life. Relevant parties should support innovation and breakthroughs in service robot industry and become bigger and stronger with more active policy guidance, more efficient factor guarantees, and a more open market environment, strengthen support from multiple aspects such as capital, technology, and talents, provide good services and guidance, and create a good ecology. In addition, we should promote the formulation of industry standards, standardize the service robot market, form economies of scale, and achieve long-term development.

  From the "popularity king" in the exhibition hall of the Canton Fair to the intelligent assistant that is within reach in future life, service robots will continue to enter thousands of households. Taking multiple measures to solve the problems of industrial development and promoting the popularization of service robots is not only an important part of the industry's maturity, but also a key step in continuously releasing the potential of intelligent manufacturing and promoting technology to serve a better life. (Lai Qichun)

[Editor in charge: Zhou Jingjie]