Industrial robots refer to multi - joint manipulators or multi - degree - of - freedom machinery and equipment that can work intelligently under human control and can perfectly replace human labor on the production line. Compared with human labor, industrial robots have the characteristics of low cost, high efficiency, and the ability to work 24 hours a day. In recent years, with the rise of labor costs in China, the labor advantage of China's manufacturing industry is not obvious. The manufacturing industry needs to transform towards intelligence, and industrial robots show a strong development trend.

China is a large consumer of industrial robots. Since 2013, it has been the world's largest consumer market for industrial robots for two consecutive years. There are often industrial robots “numbers” in fields such as automobiles, electronics, rubber and plastics, military industry, aviation manufacturing, food industry, medical devices, and metal products. Among them, the automotive industry has the widest application, accounting for 38%. Regions such as Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shanghai, and Beijing are the main concentrated areas of China's industrial robot industry, and the number of industrial robot industries they own accounts for half of the country's industrial robot market.