By Lin Xiu, 21st Century Business Herald, Guangzhou

Against the backdrop of the real estate industry generally entering the management dividend stage, the refined management of the construction process becomes more and more important as a key factor in the whole process.

Especially to balance the construction cost and efficiency, while guaranteeing safety, coupled with the policy support for the gradual popularization of assembly building and BIM, the introduction of scientific and technological means has become an inevitable path to optimization.

This is the reason why construction robots have received more and more attention during these years. Only in 2020, a number of state ministries and commissions have issued documents to vigorously promote the application of construction robots, artificial intelligence as the representative of the digital technology in the field of engineering and construction, in the hope that the "Made in China" to promote the transformation and upgrading of the construction industry.

The exploration of applications in specific scenarios is already underway. In February this year, the General Office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued a "letter on agreeing to carry out intelligent construction pilot", confirming that seven projects in Shanghai, Chongqing and Guangdong to carry out the pilot work of intelligent construction, which will be the actual application of construction robots in bulk in the construction process of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development pilot project, which is the back of the Legend Robot Technology in the intelligent construction of the road to explore the accumulation of the development of independent core technology and the This is the key practice of the company's exploration and accumulation on the road of intelligent construction and independent core technology development.

Of course, in general, the level of digitalization and intelligence in China's construction industry is still in the exploratory stage, and there are already various types of enterprises involved in the practice, and the most critical of them is the simultaneous need to match the traditional construction experience and intelligent construction system, and to promote the construction industry to gradually move towards the stage of green, energy-saving and high-efficiency development in the process of continuous integration of technology and scenarios.

Construction robots are becoming a necessity

As an industrial ecological link attributes strong real estate construction industry, over the years, although the scale is huge, but the real digitalization and even automation degree overall is still in a weak stage.

In the external environment support and real estate enterprises endogenous demand, coupled with the intensification of the two years of the construction site labor shortage and recruitment difficulties and other issues, construction robots to help the traditional construction industry, improve operational efficiency is increasingly important.

At present, the world's construction robots, although showing a blossoming situation, but really able to R & D and complex construction site scene depth integration, and take the route of large-scale development of the case is not much.

Specifically, there are three main types of enterprises involved in the construction robotics market overseas, including small robotics companies (including traditional machinery unmanned transformation category) such as Built Robotics, self-produced and self-use-based large-scale construction turnkey enterprises, and traditional construction machinery or tool manufacturers of cross-border competition.

Domestically, there are four main types of companies involved, including entrepreneurial construction robotics companies, construction-related companies, equipment manufacturing and production companies, and self-research by real estate companies.

But in general, at home and abroad in the field of construction robots to explore the enterprise, more than a single or a few targeted research and development for individual processes, has not yet formed a certain scale or systematic results, and more most of them are still in the internal use or experimental development stage, the formal launch of products for the commercial market is still very few cases.