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Thousands of miles away in Uzbekistan, 100 meters above the air, a wall-climbing robot is moving vertically on the wind turbine tower, cleaning the oil on the wall;
At the tunnel construction site of the Huandao Road of Xiamjin Bridge (Xiamen section), a robot was steadily “on duty” tens of meters underground to quickly replace hobs for the shield machine.
Dongjiang Reservoir, Hunan Province, a green “boat” is particularly bright, it is flexible through the side, while completing 44.69 meters deep water measurement “fine work”……
Climbing, changing knives, measuring, these great display of robots, all from Jiangbei; In the sky, into the earth, into the sea, once the extreme operation scene, also has a new solution.
01 China’s first underground tool changer
Coordinate Xia-Jin Bridge (Xiamen section) Huandao Road tunnel construction site, tens of meters underground depth, “Xia-jin” shield machine is preparing to cross the river and sea. Recently, a robot “Doctor” developed by the China Railway 14th Bureau made its debut and successfully replaced the “teeth” for the cutter head of the shield machine.
“Tooth” refers to the hob on the cutter head of shield machine, which is responsible for cutting rock and soil, but it wears out very quickly and needs to be replaced frequently. In the past, it was usually three operators with pressure into the cabin, in a small damp, dim light space, for several days, to replace a hob, a very difficult process.
Not long ago, the tool changing work entered a new stage — the robot developed by the 14th Bureau of China Railway was put into use, which is also the first heavy-load intelligent shield tool changing robot in China.
According to reports, the robot has 11 independent controllable movable joints. With a load capacity of 500 kg and a flexible and scalable configuration, it can cover the entire cutterhead of the 10-m to 18-m super diameter shield machine, easily grasp the heavy hob, and accurately complete the replacement.
The difficult tool change work is handed over to the robot, which not only shortens the hob change time to 25 to 40 minutes, but also does not require personnel to enter the cabin during the whole process, so the construction safety is guaranteed. It is worth mentioning that the software and hardware of this robot are 100% domestically produced and have completely independent intellectual property rights.
02 Heaven and sea, there are new areas
A shield tool changer robot is exploring a new road tens of meters underground. At the same time, the sky, underwater, there are “Jiangbei made” robot figure.
For example, a wall-climbing robot developed by Xinghe Huineng, an enterprise in the new area, is working in Uzbekistan’s wind farm. This robot, like a gecko, can move freely on the vertical wall of the wind turbine tower tube to quickly clean the oil. In the past, such aerial work can only be done by “Spider Man” hanging in the air, a little bit, especially in bad weather, once the wind speed exceeds 6 meters per second, the staff must evacuate.
“Our robot, in the wind of 15 meters per second still work as usual.” Gu Zenghui, founder of Xinghe Huineng, introduced that the robot matrix launched by the team covers the whole process of wind power operation and maintenance, such as weld detection, tower cleaning and anti-corrosion spraying. It has established business cooperation with five domestic power generation groups such as Huaneng and Hudian, and has nearly 1,000 orders in hand.
For example, the new area enterprise Zhonghaida launched the iBoat series of intelligent unmanned measuring ship. Just last month, the technical team went to Dongjiang Lake in Chenzhou, Hunan Province, and completed the ultimate sounding verification in a complex reservoir environment with an average water depth of more than 50 meters. Finally, the measured water depth reached 44.69 meters, and the whole process data was stable and reliable.
“With unmanned survey vessels, there is no need for people to go into the water to do dangerous work.” Song Baoxiong, general manager of Haida, introduced that these “small boats” have become the backbone of domestic high-end underwater detection equipment, and have also gone out of the country and sold overseas. Just like the vision of the company at the beginning of its establishment, their “journey” is the sea of stars.
03 Where is the confidence? Ecological answer
In the sky, into the earth, into the sea, where the extreme operation scene, their figure appears, this is the answer to Jiangbei New District robot. Where does this “heaven into the earth into the sea” come from?
A set of data shows the solution idea: led by leading enterprises such as Nanqi, CRCC and Sumeida, this hot land has gathered more than 300 upstream and downstream enterprises in the intelligent transportation and high-end equipment manufacturing industries. It can be said that behind the great display of robots, it is the result of the deep layout in the field of high-end equipment manufacturing in the new District for many years.
The deeper driving force comes from the increasingly abundant industrial ecology of this land.
Here, professional platforms such as the Humanoid Robot Industry Research Institute of Jiangsu Digital Economy Society and the Embodied Intelligent Robot Standardization Promotion Center have been launched to find directions and set standards for industrial development. The fund’s latest 1 billion yuan industrial investment fund has just been officially announced, intelligent manufacturing and robots are the focus of its investment; The special class for the development of embodied robot industry jointly established by multiple departments goes all out to recruit big and strong and serve enterprises to grow together……
The ingredients are in place, and “Old friends” are growing fast. The main body of the project of the industrialization base of ten thousand embodied intelligent robots is capped, and the goal is clear in 2026, to sell more than 4,500 robots, and to cooperate with 100 colleges and universities to build an innovation ecosystem.
“New partners” are also coming. Jinzhou Tianchuang Special Intelligent headquarters base has landed in the new area, aiming to build a leading robot production base in East China. The story of industrial agglomeration unfolds vividly in concrete projects one by one.
When the wall-climbing robot climbs the wind power tower in Central Asia, when the knife changing robot goes deep into the tunnel of Xia-Jin Bridge, when the unmanned ship measures the river thousands of miles away — the high-end equipment in Jiangbei New District is not limited to the workshop, but to the most dangerous operation site in the world.
From “heaven” to “earth” to “sea”, each extreme scene reached by Jiangbei robot is redefining the height and depth of “intelligent manufacturing in the New area”.
