Chairman of British LEC Robotics Company: China's robot industry is becoming the global market leader

China News Service, Tianjin, October 3 (Reporter Xia Bin and Zhou Yaqiang) "China's robot industry is becoming the leader in the global market." Jack Perry, chairman of 48 British Groups and executive chairman of LEC Robotics, recently accepted a written interview with a reporter from China News Service and said that UK-China robot cooperation should shift from pure trade to industrial cooperation.

Perry believes that China's robot industry chain is complete, mass production is fast, and its deeper advantage lies in data accumulation. Europe has strong engineering capabilities, but its industrial chain is fragmented and iterations are slow. "Unlike language models, robots have ready-made data, which can only be accumulated in real scenarios. China has implemented it on a large scale, and its advantages are still expanding."

In Perry's view, the demand for commercial robots in the European market is rising, with logistics, warehousing and manufacturing being the most urgent, and hotels, medical care and retail also growing. He judged that in the next ten years, most commercial buildings in Europe will be constructed by robots, and about 90% of agriculture will be robotized within five to ten years.

But it is not easy for Chinese companies to enter Europe. Perry said the main obstacles are European companies' lack of understanding of Chinese robots, long geographical distances, and the difficulty of a single manufacturer providing the entire system needed by the industry.

Perry introduced that LEC Robotics has set up a "Robot House" in London, which is the UK's first headquarters specifically built for physical AI, with exhibition halls and AI laboratories. European customers can operate Chinese robots on the spot here and connect with Chinese companies during "Robot Week".

Speaking of Tianjin, Perry called Tianjin “one of the most underrated robotic cities in the world.” The scale of Tianjin's robot industry has exceeded 25 billion yuan, with more than 200 companies forming a full chain. He said that the signing of a memorandum of cooperation between 48 British groups and TEDA's cross-border overseas comprehensive service port is equivalent to connecting "two halves of the same bridge": TEDA provides one-stop services in China, while LEC Robotics provides landing support in Europe.

In the next one to two years, he looks forward to Tianjin Robot's debut in the "Robot House", the first batch of European customer projects to be implemented, and the establishment of certification and localization paths. The most important thing is to feed back the actual needs of the European market to Tianjin companies. Perry expects that the next step in UK-China cooperation will shift from "made in China, bought in Europe" to a shift from European demand to Chinese R&D and manufacturing.

He also bluntly said: "I want to bring a fully automatic coffee robot from China back to the UK, because most British people have never seen a robot, and letting them come into contact with a robot for the first time will have a greater impact on the future of the European robot industry than policy documents. If the robot can deliver a good cup of coffee, and its movements are perfect every time, many debates about robots will be unnecessary." (End)