The year 2010 witnessed an important milestone in Vietnam’s
robot industry, when a made-in-Vietnam robot was warmly welcomed in the world
market.

Being
flexible in operation, doing things quickly and exactly, being able to work in
the noxious environment and do everything to replace people all have been cited
as the outstanding features of robots. That explains why many countries and
enterprises have spent a lot of money to design and manufacture robots.

Vietnam
has also encouraged the design and manufacturing of robots by launching
scientific research projects to discover ideas and talents for the robot
industry. Especially, it has been annually organizing ROBOCON in order to
discover a high quality labor force to prepare to help develop the industry in
the future.

Ho Vinh
Hoang, General Director of TOSY Robot Joint Stock Company, the person who has
brought made-in-Vietnam robot to the world, is the designer who has “grown up”
from such ROBOCON competitions

To
Automatica, the world’s biggest exhibition in this field held in Germany in June
2010, TOSY brought TOPIO, the robot which can play ping-pong. And the appearance
of TOPIO immediately caught the special attention from the exhibition’s
attendants, because the excellent product comes from Vietnam, a country that has
never been known as the robot manufacturer.

Besides
TOPIO, TOSY also brought more than ten models of robots which can work in
industries and the service sector. TOPIO Dio, the small service robot, which was
introduced for the first time, was highly appreciated, because it can operate
everywhere thanks to an integrated camera and impediment-inductor.

The
exhibition’s attendants were really attracted by the robots made in Vietnam.
Many attendants expressed their surprise when hearing that the robots, which
have a high efficiency and impressive operation, were made in Vietnam, a country
that has never been a big name among the biggest robot manufacturers. Even the
“big guys”  in the robot industry in the world were also surprised with the
robots from Vietnam, because the robots have the quality that is par with the
robots made by modern countries in the world. Meanwhile, the prices of the
robots made in Vietnam are just equal to half the price of the robots with the
same functions in the market.

Explaining
the low production cost, which is considered the most outstanding feature of
TOSY-made robots, Hoang said that TOSY undertakes every phrase of the
manufacturing process, from setting ideas, designing to carrying out production.
A lot of important parts of robots, including the control unit and management
software, have been designed and manufactured by TOSY itself. Besides, TOSY also
does not have to pay large amounts of money for labor.

The low
prices have helped TOSY to sign a lot of valuable contracts.

“It is
very difficult to successfully manufacture high-quality and low-cost robots, but
it is even more difficult to persuade clients to trust the Vietnamese brand,”
Hoang said.

Also
according to Hoang, the robots manufactured by TOSY have to satisfy a lot of
requirements in quality in order to be distributed by big partners from the US,
Japan and Germany.

In its
development plan TOSY is considering a lot of factories in the near future that
will serve the manufacturing and testingcof new products. “We will not only
manufacture industrial robots, we are planning to bring service robots to every
family and help improve the life of people,” Hoang said.

Source:
Nguoi lao dong