In China, Robots already help humans in various matters. In hotels, in restaurants and now, in the parks. Shenzhen, the country’s technological capital, has already put them to the test in the Qianhai Stone Park.
China’s first robotic volunteer service station was inaugurated at the end of March with humanoids developed with the help of the brands X Square, Daimon Robotics and Xtella Robotics.
The specimens are called «was», and its functions are those of inform and guide tourists in an automated pedestrian complex.
Their main tasks include transporting essential goods (from bottles to mosquito repellent), stopping if they notice that someone needs to find a specific point on the map, guiding people to recreation areas and making audible reminders to politely maintain order.
The “Oli” are supervised by the developer brand Xingchen General Robot Co, which focuses on preventing them from failing in large crowds or during adverse weather conditions.
China, at the forefront of global technology
China has been showing the world’s largest market for industrial robots for more than a decade.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MOST) indicated to the Xinhua news agency that in 2023 the production of robots in the country will reach 430 thousand units (China has more than half of the robotic installations in the world market).
Perception, cognition, planning and control. Those are the four keys highlighted in the World Robotics Conference 2024 by the deputy minister of MOST, Xin Guobinfor the integration of robots in industry.
Through the Chinese initiative “Robot plus application”, in the last ten years the number of robots per 10,000 workers in the Chinese manufacturing sector increased from 49 to 470.
The city of Shenzhen is known as the Silicon Valley chinasince it is home to the concentration of technological giants and industrial “champions.” In the latest five-year plan, presented at the beginning of the year in Beijing, the issue was discussed.
In relation to the development of robots that integrate into human daily life, the Communist Party of China agreed in this year’s Two Sessions that the country should promote “new engines of economic growth such as quantum technology, biomanufacturing, hydrogen energy and nuclear fusion, brain-computer interfaces, embodied artificial intelligence (AI) and 6G mobile communications.”
