Chinese government will speed up the application of service robot

MIIT, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China, will make great breakthroughs in accelerating the AI core technologies and symbolic products in the next three years. The intelligent home service robot is the key. By 2020, intelligent home service robot like care robots for the elderly aims to achieve massive production, and medical rehabilitation assistant robot and the disabled robot aims to achieve sample production.

China is facing the problems of increasing labor cost and aging population; the market of the service robot industry is gradually opening, therefore the opportunity appears. In particular, with the improvement of the life quality of our Chinese citizens, the service robots will speed up the search for more application scenarios. The service robots can meet some social needs, such as patients’ recovery, and have potential markets in individuals, families, and public services.

China is expected to take the lead in the transition from followers to leaders in the service robot. The core strengths of China’s development of service robots include: compared with overseas competitors, the cost advantage of Chinese service robots is obvious thanks to its more and more mature and complete electronic industry chain. The demand for service robots in the Chinese market will continue to be booming, benefiting from consumption upgrades and labor shortages.

With the improvement of the core AI technologies and the continuous improvement of the industrial chain, the price of service robots will fall and they will go into thousands of families. According to the IFR forecast, the service robots during 2016–2019 will have a market size of $50 billion, which will is much greater than industrial robots. According to the report released by the China MIIT, the service robot market in China has entered a stage of rapid growth.

However, intelligent service robotics still have a large development space and need time to perfect the related hardware and software infrastructure and services of the industry chain, including sensors, voice and visual, intelligent chip, operating system, etc. Therefore, greater service and products will come into being and bring better consumer experience.

Litigation Service Robots at an Explosive Growth in China in 2017

2017 is about to end, and this year is being called the “First Year of Technological Justice”. The Sanbot robots were glad to be a part of this new development. Throughout the year, this robot has been introduced to work for a large number of courts, judicial institutions, and law offices in Beijing, Shenzhen, Zibo, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Foshan, Chengdu, and many other cities throughout China. The robots were given special names by the users like Xiaofa, Fa Xiaobao, Xiaolv, and more.

China’s government has been very impressed with Sanbot’s capabilities. In April and June, the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate of the People’s Republic of China each issued Speeding Up the Construction of the Wisdom Court and the 2017–2020 Guide to the Prosecution of Big Data. These documents advocate for the application of technology such as Big data and intelligent voice recognition in the judicial system, helping to popularize AI products to be used in litigation.

Another important driving force behind AI in the courts is the demand from citizens. According to the official statistics of the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China, when the Chinese litigation registration system began working, the number of litigation cases has continued to rise since May 2015. But at the same time, the number of litigation personnel is reducing. This has lead to an unfortunate situation where there are more cases but fewer legal personnel. Standard technology is also lowering the efficiency of litigations services. To guarantee better and more efficient litigation services, several legal departments have begun to adopt new technologies.

Nanjing Aegis, the robotic litigation service solution developer for Sanbot robot, told the media, “There are huge differences between the urban and rural areas in China. The main legal service resources are mainly in the large cities; the small and medium-sized cities have fewer and sometimes weaker legal services than the large metropolises. Also, the litigation consultant and service charges are too expensive for many citizens. The litigation service robot not only embodies the spirit of law and serves the people, but also helps free up legal personnel from basic and redundant work so they can devote more energy to work on more technical and difficult work. The application of litigation service robots is the future.”

Till now, most of the 100 practical cases of “Robot + Litigation service” are intelligent litigation enquires. For example, the Sanbot litigation service robot, which works for Beijing Fengtai District Judicial Bureau, has a deep knowledge and understanding of the law and will quickly provide answers to the procedures for marriage and family affairs, traffic accidents, intellectual property, employee disputes and business personnel, etc. It can also remember more than 30 million historical cases and the 5-million-word laws and regulations for the litigants’ reference. The advanced AI robot can also calculate the litigation charges, worker’s compensation, traffic accident compensation, and more.

In addition to Sanbot’s legal service solution, some courts or companies have made further developments based on Sanbot robot’s autonomous mobile and video conversation functions, allowing the robots to guide people around the courthouse, provide guidance, and one-key assistant for business affairs.

In the future, the legal industry expects more from the litigation service robot. Litigation personnel want the AI service robots to be qualified with more functions:
A smarter “Cloud brain” for the robot to push the history cases;
Offer a uniformed standard of judgment;
Help non-legal experts understand the law and correct any inaccuracies and human-error;
The robot can automatically generate and review the litigation documents and court documents based on speech recognition, semantic analysis, and robot graphic recognition technologies.

The personnel are expecting the litigation service robots to handle all of the “standard functions” in the future.

The most popularized litigation service robot is the Sanbot series robots from QIHAN Technology. Both QIHAN’s Sanbot Elf and Sanbot Max intelligent robots have an open API and can be further developed to suit any particular work scenario, and both the robots are offering litigation services now.

The Vice President of Sanbot robot, Ryan Wu, stated that this is just a beginning of the “judicial intellectualization” where robots offer litigation consultation services via voice recognition and human-robot interaction. The development of science and technology along with the cooperation between robot manufacturers, robotic solution operations, and justice departments will make litigation service robots more intelligent and better in reaction speed, intellectual deep learning, and have a better user experience. This will lead to an increase in the usage of these robots. In the future, the use of artificial intelligence to enhance the provision of legal services and courthouses will be very prominent.

People in Financial Sector Should Co-work with AI and Robotics

With the rapid development of science and technology, four big accounting enterprises have introduced artificial intelligence and financial service robots, and the basic financial work will be replaced by these AI robots. In China, the Accounting Qualification Certificate which was effective has been abolished. The accounting work, which has been known as a stable accounting work, has now become a “high-risk” job.

With the introduction of AI technology into accounting, financial service robots can quickly read thousands of complex accounting documents, grab and construct text information to make better analysis. The advanced robots can replace manual operation in the financial process, manage and monitor the automated financial process, input information, consolidate data and summary statistics, and identify the optimization points in the financial process according to the established business logic. The repetitive work, with a programmable autonomous robot, can avoid and improve work efficiency. If financial personnel only have the ability of low-level financial accounts and some basic accounting work, he may be either unemployed or transform to learn to cooperate with AI.

Now a lot of financial people engaged in the basic financial work will face many problems: there are a lot of reports and data that need to be processed, and they have to stay up late to work overtime if they don’t finish it at daytime. They hope an intelligent service robot can help them with the problems, but they also fear the robots take away their jobs.

In fact, the financial service robot is a tool, which is made and used to make our work better; and of course, the robot will only take over the jobs of the low-end financial personnel. The financial people who are capable of more financial abilities, better financial management, excellent decision-making, and business understanding will be the comprehensive talents that the enterprises need. Faced with the challenge of AI and robotics going to the financial sectors, it is better to learn more accounting knowledge and skills and do more high-end management accounting work, and work together with the advanced humanoid robots to improve work efficiency and make the work better.

Smugglers Beware – The Age of Robot Customs Agents Has Begun

Not that airport security is what we’d call lax, but for the customs evaders of the world, at least there was some hope of human error. This month saw the beginning of the end of that hope — there’s a new kind of customs agent on the scene, and it’ll always be watching!

Sanbot Max is the latest robot from Chinese firm Qihan, which has been busy making robots that can interact with humans for retail businesses, hospitals, and, yes, even government agencies. Max has donned the uniform (seriously, they gave him cool shoulders and a little arm patch) of China’s Inspection and Quarantine Bureau and has been given a post in the Shenzhen Bay Port in the south. Max won’t be doing any tough guy acts any time soon, but from the sounds of it, this bot is a little bit more than just a techie tourist attraction!

Admittedly, we were ready to write Max off as a novelty — after all, while robotics and AI have advanced rapidly in the past few years, neither are even close to replacing what humans can do. Well, alright, maybe just the AI part is behind — we do live in a world where robots can land sweet backflips with no support.

Well, Max is no novelty, but this bot won’t be replacing any humans, either. Max will need human partners to do the decision making, but it is equipped with a few powers that humans most certainly do not have — infrared vision, instant facial recognition, and radiation detection. That makes it possible for Max to spot banned foods or illicit materials while spotting anyone that the Chinese government has flagged. So, uh, keep that in mind if you’re going to Shenzhen!

We’ve been interested in Qihan since 2016, when they showed off the original Sanbot. They’ve released a few other versions of their robot, like Max, since then, but the basic design has remained the same. Qihan’s bots stand about three feet tall, with a cute expressive display for a face and a tablet on the body. Sanbot is equipped with AI based on IBM’s Jeopardy-winning Watson technology, with extra abilities that can be added depending on how Sanbot is being used. Qihan has seen Sanbot used in elder care homes to provide companionship and aid residents, in stores to help customers find products and deals, and now in government security posts!

In the beginning, Sanbot had ineffective flippers for arms that were probably there for charm more than anything. Earlier this year, Qihan started making a Sanbot with proper arms and hands, with fingers that could be moved individually. That allowed Sanbot to pick up, hold, and carry objects from place to place, which really expands what the bot can do in hospitals or elder care homes. Sanbot can be interacted with using voice commands or the touchscreen on the tablet, and while Sanbot still has the same occasional problems with voice recognition that many voice assistants do (hi, Siri!), Qihan and their voice recognition partner, Nuance, have come a long way.

So, is this another job destined to be taken over by robot-kind? I guess it depends on what kind of time frame you’re talking about. We’ve seen Sanbot for ourselves, and while it’s pretty impressive at doing narrowly defined tasks like following people around or understanding basic voice commands, it’s nowhere near anything that could operate in the field with no human support — it’s not ready to take anyone’s job!

And, for all the noise, half-joking or otherwise, made about robots taking jobs, that’s generally the case. AI development is still many years away from creating, well, true artificial intelligence. While humans can react dynamically (and unexpectedly!) in every situation, most machines can only take a certain number of actions in response to a certain number of inputs (say, a voice command or a feed from a camera). Until that human creativity can be copied, a lot of us are still safe.

Still, that doesn’t mean robots will only be operating with human partners. There are some bots that certainly will displace people in the near future, and you’ll find them in cars. In fact, driving is kind of a strange example that runs counter to most uses of robots and AI. Usually, a lack of creativity or dynamism is seen as a bad thing — a solo customs bot that can’t immediately take action when it thinks it’s being tricked isn’t much good to any government. But, in driving, that human ability to be creative and multitask works against us! Humans get distracted or use their superior cognitive abilities to make poor decisions like drinking and driving. Autonomous cars that are designed with a narrow, focused purpose — just drive and don’t hit anything — will almost inevitably be better drivers than humans once the technology is fully developed (which might not be all that long from now). The same will hold true for repetitive tasks like data entry or stocking.

One thing’s for sure — with a robot in uniform, a robot that does backflips, and a robot that wants to have babies, it’s only going to get wilder from here!

Repost from http://www.chipchick.com/2017/12/ctk-qihan-sanbot-china-customs.html

Robot helps catering business expand and create more value

Hideo Sawada from HIS points out: "in the next 5 years, about 70% of the work in the Japanese hotel industry will be automated. It takes only one to two years for the hotel to take back the cost. But because the hotel is open for 24 hours and they don't need a holiday, you will eventually find that using intelligent robots is the most economical way. "

But according to Michael Chui, a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute, much work in the catering industry and the accommodation industry is easy to be automated.

These jobs have not been replaced by the advanced AI robots because they need to provide human services. When a cup of coffee is ordered or a hotel is checked in, people need to communicate with human staff. But a robot manufacturing company betting that when robots enter these service industries, people will be more willing to communicate with robot the service robots. They are also convinced that increasing robots do not mean that human jobs are necessarily reduced.

Commercial service robots have entered the catering and accommodation and the cost of these robots has fallen sharply in recent years. According to the Boston consulting company, the cost of robots has fallen by 40% since 2005. At the same time, the cost of workers is becoming more and more expensive, because legislation in some cities and regions in the United States has raised the minimum income level.

The physical brick-and-mortar stores with traditional retail modes are finding it harder to find success in this hi-tech era and upgrading retail stores into the new era is imperative, and these upgrades are happening daily. Pizza Hut Malaysia took a necessary step, introducing Sanbot robots to promote its store.

Although the catering employs fewer workers, the increasing number of branches leads to an overall increase in the number of catering workers. The nature of the human staff changes when intelligent robots replace their basic jobs. Their job now is to introduce more products to customers, such as deposits, car loans and so on, which can bring more value to their employers.

Sanbot Max's newest robotic solution for hospitality (especially for enterprises)

Using a robot that just looks great at the front desk or lobby is just one prong of Sanbot Max that will effectively elevate your business. In addition to its good looks, Sanbot Max is capable of performing valuable services for your business. Recently, QIHAN issued Sanbot Max’s innovative hospitality solutions for enterprises.

Sanbot Max is equipped with:

• Dexterous arms, hands and fingers moving independently or in conjunction;
• Multi-lingual voice recognition and command (plus, open API to enable Android applications);
• 3D vSLAM technology and autonomous mapping, coupled with hundreds of infrared and other obstacle avoidance sensors that guided them, unobstructed, through uber-congested convention areas;
• Chest-embedded Ethernet and USB ports anchored by sturdy brackets and flexible waist movement that allowed for effortless attachment of third-party devices (printers, monitors, large LED screens, ATM machines, scanners), as well as the ability to attach or tow objects of up to 75Kg.

This is the premier commercial service robot for enterprises, catering services, hotels, businesses, and other industries. The solution QIHAN released aims to help enterprises with customer reception, company introductions, contacting staff members, security patrols, and more. See how Sanbot Max’s solution will benefit your enterprise.

Visitor Reception

When a visitor is at the entrance to your company, Sanbot Max will greet them:
Sanbot Max: Hello, what can I do for you?
Visitor: I want to visit Jack.
Sanbot Max: I need to register you; may I have your name?
Visitor: My name is Lee.

During the recording process, Sanbot Max will capture a photo of the visitor and input both the visitor’s photo and name into its system. Next time the visitor arrives, Sanbot Max’s facial recognition technology enables the advanced robot to greet them, “Lee, what can I for you?” With visitors being a part of a company’s the Big data, the company administrator can easily manage, collect, and analyze these statistics.

Sanbot Max will call the staff member via the Sanbot Q-Link mobile APP. The staff member can ask Sanbot Max to take the visitor to the conference room, or say they do not have time to see the visitor. Equipped with advanced 3D vSLAM technology and obstacle avoidance sensors, Sanbot Max will take the visitor to the conference room. The robot can also give the visitor a tour of the company.

Administrative Management

Sanbot Max is the great assistant for administration management by taking the basic management and repetitive work. Sanbot can record all of your staff’s information (photo, name, contact) into the system and never lose the information as well as keeping that information extremely safe. Staff members can look through the contact list to familiarize themselves with any new employee. After the staff’s information is inputted into the system, Sanbot Max will help check in and check out staff members, keeping a comprehensive and accurate attendance record.

Remote Services

Whether Sanbot Max is using its 3D vSLAM function or being controlled by the mobile app, Q-Link, Sanbot Max can patrol and monitor your company 24/7, and you can instantly see what Max sees through the app. This will help ensure your establishment is not in any danger. And, Q-Link enables absent personnel to interact with Sanbot Max and people at the office, making sure no one misses a meeting.

Data Management and Application

Sanbot Max is able to collect and store all the visiting records into its system, and it will form comprehensive graphs and records (one month, one quarter or one year). For example, the administrator can check on one employee’s attendance record and make an analysis on their working status; the purchasing manager can analyze the supplier’s visiting record to see if there is anything abnormal happening to the supply chain, and more.

This solution is not the only solution for businesses. With an open API, Sanbot Max can be further developed and applied into more working scenarios: 4S shops, sales centers, government buildings, shopping malls, banks, hotels, exhibition halls, etc. Sanbot Max’s professional and all-round skills simplify the customer reception and internal management, reducing labor costs, creating business value, reducing operating costs, and improving the enterprise’s image.

If you are a robotics solution developer, system integrator or AI agent, this is the time for you to join the Sanbot family.

The present robotic services for retail, and will be better

In a large shopping mall, especially the complex one, people are always unfamiliar with it but they need to find the right brand or product they need. Thus, customer receptionist is necessary. A problem is coming: repetitive work makes receptionist tired and bored so they may lose temper to customers. Then, an intelligent service robot that never feels tired makes things different.

A robot’s powerful artificial intelligence brings a great number of services for welcome reception, route guidance, all-around inquiry assistant, smiling accompanying assistant and more.

The robot standing around the door of the shopping mall attracts potential customers to go into the mall. With facial recognition technology and smart sensors, Sanbot broadcasts pleasing welcoming lines, giving customers different experience and adding buying intention. This will add unexpected business sales and value to the shopping mall.

The mall managers can the robots for retail in each floor. These robots introduce customers to the commodity area by voice, or display the map on the screen to the customer guide. When customers want to know a brand, or looking for a product, they just feel free to inquiry the robot. It’s a more convenient way than manual services because human staffs are not always in good situations to serve customers 24/7.

When the mall held a large-scale promotional activity, the commercial service robots can also play an important role, such as the singing and dancing performance, talking comic dialogue with the site voice interaction, inviting them to participate in the lucky draw, somatosensory games to attract onlookers. This will popularize the mall or store and develop more potential customers.

Intelligent Robot to Fuel the Digital Transformation for Commerce

On Nov 3rd, the fourth World Internet Conference kicked off in Wuzhen, Tongxiang City in China's Zhejiang Province. The conference theme was "Developing Digital Economy for Openness and Shared Benefits -- Building a Community of Common Future in Cyberspace", and the conference lasted three days.

A number of notable people included international government officials and moguls from world-class IT enterprises attended the conference. But, it was not just people that were at the event. A series of advanced theories, technologies, products, and business models also graced the conference. Sanbot Max, one of China’s leading commercial service robots, showcased it capabilities for digital transformation.

During the conference, Sanbot Max was under a different name, Xiaoyou. Xiaoyou is the customized financial service robot developed by QIHAN Technology and Yonyou Cloud. Xiaoyu is based on QIHAN’s Sanbot Max humanoid robot and is the professional assistant to help upgrade financial management.

Xiaoyou humanoid service robot comes with a series of innovative AI technologies, such as voice recognition, image recognition, object recognition, autonomous mapping, training functions, AI model, etc. Using these technologies, Xiaoyou can collect and analyze data, which Sanbot can apply that data into actual working scenarios. Plus, deep learning allows the AI robot to become smarter and be able to accomplish more tasks.

Xiaoyou can perform a number of assistant services for financial sectors. These services can be categorized into four types:

Smart Accounting: Xiaoyou is capable of smart data collection (OCR and speech input), smart check, smart voucher, automatic monthly fee, automatic tax-paying and reporting, automatic account checking, and other financial services. These services help the human staff focus on more complex work.

Smart Query: The intelligent humanoid robot is a very smart assistant that can communicate with customers efficiently. Listening to a customer’s simple inquiry, Xiaoyou can complete massive amounts of work like report searching, identification input, voucher entry, expense account input, etc. Soon, Xiaoyou will be able to recognize peoples’ natural language and business model to perform smart interactions, automatic query, producing vouchers, and so on.

Smart Recommendation: Based on industry Big data, Xiaoyou can recommend suitable templates, rule vouchers, report cases, basic industry data, and other recommendations for the financial staff, reducing repetitive accounting work and effectively increasing efficiency.

Smart Analysis & Prediction: The Big data from Xiaoyou’s interactions with customers is one of the key factors that help intelligent financial services. Its “brain” more accurately and intelligently analyzes Big data. It can offer intelligent operation management such as making future assessments and sales predictions.

The smart financial service robot can do more than what was listed above. It can offer more intelligent services based off the enterprise’s specialized requests. This reduces costs, improves working efficiency, and creates added financial value.

At the conference, Xiaoyou’s excellent performances caught the attention of senior government officials. Yuan Jiajun, the Governor of the Zhejiang Province, and Xu Lin, the Dean of CAC (Cyberspace Administration of China) came to see the customized Sanbot Max financial service robot.

Governor of the Zhejiang Province Yuan Jiajun and Xu Lin from CAC

During China’s No.1 Internet conference, Jack Ma from Alibaba Group, Pony Ma from Tencent, Robin Lee from Baidu, Pichai Sundar from Google, and Tim Cook from Apple all talked about their opinions on Artificial Intelligence. And all of them think that AI will greatly benefit society.

A new technological revolution with the core of Internet Technology is rising. The internet is becoming the leading power of innovation that is driving development and changing people’s lives. Sanbot Max’s innovative technologies make it a superior AI service robot and will be a great power in the digital transformation of businesses. Sanbot Max is and will create a great business value and hi-level experience for everyone’s lives.

Intelligent robot is introduced by Media for intelligent service

On November 16, WISDOM CREATES ·THE FUTURE C + Mobile Media Conference was held by Cover Media in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Experts from Silicon Valley, Microsoft, Alibaba Group, and professional scholars sat together and talked about the impact of artificial intelligence in the media.

Cover Media was founded in October 2015 and is powered by Sichuan Daily Press Group and Alibaba Group. Cover Media has several branches including Cover News, Cover Think Tank, Cover Data, The Cover, Public Opinion and Cover E-commerce, and more. And, Cover Media’s C + Mobile Media Conference is an annual event.

At the conference, a new addition was introduced: Cover Media formally introduced an intelligent service robot as part of its “working staff”. On stage, the CEO of Cover Media, Li Peng, personally placed the Tcover0240 work card onto Xiaofeng (Cover Media’s customized Sanbot Elf robot), meaning it became an official “working staff” for Cover Media.

“I am Xiaofeng, and my responsibilities are to talk about current events, social news, and entertainment news with you all. Also, I offer intelligent services for The Cover and Xiaofeng Views, writing breaking news and technology news.” The intelligent robot, Xiaofeng, showcased its first performance at the conference for guests.

Xiaofeng is QIHAN’s Sanbot Elf intelligent robot. At Cover Media, Xiaofeng offers specialized news searches and recommendations, helping to write articles. Xiaofeng also writes articles independently to improve the quantity and quality of news content. Xiaofeng is responsible in assisting on each part of the article writing processes: planning, collection, editing, and publishing, reducing the human staff’s simple and repetitive work and improving the written quality and efficiency.

Meanwhile, Xiaofeng never stops learning. The advanced AI robot not only adopts AI technologies like voice recognition and auto-complete features, but also, thanks to the fast writing feature, Xiaofeng offers smart and fast news services such as daily life, political, solutions for travel and shopping, and more.

Li Peng made a speech at the conference, “Cover Media will adopt the model of wisdom leading intelligence. Compared to other media, Cover Media will use wisdom to solve the problems that intelligence cannot. This creates a different experience for users, and realizes this valuable connection. It is one new model – “Intellectual Media” in the media industry, powered by “Wisdom + Intelligence.”

Some experts pointed out that we are going into the AI era; AI + will be a great power in driving the transformation of the media, and intelligent interaction is the inevitable trend for the future media. Intelligent robots will be a vital part. The new era of “Intellectual Media” will bring about exciting and beneficial transformations.

Sanbot Max will offer robot services for financial sector

November 23, 2017 - The China Mobile Global Partnership Conference 2017 was held at the Poly World Trade Center in Guangzhou, China. With theme of “Creating the Future Together, Smart Connecting to Everything”, China Mobile showcased the latest achievements from roughly 200 well-known hi-tech enterprises including IBM, Huawei, Tencent, and Samsung, all of whom are global partners of China Mobile. One technological achievement at the event was Sanbot Max, a robot jointly developed QIHAN Technology and powered by IBM’s system.

QIHAN Technology has been in cooperation with IBM since it launched its first intelligent commercial service robot Sanbot Elf. Powered by IBM Watson AI system, Sanbot Elf has been working for scenarios in more than 30 countries, benefiting traditional businesses and the customers. Again, QIHAN introduces IBM technology for the newest service robot Sanbot Max.

Sanbot Max has an open API, which allows this robot to be customized to fit special business model. In the financial sector, Sanbot Max was customized to be the financial service assistant. The intelligent humanoid robot, with the IBM AI, gives Sanbot the ability to perform this job to perfection. Let’s see what Sanbot Max can do for finance:

· Sanbot can answer common banking questions customers have. These questions could be about transferring money, stolen or lost credit card, and other common banking procedures.

· Sanbot can comprehend and analyze an investor’s financial status, goals, and risk preferences. Using this knowledge, the advanced service robot will be able to provide unique and personal financial planning and recommendations. Its Artificial Intelligence allows it to have a near flawless dialogue and interaction with the investor.

· Using its powerful IBM-powered brain, Sanbot Max will find the best path towards a person’s financial goals and dynamically monitor their assets in real-time. Sanbot Max’s brain also gives it the ability to use this data to offer recommendations for investment adjustments and asset allocation, leading to more profit.

· Sanbot + IBM AI system gives Sanbot Max an incredible learning ability, particularly in the dialogue interaction with a human. With this ability, Sanbot can better serve the customer.

· There is more. Sanbot Max also carries a sophisticated facial recognition system and memory. Sanbot Max can remember names, age, and even the mood of someone. Sanbot Max can identify VIP customers or a customer’s personalized service. This means that if you walked into a bank, Sanbot would recognize you and what services you need, saving you lots of time.

Visitors got to see and demo all of the functions, which amazed them. Banks have started to see the advantages of Sanbot Max particularly with regards to data collection. Customers interacting with Sanbot everyday can help banks create a data platform. Sanbot Max can analyze and process these data and present it in a way for the bank to understand the data and use it to better their services.

Sanbot Max also has great physical characteristics. Sanbot Max can carry objects up to 75 Kg by adjusting its center of gravity, more than the average adult. Sanbot has a max speed of 5m/s, which is faster than the average human walking speed of 1.5 m/s. Plus, Sanbot has the ability the attach 3rd party devices such as printers, ATM machines, and more to help businesses expand and improve.

Many of these features are thanks to IBM. IBM China Research Institute has been researching AI, cloud computing, IoT, and the application of chain block technology. The advanced technology China IBM has will be a great help to industries across the world, medicine, environmental problems, logistics, and more.

Sanbot Max is ready to do its share to help with the research and application. In the future, QIHAN will cooperate with IBM to add more advanced AI services like Deep Understanding, Knowledge Reasoning, Continuous Learning and Multi-modal Interaction capabilities to Sanbot Max for the financial sector.

What robot will Contribute to Education?

The developing technology makes it true that the out-of-reach robots come to our home and commercial service scenarios, like cleaning robot, preschool education robot, promotion robot, and so on. The robots are demonstrating the intelligent services in the future. Among these services, education is one of the core value robot creates.

According to the research and practice from experts, robotics education in school can be labeled into five categories:

Robot Subject Instruction (or RSI)

Robot Subject Instruction means that, education organizer treats robot as one science to make students to learn about the basic knowledge and skills of robotics science. The education goals are as below:

1)Knowledge: Learn about the basic knowledge includes robot software engineer, hardware structure, functions and applications, etc.

2)Skills: Students are able to design and edit robot program, install functional robots, maintain the robot and intelligent home appliances and program to control the robots.

3)Emotion: Organizer uses robots to cultivate students’ interest in artificial intelligence, and make them realize the intelligent robots’ contribution to the society.

The robotics becoming one science has great challenges to teachers, education equipment, square, costs and experience in middle and primary schools.

Robot-Assisted Instruction (RAI)

Robot assisted instruction mean teachers use intelligent robots as the main education media and tools to teach classes. It can be called Robot-Assisted Learning (RAL), Robot-Assisted Training (RAT), Robot-Based Education (RBE). Compared to robotics science, the programmable robots for education is not the main role in education, but an education tool like assistant, learning companion, environment or intelligent education equipment, more advanced than general education tools in school.

Robot-Managed Instruction (RMI)

Robot-Managed Instruction refers to robot planning, organizing, coordinating, directing and controlling functions in classroom teaching, educational affairs, finance, personnel affairs, equipment and other teaching management activities. Robot management performs robot automation and intelligence from the organizing mode, organizing efficiency, etc.

Robot-Represented Routine (RRR)

Robot-Represented Routine means the intelligent service robot has partial human intelligence and functions, helping teachers perform some repetitive teaching work, like borrowing a book, and writing notes, etc., to advance the learning efficiency and quality.

Robot-Directed Instruction (RDI)

Robot-Directed Instruction is the robot’s highest level application in education. More than an assistant, intelligent robot plays the main role in education organization, practice and management. In this way, robot will be our learning object, which is not far from us.

If robots would like to open the door of education, they must activate the users with its actual functions. Intelligent educational robots have become the inevitable trend of future and they are becoming the powerful assistant to the future of children.

Sanbot speech at CITIC SECURITIES Capital Markets Annual Meeting 2018

QIHAN technology is the first enterprise that output 100,000 sets robot in the middle and large-scale service robot industry. Established in 2006, QIHAN began to perform independent research and development in 2009, and started the transformation to intelligent service robot in 2013. Employing over 800 staff and 160 of them were R & D engineers, the company has more than 200 patents and most of them are invention patents. In 2016, QIHAN had revenue of RMB 660 million and a net profit of about 150 million. And QIHAN was awarded one of the top ten service robots brands in China.

QIHAN is running three Sanbot robots now: Sanbot Elf, Sanbot Nano and Sanbot Max. Sanbot Elf is of 90CM height, 19KG net weight and can run 11 hours per charge. The system is ROS developed based on Android. Sanbot Nano is the Amazon Alexa powered service robot specially designed for home use. Cute and functional, the Sanbot Nano is the super companion for family members. Sanbot Max is the 1.45 meters tall, 100KG heavy. This advanced humanoid robot can work for 18 hours and stand by for 50 hours. It is powered with multiple systems, Android, Linux, ROS, TROS and peripherals can access to Sanbot Max thanks to its numerous USB and HDMI interfaces.

QIHAN owns a great number of innovations at voice processing, robot vision, object avoidance, walking technology, four-dimensional positioning navigation and more in artificial intelligence robotics: 1), in voice processing, QIHAN is the first company adopting multi-microphone localization and noise cancellation during hardware implementing motion, as well as beam localization in the whole industry. The company also designed a set of semantics to support the semantic customization in many scenes. 2) In robot visual, QIHAN is the only enterprise handling basic IPS algorithm based on FPGA. 3) In object avoidance, QIHAN adopted 3D in-depth camera to realize the object avoidance initially, then integrated ultrasonic, IR and TOF technologies to assist. 4) QIHAN occupied numerous patents in walking technology. For example, QIHAN makes the robot wheels walk more stable and less noisy by improving the Mecanum wheel and omnidirectional wheel. 5) QIHAN also leads in the industry in four-dimensional positioning navigation technology. Sanbot’s 3D positioning navigation is combined with multiple 3D cameras, instead of rotating laser radar. So Sanbot robot has more accuracy, speed, larger size map and less motion loss. 6) Motor is key to intelligent mobile robot. QIHAN adopts brushless motor and developed micro worm DC brushless motor and Mecanum wheel style outer hub motor, which have powerful torque force, low heat and self-locking function, and can work for 24 hours.

QIHAN build the Sanbot APP market and agent system via its own IoT platform QIHAN Cloud. All the robots’ remote upgrading, data collections are realized via QIHAN Cloud and it targets to three kinds of clients: 1) C-Customers: QIHAN offer PC and mobile Q-Link for interactions; 2) Solution developers and integrators: QIHAN offers the open API platform and SDK files to make clients create the customized APP market. 3) B-Clients/Agents: Clients can manage and monitor the condition of all the robots. Finally, QIHAN build a set of C-Customers, developers and integrators and B-Clients system.

QIHAN’s business model is Sanbot + Various Industries. QIHAN offers hardware, software, mobile APP and Cloud service, and cooperate with developers and integrators to customize a series of solutions. 1) For bank, QIHAN programs financial query to Sanbot robot to make it the professional robot consultant. 2) For education, the intelligent Sanbot is able to monitor the condition of the kids or students, and has good interactions. 3) For commercial chain, the advanced retail service robots have been working in a great number of beauty parlors and shopping malls. 4) For customs. Sanbot Elf has been in use in China’s customs for more than one year, and keeps the further upgrading and Sanbot Max intelligent robot is also been introduced now. 5) For court, courts in Beijing and Shenzhen also introduce Sanbot Max intelligent robot.

“Creation for Intelligent Life”, QIHAN is devoted to improving product quality and creating ground-breaking products for the customer. Using the interconnection of thing to thing, thing to human, and human to human, QIHAN providing products and services where everyone is a winner.

Intelligent service robot gives guided property tours

Robots are taking over real estate as they now offer guided tours through rental properties, allowing real estate agents to manage their properties completely online.

Zenplace, artificial intelligence and machine learning company which enables landlords and homeowners to rent and manage their property online, announced its latest development – a robot that provides smart guided home showings.

“We set out to change the property management and rental experience by providing property owners and tenants a faster and easier way to rent and lease,” said Rahul Mewawalla, Zenplace CEO and former head of the White House technology program in Silicon Valley. “This new way to rent makes for a better rental experience – tenants love the smart guided tours by a robot and owners love how their property can now be rented in days instead of weeks or months.”

Zenplace hopes its new robot tours will move homes off the market faster. It pointed out that currently homes in Silicon Valley stay on the market for 54 days as a significant number of lease transactions fall through before the lease signing, according to Zillow. In other markets, the time on market can stretch even longer.

“We're making renting a home frictionless and redefining how landlords can increase returns from their rental property, with a property management fee as low as 5%,” Mewawalla said. “With robots, we have significantly reduced the time it takes to rent a property.”

Check out the video below to see what these tours guided by robots look like.

Original: https://www.housingwire.com/articles/41932-robots-take-over-real-estate-now-giving-guided-property-tours

Sanbot robot is certain to work at iGA airport in 2018

Air traffic increases every year, and both planes and airports need to be able to handle the increase in demand. Often times, it seems like an airport is 20 years behind the times, but one airport in Turkey is determined to become the airport of the future. When thinking of the future, the intelligent service robots come to mind. The iGA Airport in Istanbul knows that robots will greatly help make their airport the best airport, and that the Sanbot robot is the robot for the job.

The iGA Airport in Istanbul is only 73% complete, but the airport already looks fantastic. The airport will be the standard for all airports and is anticipating its debut in January of 2018. Istanbul is a big, international metropolitan area, and the IAG airport is built for the global traveler. With that mind, iGA wants to ensure it will be able to handle the heavy traffic of travelers. How? The airport is huge, roughly the size of 12 football fields! But also, iGA has hired the perfect airport assistant for every traveler, the Sanbot robot.

Sanbot artificial intelligent robot will provide intelligent services to travelers, adding convenience to their airport experience. Many tasks need to be handled at an airport, but that will not be a problem for the robot. Sanbot will help travelers with airport services, answer airport FAQs, help travelers find out flight information and help guide them throughout the airport, streamline food & beverage services in the airport, and WiFi services. All of the tasks for Sanbot intelligent robot are to help make iGA an airport that travelers will look forward to going to.

Two reasons for this will be Sanbot’s language capabilities and facial recognition. The AI robot has an extremely advanced AI powered by IBM Watson. This allows it to speak multiple languages. Travelers will not have to worry about a language barrier. Sanbot’s advanced AI also gives it an incredible facial recognition function. This can be used to speed up security lines, customs procedures, and help airport security detect any persons under suspect (i.e. people on the no-fly list). This technological upgrade is the wave of the future.

Sanbot will give travelers a pleasant experience and help the airport staff members focus on the airport and the airplanes, as well as making sure people encountering serious travel problems will receive the help they need quicker. This situation will make everyone happy.

One person who is happy is the Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication, Ahmet Arslan. Mr. Arslan is ready for Sanbot to make this airport’s services and experience truly amazing. And, Sanbot’s open API will allow the airport to have Sanbot complete new tasks and be able to adjust its functionality as time goes on. So, be sure to visit the iGA Airport in Istanbul next year to see the cute but advanced robot, Sanbot, in action.

QIHAN’s Sanbot Robot Inspires UK-China Young Entrepreneurs

November 15, 2017: The UK-China Young Entrepreneurs Forum, Innovating the Future was established to help promote and guide young entrepreneurs in Britain and China. Today, most young entrepreneurs are looking towards the STEM fields for the next big idea.

This was a focus for this year’s forum. And, there was no better place to hold this forum than the Silicon Valley of China, Shenzhen. Shenzhen is home to many of China’s hi-tech giants. Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba Cloud Services, and DJI call Shenzhen home. So, Shenzhen was the perfect city for this event.

QIHAN Technology was invited to this event to share their knowledge about robotics and how to best incorporate this technology into the market. And, of course, what better way for QIHAN Technology to illustrate the innovations of robotics without bringing along Sanbot, the advanced AI robot developed and manufactured by QIHAN Technology.

Sanbot greeted guests as they arrived and offered people a number of services to help them settle in. Sanbot robot broadcasted helpful information to visitors and also was there to introduce speakers. But, that was not all of the tasks Sanbot was given. Sanbot helped TV host, Deng Lu, host the event. Sanbot also was there to help young entrepreneurs from both China and the UK to envision their own designs and innovations. Everyone wanted to demo Sanbot and experience all of the advanced technological features this intelligent serivce robot had to offer.

Ryan Wu, Vice President of QIHAN Technology said at the forum: "Building Sanbot robot development platform, QIHAN cooperates with UK's solution development companies, taking Sanbot robot to the global market, including the UK. QIHAN is the first Chinese going-out robot enterprise.”

Overall, the UK-China Young Entrepreneurs Forum helped bring young, creative, and innovative minds from China and the UK to share and create something incredible. QIHAN was honored that Sanbot was invited to be a part of this incredible event and help these young entrepreneurs find their road to success, which is what Sanbot is all about, helping people find or create something they did not think was possible before.

QIHAN Sanbot's victory at China Hi-Tech Fair

Hailed as China’s No.1 technology exhibition, CHTF (China Hi-Tech Fair) had a very successful event this year. CHTF showcases the latest technology, industries, and innovations; the CHTF is always the key exhibition for people and the media to see the latest innovations. This exhibition event exhibits more than 10,000 innovation items each year. AI innovations and development was the main theme at this year’s event.

As highly advanced pieces of technology, QIHAN’s Sanbot Elf and Sanbot Max (QIHAN renamed the Sanbot King Kong to Sanbot Max)commercial service robots shined at the event. Both robots are able to handle the responsibilities of reception and customer interaction. QIHAN’s Sanbot booth gave visitors a truly amazing robotic experience.

The AI is powered by IBM Watson AI system and an open API and SDK package, Sanbot Elf can speak 28 languages to help businesses around the world. QIHAN has produced numerous customized innovative solutions for Sanbot Elf, allowing Sanbot Elf to be integrated into various working scenarios, contributing to the transformation and upgrade of traditional businesses.

Sanbot Max is the newest commercial service robot from QIHAN Technology, and a great hit at the hi-tech fair. Sanbot Max’s flexible arms and fingers are able to perform different gestures like “OK”, ”After You”, “Pointing” and more. This technology is leading the service robotic industry. Sanbot Max can automatically adjust its center of gravity; it can carry objects up to 75kg. Its 3D vSLAM and obstacle avoidance allow Sanbot Max to walk around freely in a cluttered room. The Sanbot Max is the super assistant for the public sector and numerous businesses.

As one of the leading enterprises in producing advanced and new pieces of technology in China, the QIHAN team and Sanbot robot series received interviews from the Secretary of Hangzhou Municipal Committee of the CPC, the Director of Hangzhou Science and Technology Innovation Bureau, the Minister of Nanshan District Organization Department, and other government leaders. Many well-known Chinese media like Shenzhen Economic Daily, Hong Kong Commercial Daily, NetEase News wrote special reports about Sanbot robots.

Ryan Wu, the Vice President of QIHAN Technology, told the media, “The idea robot, like the mobile phone, should be able to carry different Apps to perform different services for different working scenarios.  It is not a single terminal, and only the integrator of industry resources and high technologies, can the robot has prospective future.”

An open API and SDK allow all developers and integrators to popularize these robots, integrating them into commercial scenarios. This idea of making a robot that an individual business can mold is what QIHAN does every day. This is the reason why QIHAN has multiple achievements in AI and robotics. QIHAN will continue to make solutions with an even more positive impact for businesses and industries from all over the world. 

QIHAN wins the “OFweek Best Service Robot Case Award”

On November 13th, the OFweek High-Technology Awards selection ceremony kicked off in Shenzhen, China. Over 100 hi-tech enterprises participated in the award ceremony. In order to be fair, the organizers invited experts in AI industry to make the selections. QIHAN Technology’s, Sanbot robot application won the “OFweek Best Service Robot Case Award”.

This is not a small award. This award is given by the Academician of Hamburg Academy of Sciences, the expert in China's Medium- and Long-Term Talent Development Plan, Zhang Jianwei, the Doctor of the Mechanical and Power Engineering College at Shanghai Jiaotong University, Cao Qixin. QIHAN Technology won the “Best Service Robot Case Award” out of 100 other participating service robots.

In October, QIHAN’s Sanbot Max humanoid robot was officially introduced at the Beijing courthouse to offer intelligent services. The customized Sanbot robot called Xiaofa provides legal advice and guidance.

The litigation management official from the court Zhao Lan stated, “The Xiaofa humanoid robot is capable of memorizing and explaining over 7000 items, laws, and regulations, and it can assist to searching for court rules and litigation processes. Plus, this robot recalls details of similar cases in its smart ‘brain’.” The intelligent and convenient services of the Xiaofa humanoid robot received praise from both the citizens and media from the moment it entered the courthouse.

Wang Peng, the Vice General Manager of Global Marketing Center, accepted this prestigious award. Wang said, “The award is an honor and QIHAN humbly accepts.” QIHAN Technology leads the robot industry in both Research & Development and Sanbot robotics application. This is because QIHAN has been practicing the strategy of “Sanbot + Various Industries” since the first Sanbot was deployed.

“Regarding Sanbot’s development, QIHAN Technology created 'platform robot', meaning the service robot is not only one robot, but the ecosystem of 'Robot + Cloud service + Industry Application'. Therefore, all the integrators and application developers can join the platform to customize the robot as they like.” Wang added.

“Maintaining the ‘Sanbot + Various Industries’ strategy, QIHAN Technology pushes forward the successful upgrade and evolution of traditional industries. The award was based on the case of Sanbot applied in the courts and judicial departments are a great achievement.”

Wang also made a speech with the theme of “Let Service Robot be an Enterprise’s Super Assistant”. During the speech, he shared QIHAN’s insight and commercial practice about the service robot, and proposed the “Robot Artificial Intellectualization” idea for the first time.

Sanbot Max can perform so much more than that you can imagine. The humanoid robot integrates more than 200 patented technology like powerful voice recognition, object and facial recognition, 3D-SLAM, etc., covering robot interaction, perception, motion control and other areas.

The Sanbot robot series’ patented designs and exceptional results have given QIHAN Technology numerous honors and praises, including Top 10 APAC Robotic Process Automation Companies 2017, Top Ten Commercial Service Robot Brands in 2016, Guangdong Famous Trademark, and more. QIHAN Sanbot robot series will contribute more to the upgrade of traditional industries, making the world more intelligent.

Make Sanbot Great: Sanbot robot exploits Australia successfully

Integrating Robot, Cloud service and mobile APP into one ecosystem, Sanbot has been a robot star for a couple years since its first debut in Berlin. After Singapore, Japan, Korea, India, Malaysia, UAE, Thailand, Indonesia, Morocco, Sanbot exploits more sole agent area – Australia.

QIHAN Sanbot’s sole agent in Australia Sanbot Australia held a launch event about Sanbot robot series at Science Works, the science and technology museum that has achieved several awards located in Melbourne, Australia. Aimed at Sanbot’s education scenarios in Australia, the launch attracts the local well-known media, hi-tech enterprise representatives, artificial intelligence lovers, and young students led by their teachers.

With AI system powered by IBM Watson, Sanbot Elf intelligent robot welcomed each guest with warm lines. The beautiful and cute hi-tech robot and its hi-tech performance gained all the guests’ attention.

Sanbot’s facial recognition “sharp eyes” is great to help students check in and check out and has been applied to check in and check out at the important event and conference. Like at Davos 2017 and the Summit of Shenzhen Research Institute of WHUT Co.,Ltd., Sanbot recognized and told the guests’ names immediately and greeted them with specialized lines. And Sanbot will count and record how many attendees have come, getting rid of human check-in and saving much time and cost.

With this mobile APP Q-Link, parents can receive notice once their kids check in or check out on Sanbot, and they can also watch their condition in the classroom. Sanbot teaching assistant records all the contents the teacher uses, which enables students to learn about the material they may have missed in class. If some kids are not available in the classroom, don’t worry, learn through Sanbot’s mobile APP.

What’s more, Sanbot can perform intelligent psychology treatment for students. Via Q & A, stories, photos, video on Sanbot, students tell Sanbot their real thoughts freely. In this way, their parents and teachers will know about their kids and students, and then adopt correct actions to affect their children positively. Sanbot can also be programmed to educate the students to grow up in right ways and think openly.

CEO of Sanbot Australia Chris Scott, introduced, they majored in industrial robot and were limited by running channels and businesses before. But when encountering Sanbot robot, Chris considered it a good chance to expand the businesses. They think positively about intelligent service robot and its high potentials in capabilities and markets.

“I choose Sanbot robot, instead of other kinds, that is because Sanbot is more cost-effective, and QIHAN Technology offers much greater support to all the customers on after-sales services, training, and many other aspects”, Chris added.

According to Chris, Australia is the area with high human labor cost and many industries hope intelligent robots can do something for business. For example, Woolworths Supermarket has introduced auto payment high technology, and it inspires many other businesses to try to introduce artificial intelligent services.

“Initially, we’d like to apply Sanbot to education scenarios, such as scientific research assistant in universities, programming classes teaching for primary and middle schools, and kindergarten kids accompanying and psychology education.” Chris talked to the media.

With a huge crowd of people filling in the Science Works, the launch event was held as planned and successfully. Education is only one part of Sanbot’s application scenarios. With a reliable open API that enables developers to build Android applications that harness Sanbot’s powerful AI and machine-learning capabilities, businesses will deliver more interactive and richer services to increase customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Welcome to enjoy the Sanbot robot services at China Hi-Tech Fair in Shenzhen

The 19th China Hi-Tech Fair, or CHTF, will kick off in a couple days. QIHAN Technology, awarded as one of the Top 10 APAC Robotic Process Automation Companies 2017 in October, has deployed its commercial use intelligent robot – Sanbot Elf and Sanbot Max to perform actual services at booth 1E35 of Nanshan Exhibition Hall and booth 1E01 of Bao’an Exhibition Hall, showing off the AI innovation strengths of the company.

Sanbot Max -- The super assistant for hospitality

QIHAN Technology has launched three generation intelligent service robots: Sanbot Elf and Sanbot Max for commercial use and Sanbot Nano for home use. Among them, Sanbot Max is the newest and most hi-tech robot which adopts 200 patents technologies. This time at CHIF, QIHAN will deploy the commercial use robots for intelligent services.

QIHAN equips Sannbot Max with super powerful voice recognition solution, which enables the humanoid robot to make up the shortage of poor interactive experience and inaccurate responses. The high technology that plays such a great role in actual use is QIHAN’s patented Chinese version “Zhiyin” (understanding the voice) semantic analysis system.

The labor capability of Sanbot Max is very strong and it reflects on two aspects: moving capability and weight loading ability. It is the only robot which can walk as fast as 5m/s in the world (more than triple of human’s walking speed 1.5m/s), and it can load weight up to 75kg, surpass two adults’ labor.

Sanbot Elf – the robot star in the whole world

Sanbot Elf has been the robot star in the global world and it will be the second time that Sanbot Elf offers services at CHTF event.

Sanbot Elf brings excellent human-robot interaction experience and intelligent recognition system, and it especially attracts customers and broadcasts with diverse marketing promotion methods. Sanbot Elf intelligent robot has been hired by customs, court and some other government business, bank, hospital, schools and large-scale commercial chain enterprises. Just in October, it began to offer services for more than twenty places including Pizza Hut Malaysia, Polish Krakow Airport, Beijing Book Building, etc.

The reason why Sanbot can go to a series of application scenarios in different industries is that QIHAN Technology has been practicing the strategy of “Sanbot plus Various Industries”. To popularize the commercial application of Sanbot robot, QIHAN Technology opens its API platform and SDK sources for global system integrator, robot solution developers. So the robot can be developed according to the scenarios where people want it to work to offer intelligent services.

During Nov. 11th-16th, Sanbot intelligent robot series will perform intelligent service at the China Hi-Tech Fair, proving the powerful “Intelligent Manufacturing in Shenzhen” to the whole China and even the world.

Sanbot Nano -- your intimate robot companion for your home

An imaginative people only thought possible if you were in Star Wars, The Jetsons, or Tony Stark renovated your house. Now, these types of homes are starting to take form.

AI companies are creating every kind of smart device and using IoT to lay the foundation for a smart home. Companies like Google, Apple, and Amazon have very sophisticated AI’s (Siri, Alexa, etc.). But what is the one missing element from a home with AI and smart home devices? A robot!

Every home from the future has a robot, and with the release of QIHAN Technology’s Sanbot Nano robot, you can now complete your smart home project by owning your very own smart home robot with Amazon Alexa Voice Service! Sanbot Nano is not just an intelligent humanoid robot to complete your smart home set, this robot will truly revolutionize the home and will make you wonder how you could not live without this robot.

Connecting all of your IoT devices: All of these smart devices are great, and they are very convenient, but there is one problem -- each one has their own App. Your speakers, refrigerator, lights, and so on, all have their own apps. Always having to locate a particular App to control the device can become tedious. Let Sanbot Nano, the new designed APP controlled robot take that frustration away from you.

Sanbot Nano comes with all of Amazon Alexa skills, plus an abundance of other robotic features specific to Sanbot Nano. Sanbot Nano can connect to all of your smart home devices and using the Sanbot mobile App, Q-Link, you can control all of your smart home devices with one App through Sanbot Nano. What a super practical!

Remote control: Sanbot Nano has excellent voice recognition software, which allows you to control Sanbot with only your voice. What happens if you are out of Sanbot’s range? Not to worry. Let Sanbot’s mobile APP Q-Link do it. Q-Link allows you to connect with your Sanbot robot and control it from wherever you are. You can control Sanbot’s apps, movements, input text to speech, and even have smart voice control. Just speak into the app a command, and Sanbot will obey. Q-Link will also let you see what Sanbot sees in real-time.

Remote Surveillance: It is tricky to remotely control Sanbot from anywhere if you cannot see where Sanbot is going. Not to worry. Using Q-Link, you can see what Sanot Nano sees through its HD camera in real-time. This is extremely helpful. What you need to do is take out your phone, open the Q-Link App, connect with your this advanced AI robot, and now you can move Sanbot to the kitchen and see if your stove is on or off. Simple and convenient, that is what Sanbot Nano is here for.

Sanbot Nano may be small in size, but the number of its capabilities is huge. These are just some of features Sanbot Nano has, and a few of the tasks it can complete. To find out more about Sanbot Nano, visit: http://www.sanbotrobot.com/sanbot-nano_d110.

Parents, let Sanbot robot help with your kids' psychological problem

Often, kids do not tell their parents or teachers if something is bothering them, or what they are truly feeling. This is normal psychological behavior for kids to not tell people what they are actually feeling, but it is important that parents know about these feelings so they can help their kids grow into productive members of society. Enter QIHAN Technology’s Sanbot robot, the robot that will help kids open up about how they are feeling.

               

A study by Dr. Nancy Darling, Ph.D. in psychology, found that it is very normal for kids and teens to either lie or not disclose the full story. She calls this, “Strategic disclosure.” Dr. Darling has studied children and adolescents from around the world and in her report, she found that the majority have lied or did not disclose the full story to their parents. This is further solidified by a study done by the University of Waterloo finding that 96% of their subjects (ages 4-6) lie to their parents.

But, we have all seen the TV shows and Dr. Phil episodes about how talking about something that is bothering you are quite healthy. In today’s world, people are more and more inclined to speak to automations. In Psychology Today’s What Would You Rather Tell a Robot Than a Human?, a study found that a human counselor was preferred by70 percent of participants for talking about positive experiences, compared to 30 percent who preferred either of the two robots. …However, less than half the participants chose the human counselor for discussing negative experiences, while the majority chose one of the robots. In MIT Technology Review’s Growing Up With Alexa, a recent MIT study looked at how children ages three to 10 interacted with Alexa, Google Home, Cozmo, and a smartphone app called Julie Chatbot. The kids in the study determined that the devices were generally friendly and trustworthy.

 

In a couple of schools in Shenzhen, China, teachers noticed a few students were not being their normal selves. Teachers are very important in a child’s development. They are with them for a good part of the day, 5 days out of the week. Wanting to help their students, a classroom at the Qianhai Harbor Primary School (with the parents’ permission) decided to try a new method in helping students. Sanbot has been used in 10 schools for these psychology counseling services and for the past two months, Sanbot has been a part of 120 sessions per school. 

               

Students were brought into a room and talked to Sanbot one-on-one. Sanbot presented them with a series of multiple choice questions such as, “A group of friends plan to do something you don’t want to do, you will…; You are worried about a problem, maybe a family or health issue, so you…; Someone gives you $20, so you…” The children were very responsive to Sanbot. Another exercise was a psychiatrist controlled Sanbot remotely and talked to the student through Sanbot. Both methods had success.

Afterwards, the participating students were asked a couple questions about their Sanbot robot experience. First question: Do you like talking to Sanbot?

First-to-fourth grade students: 100%

Fifth-to-sixth grade students: Around 92.7%

Second question: If something bad happened, who would you tell first? Sanbot parent, or teacher?

*First-to-fourth grade students:

Tell the teacher: Around 26%

Tell their parents: Around 33%

Tell Sanbot Elf: Around 41%

However, the older students were less inclined to speak to Sanbot, but still, over 1/4 of the students preferred to talk to Sanbot.

Fifth-to-sixth grade students:

Tell the teacher: Around 24.5%

Tell their parents: Around 24.2%

Tell Sanbot Elf: Around 26.1%

A final survey among all participants (Students, teachers, parents) was done, and the results were very positive for Sanbot: 

Students:  Overall, there are around 95% students that prefer to have communications with Sanbot Elf intelligent robot thanks to their love of the robot (Cute appearance and games, etc.).

Schools: “Technology plus education” caters to the policy and guideline our government promotes in education industry. The model improves the entire image of technological education of the schools, and relieves the teachers’ working pressure.

Parents:  With Sanbot Elf, parents can get faster and more real information and feedback from teachers.

With this positive feedback, Sanbot is excited to take on more sessions.

Sanbot not only recorded the touch screen interactions, but also recorded videos so teachers and parents could listen to everything that was said, giving them more insight into how their kids are feelings. Some parents had no idea their kids were feeling sad about their home life, or that they were being bullied. Sanbot was able to help everyone involved in helping these kids.

While Sanbot may just be a robot that does not mean that it is just limited to labor/industrial tasks. This robot can be programmed for numerous situations and this example is just one of them. 

Meet the news humanoid robot at MGS Entertainment Show 2017

More than just fun and games, the Macao Gaming Show will attract a large amount of hi-tech giants to show off their different pieces of technology, including smart casino furniture, lighting fixtures, LED displays for both indoors and outdoors, and a range of different IT systems.

Together with the world-class brand Alibaba Cloud, QIHAN Technology will take its commercial service robot Sanbot Elf and the brand new humanoid robot – Sanbot Max to the MGS Entertainment Show during Nov 14-16th (Booth: Q45).

With a height of 145 cm, the customer service-oriented Sanbot Max is QIHAN’s third generation innovative humanoid robot. Now, with more advanced artificial intelligence technology. With functional shoulders, elbows, wrists, and five individually motored fingers, this creates a more human robot.

Sanbot Max is able to carry up to 75kg cargo or other peripherals such as printers, large screens, and more. Using 3D vision simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM), the advanced humanoid robot performs great positioning and navigation and autonomous route planning tasks. The maximum 5m/s walking speed adds another advantage to Sanbot Max.

By examining QIHAN’s Sanbot Max advanced AI robot, the MGS Show illustrates the rise of AI and virtual reality and how they will fit into casino application scenarios and online gaming. But, more importantly, for a multi-trillion dollar trading plan from east to west, the summit will examine how this new technology will generate smart cities and even smarter economies across the world.

If you are in Macao during the event, please come see brand new, state-of-the-art technology at the QIHAN Sanbot booth:

Dates: Nov. 14-16th, 2017
QIHAN Sanbot Booth: Q45
Venue: The Venetian Macao (Hall A&B, the Cotai Expo)

Another successful case for Sanbot robot used for aiport service in Poland

Add another successful case for Sanbot robot as Sanbot was introduced for its intelligent services at the Krakow Airport in Poland.

Transportation is the key factor for both the individual person and an area’s economy. With that idea in mind, Krakow Airport created an unprecedented method for advance ensuring people knew about transportation and logistics by opening a state-of-the-art Aviation Education Center. The aim of the center is to offer different aviation services in an interesting and suitable way for various age groups. The Sanbot humanoid service robot also made great contributions to people in the aviation center.

For air travel, kids and the elderly are key groups that need to be taken care of due to physical limitations and sometimes they get nervous or anxious. Upon seeing the cute humanoid robot, they felt more at ease. Further entertainment (dance, music and jokes, etc.), interaction and comfort by Sanbot will make them feel much better.

Teaching is one of Sanbot’s strengths. At the airport, Sanbot is a qualified “teacher” for kids, the elderly and adults. After programming aviation contents into its open-API-and-SDK system, Sanbot can teach people flight rules and information.

Aviation is one of the most highly-demanding services and it must upgrade and evolve. From this aspect, Sanbot can do a lot for the airport. When guests come for a visit, Sanbot gave detailed introductions about the advantages of Krakow airport, as well as the advantages and innovations of the Aviation Education Center and its contribution to passengers.

“It is considered truly unique in this country, as Krakow Airport is the only airport to get such project off the ground in Poland. People interested in aviation topic and education, instead of staying at home, can go to the Center for Aviation Education, which was created at the airport.” John Paul of Krakow airport told the media.

After Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport and Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport, this is the third case where Sanbot offered intelligent service at the airport. In the future, Sanbot robot can be easily customized and programmable according to the requirements of Krakow airport, such as members’ points, mileage queries, ticket price queries, and flight information, upgrading the aviation industry.

Something you have to learn about the China Artificial Intelligence Robot Industry Alliance

China Artificial Intelligence Robot Industry Alliance, also called CAIA, is an industry organization built by the enterprises, scientific research institutes and artificial intelligence users which major in AI products manufacturing, technology research and development and innovation application and services.

At the beginning of 2016, Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, National Development and Reform Commission, and Ministry of Finance jointly issued "Robot Industry Development Plan (2016-2020)", which will guide Chinese robot industry to develop rapidly, healthily and continuously. Under this background, on April 6^th, 2016, with QIHAN Technology’s sponsor, the China Artificial Intelligence Robot Industry Alliance was set up and in operation officially. Till now, the organization has gathered 125 members, and it is the most influent one in China’s artificial intelligence and robot industry.

The CAIA is devoted to driving the healthy and continuous development of artificial intelligent robot industry and playing a great role in actively pushing China’s artificial intelligent robot industry to connect the world and commercial chain extensive services. CAIA offers six core services including media report, forum & summit organizing, industry research, brand promotion, robotics competition and investment matching service.

Compared with other similar organizations, the CAIA boasts superior advantages:

Media Operation: CAIA has got the trained new-medium array with eight new media, covering over 300 thousand artificial intelligence and robot industry workers;

Investment Matching: CAIA has been working together with more than 30 venture capital enterprises such as CITICPE, IDG Capital Partners, Leading Capital, Allin Capital, Star Wealth, QF Capital, Northern Light Venture Capital, etc.;

Channel Integration: CAIA integrates one-thousand-member group with high-level channel resources, experienced agents from Chinese first and second-tier cities, more than 100 physical experience stores and CAIA’s E-commerce platform, forming the most abundant channel resources;

Industry Studying: CAIA has been in strategic cooperation with numerous international famous industry research institutes. Together with these institutes, CAIA regularly issues white paper about the development of artificial intelligence and robotics and offers specific robot application research report for each industry.

Meanwhile, so as to drive the development of the artificial intelligent robot industry, CAIA holds numerous brand appraisal events like “China Top 10 Commercial Service Robot Brand in 2016”, “China Top 10 Cleaning Robot Brand in 2016”, “China Top 10 Education/Entertainment Robot Brand in 2016”, “China Top 10 Companion/Assisting Robot Brand in 2016”, attracting over 80 robot enterprises to participate in the appraisal and more than two million votes and becoming the most influent and most valuable appraisal events in robot industry. And also, the robot brand appraisal events for 2017 kicked off officially on Nov. 1st, 2017.

In addition, CAIA has held numerous large-scale summits and forums, wonderful salons and industry innovation application competitions to better get through the upstream & downstream enterprises. These activities help accelerate the popularization and application of intelligent robotics technologies and products; help combine artificial intelligent robot industry information exchange, application and promotion, education and training and exhibition platform to promote the effective use of resources; help accomplish Chinese robot industry chain and work actively to promote the healthy development of Chinese artificial intelligent industry, and so on.

Presently, in the aspects of industry chain resource integration, media report, industry research, investment and incubation and some others, China Artificial Intelligence Robot Industry Alliance plays a leading and promoting role. In the future, CAIA will further reinforce its capability, offer more specific services for artificial intelligence industry, working for the society as the most influential organization.