China Daily: AI and intelligent robot mutually promoting and developing together

Artificial intelligence has never been integrated so closely into robotics, as domestic competitors on the market are gearing up to be at the forefront in the race towards a smarter and more automated journey.

Wang Peng, vice-general manager at the marketing division of Shenzhen-based Qihan Technology Co, said as AI tackles learning, perception, problem-solving, logical reasoning and many other related issues, the new technology will absolutely make robots smarter.

"AI technologies can enable robots to mimic some level of human intelligence, such as the ability of perception and thinking. And the artificial intelligent robot will be the best carrier for AI technologies."

"The AI-enabled robots are able to assist in humans' daily work, enabling people to spend their energies on more creative jobs, such as art and education."

With multiple patents in several fields, including robotics and AI, Qihan Technology focuses on the developing the commercialization of AI-enabled service robots. Founded in 2006, the company now aims to use next-generation robotics and AI technologies to improve quality of life and business productivity for consumers.

Wang said the company is working on expanding its portfolio of "robotics-as-a-service" solutions. Thanks to the open application program interface platform, the Sanbot service robot, powered by Qihan Technology, can be customized for different scenarios in many fields, including retail, hospitality, education and healthcare.

During the World Robot Conference held in Beijing last month, Qihan unveiled new intelligent, cloud service robots called Sanbot King Kong. The 1.5-meter high humanoid robot features bionic arms, advanced navigation and is able to carry 75-kilograms. Equipped with a four-wheel drive system, the Sanbot King Kong can move at up to five meters per second, exceeding the average human walking speed.

Qian Dongqi, chairman of the Suzhou-based Ecovacs Robotics Co said as a new era of AI is coming, there will be infinite possibilities to develop the humanoid service robots.

"The AI technologies will enable more abilities for the robots, and the robots can provide the best application scenarios for the AI. And I believe a qualified robot must be equipped with AI."

Wang, agreed, saying the company will work with more partners to build a better environment for developers and then enable more robot applications on the market.

Healthcare robot to be a potential market around the world

With the increasing global aging and rising medical demand, the development of assistant robots is taking the fast lane. In fact, the market expectations of entire service robot industry in recent years are constantly good. The global market size is expected to reach 82 billion US dollars by 2021.

Doug Moore, the senior manager of human assistant technical department of Toyota, which released Human Support Robot, pointed out that, Toyota is trying to diversify the lives of people with disabilities by increasing their mobility, including the development of technical solutions to assist the limited action. The research and development of HSR and the tests of Romy are the company's business development areas to help people with disabilities control their own lives. Except for Toyata, Teijin Japan and Panasonic also start the research and development of robotics in healthcare.

Similar to the situation in Japan, China is also facing increasing social problems such as increased aging and the increasing proportion of people with disabilities. As can be expected, with time going, in the future we need to invest a lot of manpower and material resources to care for the elderly and the disabled, and this will become an important burden of our country. If we can provide a number of care robots for the elderly dedicated to nursing work, this will not only improve the quality of their lives, but also ease the current national and social pressures.

As a result, the huge market outlook is driving the rapid growth of sales of home robots such as assistant robots. Recently, the industry research institutions analysis International released the report shows that in 2016 China's service robot market reached 7.29 billion yuan, a substantial increase of 44.6% year on year. In addition, analysis International predicts that the next three years, China's service robot market will continue to grow, the size of 2019 is expected to close to 15.2 billion. In the whole world, the compound annual growth rate of intelligent service robots for the next five years (2017-2021) is about 16.19 percent, and the global service robot market will reach $ 82 billion by 2021.

The booming market is expected to show that the development of robots, especially home-assisted personal use, is very promising. Therefore, with the global aging further intensified, escort, education, medical and other needs of the rising, the service robot will continue to maintain rapid development, to promote social changes in various fields.

Sanbot robot series received lots of attention during National Mass Innovation & Entrepreneurship Week and Shenzhen Maker Week

The Shenzhen branch of exhibitions during National Mass Innovation & Entrepreneurship Week and Shenzhen Maker Week was held during Sep 15~21st. The theme “Make with Shenzhen,” Shenzhen Maker Week was about the entrepreneurial experience, dock maker’s project, and entrepreneur enthusiasm by makers’ achievement exhibition, interactive shows entrepreneur competitions, and more.

Sanbot intelligent robot went on stage for the open ceremony to kick off the event with Shenzhen Vice Mayor, Ai Xuefeng, and the Director of Technological Innovation Committee, Liang Yongsheng.

New Technologies gaining the much attention from people

The intelligent service robot called Sanbot King Kong (developed by QIHAN) is very high-tech. The advanced humanoid robot is capable of 5m/s walking speed complex room environments, three times faster than a human’s walking speed. It can carry up to 75kg cargo and adjust its center of gravity on its own. Once Sanbot was on stage, Sanbot King Kong waved its arms and hands to say hello to the guests and everyone applauded.

At the opening ceremony, QIHAN’s other intelligent robot model -- Sanbot Elf helped with the ceremony as well. A total amount of 11 sets of Sanbot Elf advanced AI robots danced on stage to liven up the event.

During the Shenzhen Maker Week, organizers held a series of exhibitions and events for the week, gathering together the worldwide leaders in UAV, intelligent robots, AR/VR, genetic sequencing, unmanned vessel, new energy automobile, Internet applications, wearable devices and more of makers’ achievements.

Build the open and innovative eco-system

This was the third year Shenzhen held the Maker Week event. Liang Yongsheng expressed that Shenzhen Maker Week fully exerted the advantages of Shenzhen international makers’ sources, examining the domestic and international makers’ activity and creativity, and the achievements into various industries.

Sanbot intelligent robot is the perfect innovation case -- based on the concept of “technology integrated with application scenario for commercial value”. QIHAN Technology opens standards, API, and SDK to all the integrators and solution developers since the first Sanbot robot was launched. So, global developers can develop solutions to benefit from the robot according to their scenarios. The prospect strategy drives the service innovation and commercial innovation based on robot carriers.

Through the developer eco-system with smart AI, QIHAN Technology is the company that practices “Robot + Various Industries.”And, Sanbot robot, as the carrier of hi-tech, is the proof of the innovation eco-system the Chinese government has called for. QIHAN Technology will keep traveling on the innovation path.

Sanbot Elf intelligent robot hosted program at BBC Sunday Morning Live

Sunday Morning Live is a discussion show on current affairs. On August 20th, the Sunday Morning Live invited the one and only intelligent service robot – Sanbot Elf to the program for series 8, episode 10. 

The topic was about artificial intelligence. AI is very prevalent because artificial intelligence and one of its most advanced carriers, intelligent robots, are becoming more and more popular in our daily lives. The show asked what roles should robots play and should we fear the rise of the robots in our daily life? Sanbot Elf, together with hosts Sean Fletcher and Emma Barnett along with the other four guests had a discussion about robotics and AI.

One guest, Critty, together with other guests pointed out that robots can help us solve massive problems if we program them correctly. Critty stated, if we input proper programs and install the right applications, robots can help out with a lot of problems in education, healthcare, transportation and many other industries.

Right now, people are developing robots and using them in various industries. In the future, more and more artificial intelligent robots will be applied into our daily work and lives.

As one of these advanced robots, Sanbot Elf is helping people solve various problems. In hospitals, you can see Sanbot Elf handling basic health care problems like patient education, reminding them to take their temperature or medicine, and big data management. In schools, Sanbot’s cute appearance and multi-function capabilities can help students foster learning interests, analysis ability, gain confidence, and more. Sanbot Elf also serves customers in restaurants, shopping malls, and hotels.

The Sanbot Elf intelligent robot is an open API robot developed by QIHAN Technology. QIHAN has integrated world-class advanced hardware and system technologies from Sharp, Sony, IBM Watson, Amazon Alexa, Nuance, and more into the Sanbot robots. With an open API, developers can develop the solutions according the scenarios a customer requires. All of these features lay a firm foundation for Sanbot’s application in our lives.

During the beginning of the show and commercial breaks of the Sunday Morning Live program, Sanbot sang and danced for the guests and audience members. Sanbot’s voice interaction ability had the whole studio praising Sanbot’s intelligence. Also, the intelligent robot’s humors gave them a big surprise as well as a laugh.

Tweeting Sanbot Elf to the BBC program account

It’s not the first time Sanbot Elf has hosted TV programs. Since its debut at last year’s IFA expo, Sanbot has gone to CCTV for several times, and has also been interviewed and reported on countless times.

Now, the Sanbot Elf intelligent robots have been further customized and used in more than 30 countries. Its application scenarios include shopping malls, restaurants, courts, tax offices, schools, customs, airports, and more, covering scores of industries. The successful applications of Sanbot Elf are proof that “Sanbot plus Various Industries” Strategy works.

China's intelligent robot developing extremely fast

In 2015, Chinese government issued the plan of the “Made in China 2025” program. The goal of the program is make China the global leader in hi-tech industries such as medical equipment, aerospace equipment, and robotics.

   

Jeff Burnstein, the president of Industrial Robot Automation, has also noticed the changes China have been creating. He stated, “China now has the world’s fastest growing artificial intelligent robot, and the 2025 plan will only speed up that process.”

According to the International Federation of Robotics, China has the largest share of the global robotics market. And now, the robotics market has reached 30 billion USD. The federation’s report also found that in 2015, China accounted for 27% of the world’s total robotics sales and by 2019 China will account for 40% of the world’s total robotics sales.

China’s steady and sustained investment in advanced AI robot has even received attention from entrepreneurs and venture capitalists such as Mark Cuban. Last December, Mark Cuban wrote a letter to then President elect Donald Trump (now President Trump) to invest 100 billion USD into the United States’ robotics industry in order to compete with China.

“We must win the robot race. We are nowhere close to our competitors.” Tim Cook wrote.

Matt Bane, a robist expert and a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's digital economy project, pointed out, “China will never deliberately oppose other major powers.” But, what they are doing is focusing on the future by investing billions of dollars in innovative AI robotics and similar technologies such as artificial intelligence, and they do not need to depend on other countries to provide the factories.

“China’s long-term goal is to become the source of low cost labor for the hi-tech industry,” Frank Toby. Frank Toby, editor and chief of the magazine “Robot Report” stated that “This major technological shift is a top priority of China.”

This July, Jeff Burnstein saw great changes at this year’s CIROS exhibition event in Shanghai.

“Both the new old companies are more advanced than they were ever before. You cannot say that they are imitating other companies” Bernstein said. Bernstein also stated, “China hopes to become the world’s leading supplier of artificial intelligence robotics, and they are well on their way to achieving that goal.”

Sanbot robots played great roles at Global Innovator Conference

2017 Global Innovator Conference (GIC) was recently held in Shenzhen. The organizer invited the Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics and General Artificial Intelligence Association Chairman Ben Goertzel, 2007 Nobel Peace Prize co-winner Wood · Clark and other well-known innovators on artificial intelligence, large data, precision medical, clean energy, intelligent manufacturing and many other topics to share innovative ideas. Artificial Intelligence Robot Han, Baidu's Small Robot and QIHAN’s Sanbot Elf robot also attended the Global Innovator Conference. Sanbot robot played great roles at the event.

Compared to the bright stars of the global innovator lineup, the "black technologies" from the artificial intelligence star enterprises were more eye-catching.

At the entrance, as the autonomous robot security guard, Sanbot Elf monitored and guarded the special innovation products and experience area for 24 hours per day. All the guests first met the mighty Sanbot King Kong intelligent robot and they could be allowed to enter the room after scanning the electronic code; and its partner Sanbot Elf robot is responsible for the follow-up reception work.

The artificial intelligent products and intelligent robot with all kinds of shapes and functions showed that they would be the key parts in people’s lives.

It is true that the manufacturer and supplier of Sanbot robot is the practitioner of the “Wisdom Earth”. Taken the Sanbot King Kong robot as one sample, this robot integrates machine visual recognition, Multi-axis automatic control, big data analysis, which gained over 200 patents. Sanbot King Kong is capable of 5m/s walking speed and carrying 75kg cargo. While, QIHAN Technology hope the scenario is more imaginative, so the company open the technical standards of Sanbot robot and offer SDK and service document to attract the global developers and integrators, energizing intelligent service robots going to various industries.

The two-day Global Innovator Conference has closed. During the conference, 800 representatives from over 15 countries & areas shared their innovation achievements and experience. As far as we know, the conferences are held together by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, China Chamber of International Commerce, ABAC and CITIC Group, aiming to promote G20 to participate the technology innovation cooperation and practice the blueprint of G20’s innovation growth and action plan.

Intelligent robot to be the super assistant in financial industry

Introduction: It takes 20 minutes for an accountant to complete the issuance of such an invoice, including information collection, verification and recording. However, the robotics provider Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu said that an advanced AI robot can do the same job in just 5 minutes.

Accountant in mainland China is embracing automation to reduce office management costs and improve efficiency, which is opening the door for the use of artificial intelligence in a wider area.

Today, one Zhejiang enterprise that produces electrical products are looking high hopes for robots because they can reduce the time required for issuing invoices by 75 percent. The company needs to issue more than 5,000 value-added tax invoices to more than 600 customers located throughout China every month. It takes 20 minutes for an accountant to complete the issuance of such an invoice, including information collection, verification and recording. However, Deloitte said that a customized programmable autonomous robot can do the same job in just 5 minutes. "The speed of a robot is at least 15 times the speed of labor, and it is also known as 'super-employee' because of non-stop work," said Joseph, the Chief Figures Officer of Deloitte China.

Today, more and more companies are using this "robotic flow automation" products, the technology can reduce operation costs and improve efficiency. In addition to Deloitte, the other three of the world's top four accounting firms - Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers - have also introduced technology-driven services to Chinese companies in banking, technology and consumer services. "We have become the most popular of the application of intelligent service robot in China," said Xia Jun, director of digital banking services at Ernst & Young in Greater China.

In another example, KPMG has provided financial automation services to an international bank. KPMG said the service has earmarked 22 percent of the bank's trade and finance sector and boosted the bank's productivity by 18 percent. "Although most artificial intelligent robots are still in the initial stages of providing basic data collection and processing services, we have entered the second phase: a large data analysis with decision intelligence," said Zhang Longhua, a partner at KPMG China Technology Innovation. He said the robot will also create new jobs for the experts to "class" and repair the machine for the machine, so that accountants and tax professionals can improve their position in the value chain to provide more high-end services. "The application of more intelligent robots with analytical power is likely to become a reality in the next three to five years," he said. "We expect this to evolve into a digital labor force that will replace the work of mankind."

However, Xia said that artificial intelligent robots will not completely replace humans, because decision-making and transformation management work still requires human intelligence and intervention.

Baymax service robot to be real in our daily life

“Hello, my name is Baymax and I am your personal healthcare assistant. I will understand that you need health care at the voice of ‘Ouch’.” This is the scene that comes out in Big Hero 6. Each watcher of this movie wants the scene to come true in our daily life.

Intelligent service robot sees great prospect

Compared to industrial robots, in a standardized workflow, service robots need to interact with people or more complex environments, and therefore need to be more intelligent than industrial robots. This kind of intelligent robots must have a certain degree of autonomy and give response to the command and other information.

From the current market situation, the reason why intelligent service robot can flourish contains policy support, human cost increase, the aging of the social population, the rise of artificial intelligence technology and other aspects are indispensable factors.

On the one hand, China has issued "Made-in-China 2025", "Development Plan for the Robotics Industry (2016-2020)" and other programmatic documents, creating the outlets for the development of the robot industry; On the other hand, the data show that in 2016 the average annual wage of urban non-private employees increased by 6.7%, labor cost growing higher and higher. 

By the end of 2016, China's population aged 65 and above has accounted for as much as 10.8%. Thus, the society requires intelligent care robot for the elderly to improve efficiency and save costs, to narrow the huge demand gap in the pension, rehabilitation, care, companions and other aspects of large elderly population. These are creating new opportunities to boost the development of intelligent service robot.

Meanwhile, with the third rise of artificial intelligence, the voice recognition and facial recognition, which are considered as the core factors of intelligent service robot, goes into the new development stage, to improve the simulation degree greatly.

Under the energization of these factors, intelligent service robot welcomes the emerging development. According the data prediction from IDC, the commercial service robot in health care, retail, public service and traffic in the global world is expected to reach $17 billion and that may reach up to RMB trillion in China.

Service robot is expanding to more industries

With the development of service robot, robotics professionals start a new talk about the future relation of robot and human beings. Kaifu Lee from Sinovation Ventures considers that, “In the future 10 years, 90% workers of translator, journalist, assistant, security, driver, sales person, dealer, accountant and nanny will be overtaken by robots.”

At present, intelligent service robot began to be gradually applied in the catering, medical, shopping, logistics and other industries, has taken the first step to replace or assist labor. While the development of robotics in healthcare bears the brunt of the market. According to research firm GCiS in 2016, data show that China's medical robot market value is 791 million yuan, with growth of 34.4% compared with last year. And by 2021, the value of medical robotics is expected to grow to at least 2.2 billion. 

IDC Survey about Implementing Robots in Healthcare

What are main drivers for robot deployment among healthcare providers today?

According to IDC Survey 2017, the main drivers for robot deployment among healthcare providers surveyed were identified at hospitals with 200+ beds. These organizations were driven to deploy advanced medical robotics in 2017 as the top organizational priority area for technology investments, ahead of cloud and mobility. The main drivers included improving productivity and efficiency, improving repeatability and consistency of processes, increasing operations capacity, increasing operational agility and flexibility, reducing labor costs, and increasing speed of operations.

What are the typical use cases for robots among healthcare providers today?

Most use cases for robots today according to IDC (2017) were identified at hospitals with 200+ beds where advanced AI robots could accurately handle time-consuming tasks, reduce labor, and prevent errors. These were primarily in stocking functions (e.g. packing medications, delivery of goods, and packing sterile supplies) and increasingly seen in surgery, home care assistance, and disinfection.

What are the primary reasons for implementing robots in healthcare … safety, economics?

The primary reasons for implementing robots in healthcare appeared to be a result of an increasing perception, appreciation, and realization of robots as able to deliver value in healthcare operations. This was mostly through automating manual and laborious tasks, but also increasingly through the adoption of robotics in healthcare for clinical applications and emergent use cases.

What do you expect in future use cases to look like?

According to IDC (2017) emergent and future use cases for robots in hospitals with 200+ beds were identified as mostly as developments and adoption for automated packing functions, but also as an emergent increase for application in surgery and disinfection, patient lifting, greeting patients, and remote monitoring.

What influences a robot investment decision?

According to IDC (2017) the decision to invest in an artificial intelligence robotics was greatly influenced by vendor attributes. The top attributes were identified as cost, quality and reliability, as well as vendor global reach, local presence, and knowledge. An appealing feature of the robot investment decision was the majority of hospitals surveyed reported an annual maintenance cost per robot amounting to less than 30,000 (USD) and a medium-term outlook for realizing ROI on the investment decision.

Why is robotics gaining traction among hospitals?

According to IDC (2017) robots are gaining traction in hospitals as a result of the main business priorities for hospitals with 200+ beds being to improve the operational value chain along the lines of quality, experience, flexibility, capacity, scale, and costs.

Human staff should not be taken over by AI robot entirely in customer service

In any job sector, there is always an argument of whether technology will overtake human jobs, and the contact center is no different. These arguments are always made in black and white and assume the workforce will be entirely human or entirely the robot.

However, this debate has no place for absolutes. It’s the real thing and it is happening that with the right tools and technology, enterprises can elevate the future of customer service and role of call center staff by enabling them to be more efficient, and effective, all while creating a great customer experience.

With changing technology comes uncertainty for both companies and employees. Insurance giant Aviva addressed that uncertainty head on by asking its entire 16,000 employees if they thought an artificial intelligent robot could do their jobs. Any employees who answered yes were given employment opportunities in other departments. The call center and credit departments will likely have the most transfers. It is a smart move for enterprises to address the future of customer service in the midst of technology advancements.

It does address uncertainty, but the approach must be more comprehensive and take into account that just because a robot can do a job, doesn’t mean it should. The future of customer service will always need human employees to build authentic connections and foster customer engagement, and not be overtaken by intelligent service robotics totally.

As the need for a personalized customer experience grows, robots will become even more important, and the future of customer service will be a combination of robot and human.

Here’s why: When a customer wants help with a simple task, an advanced AI robot will process it, and the robot handling that query will free up call center staff to give customers the reassurance of a human voice, empathy, and quality support of a highly-trained agent. In short, it’s important to offer customers a choice.

Regardless of the platform, customers will want to know if they’re talking to a human or a robot, so they don’t feel choiceless. Forcing customers through a robots-only route will only serve to annoy them, especially for the elderly and ignorance of hi-tech robot. It’s important to escalate the situation to an employee if the customer requests or the automated service cannot handle the service.

When interacting with enterprises, customers want consistency and an easy, great experience. To meet the needs of customers, it’s important that hi-tech enterprises or corporations focus on implementing the tools or solution to intelligent service robots that will generate positive outcomes.

With a strategy that supports both robots and human employees, customers can get the quick and easy service they need but still interact with a person when the situation calls for a more in-depth approach.

The debate about technology overtaking human jobs is a never-ending conversation. There’s no question that innovative AI robotics is here to stay and it should equip people to be more proficient in their jobs so they can create a great customer experience. The technology used in the future of customer service should be used to empower humans, not replace them.

QIHAN Unveils Multi-service Platform System for Sanbot Robot

QIHAN Technology Company (QIHAN), a Chinese company focused on innovations in robotics, AI and video analysis, announced today a Multi-service Platform System (MPS) for Sanbot, its intelligent, cloud-enabled humanoid robot. The MPS solution is a centralized management system that enables businesses to control and monitor their fleet of interactive Sanbot robots from anywhere – bringing personalized communications and services to companies worldwide.

With MPS, businesses can customize and create tasks for Sanbot on a PC, tablet or smartphone and distribute them to a fleet of Sanbots over the QIHAN cloud. Using Sanbot’s open API, MPS allows businesses to upload and share customized marketing content including PowerPoint presentations, audio, video, or text files.

“As businesses increasingly turn to robots to increase productivity and enhance customer service, being able to remotely manage hundreds of robots has become essential to improving the way businesses interact with their customers, partners and employees,” says Ryan Wu, Vice President of QIHAN. “MPS for Sanbot is an ideal solution for businesses in retail, hospitality, education and healthcare to bring robots to the forefront of their operations and offer customers a truly customized experience.”

MPS enables business owners to capture and analyze data to help them better understand their online and offline marketing programs. With MPS, businesses can also capture Sanbot’s interactions with customers, which apps and what functions are used, helping businesses implement more personalized marketing strategies.

MPS allows businesses to live stream or record Sanbot’s interactions with customers, as well as set security settings to detect movements within business environments. If Sanbot detects unauthorized actions, it will send notifications to a mobile phone or PC to alert business owners.

For more information about QIHAN’s MPS solution, please visit http://en.sanbot.com/MPS.html.

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New Education Solution "AI + Wisdom Education"

During May 7-9th, the 72th China Educational Equipment Exhibition was held by China Educational Equipment Industry in the Strait International Convention and Exhibition Center in Fuzhou city. Since 1980, the exhibition has been held for 71 times and it has been the largest scale, widest influence and most professional education exhibition in China and even the global world. This time, the event attracted education suppliers and nearly 100 thousand visitors from all over the country.

In recent years, “One Belt, One Road”, “Fair Education” and some other phrases proposed by Chinese state are important guidelines in the whole country. Education equipment and solution suppliers try their best to play a more important role in education and education becomes one of the hottest one among the various industries. Fsmeeting, teaming up with Sanbot, demonstrated the whole-new education solutions of “AI + Wisdom Education”.

Devoted itself to intelligence, informatization, and hi-quality service for schools, teachers and students, Fsmeeting, is the leading brand of Cloud video education/conference in China and its major applications include teleconference, remote education, remote training, telemedicine, remote recruitment and emergency command, etc. While Sanbot is the worldwide leading service robot brand. The advantage of open API enables Sanbot to be used in the scenarios in retail, hospitality, education and healthcare after installed with customized solutions.

Fsmeeting created a new teaching ecosystem of “AI + Wisdom Education” after turning Sanbot’s intelligent education to “Fair Education” and “Efficient Classes”, based on the robot’s three-in-one core technology of “Hardware, App, Cloud service” and further development on its open API. The new teaching ecosystem is aimed to make everyone have the chance to receive education.

Fsmeeting specially designed and built a highly simulative teaching scenario in advance, to make visitor experience the “AI + Wisdom Education” of Fsmeeting and Sanbot. At the exhibition, Fsmeeting showed six education solutions including the interactive class, boutique class, on-line class, special class, common Cloud video class and mobile Cloud class to visitors, attracting massive of visitors to experience. For education both at home and schools, Sanbot is an Encyclopedia with a wide range of knowledge of different subjects, abundant online new contents and scheduled remote classes to learn.

It is because of Sanbot’s leading advantage in robotics industry that Fsmeeting choose Sanbot as the carrier of the “AI + Wisdom Education”. The robot, offering open interface and SDK developing tool based on Qihan Cloud and ROS to developer, creates one ecosystem of artificial intelligent developers. Therefore, developers can develop the required AI function APPs for special education scenarios. It not only builds one interconnection environment to make one class listened in different classrooms at the same time, but also offers synchronous record, live broadcast, on-demand broadcast, interaction, material-sharing and management, etc., offer technical support for education informatization reform.

There more at the education exhibition, Sanbot robots were grandly invited to Skyworth booth, Sundata booth and other numerous well-known education suppliers or organizations for cheering-up. In future, Sanbot will monitor the actual education problems closely and develop corresponding solutions and fully implemented the technology and sources in “Internet +” to play a bigger role in education industry.

Sanbot Robot Launch Event at IFA Expo

Sanbot launch event at IFA expo

Sanbot robot Launch Event was held at IFA expo in Berlin, Germany during Sep 2nd~7th, 2016. Sanbot robot is produced by Qihan Technology Co. Ltd., a company focused on innovating Robotics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Video Analysis and headquartered in Shenzhen, China.

IFA in Berlin presents the latest products and innovations in the heart of Europe‘s most important regional market. The event offers such a comprehensive overview of the international market and attracts the attention of trade visitors each year from more than 100 countries. It is one of  the main meeting places for key retailers, buyers, and experts from the industry and the media.

Sanbot robot launch event, theme by "Robotics as a Service", attracted a large number of onlookers. Many of them wanted to have a look at one of the most advanced carriers of high technology. and media from all over the world reviewed Sanbot booth and made reports in succession.

“Chinese firm Qihan launches robotics-as-a-service with Sanbot” by Mr. Simon Hill from Digital Trend.

“Chinese firm Qihan launches Sanbot at this week's Berlin IFA exhibition, as it seeks to crack the increasingly competitive personal robot market”, Jim Drury from Reuters reports.

“Multipurpose robot maid launched at IFA”, reported by Tereza Pultarova from Engineering and Technology Magazine of ITE.

“Sanbot is the least intimidating security guard I’ve ever seen”, by Aatif Sulleyman from Gizmodo, “The friendly looking robot is being shown off by a company called Qihan at IFA, and you may end up spotting one in the wild (at your local supermarket / airport / school) at some point in the near future.”

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