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.

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. 

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 robot will debut at MGS Entertainment Show in Macao

The annual MGS Entertainment Show will celebrate its fifth anniversary this year, and will return to the region from November 14-16 at The Venetian Macao.

MGS is a gaming, entertainment and leisure tradeshow seeking to attract established suppliers to the gaming industry. Tech innovators are again participating in the tradeshow which is held each autumn to promote their products to industry professionals.

With this year’s focus on innovations that are shaping the smart city of the near future, a number of leading technology companies have signed up to showcase technological advances, MGS said in a statement.

This year’s tradeshow will feature humanoid robots at the Qihan booth. The Shenzhen-
based company has become a leading player in video analysis since its creation in 2006. Last year, they came onto the service robotics scene with the launch of their line of Sanbot robots.

Beginning with a service industry robot called Sanbot Elf, Sanbot has made service with airport services and border security, as well as shopping malls and entertainment venues.

This year, Sanbot introduced Sanbot Elf’s ‘bigger, stronger, faster, and more human-like’ younger sibling, Sanbot Max. Both Sanbot Elf and Sanbot Max will be fully charged and ready for a meet and greet at the Qihan booth.

Also, Alibaba’s cloud computing service – which is China’s largest provider of public cloud computing services – will also be featured at the tradeshow. Alibaba has recently entered into an agreement with Macau to bring improvements to the territory’s infrastructure across various sectors, and to improve professional training in information technology available to students in Macau.

Advanced analytics and facial recognition have already permeated the video surveillance market as a result of companies such as Hikvision.

The ability of surveillance technology to piece together a condensed set of relevant events from a vast supply of video footage has changed the way investigations and security monitoring are conducted, the statement added.

Other major technology-related companies will also be showcasing their products and services alongside more traditional gaming and entertainment players and businesses.

QIHAN Technology - the Top 10 APAC Robotic Process Automation Company 2017

The Sanbot robot has been deployed all over the world and the wide-range of applications and excellent Automation performances for each case has earned QIHAN Technology, the owner and manufacturer of the Sanbot robot series, one of the Top 10 APAC Robotic Process Automation Companies 2017 by CIO Advisor magazine and had a one-page piece written about the company in the October-3rd-2017 issue.

CIO Advisor magazine is a print magazine that helps executives of medium and large enterprises to learn about new technologies that could be beneficial for their businesses. Till now, the magazine has reached out to 600,000 qualified subscribers across the Asia Pacific region, 75% of whom are senior-level IT leaders, and 25% are senior corporate management leaders such as CEO, CFO, VP - Finance, and CMO.

Gaining a lot of traction in recent years, the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) --“the application of technology that allows employees in a company to configure computer software or a “robot” to capture and interpret existing applications for processing a transaction, manipulating data, triggering responses and communicating with other digital systems” (Institute for robotic process automation & Artificial Intelligence) -- has become one of the  fastest growing sectors in the IT & BPO space and is set to become one of the largest markets in the following decades.

With the Robotic Process Automation y poised to be the biggest change in robotics ever seen in the last few years, CIO Advisor editors have thoroughly examined multiple robot suppliers and solution providers to find out the professional knowledge in innovations and services. This information will help enterprises in this fairly new industry. Therefore, CIO advisor issues their annual "Top 10 APAC Robotic Process Automation Companies -- 2017".

At IFA 2016, QIHAN presented the ‘big three’ revolutionary technologies: IoT, Cloud, and AI in a seamless integration with its Sanbot Elf intelligent robot. Powered by IBM Watsons and featuring Android SDK for open customization with cloud capabilities, Sanbot enhances the consumer experience and aids in business growth for multiple industries including retail, hospitality, education, healthcare, and security.

Thanks to a perfect integration of first-rate hardware, software, and Cloud services, Sanbot Elf offers intelligent customized services for hotels, restaurant, banks, customs, airports, schools, and many other customized applications. Also, Sanbot can also serve as an effective surveillance tool for detecting and recording intruders as well as sending notifications to users in an emergency situation.

QIHAN has over 200 patents in Machine Vision Recognition, Multi-axis Automatic Control, Big Data Analysis, and more. QIHAN employs more than 350 senior engineers who are professionals in artificial intelligence, 3D navigation, multi-axis control, machine vision, facial recognition, intelligent sensor system, neural networks, voice interaction, intelligent information system, and more.

In order to transform business models, reduce operational costs, and increase revenues, QIHAN has always been leveraging Robotic Process Automation solutions and services in conjunction with machine learning, AI, language processing, vision technology, big data analytics, and many more technologies. With the high-level RPA solutions and services, QIHAN has been one of the leading enterprises in the global world. The successful RPA earned the "Top 10 APAC Robotic Process Automation Companies - 2017".

Robotic Process Automation solutions and services are already helping businesses re-imagine and restructure their operation models. Over the next few years, from consumer goods to the healthcare sector, robotics is gradually becoming universal in simplifying processes, improving efficiency, and managing risks. With the increasing adoption of automation within businesses and IT processes, the industry is set for a transformational journey towards a cut throat market.

Ryan Wu, CMO of QIHAN Technology, told CIO Advisor, “Sanbot is the only social robot with centralized management capabilities and therefore opens the door to a world of immense possibilities.” Insisting the concept of “Robotics-as-a-service", QIHAN Technology released the powerful upgraded robot for enterprises -- Sanbot King Kong at World Robot Conference 2017 in China and Sanbot Nano intelligent robot special designed for home use at IFA 2017 in Berlin. QIHAN has the firm confidence to do even better in Robotic Process Automation and offer more intelligent services for the globe.