Showing posts with label intelligent robot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intelligent robot. Show all posts

Monday, July 17, 2017

Sanbot performs real services for businesses

[Ebrun]Imagine that: when you go into a supermarket, it is a robot that greets you, introduces you the latest promotional activity; and also, it is a robot that guides you to process membership card and the electronics coupons, and collects payment from you… Those are what Sanbot can do.

Adhering to the concept of  "Robotics as a Service" , Sanbot intelligent robot is a robotic product researched and developed independently by QIHAN Technology. The robot is equipped with rich perception, including touching perception, RGB image, 3D image, PIR thermoinduction, IR, voice, gyroscope and touchscreen, etc. In addition, it is capable of voice interaction, touching interaction, gesture interaction, posture interaction, mobile App mobile control, etc.; Furthermore, Sanbot can perform semantic comprehension, facial recognition, independent voice location, auto charge, intelligent safety protection and more artificial intelligence. Since its debut, the open API humanoid robots have gone into scenarios such as family, commercial chain, customs inspection, banks and the public service area.

In commercial chain area, the latest version Sanbot robot, Sanbot intelligent shopping robot can take the work of attracting consumers, advertising promotion, guidance and interpretation, cashier assistant, membership card processing, remote shop keeping and intelligent management, especially for supermarket, retail shop and related scenarios.


Ryan Wu, the vice president of QIHAN Technology introduced to Ebrun, “In the offline shop, it does not really help retail with their businesses if a robot only attracts customers into the shops.Thus it’s not popular, not even to promote the transformation of traditional retail business or intelligent business. But now, with the mature of technology and the integration of scenarios, robot can play a bigger and bigger role.”

In the past year, Sanbot service robots were popularly used in retail scenarios including clothing shop, jewelry shop, clock shop and other middle-high-end area. The shops might not very large but their service satisfaction is important to customers. Sanbot helped retails with questionnaire, passenger flow analysis and staff check-in services, as well as production introduction and advertising promotion. In a restaurant, supermarket or convenient store, Sanbot offered services such as dispensing electronic coupons, customer reception, entertainment interaction, payment collection, membership card processing, etc. Ryan told Ebrun.

In generally, offline business uses robot to conduct standardized, routine and low extra-value work. Or you can say that, it does the job human staff would like not to. At this aspect, Sanbot can save much labor cost than human staff, it handles repetitive work with higher efficient and higher accurate than human staff. It does not feel annoyed and tired.

Another highlight of Sanbot intelligent robot is Sanbot's most innovative business management system - MPS (Multi-service Platform System). MPS is a centralized management system that enables businesses to control and monitor their fleet of interactive Sanbot robots anywhere. With MPS in retail, operator can manage all the Sanbots in the chain stores to perform customized task at defined time, such as promotional activity, lottery and questionnaire survey to record and storage passengers’ big data, etc., which could improve customer experience and retail service quality effectively.

What's more, Ebrun also knew of that, exception for the commercial chain area, Sanbot programmable humanoid robots were applied in families and customization. For example, Xiaohai, the customized Sanbot robot applied for Chinese customs inspection, Sanbot robot for taxation, Sanbot robot in healthcare, and Guagua, the customized robot applied in agricultural management, in banks, and more…

Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Bit hit: Softbank acquired Boston Dynamics

It’s breaking news to most of professionals and companies in artificial intelligence and robotics area that Softbank claimed to acquire Boston Dynamics and SCHAFT from Google’s parent company Alphabet Jun. 9th, which was considered as Softbank’s great acceleration in the development of new type of intelligent robot.

As far as I know, Softbank has been majoring in humanoid robot Pepper and Nao. The Chairman and CEO of Softbank, Masayoshi Son, orientated intelligent robot as the key area his company majors in. The stock of Softbank witnessed a 7% sharp growth, the highest point in the past 20 years after the acquisition was released.

Masayoshi Son announced artificial intelligent robot will be one of the key driving forces of next information revolution. Boston Dynamics is the leader of dynamic robot and he welcomed its joining-in, Softbank will continue to support the development of dynamic robot and explore to help people more convenient, more secure and more substantial applications.

The founder of Boston Dynamics Marc Raibert approved the values Softbank brought out by using technology to benefit people. Raibert hopes he could realize the mission of advanced AI robot together with Softbank, so that the robots would create greater values to in the more intelligent and interactive future world.

Sounds the acquisition positive? Not yet. Media have different opinions, and they describes the acquisition by using the words of “Boston Dynamics finds the buyer finally”, “a burden to Softbank”, “hot potato to Softbank” and “Boston Dynamics jumps into fiery pit” and more.

It’s open to AI industry that Google’s robot item “Replicent” has been continuously turbulent and going downside since the item’s charger Andy Rubin’s resignation. The developing strategy of Boston Dynamics was much different from that of Google’s department and Boston Dynamics’ failure to push the new service robots to the markets and some other closured resulted in robot item was not considered to long-term planning.

Some professionals also think that, Boston Dynamics majors in AI and robot and so does Softbank, but their robots and robotics technologies are different. The acquisition does not strengthen the robotics technologies and the difference may add extra burden to Softbank. Regarding the acquisition, it is still a question mark that who is right or wrong and time will be the best witness.

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

What is MPS from Sanbot Robotics?


MPS is a Multi-service Platform System robotics application solution for retail industry. With the solution, you can operate multiple Sanbots on your computer to control all the robots at your branch stores to perform different tasks at the same time. The robots in different stores can be set into reception mode, promotional mode, entertainment mode, products display mode, and also Q-link control mode.


On the basis of Qihan Cloud and Q-Link and with the core of IoT, MPS (or Multi-Service Platform System) is able to connect business, users, intelligent robot and associated equipment for information mutuality, tasks synchronization and data interaction, and sequentially create the integrative operation model of "Management-Marketing-Service" by social media network and big data analysis, to bring about more commercial ecological value for clients.

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Sanbot Application Scenario 6: Zhongzhou πmall Experience Store

The schedule for “Internet +”, exactly caters for the rapid development of retail industry, pushes the combination of mobile Internet, cloud computing, big data, Internet of Things and intelligent robot, guides the development of retail business by Internet, and boosts innovation & entrepreneurship with full power, comprehensively stimulating the vitality of market and society. Therefore, numerous retail enterprises take the opportunity of the mode of “Internet + Intelligence” in advance. Sanbot service robot, combining with retail stores’ internal platforms (Such as WeChat Enterprise, internal Website and cashier system, etc.), solves the all-around problems on products, services and activities, etc. that the retailing staff encounter every day.