Sanbot, a new teacher for De Fonkeling elementary school in Netherlands

It was a special class for the students in De Fonkeling Elementary School, because they'd got a cute and smart robot to teach them interactively. Last week on July 13th, Sanbot robot performed a vivid education class in the elementary school in Netherlands.

"Robotics as a Service", Sanbot is a Cloud service open API intelligent robot applied to various scenarios. Thanks to the open API, developers can build Android applications that utilize Sanbot’s tremendous AI and learning capabilities. Sanbot unleashes capabilities of cloud-enabled robotics and AI for retail, education, healthcare, hospitality, security, and other customer-oriented industries to deliver a smarter and more personalized service.

With AI system powered by IBM Watson, Sanbot intelligent programmable robot can easily interact with human beings in near 30 languages at each scenario, including in the classroom. In the class, Sanbot appeared in the front of the classroom together with Mr. Stvan Turi, the director of De Fonkeling Elementary School. Sanbot recorded and stored the contents Stvan taught and students could learn from the robot directly if they didn’t catch all the classes, which shared responsibility of the face-to-face Q&A between teacher and students.

After teaching process, Stvan programmed Sanbot to inquiry about the taught contents. The cute robot interacted with students in a humorous, serious or soulful way, leaving unforgettable impression and deepening the memory of class education.

During the break, students surrounded Sanbot, asking teacher about how the robot works, interacting with the robot, and dancing together with the rhythm of Sanbot. In addition, they enjoyed the interesting movies via the 1080p touchscreen or HD laser HD projector. If one student is not available for the class, the Q-Link mobile App is easy to help to remote monitor all the statuses and voice in the classroom, seeming you are at the scene.

DTV media interviewing Mr. Stvan Turi, the director of the elementary school

What's more, Sanbot is capable of facial recognition. After programmed all the students' identification, the robot can help with check-in and check-out when the class begins and finishes. And the parents can easily know their kids' class condition via Q-Link mobile App, reassuring them a lot.

It was the first robotic education experience for the school, leaving deep impression to the school leaders and students. Sanbot's excellent performance attracted the interview of DTV, the public broadcasting television for the municipalities of Oss and Bernheze. "I believe there are certain things that can be done by robots. Whether we get a classroom with only classroom robots? I do not think." says Istvan Turi. Mr. Dirk Megens, a professor of economics at the ROC Nijmegen, also explained his point of view on the robot to the media,  "I think it's a supplement, a teacher's help, and a kind of remedial teacher could be." 

Yes, it is definitely right that Sanbot service robot will never take the jobs of human beings and there will not any threat to human. Sanbot is one of the best tools to carry and practice artificial intelligence and delivery hi-tech life experience to the whole world.

Sanbot robots held traffic safety knowledge competition

“Hello, Sir! Where is the portable fire extinguisher? A, Under the couch; B, At door A; C, At window B?” On Jun 24th, at the Chegongmiao Metro Station in Shenzhen city, Sanbot humanoid robot performed one competition about safety knowledge in the metro station, amazing massive passengers at the scene.

It was the opening ceremony of Shenzhen Rail Transit Promotional Season and fifth anniversary celebration on Jun 24th. Since that day, the 3-month activity has begun promoting knowledge of civil bus ride, which enhances passengers’ concept of safe ride and creates the atmosphere of safe courtesy and civil travel. Shenzhen Rail Transit Office, the Traffic Branch of Public Security Bureau and Shenzhen Metro Group Corporation participated in the opening ceremony. QIHAN Sanbot was invited grandly as the host of safety knowledge competition and Sanbot service robot  is the first robot which worked in the metro station.

At the opening ceremony activity, the fascinating competition of metro safety knowledge became the greatest highlight.

Gifts for competition winners

“Hello, the manual fire alarms are set both in the hall and platform of metro station; which way can you use to inform metro staff once the fire happens? A, Touch manual alarm; B, Press the manual alarm. ” Sanbot inquired. What was interesting was that Sanbot would say “Congratulations, your answer is right and you can have a gift now!” when the robot recognized the right answer. The hi-level human-robot interactive experience attracted hundreds of people to have a look or participate in.

“It is very interesting and attractive that the advanced AI robot hosts safety promotional activity,” Mr. Wang, one passenger told the working staff, “the effect must be better than that of human staff as human is too common to stop the passers-by. Now organizer uses a robot to publicize safety knowledge, which is impressive and people can remember the knowledge easily. I like that.”

On that day, Sanbot also offered services at the entrance of business coach of metro line 11. The robot reminded each passenger to swipe card at the coach door and broadcast announcements. The working staff told the media, “Intelligent service robot can reduce staff’s workload. During the riding rush hours, the workloads are very heavy and we cannot pay attention to each passenger. With the robot, we are released from the monotonous work and can operate more complex work.”

  

QIHAN Technology, the manufacturer of the intelligent robot, told the metro manager that Sanbot robot integrated information broadcast, voice interaction, independent walking, automatic obstacle avoidance and security surveillance functions etc. According to the scenarios, Sanbot could offer safety knowledge promotional services, such as notices at entrance, escalator riding, and notices in coach, etc. In this way, passengers would absorb the safety knowledge unconsciously.

With the AI technology going mature and robotic applications becoming popular, the functions of Sanbot will be optimized continuously. To combine the artificial intelligence and transit service together is helpful to change metro stations from traditional human services to more intelligent and informationalized services.