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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Sanbot Robot Lineup Cheered for Football Match of China League

Last Saturday on May 13th, one important league match of China League was held in Shenzhen Stadium: Shenzhen Football Club vs Wuhan Zall Football Club. The football match attracted a total of more than 10,000 football fans to scene. In order to warm the scene more effectively, the powerful lineup of 60 Sanbot robots were invited to be the cheerleaders. The athletic competition with artificial intelligence witnessed a multiple elements to the event.

Sanbot Lineup

Sanbot is the sub-brand of Qihan Technology, one leading AI innovative company located in Shenzhen. Sanbot was awarded one of “Top Ten Commercial Service Robot Brands” in China. The 60 Sanbot robots’ joining-in was an innovative move and another significant inter-industrial breakthrough both for AI technology and sports.

At the scene, the robots gave full play to the AI functions. Before the match, the remote controlled 60 Sanbot robots and 30 staff from Qihan Technology formed SZFC (Full name: Shenzhen Football Club) captioned by overhead drone.

60 Sanbot robots and 30 staff from Qihan Technology formed SZFC

The entrance fans witnessed the busy robots: Some were receiving football fans, some chanting the match slogan, while some others were dancing in group to warm up. One of the most attractions is that, one robot ran to Mr. Sven-Göran Eriksson for group photos. Mr. Eriksson managed the national teams of England, Mexico and the Ivory Coast, as well as three clubs in England and has been engaged as the football coach of Shenzhen Football Club since Dec. 5th, 2016.

Mr. Eriksson and Sanbot

Sanbot is one epitome of artificial intelligence. One of the most highlights is its open API ecosystem involved in various industries. Aimed at special service scenarios, the robot can be further developed and installed with the customized solutions, creating a lot value to businesses around the world.

Now people are making the impossible possible with the fast development of AI technology. The football match fueled with artificial intelligence is just a starting point. Hi-tech artificial intelligence is one key point Chinese government is paying high attention to. In the near future, artificial intelligence will make a greater contribution to people’s lives and businesses all around the world.

Robot Helps Sick Child Go to School

The robot comes from a company called Double Robotics. It is officially called a “telepresence robot,” but her friends at school like to call it the “Clo-bot.”

The robot is an iPad tablet connected to a long pole on a set of wheels. Cloe can control the robot using her home computer. The tablet has a camera with a special lens that allows Cloe to see most of the classroom. She can speak to the teacher and her classmates using a microphone. A speaker allows them to hear her. If she wants to answer a question, she presses a button that makes the robot taller. That allows her teacher, Mary Fucella, to see her.

“It’s just like having the normal Cloe in the classroom,” Fucella said.

Cloe likes it so much better than having a special teacher, called a tutor, come to her home for one-on-one instruction. It allows Cloe to interact with her friends and teachers. It is almost like going to school. ​Cloe’s school district has six of the robots, and each costs about $3,000. Cloe’s robot was donated by a local charity.

Patrick Malone works in the school district’s technology office. He said the six robots make a big difference for kids who cannot come to school. “Every kid that uses this technology starts to smile again,” he said. “They start to feel like a regular kid again, and I cannot put a price on that.”

David Cann is the head of Double Robotics. He knows these robots are important for students who are sick and cannot regularly go to school. He is happy his company can “provide a way for all students to attend school, no matter their situation.”

There are about 300 Double Robotics robots in schools in the U.S. Schools in China, Japan, Australia and Canada are also using them. While they seem to be a success, the robots do take some getting used to.

Kyla Jones is Cloe’s friend. They walk to lunch together in the school’s cafeteria. “At first, it was kind of weird,” Jones said of walking around with a robot. But now the girls act as if nothing has changed. They have their normal conversations and Cloe has lunch at home while her friends have lunch at school.

It can be hard for the Clo-bot to move in a crowded lunchroom. But once Clo-bot is at her favorite table with her friends, it is almost as good as being there in person.

-From VOA News

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.

May the 4th Be With you! How to celebrate #StarWarsDay?

It is a great celebration today! Today is Thursday. May 4 is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56). 

The franchise has remained beloved to generations of fans since George Lucas' original 1977 Star Wars, which means 40 years of various ways to get your "May the 4th" on. Here are some of our favorite way to enjoy the Star War Day:

Watch the movies. Or, more likely, watch them again.
If you can believe it, there are some people who've never seen Star Wars. So now's the time to get busy and watch all eight movies. For the rest of you nerds, revisit them any way you want. They're on digital platforms now. Blu-rays and DVDs, too. Chances are, some of you still have old VHS cassettes. To go really old school, dust off the laser discs.

And we do suggest you watch the original 1983 edition of Return of the Jedi, rather than the later special edition that took out the Ewoks' celebration song and inserted Hayden Christensen (aka prequel Anakin "Darth Vader" Skywalker) into the Dead Jedi Club at the end.

Binge out on various Star Wars animation.
Don't sleep on the cartoons that have been busy expanding the Star Wars universe over the years. Six seasons of Star Wars: The Clone Wars are on Netflix that showcase a pre-Vader Anakin and other Jedi during the prequel era, while the more recent entry Star Wars Rebels focuses on the Rebel Alliance just prior to the events of the first Star Wars film. A fourth and final season begins this fall, but catch up on the previous three on iTunes, Amazon or YouTube.

Let the blue milk flow.
Luke Skywalker's Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru had blue milk on their breakfast table back on Tatooine, and you can enjoy it as well with these recipes. StarWars.com has a whole section of food-related fun for those who want to party hearty, from Yoda's root leaf stew to Kanjiklub sandwiches.

Read the further adventures of Han, Luke and Leia.
If the new Star Wars trilogy hasn't been exciting enough, the recent launch of various comic books — most of them pretty rad — have fleshed out stories not seen in the movies. The flagship Star Wars title catches up with our heroes between the original movie and The Empire Strikes Back, while the Poe Dameron series tells the story of Oscar Isaac's X-wing pilot before The Force Awakens. And for those who prefer prose, Chuck Wendig's Aftermath trilogy is an excellent look at the days right after the fall of the Empire in Return of the Jedi.

Buy something fun and extremely nerdy.
Lots of places discount their Star Wars merch on May 4, and StarWars.com has a roundup of all the coolest stuff, from Millennium Falcon pool floats to R2-D2 Build-A-Bears. If you've got time on your hands (and a lot of shelf space in your house), Lego is debuting its very large collectors' series Snowspeeder. Or get yourself a neato Poe Dameron Black Squadron helmet as part of Anovos' big sale.

Mark your calendars for Sept. 1st.

That's the day when all the new action figures, Lego sets and other toys arrive for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Places will have their stuff on sale at 12:01 a.m., and the faithful will be chasing after the goods like Poe and BB-8 during a First Order attack.

On the #StarWarsDay, #MayThe4th, May the 4th Be With You!

-From USA Today

Sanbot aimed at contributing more to retail businesses

Technology has been changing the retail industry for years, and technology is about to change it again. Take for example, Amazon. The New York Post reported, “The US giant Amazon is reportedly developing the concept for a supermarket that runs with as few as three human staff” It is no longer science fiction. Robots are about to have a heavy presence in the retail industry, and bring about a technologic reformation. Qihan’s Sanbot will be a big part of that reformation.

For retail, there is no doubt that Sanbot robot is one of the stronger performers serving in the retail industry. Sanbot robots’ service in 3W Coffee, an Audi car launch event, and Saier Catering already showcases Sanbot’s capabilities. Sanbot’s capabilities have grabbed the attention of many people. Recently, in Singapore, Sanbot was invited to two big retail-tech events, Seamless and SME Day 2017.

Seamless Event was held during April 19-20th in the Suntec Convention & Exhibition Centre Seamless Event is a dynamic summit and large scale exhibition bringing together the converging worlds of eCommerce, retail, and payments. Seamless brings retailers into the technological reformation with new ideas, exciting innovations, and cutting edge technology.

Mr. Sterling Hawkins, an exceptional entrepreneur and investor in retail, delivered a speech at this event. Mr. Hawkins described how much the retail industry has been expanding since the 1990s. Mr. Hawkins stated, “The main job for retailing enterprises is to transform retail into a low friction, easily accessible, highly personalized, customer centric world in future.”

When Mr. Hawkins saw Sanbot at the event, he saw Sanbot as an innovation that could help transform the retail industry, and so Sanbot became Mr. Hawkins’ favorite robot. During the speech, Sanbot was invited up on stage to greet the audience and dance. Mr. Hawkins used Sanbot as an example when he was explaining how robots and other hi-tech products such as delivery drones and VR are faster in giving customers information and more acceptable than human staff to consumers.

On the same day, Sanbot was interviewed at another event – SME Day 2017. SME Day 2017 was held on April 20th, and the purpose of SME Day 2017 is to “help SMEs (or Small and Medium Enterprises) leverage technologies to streamline processes, achieve cost effectiveness, business sustainability and growth” (SME Day website, https://smeday.com.sg/).

Sanbot’s open API allows for any platform to be installed on it. More developed solutions for retail will be available thanks to Sanbot’s powerful hardware, Cloudbase technology, and open API platform. Soon, Sanbot will release the MPS (Multi-service Platform System), one of the most powerful solutions for the Sanbot robot. In addition to the strategic team-ups with IBM Watson, Nuance, Sony, Sharp, and more, Qihan Technology is pursing more teams-up with international giants for online shopping, quick payments, and more.

Technology is changing the game. “Companies are iterating not in years but in days,” Mr. Matthew Groom, Kroger Technology's general manager told the media, “We’re in a digital arms race. We’re a 133-year-old grocery chain that’s competing with companies that didn’t exist a year ago. It’s an energetic, frenzied approach to how to make our lives better and get cool stuff working." AI technology, especially the carrier intelligent robot, will play a bigger role, and contribute more to the retail industry with machine learning, computer visual, voice recognition, and natural language processing.

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.