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 Nano -- your intimate robot companion for your home

An imaginative people only thought possible if you were in Star Wars, The Jetsons, or Tony Stark renovated your house. Now, these types of homes are starting to take form.

AI companies are creating every kind of smart device and using IoT to lay the foundation for a smart home. Companies like Google, Apple, and Amazon have very sophisticated AI’s (Siri, Alexa, etc.). But what is the one missing element from a home with AI and smart home devices? A robot!

Every home from the future has a robot, and with the release of QIHAN Technology’s Sanbot Nano robot, you can now complete your smart home project by owning your very own smart home robot with Amazon Alexa Voice Service! Sanbot Nano is not just an intelligent humanoid robot to complete your smart home set, this robot will truly revolutionize the home and will make you wonder how you could not live without this robot.

Connecting all of your IoT devices: All of these smart devices are great, and they are very convenient, but there is one problem -- each one has their own App. Your speakers, refrigerator, lights, and so on, all have their own apps. Always having to locate a particular App to control the device can become tedious. Let Sanbot Nano, the new designed APP controlled robot take that frustration away from you.

Sanbot Nano comes with all of Amazon Alexa skills, plus an abundance of other robotic features specific to Sanbot Nano. Sanbot Nano can connect to all of your smart home devices and using the Sanbot mobile App, Q-Link, you can control all of your smart home devices with one App through Sanbot Nano. What a super practical!

Remote control: Sanbot Nano has excellent voice recognition software, which allows you to control Sanbot with only your voice. What happens if you are out of Sanbot’s range? Not to worry. Let Sanbot’s mobile APP Q-Link do it. Q-Link allows you to connect with your Sanbot robot and control it from wherever you are. You can control Sanbot’s apps, movements, input text to speech, and even have smart voice control. Just speak into the app a command, and Sanbot will obey. Q-Link will also let you see what Sanbot sees in real-time.

Remote Surveillance: It is tricky to remotely control Sanbot from anywhere if you cannot see where Sanbot is going. Not to worry. Using Q-Link, you can see what Sanot Nano sees through its HD camera in real-time. This is extremely helpful. What you need to do is take out your phone, open the Q-Link App, connect with your this advanced AI robot, and now you can move Sanbot to the kitchen and see if your stove is on or off. Simple and convenient, that is what Sanbot Nano is here for.

Sanbot Nano may be small in size, but the number of its capabilities is huge. These are just some of features Sanbot Nano has, and a few of the tasks it can complete. To find out more about Sanbot Nano, visit: http://www.sanbotrobot.com/sanbot-nano_d110.

Parents, let Sanbot robot help with your kids' psychological problem

Often, kids do not tell their parents or teachers if something is bothering them, or what they are truly feeling. This is normal psychological behavior for kids to not tell people what they are actually feeling, but it is important that parents know about these feelings so they can help their kids grow into productive members of society. Enter QIHAN Technology’s Sanbot robot, the robot that will help kids open up about how they are feeling.

               

A study by Dr. Nancy Darling, Ph.D. in psychology, found that it is very normal for kids and teens to either lie or not disclose the full story. She calls this, “Strategic disclosure.” Dr. Darling has studied children and adolescents from around the world and in her report, she found that the majority have lied or did not disclose the full story to their parents. This is further solidified by a study done by the University of Waterloo finding that 96% of their subjects (ages 4-6) lie to their parents.

But, we have all seen the TV shows and Dr. Phil episodes about how talking about something that is bothering you are quite healthy. In today’s world, people are more and more inclined to speak to automations. In Psychology Today’s What Would You Rather Tell a Robot Than a Human?, a study found that a human counselor was preferred by70 percent of participants for talking about positive experiences, compared to 30 percent who preferred either of the two robots. …However, less than half the participants chose the human counselor for discussing negative experiences, while the majority chose one of the robots. In MIT Technology Review’s Growing Up With Alexa, a recent MIT study looked at how children ages three to 10 interacted with Alexa, Google Home, Cozmo, and a smartphone app called Julie Chatbot. The kids in the study determined that the devices were generally friendly and trustworthy.

 

In a couple of schools in Shenzhen, China, teachers noticed a few students were not being their normal selves. Teachers are very important in a child’s development. They are with them for a good part of the day, 5 days out of the week. Wanting to help their students, a classroom at the Qianhai Harbor Primary School (with the parents’ permission) decided to try a new method in helping students. Sanbot has been used in 10 schools for these psychology counseling services and for the past two months, Sanbot has been a part of 120 sessions per school. 

               

Students were brought into a room and talked to Sanbot one-on-one. Sanbot presented them with a series of multiple choice questions such as, “A group of friends plan to do something you don’t want to do, you will…; You are worried about a problem, maybe a family or health issue, so you…; Someone gives you $20, so you…” The children were very responsive to Sanbot. Another exercise was a psychiatrist controlled Sanbot remotely and talked to the student through Sanbot. Both methods had success.

Afterwards, the participating students were asked a couple questions about their Sanbot robot experience. First question: Do you like talking to Sanbot?

First-to-fourth grade students: 100%

Fifth-to-sixth grade students: Around 92.7%

Second question: If something bad happened, who would you tell first? Sanbot parent, or teacher?

*First-to-fourth grade students:

Tell the teacher: Around 26%

Tell their parents: Around 33%

Tell Sanbot Elf: Around 41%

However, the older students were less inclined to speak to Sanbot, but still, over 1/4 of the students preferred to talk to Sanbot.

Fifth-to-sixth grade students:

Tell the teacher: Around 24.5%

Tell their parents: Around 24.2%

Tell Sanbot Elf: Around 26.1%

A final survey among all participants (Students, teachers, parents) was done, and the results were very positive for Sanbot: 

Students:  Overall, there are around 95% students that prefer to have communications with Sanbot Elf intelligent robot thanks to their love of the robot (Cute appearance and games, etc.).

Schools: “Technology plus education” caters to the policy and guideline our government promotes in education industry. The model improves the entire image of technological education of the schools, and relieves the teachers’ working pressure.

Parents:  With Sanbot Elf, parents can get faster and more real information and feedback from teachers.

With this positive feedback, Sanbot is excited to take on more sessions.

Sanbot not only recorded the touch screen interactions, but also recorded videos so teachers and parents could listen to everything that was said, giving them more insight into how their kids are feelings. Some parents had no idea their kids were feeling sad about their home life, or that they were being bullied. Sanbot was able to help everyone involved in helping these kids.

While Sanbot may just be a robot that does not mean that it is just limited to labor/industrial tasks. This robot can be programmed for numerous situations and this example is just one of them. 

Meet the news humanoid robot at MGS Entertainment Show 2017

More than just fun and games, the Macao Gaming Show will attract a large amount of hi-tech giants to show off their different pieces of technology, including smart casino furniture, lighting fixtures, LED displays for both indoors and outdoors, and a range of different IT systems.

Together with the world-class brand Alibaba Cloud, QIHAN Technology will take its commercial service robot Sanbot Elf and the brand new humanoid robot – Sanbot Max to the MGS Entertainment Show during Nov 14-16th (Booth: Q45).

With a height of 145 cm, the customer service-oriented Sanbot Max is QIHAN’s third generation innovative humanoid robot. Now, with more advanced artificial intelligence technology. With functional shoulders, elbows, wrists, and five individually motored fingers, this creates a more human robot.

Sanbot Max is able to carry up to 75kg cargo or other peripherals such as printers, large screens, and more. Using 3D vision simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM), the advanced humanoid robot performs great positioning and navigation and autonomous route planning tasks. The maximum 5m/s walking speed adds another advantage to Sanbot Max.

By examining QIHAN’s Sanbot Max advanced AI robot, the MGS Show illustrates the rise of AI and virtual reality and how they will fit into casino application scenarios and online gaming. But, more importantly, for a multi-trillion dollar trading plan from east to west, the summit will examine how this new technology will generate smart cities and even smarter economies across the world.

If you are in Macao during the event, please come see brand new, state-of-the-art technology at the QIHAN Sanbot booth:

Dates: Nov. 14-16th, 2017
QIHAN Sanbot Booth: Q45
Venue: The Venetian Macao (Hall A&B, the Cotai Expo)

Another successful case for Sanbot robot used for aiport service in Poland

Add another successful case for Sanbot robot as Sanbot was introduced for its intelligent services at the Krakow Airport in Poland.

Transportation is the key factor for both the individual person and an area’s economy. With that idea in mind, Krakow Airport created an unprecedented method for advance ensuring people knew about transportation and logistics by opening a state-of-the-art Aviation Education Center. The aim of the center is to offer different aviation services in an interesting and suitable way for various age groups. The Sanbot humanoid service robot also made great contributions to people in the aviation center.

For air travel, kids and the elderly are key groups that need to be taken care of due to physical limitations and sometimes they get nervous or anxious. Upon seeing the cute humanoid robot, they felt more at ease. Further entertainment (dance, music and jokes, etc.), interaction and comfort by Sanbot will make them feel much better.

Teaching is one of Sanbot’s strengths. At the airport, Sanbot is a qualified “teacher” for kids, the elderly and adults. After programming aviation contents into its open-API-and-SDK system, Sanbot can teach people flight rules and information.

Aviation is one of the most highly-demanding services and it must upgrade and evolve. From this aspect, Sanbot can do a lot for the airport. When guests come for a visit, Sanbot gave detailed introductions about the advantages of Krakow airport, as well as the advantages and innovations of the Aviation Education Center and its contribution to passengers.

“It is considered truly unique in this country, as Krakow Airport is the only airport to get such project off the ground in Poland. People interested in aviation topic and education, instead of staying at home, can go to the Center for Aviation Education, which was created at the airport.” John Paul of Krakow airport told the media.

After Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport and Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport, this is the third case where Sanbot offered intelligent service at the airport. In the future, Sanbot robot can be easily customized and programmable according to the requirements of Krakow airport, such as members’ points, mileage queries, ticket price queries, and flight information, upgrading the aviation industry.

Something you have to learn about the China Artificial Intelligence Robot Industry Alliance

China Artificial Intelligence Robot Industry Alliance, also called CAIA, is an industry organization built by the enterprises, scientific research institutes and artificial intelligence users which major in AI products manufacturing, technology research and development and innovation application and services.

At the beginning of 2016, Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, National Development and Reform Commission, and Ministry of Finance jointly issued "Robot Industry Development Plan (2016-2020)", which will guide Chinese robot industry to develop rapidly, healthily and continuously. Under this background, on April 6^th, 2016, with QIHAN Technology’s sponsor, the China Artificial Intelligence Robot Industry Alliance was set up and in operation officially. Till now, the organization has gathered 125 members, and it is the most influent one in China’s artificial intelligence and robot industry.

The CAIA is devoted to driving the healthy and continuous development of artificial intelligent robot industry and playing a great role in actively pushing China’s artificial intelligent robot industry to connect the world and commercial chain extensive services. CAIA offers six core services including media report, forum & summit organizing, industry research, brand promotion, robotics competition and investment matching service.

Compared with other similar organizations, the CAIA boasts superior advantages:

Media Operation: CAIA has got the trained new-medium array with eight new media, covering over 300 thousand artificial intelligence and robot industry workers;

Investment Matching: CAIA has been working together with more than 30 venture capital enterprises such as CITICPE, IDG Capital Partners, Leading Capital, Allin Capital, Star Wealth, QF Capital, Northern Light Venture Capital, etc.;

Channel Integration: CAIA integrates one-thousand-member group with high-level channel resources, experienced agents from Chinese first and second-tier cities, more than 100 physical experience stores and CAIA’s E-commerce platform, forming the most abundant channel resources;

Industry Studying: CAIA has been in strategic cooperation with numerous international famous industry research institutes. Together with these institutes, CAIA regularly issues white paper about the development of artificial intelligence and robotics and offers specific robot application research report for each industry.

Meanwhile, so as to drive the development of the artificial intelligent robot industry, CAIA holds numerous brand appraisal events like “China Top 10 Commercial Service Robot Brand in 2016”, “China Top 10 Cleaning Robot Brand in 2016”, “China Top 10 Education/Entertainment Robot Brand in 2016”, “China Top 10 Companion/Assisting Robot Brand in 2016”, attracting over 80 robot enterprises to participate in the appraisal and more than two million votes and becoming the most influent and most valuable appraisal events in robot industry. And also, the robot brand appraisal events for 2017 kicked off officially on Nov. 1st, 2017.

In addition, CAIA has held numerous large-scale summits and forums, wonderful salons and industry innovation application competitions to better get through the upstream & downstream enterprises. These activities help accelerate the popularization and application of intelligent robotics technologies and products; help combine artificial intelligent robot industry information exchange, application and promotion, education and training and exhibition platform to promote the effective use of resources; help accomplish Chinese robot industry chain and work actively to promote the healthy development of Chinese artificial intelligent industry, and so on.

Presently, in the aspects of industry chain resource integration, media report, industry research, investment and incubation and some others, China Artificial Intelligence Robot Industry Alliance plays a leading and promoting role. In the future, CAIA will further reinforce its capability, offer more specific services for artificial intelligence industry, working for the society as the most influential organization.