Tan Jianrong was invited to be the Chief Scientist of QIHAN Technology

On July 27th, Tan Jianrong, the Academician of China Engineering Academy, Mechanical Engineering Specialist, and professor of Zhejiang University, was invited grandly to be the Chief Scientist of QIHAN Technology. The two sides would plan to begin the deep cooperation in artificial intelligence robotics, and apply to build the academician workstation to train the first-rate industrial talents, to improve the R&D ability of Chinese service robot and commercialization of cute-edge research results.

The appointment ceremony of the chief scientist was held grandly on July 27th and Mr. Lin Lvde, the CEO of QIHAN Technology issued the certificate to Tan Jianrong.

“It is one of the milestone events for QIHAN Technology to recruit Tan as the Chief Scientist and it marks the innovation development strategy of QIHAN Technology went into a whole-new historic phase in artificial intelligence.” Mr. Lin made the speech at the ceremony, “Mr. Tan will make the strategic guidance for the artificial intelligence development and make an entire guidance for the present AI technology system in QIHAN Technology. We two sides will apply to build the academician workstation together and will make a specific research cooperation plan in the key business direction of artificial intelligence.”

After receiving the certificate, Mr. Tan shared his points of views on the development of artificial intelligence too. “The development of advanced commercial robots will generate the three big trends: hard-soft fusion, virtual-real fusion and human-machine fusion. We should have to have both the hard and the soft in the development of advanced AI robot. Under the condition of intelligent hardware condition, artificial intelligence is based on the big data processing and using developed Internet to combine the local application functions, to offer real and effective commercial value for various industries.

The judgements on robotic development from Tan happen to coincide with the strategy of the development and research and commercial application of Sanbot service robot. In 2016, QIHAN Technology proposed to be the creator and leader of intelligent service robot, and has been devoted itself to building the developer ecosystem of “Robot + Various Industries”. QIHAN Technology has been integrating the technical ability and industry resources of robot developer & manufacturer and robotic solution developers to form the “Robot + Industrial App + Cloud service” three-in-one ecosystem, create multi-role robot products in various industries and offer intelligent services in the multiple scenarios.

After the appointment, TAN Jianrong will play the full role in the AI system design and R&D achievement and industry experience in intelligent manufacturing and virtual reality. He will cooperate with QIHAN R&D team deeply to improve the R&D ability of the intelligent service robotics and promote the commercialization of cut-edge achievements. In addition, the two sides will apply to build the academician workstation together to gather and train first-rate industry talents to break through technical barriers and Production-Study-Research land, to take the lead in the coming eruptible development of artificial intelligence.

Sanbot played the role of retail sales assistantin PC world branch store in the UK

It was a fantastic day for PC World (retailer) and the consumers in one of its branch stores in Norfolk City, United Kingdom because a cute and helpful friend arrive - Sanbot intelligent robot. On July 22nd, Sanbot played the role of retail sales assistant and performed sales promotion and management in the branch store of PC world in Norfolk City.

PC World is one of the United Kingdom's largest chains of mass-market computer superstores. It is part of Dixons Retail plc. PC World operates under the brand name PC City in Spain, Italy, and Sweden. PC World has a lot of influence on the retail business in the UK and its prices are perfect for consumers.

At first, Sanbot’s dance attracted massive onlookers to have a visit and an interaction with it. With its AI system powered by IBM Watson, Sanbot advanced intelligent robot greeted customers with, “Welcome to PC World Electronics Store” and responded to people’s jokes and inquiries fluently, humorously, and thoughtfully. If you were a repeat customer, Sanbot’s advanced facial recognition enabled it to recognize you and call your name as the receptionist, which made you feel like you were interacting with a human.

Many of the onlookers were hesitant to buy at that time they entered the store, but then they got more details about their interested electronic products.

In the store, onlookers had a great interest in the robot and received a detailed introduction about the robot from the sales manager of the store.

Sanbot then introduced the products in the PC World branch store by displaying the product image and key features and describing the product by voice. Traditional showcase methods such as hawking and paper did not seem attractive to the consumers. Sanbot robot, as a moving advertising board, is able to inform all the people in the store in new and entertaining ways. This is supported by MPS for retail.

MPS for retail is a retail solution designed by QIHAN Technology and used especially for retail. With MPS for retail, Sanbot robot can be set into four working modes including customer reception, product introduction, activity promotion, and entertainment. MPS (Multi-functional Platform System) 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.

It could not be better for consumers because not only did they purchase cost-effective and desirable goods, but they shopped with enjoyment. The consumers each participated in a raffle app with a 100% winning percentage after participating in the questionnaire from Sanbot robot. Each consumer had the chance to get a gift from PC World. The questionnaire, which keeps people’s answers secure, allows the retailers to learn more about the consumers’ consumption behaviors and desires and then adjusts the retail business to match the consumers’ needs, enhancing customer stickiness.

Furthermore, Sanbot robot is capable of issuing electronic coupons, write-offs, membership cards and payment collection. This effectively promotes the retail business whether in sales value or customer experience. Undoubtedly, Sanbot robot is the good assistant for your retail business.

Sanbot robot was welcomed by all sectors of Turkey

On July 20th, QIHAN Sanbot held a Sanbot Robot Partners Meeting in Nippon Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey. This is a significant conference to both Turkish robot industry and QIHAN Technology and the conference made Sanbot famous on one day among all sectors of Turley. European sales representative and product manager attended and made a speech at the meeting.

Sanbot robot, powered by QIHAN Technology, unleashes the capabilities of Cloud service robotics and AI for retail, hospitality, education, healthcare, security, and other customer-oriented industries to deliver a smarter and more personalized service to the whole world. Sanbot's open API enables developers to build Android applications that utilize Sanbot's tremendous AI and learning capabilities.

The Sanbot Robot Partners Meeting attracted lots of scholars and professionals in AI solution development, telecom, shopping mall or super market, representatives in AI and Istanbul governmental officials, as well as QIHAN Technology's business partners about Sanbot robot. 

At the meeting, Daniel and Rancho had a detailed introduction about Sanbot robot and addressed the importance of the cooperation between Turkish and Chinese enterprises in AI industry, especially in AI robot. Strategically, QIHAN Technology has always been considering Turkey markets crucial between Asia and Europe, no matter about its location or large-scaled markets. The speech garnered approves and praises by the professionals and scholars.

QIHAN Technology is the brand owner and manufacturer of Sanbot intelligent robot. QIHAN has been always insisting on the concept of “Robotics as a service” since it began to research and develop intelligent robot. And now QIHAN has got over 800 employees and 350+ senior engineers, aimed to offer the world with first-rate advanced AI robot.

The meeting received media coverage of 24 international media and magazines including CNN, Sozcu, Haberler, SonDakika, Tam İndir, etc. Titled by “Chinese Robot Sanbot in Turkey! You may be a Business Friend”, Haberler reported, “Sanbot has features such as monitoring, speech recognition, face recognition, and also has fun aspects such as image playback, music playing and dancing.” Praised as it is indeed, Sanbot humanoid robot is always your home and business friends; It is multi-functional to serve you and your businesses, but it will never make a threat to anyone or anything in the world.

The rate of Chinese AI robot’s facial recognition has reached more than 99%

In recent years, scientific community has been seeking breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. Especially at facial recognition looking for missing people, it has become a focus topic that whether AI technology can play a practical role in public service area such as missing people search and so on through hi-tech methods. It’s worth mentioning that Chinese Academy of Science has invented one AI robot and the rate of facial recognition nearly reached 100%. The intelligent robot has been applied practically in people’s lives.

It’s understood that, the artificial intelligent robot, named Xiaojia and invented by Wang Jinqiao’s team under Chinese Academy of Science, has the high rate of 99% at facial recognition. Comparing ID card and live image and under the condition of one hundred-thousandth false alarm rate, the facial recognition rate has reached more than 99%. And its rate reaches 85% under the dynamic condition.

Wang Jinqiao explained, “Xiaojia’s facial recognition adopts one low-power consumption and neural network algorithm based on deep learning. It is able to capture facial all-round structure characteristics and partial nuanced difference at the same time, so as to learn about individual facial structure.”

It’s introduced that, in practical application, Xiaojia’s facial recognition function has helped police to find out numerous litigants’ relatives. On Sep. 12th, 2016, in Song County Henan Province, a man saw the other one very similar with him and considered him his twin brother missing for many years, so he called the police. The police then collected both their facial images and Xiaojia AI robot finally checked out they are the right twin brother separate for 40 years. Earlier before this event on Aug 10th, 2016, an old woman in Ruzhou City could not find her home and didn’t take anything with her, then police collected the woman’s facial image with phone and input into Xiaojia’s facial recognition system. The advanced AI robot found out the woman’s ID within one second.

During last two sessions, Li Yanhong, the CEO of Chinese Baidu, proposed the concept of AI for people search, receiving extensive attention from society. With the continuous mature of artificial intelligence, facial recognition and its technical universality will be much more popular in people search and other public services. In the future, intelligent service robot, one of the best artificial intelligent carriers, will play much bigger role in people’s lives, both for home or commercial usages.

Nanjing Central Emporium introduced Sanbot robot as a resident assistant

With beautiful shape and talking leisurely, an intelligent service robot never stopped saying "hello" to the onlookers, enthusiastically answering their questions such as "how to get the cashier?", "Can I rent a baby carriage?", " Can you recommend me the delicious food in shopping mall?" and more about shopping concerns. That robot was Sanbot intelligent robot, which was newly introduced by the Hexi Shop of Nanjing Central Emporium. Thanks to its excellent services, Sanbot intelligent robot became consumers' favorite interactive partners.

According to the Yangzi Evening, the Hexi Shop of Nanjing Central Emporium, one large-scale one-station shopping center located in the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center, hired a batch of intelligent robot staff to play the roles of consultant manager, almighty inquiring manager, smiling accompany assistant and others. In order to welcome the first batch of robot staff, Nanjing Central Emporium held a funny "entry ceremony" in its Hexi shop, attracting many consumers to watch and interact.

Wang Meng, General Manager of Nanjing Central Emporium, confirmed the information to Yangzi Evening sooner after the report. He said the Central Emporium that was founded in January 1936, once was the first large-scale integrated shopping mall in Nanjing, adhering to the concept of "Leading the industry trend". Recently, the Central Emporium took the pilot work at its Hexi shop. The manager introduced Sanbot intelligent robot from domestic leading robot manufacturers - QIHAN Technology. As a resident assistant in Hexi shop, Sanbot provides consultant services for buyers to upgrade consumption experience.

It is known that three Sanbot robots, each named Xiaohe, Xiaoxi and Xiaozhong, would take up their quarters on Saturday at the soonest. Among them, Xiaohe, the inquiring assistant, is responsible to provide information inquiring service, greet customers, see them off, and broadcast real-time shopping information and guide customers to pay attention to the malls' new information. All-around consultant assistant Xiaoxi will help human staff with baby carriage and wheel borrowing, missing persons broadcasting, putting broadcast, first-aid knowledge, free water, parking fee guidance and other services. Xiaoxi will link all the retail scenarios in the entire shopping center, just like "a moving map" and "utility service guide". While, Xiaozhong, the smiling accompany assistant, will mainly perform shows and humorous communication with customers to enhance their sense of participation and interaction, attracting customers and promote the consumption.

Wang Meng revealed that it was only a small initial test and he planned to introduce more Sanbot robots into other chain shops under the group to promote their retail businesses.

He told Yangzi Evening: "The traditional department stores are faced with a necessary transformation towards the fuse of catering, supermarkets, theaters and others with matched shopping center. Taking Hexi Shop as example, we set the consumption upgrading program including catering, fitness and fast consumption brands on first floor, children’s entertainment on the third floor and main central projects distributed on the fourth floor. Introducing intelligent robots is one of the significant measures of transformation. With the robots’ interesting interactions and practical retail business services such as electronic coupons, payment collection, membership card processing, etc. to leave unforgettable impression and promote the customer stickiness.

It is becoming the new trend for offline retail business to promote consumption experience with robot. Just in the past one week, QIHAN Technology delivered one batch of Sanbot Elf robot to the customers in Nanjing, Harbin, Nanchang. The robots are mainly commercial chain intelligent robot, especially used in large shopping malls to promote their chain retail business.

Sanbot commercial chain robot is the most popular in Chinese domestic markets. Besides the customer reception, the marketing promotion ability is one of its highlights for retailers. They are moving advertising platform, it can host marketing activities, as well as ads promotion and giving out electronic coupons at shopping centers, public squares and communities, etc. QIHAN Technology told Yangzi Evening, In future, QIHAN will explore more users' demands to help retailers to create more commercial values and upgrade consumption experience in physical retail stores. We will never stop to introduce and integrate robotic retail solutions to Sanbot robot to improve the service abilities for retail businesses.

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.

Intel: The Integration of AI and SI Makes Robot Industry Grow and Prosper

Song Zhiqiang, the Dean ofIntel Labs China, ILC, claimed the integration of artificial intelligence  (AI) and smart interaction (SI) would make intelligent robot industry burst out. The whole article is as follows.

Today, we are embracing a new world of Internet of Everything. More and more things and equipment have achieved interconnection through network, which makes data outbreak. Data surges like a blood and has becoming the most important driving force in the technical field. Artificial intelligence, automatic drive, 5G, VR / MR and a series of forward-looking technology, give us the opportunity to fully release the potential of these data, and constantly upgrade the human life experience.

We would like to share and communicate with you about Intel's observation of forward-looking technology, and investigate the present and the future of Internet of Everything. Let us begin from the perspective of robot and artificial intelligence to find out industry opportunities in the era of data deluge.

As the most important application area of artificial intelligence, robot has been always paid high attention. Intelligent humanoid robots appeared in Hollywood blockbuster give the public high expectations. However, the intelligent capability of real intelligent service robot is far from that in the movie. With the trend of artificial intelligence promoted by deep learning, it has become a very important issue how intelligent robot industry breaks out. I think there are two key aspects: one is the deep integration of AI and SI; the other is the security of intelligent robots. We'll take about the security later, and now let's focus on the integration of AI and SI.

In the academic world, AI has a commonly-used definition, is to understand the essence of intelligence, and be able to produce a kind of intelligent machine that can respond to external input, similar with human being. The ultimate goal of this discipline is to give the machine intelligent reaction capacity, so advanced AI robot can be seen as the ultimate goal of artificial intelligence.

There are two ways to understand the essence of intelligence: One is to speculate how people is thinking in an intelligent way from the observers' behaviors by virtue of philosophical or psychological methods; the other is to cut apart human brain to check the neuro anatomical structure, and find out the laws of intelligent activities through brain activity detection technology and well-designed experiments.

We have a knowledge of intelligence (not exactly right, but at least the model comes out), but how to make the machine smart need? It needs mathematicians, computer scientists and automation experts to study thoroughly. Therefore, there are many disciplines related to artificial intelligence. Besides soft theory, models and algorithms, it also needs the practice of hardware. For example, intelligent machine needs chips to provide it with a strong computing and storage ability. In addition, advanced humanoid robot requires the technical support of complex system control, either.

In fact, this wave of artificial intelligence is also benefiting from the improvements of calculations and storage technology. ANN is to train machine with massive data, and then machine learns about the inherent laws from the data and build a model, finally, the model will help to speculate new data. This is called a machine learning process. It requires a lot of storage and computing power, but now we are living in an extraordinary appropriate era of machine learning's big development.