On September 7, 2023, the China Robot Industry Ecology Conference was held in Shijiazhuang International Convention and Exhibition Center, Hebei Province. Hosted by the Organizing Committee of China International Digital Economy Expo, World Robot Federation Co., Ltd. and Tangshan Municipal People's Government; Hebei Robot Industry Alliance, Guangdong Mechanical Engineering Society, Guangdong Intelligent Equipment Manufacturing Association, Shenzhen Financial Chamber of Commerce co-organized. Wu Weidong, member of the Standing Committee of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Tangshan Municipal Party Committee, Yu Huarong, Secretary of the Party Committee of the China Invention Association, and Wang Zi, Chairman of the World Robot Federation Co., Ltd., delivered speeches at the conference.
Wu Weidong, member of the Standing Committee of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Tangshan Municipal Party Committee, pointed out in his speech: The convening of this robot conference provides us with a platform for learning and exchange, and also provides a valuable opportunity for the development of the robot industry in Tangshan. We must strengthen the development of the robot industry, build a robot industry cluster, form a robot industry chain, and promote the rapid development of the robot industry. I hope that through this conference, I can further deepen my understanding of robot technology and industrial development, understand the latest scientific research results and market trends, and discuss the development direction and path of the robot industry. At the same time, I also hope that through this conference, we can promote exchanges and cooperation with all guests, attract more experts, scholars and entrepreneurs to invest in Tangshan, and jointly promote the healthy development of Tangshan robot industry.
Yu Huarong, Secretary of the Party Committee of the China Association of Inventions, said in his speech that there is still a certain gap between China's robot industry and the world's advanced robots. We face some challenges and problems in core technology, key components, market applications, etc. Therefore, we must strengthen the cultivation of independent innovation capabilities, increase investment in scientific research and talent training, and promote breakthroughs and innovations in robotics.
Here, I call on all experts, scholars and enterprise representatives to work together to strengthen cooperation and exchanges and promote the rapid development of robotics technology and industry. We should strengthen the transformation and application of scientific research results and promote the wide application of robot technology in various fields. At the same time, we should also strengthen international cooperation, integrate with the international advanced level, actively participate in the formulation of international robot standards and rules, and promote the development of the mainland robot industry on a global scale.
Wang Wang, chairman of the World Federation of Robotics Co., Ltd., said in his speech that robots will continue to play an important role in this era full of challenges and opportunities. Let us work together to promote the development of China's robot technology so that it can better serve human society.
With the theme of "human-machine collaboration, jointly promote the development of China's robot industry", this conference is based on building an exchange platform for the development of China's robot industry, focusing on key areas such as robot core technology, product research and development, innovative application, and industrial clusters, using the conference as a medium to promote the integrated development of digital economy and robots, promote the upgrading of traditional industries, and promote the upgrading of the scale of the robot industry. Through the holding of activities, the conference will further strengthen the "five chains" exchange of the robot industry in Hebei Province in the innovation chain, industrial chain, supply chain, financial chain and talent chain, promote the in-depth cooperation of China's robot industry, stimulate the new vitality of the industrial ecology, and help build the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei robot industry cluster.
Tan Jianrong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, believes that according to the degree of intelligence, intelligent robots can be divided into three categories: sensing, interactive and autonomous. Intelligent scene recognition, interconnection and integration, and human-computer interaction anthropomorphism are the technical development directions of intelligent robots. In the process of intelligent robot development, it is necessary to focus on breaking through 10 key technologies, including vision-based environmental three-dimensional perception recognition technology, multi-source and multi-channel sensing heterogeneous data fusion technology, global accurate positioning technology based on environmental understanding, and multi-machine collaborative cluster interaction and control technology.
Dong Xuezhong, director of the Administrative Committee of Tangshan High-tech Zone, made a recommendation for investment promotion of the robot industry in Tangshan High-tech Zone at the conference.
Liu Junhong, Chairman of Shenzhen Oriental Saif Investment Co., Ltd., said, "Taking the opportunity of the 2023 China International Digital Economy Expo, we had in-depth contact with the Tangshan Municipal Government and learned about Tangshan's policies in talent attraction and the advantages of developing the robot industry. She hopes that through the power of the industrial fund, she can attract robot chain main enterprises and industry backbone enterprises with strong industrial chain control to land in Tangshan, and launch more robot application scenarios and system solutions to further optimize the robot industry ecology in Tangshan.
Qu Daokui, founder of SIASUN Robot, introduced the development of SIASUN Robot and how robots empower the development of digital economy at the conference. In 2021, industrial robots in the Chinese market became the world's largest consumer market for industrial robots for the ninth consecutive year. The share of self-owned brand robots in China's industrial robot sales market in 2021 was 32%, up 0.2 percentage points from 2020. In national defense security, emergency rescue, polar scientific expeditions, space exploration, etc., intelligent robots can replace people into "special" environments for operations, improve the efficiency and quality of task completion, reduce casualties, reduce risks, and even complete tasks that are impossible for humans, most of which are national needs.
Huang Xiaoqing, chairman of Cloudminds Robot Co., Ltd., introduced at the conference that Cloudminds Robot will comprehensively upgrade humanoid intelligent robots, promote the deep integration of digital economy and real economy through AI technology, and help the development of smart cities, smart agriculture, family pension, smart medical care, high-end intelligent manufacturing, commercial retail, smart education and other industries. With the continuous development and improvement of artificial intelligence technology, the era of artificial intelligence is gradually coming. This means that AI will be able to solve more and more problems, no longer limited to specific areas, but able to be applied to multiple areas, with profound impacts on society, the economy and everyone. With the advent of the era of artificial intelligence, we will usher in a new era of human-machine symbiosis.
Wang Hongbo, senior vice president of Yan Group (formerly Harbin Institute of Technology Robot), introduced at the conference: Yan Group has built an innovative R&D system for the field of robotics, forming a positive development trend of "promoting the transformation of achievements and building industrial clusters", and Yan Group has achieved demand-oriented efficient R&D capacity building through the effective agglomeration of a variety of R&D elements, focusing on market entities with product upgrading needs, assisting in solving the neck problem in the supply chain, which not only supports the innovation ability of market entities. It also gathers the landing of innovation subjects in the local area, and then synergizes to form a good situation of industrial agglomeration.
Liu Zhifeng, CTO of intelligent driving of DeepBlue Technology, said that the fourth industrial revolution with a new generation of technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum technology and biological science as the main driving force is coming, and the world is ushering in a major change unprecedented in a century, China should seize this opportunity to lead the fourth industrial revolution, and should focus on the development of robot AI brain in the field of intelligent robots. Robot AI brain is an integrated product of cloud computing, AI large model, computing chip and other "stuck neck" technology, which belongs to the core technology of AI robot, grasping the robot AI brain, grasping the industrialization of these three types of technologies is independent and controllable, which is a major strategic demand for the development of intelligent robots in mainland China. As a leading enterprise in artificial intelligence, DeepBlue Technology is developing cloud-edge-end integrated "AI deep brain", including cloud computing, large models and robot-specific chips, etc., to promote the development of the fourth industrial revolution.
Ye Baohua, vice president of Beijing Kangli Youlan Robot Technology Co., Ltd., introduced at the conference: through artificial intelligence and large models to accelerate system innovation and intelligent leadership, the perception, calculation and execution capabilities of service robots have been greatly improved, more interactive and more intelligent, and humanoid robots are accelerating their development towards "embodiment". Low-end humanoid robot products that cannot be implemented will be eliminated.
With the blessing of AI big model technology, emerging technologies have accelerated crossover and integration, and the Internet of Things has cultivated and formed many new formats and models. Humanoid robots focus on the technology of "data + computing power + algorithm", integrate innovation, accelerate the extensive penetration into various industries and fields, and deeply integrate them, so that "embodied intelligence" can be gradually realized in application scenarios, incubate more business opportunities, and inject new momentum into economic and social development.
Liu Ming, chairman of Shenzhen Yiqing Innovation Technology Co., Ltd., introduced at the conference: Yiqing Innovation provides advanced low-speed unmanned commercial vehicle solutions, which have the potential to be widely used in urban transportation and logistics transportation. Low-speed driverless commercial vehicles are vehicles designed to drive autonomously at lower speeds on urban roads. Yiqing's innovative solution uses advanced autonomous driving technology and perception systems to enable commercial vehicles to accurately recognize and understand their surroundings and make decisions and actions accordingly.
Guangzhou Gaoxing Robot Co., Ltd. Chairman Berlin introduced at the conference: the value of robots is inseparable from the scene, Gaoxing Robot adheres to the concept of easy-to-use and practical robots, uses robots to protect safety and make three main directions of attack: police, security, and patrol inspection, and provides best practices for the industry's security digital intelligence upgrade through dynamic and static integration, high-low collocation, air-ground collaboration, human-machine collaboration, peacetime and wartime integration, and digital twin.
The essence of our "robot + safety" is - mobile AIOT+ industry AIGC, the company will continue to use low-speed unmanned robots as the carrier, integrate security, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and other technologies, integrate into the industry model, and create a smart security service platform covering all scenarios/functions.
Zheng Jianfeng, CEO of Han's Robot (Tianjin) Co., Ltd., introduced at the conference: collaborative robots have been widely used in many industries, and even in all aspects of life. And with the development of sensors and artificial intelligence technology, collaborative robots will develop intelligently. Intelligent collaborative robots will be applied to more fields. Han's Robot will always be deeply engaged in robot technology and adhere to its own development mission: to serve the people with robot technology.
The roundtable forum will conduct in-depth exchanges on how to help the high-quality development of the robot industry in Hebei Province. Representatives of the roundtable forum will discuss important topics such as policy support, technological innovation, talent training, and industrial cooperation in the robot industry, and provide guidance and suggestions for the healthy development of China's robot industry. The guests of the roundtable forum were: Liu Junhong, Chairman of Shenzhen Oriental Saif Investment Co., Ltd., Wang Hongbo, Senior Vice President of Yan Group (formerly Harbin Institute of Technology Robot), Liu Ming, Chairman of Shenzhen Yiqing Innovation Technology Co., Ltd., Gao Yuan, Chairman of Mainland Zhiyuan Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Zhang Zhengfeng, Chairman of Jiuzhong Jiu Robot Co., Ltd., and Zhang Dawei, Vice President of Beijing Huiwen Technology Group.
The conference held a signing ceremony, and a number of companies planned to invest in the construction of robot production plants in Tangshan City, Hebei Province, and the industrial fund release ceremony and signing ceremony. Guangdong Yifang Investment Group Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Yiqing Innovation Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai Aishan Robot (Group) Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Oriental Saif Investment Co., Ltd., Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Tianjin Longyu Robot Co., Ltd., Hong Kong Huade Electronics Co., Ltd., with a total investment of about 4.9 billion yuan.
The successful convening of the China Robot Industry Ecology Conference will further promote the development of China's robot industry and promote the innovation and application of robot technology. We look forward to the joint exchanges and cooperation of the participants, and build this conference into a platform for ecological exchange and cooperation of the robot industry with Chinese influence." Jointly promote the progress and prosperity of China's robot industry, contribute Chinese wisdom to the development of world robots, and provide Chinese solutions.