World Robot Expo in Beijing Highlights
The World Robot Conference was held in E-town (Yizhuang), Beijing this time.
At the conference, visitors were amazed by the future of robotics.
How endless are the ways in which robots can provide assistance in our daily lives?
This World Robot Conference (WRC) provided attendees with amazing answers to this fascinating
question.
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At the conference, visitors could find many super robots, such as a Kung Fu Panda robot
that can practise tai chi, a mobile automatic vending robot, a bionic humanoid robot that
can perfectly imitate celebrities and an electric exoskeleton robot that can assist humans in
completing physical labour, as well as an intelligent firework production line, to name
but a few.
Full Display and Sharing of Achievements Having been held successfully five times since
2015, the WRC has become the top event of its kind with the largest scale, the highest
specifications and the most abundant international elements.
Deputy Secretary-general Liang from the Chinese Institute of Electronics, one of the organisers
of the event, said that the conference has fully displayed new technologies, new products,
new patterns and new formats in the field of robotics, and conducted high-level exchanges
on robotics research, applications and innovative development of an intelligent society.
The WRC contributed to building an open and inclusive global robot ecosystem featuring
mutual learning.
With the theme of “Inject Momentum and Share Results to Build a Winwin Collaborative Society,”
this year's WRC included forums, exhibitions and competitions.
With the support of 20 international organisations, the conference held one international themed
summit and seven international bilateral and multilateral conferences.
Participants included 10 chairpersons of international organisations, more than 100 international
guests, as well as over 300 top scientists, representatives of international organisations
and entrepreneurs.
Over 500 products from 110 companies were displayed during the conference.
Continuous Breakthroughs and Highlights The forum section of the conference was composed
of one opening ceremony, three themed summits, more than 20 special forums and numerous other
activities.
These events were also broadcast online simultaneously in both China and internationally.
Among the activities, the main forum was a three-day summit that adopted the “online
plus offline” pattern for the first time.
The forum was characterised by professional international guests, refined keynote speeches
and sophisticated innovative technologies.
The participants focused on the frontiers of science and technology, technological innovation
and breakthroughs, international cooperation opportunities and emerging industrial applications.
More than 500 products from more than 110 companies were exhibited at the various exhibitions
within the conference, fully demonstrating robotic bodies, key components, as well as
the cutting-edge technologies and latest achievements in the upstream and downstream of the industrial
chain and related fields.
The display of emerging technologies of human-computer interfaces (such as brain-controlled robots)
is one of the highlights of the conference, which showcased the applications of braincomputer
interface technology in robot control, character identification, intelligent cognition and
other fields.
Specific applications included multigroup chat brain-controlled typing systems, domestically
developed electroencephalogram acquisition chips and systems, brain-controlled multimachine
coordination systems, braincontrolled wheelchairs and braincontrolled unmanned vehicles.
At this year's conference, manned application experiencing activities based on open roads
were also available, allowing people to experience autonomous driving technologies and products
first-hand.
A group of new robots adopting cuttingedge technologies were also released at the conference.
Exciting Competitions As for the competitions taking place during
the event, the conference included the World Robot Contest Trial, the World Robot Contest
Final and the World Robot Contest Championship.
Centring on the three major competition directions of scientific research, skills and popular
science, the conference set up four major events: the Coexisting-cooperative-cognitive
Robot (Tri-co Robot) Challenge, the BCI Brain Control Robot Competition, the Robot Application
Contest and the Youth Robot Design Contest.
More than 1,000 participants from over 700 teams took part in the competition, and the
number of annual participants exceeded 40,000.
Smart and Versatile Helpers The exhibition section of the conference set
up three major exhibition areas for industrial robots, service robots and specialized robots.
The multi-talented robots attracted many visitors by showing off their talents.
A four-legged robot with big eyes, flexible limbs and a glowing body roamed around the
exhibition as if conducting an inspection.
The robot resembles a mechanical dog, and features a camera and a radar sensor on its
back.
It can perform actions such as going up stairs and steep terrain, as well as conducting inspections
in subway stations or even more dangerous locations.
Not only does the robot work hard, but it is also very cute.
When meeting with visitors, it becomes excited and takes small steps happily, like a puppy
stomping on the ground with excitement when seeing its owner.
In a tall round glass booth, a white humanoid robot is running.
It strides steadily and swings its strong arms back and forth.
A staff member described it as a large humanoid service robot, and its personal information
was shown on the nearby glass screen.
Height: 1.45 metres; weight: 77 kilograms; skills: piano, chess, tai chi, writing, painting
and motion imitation.
As a service robot, it can conduct services such as massage, serving tea and autonomously
controlling home appliances such as refrigerators, coffee machines and vacuum cleaners.
In the WRC venue, the bionic Einstein robot in a suit was explaining popular science knowledge
to visitors.
This greyhaired but hale “old man” is so lifelike that it's like Einstein himself
was present at the event, attracting the attention of many visitors.
The robot would blink, smile and frown as if alive.
When looking closely, the wrinkles and blood vessels on the robot's skin are extremely
lifelike, and even the texture of the skin is very similar to that of living people.
Amazing Show of Bionic Robots There were more than 30 bionic robots in the
Future Science and Technology Hall of Dalian, including Albert Einstein (1879–1955, German-born
theoretical physicist), Lu Xun (1881–1936, Chinese writer, essayist, poet and literary
critic), Steve Jobs (1955–2011, American business magnate, industrial designer, investor
and media proprietor) and other celebrities as prototypes.
The figures came from the fields of history, politics, literature, technology, film and
television, integrating diverse high technologies such as bionic robots, 5G cloud robots and
interactive technology products.
An exhibitor pointed out that these robots can be used in the future to provide services
such as explanations and guides in science and technology museums, halls of fame, convention
and exhibition venues, railway stations and airports.
At the other end of the exhibition hall, a cube-shaped robot slides back and forth.
The metal shell adds a touch of traditional technology.
The six pulleys at the bottom serve as its feet, allowing it to move forward, backward
and make turns.
The exhibitor explained that this is an intelligent logistics robot that can solve logistical
and distribution problems within a delivery's last 500 metres.
In other words, this robot can deliver goods from an express station in a community directly
to a household door.
Despite its simple appearance, it has multiple functions: it can climb, recognise traffic
lights and take elevators independently.
Residents can retrieve the goods placed inside the robot's body by facial recognition.
During the COVID-19 epidemic, the intelligent logistics robot could help in terms of contactless
delivery, which is very convenient for senior citizens with mobility complications.
The exhibitor added that the robot has been applied in the Fuli-R&F Shihao residential
compound near the China World Towers in Beijing.
A Robotic Future, Indeed!
There were also scientific and technological “volunteers” at the WRC venue.
These volunteers are actually intelligent guide robots, intelligent cleaning robots
and intelligent inspection robots.
The robots provided a range of intelligent services at the conference sites such as guidance,
venue disinfection, venue cleaning and food delivery.
It is worth noting that medical robots, bionic robots, humanoid robots and brain-controlled
robots have become the four hottest highlights of this year's WRC.
The conference brought together many first-class companies, including ABB Group, Yaskawa Motoman
and Siasun Robot & Automation Co., Ltd.
Some of the latest creations also made their debut at the conference, such as Walker X,
exoskeleton robots and cooking robots from Uurobot.
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