BEIJING: At the 2024 World Robot Conference, which was recently held in Beijing, nearly 170 Chinese and foreign robot enterprises joined the 2024 World Robot Expo, part of the World Robot Conference, unveiling more than 600 innovative products, including 27 humanoid robots.
According to a report by People’s Daily, the Chinese robotics industry has witnessed rapid expansion in recent years, becoming deeply integrated into both daily work and life. China has emerged as the world’s largest market and producer of robots.
Recently, humanoid robot Walker S Lite developed by UBTECH Robotics Corp., Ltd., a leading robotics firm based in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province, completed training at the 5G smart factory of Chinese electric vehicle brand Zeekr in Ningbo, east China’s Zhejiang province, after working three weeks alongside its human counterparts. With a maximum load of 15 kilograms, it can assist workers in carrying work bins.
According to Zhao Chunlin, head of the 5G smart factory, Walker S Lite h
as become the first humanoid robot in China to perform the entire process of moving cargo boxes, showcasing exceptional task completion and difficulty levels that ranked at the forefront of the industry.
To meet the growing individualized demands, the Chinese manufacturing industry is transitioning from high automation to comprehensive intelligentisation.
“Humanoid robots enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) possess multimodal perception and autonomous decision-making capabilities. They have a competitive advantage when facing complex and changing work environments, showing great potential and broad prospects in intelligent manufacturing,” Zhao noted.
Source: Emirates News Agency