China's robots advance from stage to shop floor
Automatons increasingly performing more than just 'viral' mundane tasks
Data itself is becoming a commodity, and this year's CIFTIS gave it a pathway to cross borders.
At a forum, the fair launched China's first industry-level platform aiming to provide international services for embodied-intelligence data, built by Beijing Shijingshan Science and Technology Innovation Group, in partnership with China Telecom's Beijing branch.
The groundwork has been established in Shijingshan district of Beijing: China's first 3D high-quality dataset for large-model training has been registered, four data service stations have opened and more than 200 data products have been listed, while Beijing as a whole aims for 100 high-quality industrial datasets by 2028.
"The government sets the stage, and the companies perform. CIFTIS works like an amplifier, turning Beijing's industrial strengths into international cooperation opportunities," Zhu said.
The robots are already earning their keep with overseas deployment. Anyverse Dynamics, a Beijing embodied-artificial intelligence startup participating in the fair, has signed a 500-million-yuan ($74.6 million) deal with green-tech group Envision, and the first batch of its K15 semi-humanoids arrived at Envision's battery gigafactory in France this month for autonomous loading and unloading work.
But the machines are only part of the business. The training and the services that keep them working overseas are increasingly where China's services trade will be concentrated in the future.
The fairground tells the same story. The information and communications technology hall alone featured more than 30 debut products, from high-jumping and cooking robots, to wall-climbers and holographic cabins.
"Visitors can feel an intelligent economy where carbon-based (humans) and silicon-based (robots) beings coexist," said He Qionghua, head of the ICT exhibition area.
Back at the calligraphy booth, the lucky fu character is a blessing for visitors, while the fortune it points to is increasingly being created by robotic hands.
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