2017 World Robot Conference concluded successfully. We look forward to seeing you again next year.

[51CTO.com original article] On August 27, the 5-day 2017 World Robot Conference came to a successful conclusion. With the theme of "Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Creation, Welcoming the Intelligent Society", the conference attracted more than 140 world-renowned robot companies, nearly 300 high-tech companies and research institutions to participate in the conference and exhibition, more than 240,000 visitors to visit the site, and the number of viewers who watched the conference forum live online exceeded 6.8 million. During the conference, research institutes and enterprises signed a total of 80 contracts with a contract value of 8 billion yuan.

The closing ceremony of the 2017 World Robot Conference

On the afternoon of the first day of the conference, the "2017 World Robot Conference Award Ceremony" and "2017 World Robot Conference Closing Ceremony" were held as scheduled. The organizing committee of the conference awarded the grand prizes of five competitions, including the Unmanned Robot Open Competition, BCI Brain Control Robot Competition, Fighting Robot Competition, Youth Design Competition and the 1st Unmanned Boat Open Competition. Contestants (groups) Li Kunhuang, South China University of Technology Brain-Computer Interface and Brain Information Processing Research Center, Tsinghua University, Liang Yaoren/Shao Lixiang/IsaacBEACOM, and Shanghai University won the laurels of each award respectively. It is reported that the competition attracted 1,017 teams and more than 4,500 participants from 10 countries and regions around the world, including 400 foreign players, with a total of more than 12,000 participants.

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7 robot group standards officially released

At the closing ceremony, the "Global Intelligent Robot Cooperation and Development Initiative", "Top Ten Most Promising Technology Outlooks in the Robotics Field in 2017-2018" and 7 robot group standards were released. The 7 robot group standards include four space robot series standards such as the General Technical Requirements for Space Robots of the China Electronics Society, and three fiber core exchange robot series standards such as the General Design Rules for Fiber Core Robot Exchange.

Wang Tianmiao, professor at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and member of the World Robot Conference Expert Committee, said that robotics technology has gradually moved from industry to daily life, and new technologies of various robots will play a huge role in human life. The release of the technology outlook will point out the direction for the development of the country's robotics field.

The conference ended successfully with a dance between real people and robots

Xin Guobin, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that in recent years, the integration and innovation of information, manufacturing, energy, materials and other technologies represented by robotics has brought about not only changes in the manufacturing industry, but also major changes in the development of human society. In the future, the application scenarios of robots will be more abundant, and service robots will be used more in real life. It is reported that the new World Robot Conference in 2018 will be held in September next year.

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