World Congress on Artificial Intelligence： Robots are everywhere.

　　The future has come, how will artificial intelligence change our lives? What role will robots equipped with artificial intelligence play in production and life?

　　The Paper reporter found at the scene of the 2018 World Artificial Intelligence Conference that robots active everywhere inside and outside the venue are leading the participants to appreciate the "charm" of artificial intelligence.

　　The ubiquitous robot "active" venue

　　Robots are shining at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference.

　　A visitor is interacting with a small robot. The pictures in this article are all The Paper reporter Yu Kaitu.

　　The "reception secretaries" in the main venue of the conference are service robots from companies such as Orion Star, Tatsu, Xinsong, etc. They are all skilled in their skills, and they use voice interaction, gesture interaction, screen display, etc. to answer questions and guide the venue, and they can also avoid obstacles on their own.

　　If the participants are tired and want to have a cup of coffee, the unmanned coffee machine in the corner of the venue can accurately judge the status of the milk tank, the coffee machine and the real-time status of the coffee level, and can make a cup of fragrant coffee in just over a minute.

　　The conference has news centers in Hall A and Hall B on the west coast of Shanghai. Journalists who report the conference can "empower themselves" through the "media intelligent production platform" if they find it time-consuming and laborious to compile and write articles and make short videos.

　　Conference volunteers told The Paper that the platform has opened up the whole link of gathering, producing, editing and distributing conference news. Through machine learning the preliminary materials, the conference video materials obtained on the spot can be fragmented and re-edited, and short video information streams with clear themes can be produced in a short time, automatically distributed to various media platforms, and simultaneously transmitted to the official media library of the conference.

　　Chat consultation, education and study, physical fitness, medical rehabilitation … … In the seven theme application experience areas of "AI PARK", robots are everywhere.

　　Microsoft Xiao Bing is a chat robot with emotional computing as its core and complete AI framework, which can write poems, write lyrics and compose music. Iflytek’s Alpha Egg Intelligent Robot integrates educational content, super tv, video calling, smart speakers and natural language interaction, and has a "human brain", and its understanding ability, expression ability and IQ will continue to grow with deep self-learning; Pombert, the second-generation table tennis robot of Xinsong, is not only quick in eye and hand, but also an out-and-out "master of learning". He can collect opponents’ competitive data in real time, learn independently, and make a return strategy through trajectory prediction.

　　"Wang Yangming Robot": Imitating visitors’ writing with a brush.

　　On the first floor of Hall 2 of Oil Tank Art Park, the costume "Wang Yangming Writing Robot" attracted many visitors’ attention.

　　Zhang Wei, a field worker, told The Paper that the humanoid six-axis robot was jointly developed by Fudan University Institute of Engineering and Applied Technology and Zhichang Group, and its shape was made of silicone material, which was taller and more powerful than the real person. Mainly combining robots with Wang Yangming, the purpose is to promote the humanities, calligraphy and other ancient cultures in China.

　　Zhang Wei said that Wang Yangming’s robot can write the word "knowing and doing in one", which is also his core idea. In addition, visitors can also write on the ipad at will, and the robot can read and copy several points on the tablet through its own "learning" function, and then display them on the cooked announcement with a brush through its own algorithm.

　　In order to verify Wang Yangming’s calligraphy skill, the reporter specially wrote the word "smart" on the ipad, and then sent a message. At this time, Wang Yangming’s robot first complimented: "The guest Mo Bao, who combines rigidity with softness, has a unique style. Let the old man make a fool of himself and copy it." As soon as the voice fell, I saw that the robot began to turn the wrist, raise the pen and put pen to paper. In a blink of an eye, the word "intelligence" was written on the rice paper, which was surprisingly consistent with the reporter’s handwriting.

　　There are also a series of medical robots in the experience area to meet the different needs of doctors and patients.

　　For example, the rotatable wrist operating arm of Da Vinci’s surgical robot has seven degrees of freedom, which provides surgeons with flexible and natural operation and wider movements than those of human hands. The three-dimensional high field of view with a maximum magnification of 10 times provides surgeons with an immersive surgical experience. By the end of July 2018, 71 Da Vinci surgical systems had been installed in Chinese mainland, and a total of 85,853 Da Vinci operations were completed.

　　Fourier X1, the lower limb exoskeleton robot of Fourier, is the first lower limb exoskeleton robot with real sense of touch in the industry. It can dynamically adjust the gait trajectory according to the external mechanical environment and provide corresponding assistance according to the user’s exertion, so that hemiplegic and paraplegic patients can regain their walking ability through training and carry out rehabilitation training, which brings hope for returning to normal life.

　　Shanghai robot market is leading the country in scale.

　　The Paper reporter learned from the organizers that China is the robot market with the largest demand and the fastest development speed in the world. According to the World Robotics Report 2018 recently released by the International Federation of Robotics, the global sales of industrial robots reached 380,000 units in 2017, a year-on-year increase of 29%. China is the biggest buyer, buying 138,000 sets of equipment, which is more than one third of the total global sales in the whole year.

　　Relevant data show that the scale of robot industry in China has exceeded 250 billion yuan in 2016, with service robots and industrial robots accounting for the highest proportion, reaching 114.5 billion yuan and 101.8 billion yuan respectively. Shanghai is also a highland for the development of domestic robot industry, and well-known enterprises at home and abroad gather.

　　By the end of 2017, there were 100 enterprises related to robot and system integration in Shanghai, and the output of key industrial robot enterprises reached 58,800 units, accounting for nearly half of the national industrial robot output, with a total output value of 36.37 billion yuan.

　　Swiss ABB, Japanese Fanuc, Japanese Yaskawa Electric and German KUKA, the "four big families" of international robots, all set their China headquarters in Shanghai.

　　Well-known domestic robot companies have also landed in Shanghai, Xinsong Robot has set up an international headquarters in Shanghai, rainbow fish and other enterprises have settled in Lingang, and Harbin Institute of Technology Robot Group has laid out an artificial intelligence industrial park in Qingpu; A number of "industrial robot" enterprises such as Xinshida and Wodi have accelerated their growth and are in the leading position in the industry.

　　At present, the scale of the robot market in Shanghai continues to expand, the growth rate of industrial and special robots is stable, and the growth rate of service robots is outstanding. The upstream and downstream supporting industrial chains of the robot industry are complete, and a relatively complete industrial chain of robot R&D, production (whole machine & parts), system integration, testing and certification, service application and so on has been formed, which is generally at the leading level in the country.