China's AI has entered 2.0, which trends lead the future development of industrial robots?

On May 9, the 6th China Robot Congress, sponsored by the People's Government of Zhejiang Province, was held in Yuyao, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province as scheduled. With the theme of "Machine Intelligence Alliance, Enabling All Things", the Summit invited experts, scholars and excellent entrepreneurs in the field of intelligent manufacturing and robotics in China and abroad, aiming at continuously promoting the deep integration of robots, intelligent manufacturing and artificial intelligence, and promoting the application of robots in different industries.

Pan Yunhe, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, delivered a keynote speech entitled A New Direction for AI and Robots at the thematic forum on the morning of September 9. Pan Yunhe pointed out that AI, as a frontier comprehensive discipline integrating computer science, neuroscience and social science, is not only the core driving force of a new round of industrial change, but also an important momentum for the emergence of new products, new models and new formats. With the development of AI in the new stage of 2.0, AI will develop rapidly in the five new directions of big data intelligence, swarm intelligence, cross-media intelligence, man-machine hybrid enhanced intelligence and autonomous intelligent system in the future. Robots, as an important application scenario in the field of artificial intelligence, will also open up more application space.

Zheng Nanning, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and President of Shanghai Jiaotong University, delivered a keynote speech. Zheng Nanning pointed out that in face to face, we let machines solve some seemingly simple problems for human beings. In fact, it is difficult to operate, because artificial intelligence at this stage lacks the ability of perception and response. Therefore, we need to get inspiration and inspiration from brain cognitive mechanism and neuroscience, develop a new AI computing model and architecture, so that the machine has the most basic perception and response to the physical world, even if the machine has the ability of "common sense" reasoning, so as to achieve a more robust artificial intelligence system.

Ganzhong Middle School, chairman of Zhejiang Zhichang Robot Industry Group, delivered a keynote speech entitled From Autonomous Intelligent Robot to Swarm Intelligent Robot: Redefining Industrial Robot. Ganzhong believes that, strictly speaking, an industrial robot at this stage can not be regarded as a complete mechanical product, because once it has not been integrated into the system, it can not be used in industry; secondly, most of the industrial robots at this stage are focused on welding, spraying and other traditional processes, facing the current trend towards flexibility. When the industrial 4.0 intelligent factory is developing, it is not corresponding to the huge market of intelligent manufacturing. The new autonomous intelligent robot should be similar to human intelligence, but its ability is higher than human.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in China has entered the 2.0 stage. Two trends lead the future development of robots.

At the present stage, the ability of computer logical analysis has been greatly improved, which will make the computer's autonomous logical thinking ability have enough behavior performance, and gradually get rid of the human frame control, and then become an autonomous intelligent thinking. The intelligent unattended system adopting this autonomous intelligent thinking mode will become an artificial one. One of the important applications of intelligence has greatly promoted the innovation of AI technology.

In July 2017, China issued the New Generation of Artificial Intelligence Development Plan, and pointed out that China's Artificial Intelligence will develop rapidly in the following five areas: Big Data Intelligence, Group Intelligence, Cross-Media Intelligence, Man-Machine Hybrid Enhanced Intelligence and Autonomous Intelligence System. In Pan Yunhe's speech, the future development trend of robots coincides with the high-speed development trend of autonomous intelligent system and man-machine hybrid enhanced intelligence.

Academician Pan Yunhe said: "At this stage, a large number of studies show that the core technology of robots is artificial intelligence. If the functions of thinking, observation, movement, dialogue and work of robots are detailed and carefully analyzed, they correspond to the modeling, perception, planning, understanding and learning of AI. Whether past UAVs, UAVs or today's intelligent unmanned aerial vehicles, the application of intelligent unmanned autonomous system in machinery is becoming more and more mature. At the same time, it also brings new momentum to the robot industry. With the further research, it becomes the future trend of robot development.

The second stage of robot development is the rise of man-machine integration.

Academician Pan Yunhe pointed out that in the past decade, human-computer interaction technology has become more and more abundant. "We began to have graphical interaction, and then there were visualization technology, speech recognition, natural language understanding, image and video recognition, motion capture, and virtual reality, and so on. These interactive technologies gave birth to an important direction of the development of robots, that is, to strengthen human-computer interaction." With the rapid development of portable sensors, the practicality of human-computer interaction becomes more and more obvious. Smart phones and wearable devices are the best examples. This trend will also be reflected in the field of robotics.

Under the guidance of many policies in Zhejiang Province, the development of robotics industry is breaking through.

In recent years, China's robot industry has achieved very rapid development, from the robot body to the core components have made a very obvious neck, but the development process is still facing challenges. In his speech, Bian Shuguang, deputy director of the Center for High-tech Research and Development of the Ministry of Science and Technology, stressed that at present, there are few key technologies such as intelligent perception, in-depth learning and independent decision-making of robots in China, high-end parts rely on imports, the industry standard system is imperfect, and the lack of talents are still emerging, which must be strengthened continuously. Innovative breakthroughs, personnel training and leading applications in the development of robots in China.

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