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    Alibaba opens AI 'future hotel'

    Chinese Internet giant Alibaba on Tuesday opened a hotel loaded with artificial intelligence (AI) and robots, automating a series of procedures like check-in, lights control and room service. FlyZoo Hotel, opened in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, where Alibaba is headquartered, is known as the company's first "future hotel".

    Customers can check into the hotel by simply scanning their faces. The facial recognition system installed in the hotel also enables customers to use their faces as key cards to open doors and access other hotel services.

    https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d414d7741444e31457a6333566d54/share_p.html?fbclid=IwAR2qhIFwWqn2vNXokg9kHJ6r9sL7WjMkX48sx7iry2wgpROzuO_hioStwko

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    Customs thing is similar to patents in modern world. Mostly it feeds parasites.

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    The switch from Humans to Robots in China is on, robot sweatshop and Foxconn 8K panel factory being built

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Worldwide industrial robots installation reached only 421,000 units in 2019, slightly lower than 2018's 422,000 units, marking the first on-year drop in seven years, according to figures from International Federation of Robotics (IFR).

    Japan-based Fanuc, a top-4 robots brand worldwide, saw its six-month revenues ended September 30, 2019, slip 24.4% on year with net income also dropping 50.8% on year. Another top-4 robots brand Yaskawa also reported a 14.7% on-year decline for its six-month revenues ended on August 31, 2019 with its operating profits dipping 58.2% on year.

    This is how capitalism work - until live ":robots" are available cheaper they'll stop any progressive movement.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    At a factory south of Japan’s Toyota City, robots have started sharing the work of quality-control inspectors, as the pandemic accelerates a shift from Toyota’s vaunted “go and see” system that helped revolutionise mass production in the 20th century.

    Inside the auto-parts plant of Musashi Seimitsu Industry Co Ltd, a robotic arm picks up and spins a bevel gear, scanning its teeth against a light in search of surface flaws. The inspection takes about two seconds – similar to that of highly trained employees who check about 1,000 units per shift.

    “Inspecting 1,000 of the exact same thing day-in day-out requires a lot of skill and expertise, but it’s not very creative,” the chief executive, Hiroshi Otsuka, told Reuters. “We’d like to release workers from those tasks.”

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    FULLY Automated Car FACTORY Tour in MEGACITY Chongqing

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    Another look at the ChangAn Car factory

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    Historic Building moved with robotic walking legs

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    Workers had to first dig around the building to install the 198 mobile supports in the spaces underneath, Lan explained. After the pillars of the building were truncated, the robotic "legs" were then extended upward, lifting the building before moving forward. Over the course of 18 days, the building was rotated 21 degrees and moved 62 meters (203 feet) away to its new location. The relocation was completed on October 15, with the old school building set to become a center for heritage protection and cultural education

    https://www.cnn.com/style/article/shanghai-relocate-building-preservation-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

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    What are Lighthouse factories?

    https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/manufacturing-lighthouse-factories-innovation-4ir/

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    Lynx & Co China-Swedish Robotic Assembly Line

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    China’s robotics industry has fallen behind targets set out by Beijing in a plan to upgrade the industrial sector, despite production surging 19.1 per cent last year, research shows.

    China buys and builds more industrial robots than any country, but its market is still dominated by Japanese companies, followed by manufacturers from Europe and South Korea, according to data from Shenzhen Gaogong Industry Research (GGII).

    Robots produced by Chinese companies made up about 39 per cent of the domestic market last year, while Chinese computer chips were used in 45 per cent of locally-made machines, up from 12 per cent in 2016, according to the market research firm.

    Beijing’s “Made in China 2025” plan, a strategy to upgrade the nation’s industrial sector and cut reliance on foreign technology, set a target for local robot manufacturers to supply half of the domestic market by 2020 and 70 per cent by 2025, by which time local robotics systems should be “perfected” to compete with global rivals.

    https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3122430/chinas-robotics-revolution-falls-behind-target-technology

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