It's started: Robot Uprising Begins as China Turns to Machines to Fill in Gaps in the Workforce

[TaiShang]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1345931708823175171

China Economy @CE_ChinaEconomy
China state-affiliated media

China's industrial #robot production surged 31.7% YoY to 25,635 units in November 2020. In first 11 months of 2020, #China produced a total of 206,851 industrial robots, up 22.2% from the same period in 2019, data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology showed.


11:15 AM · Jan 4, 2021

This is what really important. It is good that, Western media smothers this kind of news in their ideological strongholds.

 

[TaiShang]

http://t.m.china.org.cn/convert/c_yBVFPDGy.html

China's industrial robot production rose 19.1 percent year-on-year to 237,068 units last year, data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology showed.

In 2020, China's major industrial robot makers above a designated size raked in 53.17 billion yuan ($8.24 billion) in operating revenue, up 6 percent from a year earlier.

During the same period, their profits fell 26.9 percent year-on-year to 1.77 billion yuan, and the decline was 24.4 percentage points narrower than that in the first three quarters.

In December alone, the country produced a total of 29,706 industrial robots, up 32.4 percent on a yearly basis.

In 2020, China's robot manufacturers above a designated size that specially produce robots for service consumption posted revenue of 10.31 billion yuan, up 31.3 percent year-on-year. Their profits reached 70 million yuan, compared with a loss of 1.81 billion yuan a year earlier.

Last year, major manufacturers that produce robots for special operations registered revenue of 2.88 billion yuan, up 24.7 percent year-on-year, and profits of 120 million yuan, down 42.9 percent year-on-year.

 

[TaiShang]

http://t.m.china.org.cn/convert/c_o3sz75VO.html

China's industrial robot production surged 19.1 percent year on year in 2020, official data showed.

The growing output indicates the improvement of market heat and the acceleration of intelligent upgrading of the enterprises, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

Last year, the operating income of industrial robot manufacturing enterprises above the designated size registered a year-on-year increase of 6 percent, data from the MIIT showed.

The market of service robots performed well, with the operating income of relative enterprises above designated size reaching 10.31 billion yuan (about 1.6 billion U.S. dollars), up 31.3 percent year on year in 2020.

China strives to upgrade its labor-intensive manufacturing sector through technological innovation as it faces a shrinking working-age population and increasing labor costs.

The country released a guideline in 2016 with a goal of tripling annual production of industrial robots to 100,000 by 2020.

 

[JSCh]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1366651002678517764

Global Times @globaltimesnews
China state-affiliated media

Chinese tech giant #Tencent released its first self-developed multi-modal quadruped #robot, which looks like a dog. It can stand and move from four feet to two feet and complete difficult movements. It is expected to help with patrolling, security and rescue in the future.

3:26 PM · Mar 2, 2021

 

[qwerrty]

 

[Beast]

I am sure, it's time boston dynamics copy this model..

By combining wheel with legs for a four leg robots are absolutely a brilliant idea. So much originality.

 

[JSCh]

A milestone achievement in soft robotics: Self-powered soft robot in the Mariana Trench
Mar 4, 2021
CGTN

For more:
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-03-04...

On March 4, 2021, a latest achievement created by the joint research team from Zhejiang Lab (ZJ Lab) and Zhejiang University (ZJU) was published on Nature as a cover story titled "Self-powered Soft Robot in the Mariana Trench." Focusing on bionic deep-sea soft robots, Chinese scientists created the first soft robot that can operate at the deepest spot in the ocean.

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Self-powered soft robot in the Mariana Trench - Nature

A free-swimming soft robot inspired by deep-sea creatures, with artificial muscle, power and control electronics spread across a polymer matrix, successfully adapts to high pressure and operates in the deep ocean.

www.nature.com

 

[JSCh]

Robot Foragers

Using a swarm of puck-shaped robots, researchers simulate interactions between biological organisms and their environment.

physics.aps.org

https://twitter.com/x/status/1370446853272072195

 

[JSCh]

'Neutrobots' smuggle drugs to the brain without alerting the immune system

A team of researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology along with partners at the First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, both in China, has developed a tiny robot that can ferry cancer drugs through the blood-brain barrier (BBB) without setting off an immune reaction. In...

techxplore.com

https://twitter.com/x/status/1377636983510605828

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Technology enables Chinese to live thousands of years like in movie Thor and work at home. Life is good.

 

[Han Patriot]

Technology enables Chinese to live thousands of years like in movie Thor and work at home. Life is good.

I wonder if India or Vietnam has this kinda tech. Lolol

 

[JSCh]

The ulti-mutt pet? Chinese tech company develops robo-dogs

It's whip fast, obeys commands and doesn't leave unpleasant surprises on the floor—meet the AlphaDog, a robotic response to two of China's burgeoning loves: pets and technology.

techxplore.com

 

[JSCh]

University of Science and Technology of China develops soft-bodied robots
2021-04-16 17:37:59 Ecns.cn Editor : Ji Xiang

(ECNS) -- Soft-bodied robots have been developed by a research team of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).

Different from robots applied in deep-sea research and machinery manufacturing, these flexible robots are mainly used in daily life. They can feed, clean glass, open bottle caps, spray and grind for industrial use.

Inspired by nature, the robot is implemented with a Honeycomb Pneumatic network. Airbags inside the honeycomb structure will control its shape via air pressure, resulting in bending or elongating motion in different directions.

Compared with a traditional robot arm, the soft robot arm has more advantages in production cost, load capacity, and post-maintenance.

"The weight of a soft-bodied robot equals only a third of a traditional robot under the same specifications, and could even be much lighter. Its cost will be accordingly reduced to a third, even a fifth of a traditional counterpart," said Chen Xiaoping, a researcher of the School of Computer Science and Technology of USTC.

Video in link ->

University of Science and Technology of China develops soft-bodied robots

www.ecns.cn

 

[JSCh]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1384975308881793025

Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine

New #hydrogels use mussel-inspired adhesion to switch stickiness on and off. #Robots with these hydrogels pasted to their "feet" could climb upward on completely vertical and inverted surfaces. Learn more from @SciRobotics: https://fcld.ly/c228ztr

5:00 AM · Apr 22, 2021

 

[JSCh]

09 Jun 2021 | 17:28 GMT
Unitree’s Go1 Robot Dog Looks Pretty Great, Costs Just USD $2700
This seems like an incredibly low price for what appears to be a very capable little robot
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