AI-powered robots highlight 2024 Global Industrial Internet Conference

Industrial robots with an advanced “smart brain” have been in the limelight at the four-day 2024 Global Industrial Internet Conference which opened in Shenyang City of northeast China’s Liaoning Province on Thursday.

As industrial intelligence continues to deepen, intelligent robots have become an essential component among many innovative products. Powered by cutting-edge AI models, such robots are now capable of learning, thinking and making autonomous decisions, providing significant benefits to industrial production.

At the conference venue, a unique Tangram display caught viewers’ attention. Exhibitor Han Tianwen said in demonstrating the performance of an intelligent robot, “You can see that the robot has understood our pattern and has started executing the actions. This is the final target pattern it aims to arrange.”

This special robot can interact with human beings through voice and text messages, autonomously arranging hundreds of patterns on a Tangram puzzle, it can also perceive its surroundings to independently make disintegrations and execute complex tasks when fulfilling industrial missions.

By simulating hearing, vision, smell, touch, taste and cognitive functions of the human brain, robots have gradually been engaged with more sensory capabilities. Exhibitor Li Junfeng said in demonstrating his robot dog: “You can see it has an intelligent sensor on its back. This is an acoustic imaging sensor that provides a clear view. With advancements in our sensors and large model technologies, there will be a lot of potential for future developments.”

Compared with previous inspection robots, this robot dog has greatly improved sensitivity and can convert abnormal sounds it hears into images, according to the exhibitor.

With the theme of digital transformation, the 2024 Global Industrial Internet Conference comprises an opening ceremony with a keynote forum, one theme exhibition, two special sub-level conferences, 22 special forums, competitions as well as other series of activities.

AI-powered robots highlight 2024 Global Industrial Internet Conference

The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to 41,272, Gaza-based health authorities said in a statement on Wednesday.

During the past 24 hours, the Israeli military killed 20 people and wounded 54 others, bringing the fatalities to 41,272 and injuries to 95,551 since this round of conflict broke out in early October 2023, it added.

Gaza’s civil defense agency reported on Wednesday that eight persons, including five children, were killed when Israeli bombed a school-turned-shelter for displaced Palestinians in Gaza City in the northern part of the war-ridden enclave, which also caused many injuries.

The Israeli military said in a statement that the airstrike targeted Hamas militants hidden inside the school.

In addition, an Israeli drone struck a civilian car in Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing two people and injuring 11 others, according to Palestinian security sources.

Israel announced on the same day that four more soldiers were killed in clashes in Rafah.

Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 41,272 as conflict grinds on