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Borneo Post
11-08-2025
- Business
- Borneo Post
Intelligent robots emerging as "health guardians" in China
A robot host is staged during the opening ceremony of the 2025 World Robot Conference (WRC) in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 8, 2025. (Xinhua/Xie Han) BEIJING (Aug 12): Robots, once seen mainly as symbols of industrial strength and efficiency, are showcasing their potential and capability as 'health guardians' for humans, as demonstrated at the ongoing World Robot Conference (WRC) in Beijing. In the bustling exhibition area, visitors are seen confidently navigating the space with their eyes shut, guided by a six-legged robot in dog shape and holding a white cane connected to its back. 'We developed this hexapod robot to help visually impaired people walk safely and comfortably,' said Fang Ling, CEO of Shanghai Jizhi Robotics. He explained that this one-meter-long robot, weighing 20 kg, maintains stability by keeping three legs on the ground as it moves. It can effectively avoid obstacles and navigate steps, sidewalks and other complex terrains, operating for up to three hours on a single charge. 'Our robotic 'dog' is not just strong in muscle but smart in brain,' Fang said, noting that using lidar, it navigates autonomously and recognizes traffic lights, while sensors equipped with AI models detect users' walking status and intentions through force and voice, enabling gentle guidance and stopping. He went on to add that these robots are already in use at airports in Beijing and Shanghai. A humanoid robot is exhibited during the 2025 World Robot Conference (WRC) in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 8, 2025. (Xinhua/Li Xin) During the opening ceremony of the 2025 WRC on Friday, themed 'Making Robots Smarter, Making Embodied Agents More Intelligent,' Qiao Hong, president of the World Robot Cooperation Organization, highlighted cognition, decision-making and safety as key future development trends for embodied intelligent robots. In the medical field, this vision is progressing alongside the application of AI-embodied robots in surgery and rehabilitation. For instance, in May, a 66-year-old patient, suffering from destructive right knee osteoarthritis and deformity, underwent a joint replacement surgery in about 30 minutes with the assistance of the ROPA orthopedic smart surgical robot. The patient was able to walk the same day and has recovered well. 'Before a surgery, AI-embodied ROPA calculates parameters and forms a personalized plan by constructing a 3D model of a patient's bones from X-ray and CT images,' said Zhang Yiling, founder of Longwood Valley MedTech, developer of the robot. He added that, during a surgery, sub-millimeter-level precise optical positioning and a stable robotic arm ensured accurate execution of the preoperative plan. The patient's surgeon, Chen Guoqiang from Beijing Shijitan Hospital, said surgeries assisted by smart robots can reduce repetitive bone-cutting tasks, shorten surgical time and minimize blood loss. 'For doctors, learning to use surgical robots is a trend,' he said. Currently, AI-driven innovative medical products of Longwood Valley MedTech have been deployed in over 1,000 top-tier hospitals across more than 30 provincial-level regions in China, serving over 100,000 patients. An exoskeleton robot is displayed at the 2025 World Robot Conference (WRC) in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 8, 2025. (Xinhua/Xie Han) In 2024, the surgical robot market size in China exceeded 10 billion yuan (about 1.4 billion U.S. dollars), with domestic equipment accounting for 48.9 percent, a rise of 30 percentage points compared with 2020, according to a report by Zhongyan Puhua Industry Research Institute. In the field of rehabilitation, Shenzhen Deyeemed Medtech Co., Ltd. has integrated AI into its physiotherapy robots, which feature real-time body scanning, acupoint recognition and personalized therapy plan generation. Their mechanical arms also simulate traditional Chinese massage techniques like pushing, grasping and kneading. Beijing AI-robotics Technology Co., Ltd., an exoskeleton robot producer and therapy service provider, uses AI to offer rehabilitation training for individuals with lower-limb motor impairments. The company's exoskeleton robots mimic a bionic gait while adjusting pace through a self-adaptation system. Xu Guanghua, professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, said that while robots are making progress in surgery and rehabilitation, their overall application in the medical field remains nascent. 'Robots are poised to play a bigger role in medical visits and family healthcare, with an enormous market ahead,' said Xu. artificial intelligence China healthcare robots
Express Tribune
09-05-2025
- Business
- Express Tribune
Black tech catching eyes at International hi-tech expo
Listen to article "Our 1,000-qubit coherent optical quantum computer exhibited for the first time, as China's first optical quantum computer to break the kilobit scale, has broad application prospects in biopharmaceuticals, artificial intelligence, communications, finance, energy and other industries." A staff member of Beijing Boson Quantum Technology introduced orderly. "In the field of biopharmaceuticals, Research and Development (R&D) of a new drug requires small molecule screening, which takes a lot of time and huge computing power to do using traditional methods. A small molecule screening process may take several minutes on a traditional computer, whereas only one second with this quantum computer. Drug screening can be accelerated thousands of times, and it is expected to greatly improve efficiency in new drug development in the future," Dr Wen Kai, CEO of Boson, emphasised. At the ongoing 27th China Beijing International High-tech Expo, a series of completely independently developed Black tech products have attracted attention from home and abroad. "AI2 Robotics' self-developed embodied intelligent big model GOVLA (Global & Omni-body Vision-Language-Action) is a big VLA model that has the ability to scale from desktop to open environment, from single arm to full body coordination, and from simple tasks to long-range reasoning," the head of AI2 Robotics, a world-leading embodied intelligent robot company, told China Economic Net. "To give a popular example, a robot equipped with a conventional VLA large model requires a person to place the ingredients on the table, which is within the robot's visual range. After the operation, a person is required to provide follow-up services to the robot. However, a robot equipped with a GOVLA large model can perceive the surrounding environment 360 degrees, including taking ingredients from the refrigerator, mixing healthy breakfasts, and delivering breakfast to the table after it is ready, which is a full-chain service of a butler. In addition, in high-risk scenarios such as coordinated material transportation, intelligent unpacking and disinfection, intelligent visual inspection, aseptic product filling, and microbial culture monitoring, our robots can replace manual labour to avoid cross-contamination as well as reduce the risk of microbial contamination." "Imported orthopaedic surgical robots cost more than 20 million yuan, making them so difficult to popularise in clinical practice. Our team uses an independently developed AI algorithm to compress the traditional 4-8 hours of manual CT image annotation to 5-10 minutes to automatically generate a three-dimensional bone model and accurately identify the boundaries of lesions," at the booth of surgical robot solutions Longwood Valley Medtech, the world's first AI + full orthopaedic surgical robot ROPA was performing a "knee replacement surgery" on a human model. A staff said that doctors use AI planning before surgery to help determine the implant position and angle, and ROPA assists in bone cutting during surgery. It could achieve submillimetre positioning, making the surgery more precise, reducing intraoperative bleeding and lowering the incidence of complications. In the field of digital orthopaedics, domestic technology has broken the monopoly of imported brands. The total exhibition area of 2025 CHITEC is about 50,000 square metres, with more than 300 enterprises and institutions from 18 countries and regions were participating in it. More than that, there will be more than 600 first-time and first-of-its-kind exhibits distributed in six areas such as information technology, intelligent manufacturing, medical health, green & dual carbon, digital economy and regional innovation.
