Meet robots doing real-world jobs in China expo
BEIJING, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- Graduation day is no longer just for humans.
Thirty robots made up the first class at a robot school in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province. After more than two months of training, four have graduated and landed formal jobs.
One works as a museum guide in Hangzhou. Another gives tours at the robot school. A third conducts inspections at a Nestlé production workshop in Tianjin. The fourth has traveled to the Republic of Korea for piano performances.
Their deployment highlights a key challenge in bringing embodied AI into the real world: training robots may require more than individual robot makers or users can provide. It demands shared infrastructure where machines can be trained, tested and improved at scale.
In Xiong'an, a "city of the future" being built about 105 km southwest of Beijing, different types of robots are learning daily tasks such as taking out the trash, organizing shelves, and moving goods at a dedicated training facility. (....)