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• 2018/03

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  Two Reforms to Reverse Corporate’s Stagnancy

  The soaring labour cost in mainland and the shift to customised manufacturing have led many corporates into operational stagnancy. In order to overcome such challenges, KFM Kingdom Holdings Ltd. (KFM) has established two key reforms in manufacturing and personnel management, which have not only enhanced operational performances, but also manage to control brain drain. Execute Safe Manufacturing by Introducing Automation Safety supervision is not only one of the highlighted...

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• 2018/03

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  Strengthening Enterprises by Automation with Software and Hardware

  Under the pressure of soaring labour cost in China and fierce competition of globalisation, many mid-/low-end industries have shifted their manufacturing development to the Southeast Asia, urging Hong Kong and Chinese enterprises to accelerate the development of industrial automation in order to enhance productivity and output quality. However, transforming from traditional production model to automated, or even intelligent production model brings about tremendous changes;...

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• 2018/02

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  AIoT to create new business opportunities for Japan

  全球製造業導入人工智慧(AI)、物聯網(IoT)等技術，激盪出AIoT(AI IoT)新發展，逐漸改變了既有的商業模式，在日本東京舉辦的製造業大展(Factory 2017 Fall)中，描繪了未來製造現場的樣貌。從Factory 2017 Fall舉辦的各演講探討主題可見端倪，其主要聚焦兩點：一是數位化下，製造業新商業模式，以及以此產生的產業結構，另一是伴隨人工智慧與物聯網發展，走向...

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• 2018/02

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  Waycare developed AI Driven Transportation Management Solutions for Smart Cities

  Waycare Technologies, with offices in Tel Aviv, Israel and Silicon Valley, has raised $2.3 million in seed funding to help cities and states optimize traffic management systems and improve traffic safety. Silicon Valley-based Spider Capital and German-based energy company, Innogy SE, lead the round of funding with participation from Goldbell Investments, UpWest Labs, janom, Zymestic Solutions, and SeedInvest. Waycare has developed a SaaS-based transportation management...

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• 2018/02

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  World's largest automated container terminal opens in Shanghai

  SHANGHAI - China started trial operations of the world's biggest automated container terminal, the Shanghai Yangshan Deep Water Port, in eastern China, on Sunday (Dec 10), Chinese official media reported. Located at the south of Donghai Bridge, phase 4 of the Yangshan Port covers 2.23 million sq m and has a 2,350-m shoreline, the Xinhua news agency said. Once it enters full operation, the fourth phase of the Yangshan Port will initially be able to handle 4 million TEUs...

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• 2018/02

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  Canon Electronics plans full automation at vegetable factory

  TOKYO -- Canon Electronics plans to open an entirely automated vegetable factory in 2019, seeking to lower costs by applying homegrown robotics technology to a burgeoning industry where stable profits remain tough to cultivate. The Canon unit will convert empty space at a Gunma Prefecture facility into an indoor farm initially dedicated to growing lettuce and other green, leafy vegetables friendly to hydroponics. Robots will handle everything from planting seeds and...

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• 2018/02

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  ABB and Northvolt partner for Europe’s largest battery factory

  ABB and Northvolt have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a wide-ranging supply and technology partnership, including products and services for Northvolt’s state-of-the-art lithium-ion battery factory and close collaboration on development of battery solutions and R&D activities. ABB Technology Ventures (ATV) will support the initial phase of this project through an early investment. Northvolt is going to build Europe’s largest and most advanced...

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• 2018/02

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  Market size of artificial intelligence will soar to 270 billion by 2018 (Chinese version only)

  人工智能經過60年的積澱，從去年開始在深度學習、跨界融合、人機協同和群體智能等方面，都出現重要新進展。現在，科技界、企業界的專家和創新型企業，包括一些年輕的創業者正在共同制定促進中國人工智能創新發展的規劃。這個規劃旨在推動人工智能在經濟建設、社會民生、環保事業、國家安全等方面的應用。 　　2017年7月20日，國務院印發《新...

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• 2018/02

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  World Intelligent Manufacturing Summit - Industrial Automation and Control Systems Security

  On December 6-8, 2017, a World Intelligent Manufacturing Summit was initiated in Nanjing. During the Summit, representatives of world-class academies, associations, and famous colleges, together with industries, exchanged ideas and best practices for promoting intelligent manufacturing, explored cutting-edge technologies, probed common problems in the field, discussed future development prospects and brought about a common will for cooperation and development. Brian Curtis,...

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• 2018/01

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  Moving forward to Industry 4.0 Series: Keeping abreast of Industries for Insights to Crack Business Opportunities

  Having understood the difference between being concentrated and conventional, the automated components provider SMC Pneumatics (Hong Kong) Ltd. (SMC) has always kept the entire industry development in view. While many people think that the industrial development is declining, SMC has recorded a double-digit growth every year since its establishment in 1985, except the year of 2008 when the financial crisis kicked in. In recent years, its business turnover of Guangzhou and...

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• 2018/01

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  Moving forward to Industry 4.0 Series: Focus on Core Technology to Crack Opportunities for Industry Collaboration

  Since Germany initiated the strategy of Industry 4.0, which highlights the integration of online and offline manufacturing system with digital data and the ultimate achievement of intelligent production, the global manufacturing scene has observed a revolutionary makeover. In order for enterprises to enhance their competitiveness in the international market, many of them deploy manufacturing facilities imported from foreign countries. However, having no core technology,...

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• 2017/11

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  Autonomous wheelchairs arrive at Japanese airport

  Passengers with limited mobility will soon be able to navigate airports more easily thanks to Panasonic's robotic electric wheelchair. Developed as part of a wider program to make Japan's Haneda Airport more accessible to all, the wheelchair utilizes autonomous mobility technology: after users input their destination via smartphone the wheelchair will identify its position and select the best route to get there. Multiple chairs can move in tandem which means families or...

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• 2017/11

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  PAKKUN – Smart Robot for Guest Houses (Chinese version only)

  日後入住酒店或民宿，不但可以通過AI設備聲控房間的裝置，更有機會體驗機械人為你打理住宿服務。日本有民宿引入高科技設備機械人，不但懂得提供天氣及災難資訊，更能夠感知日用品的消耗，變相管理民宿服務。日本Yahoo聯同機械人企業Smart Robotics，研發專門應用於民宿經營需要的IoT機械人PAKKUN，近期已經開始測試工作，預料明年春季發售。 提供天...

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• 2017/11

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  Advantech’s 'digital factory' an award winner

  Intelligent systems provider Advantech has received the ‘ROI Industry 4.0 Award China’ at a ceremony in Shanghai in recognition of its real-time equipment and resource monitoring systems. “What Advantech has achieved is an outstanding example of what can be done in terms of quality and utilisation by providing real-time production insights,” said Timo Schneemann, vice-general manager of ROI Management Consulting. While today, other companies have key...

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• 2017/11

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  The IoT Device Management Trend

  Having covered the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) concept since it first began appearing several years ago, it’s been intriguing to observe the rise of different trend lines as industry interest becomes more directed and technology suppliers respond. Early on, the biggest trends revolved around the deployment of greater numbers of sensors to gather more data. Then came the increasing focus on data collection and analysis. More recently, the biggest trend lines...

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• 2017/11

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  Qingdao's China-Germany Industry 4.0 promotion alliance set up in West Coast New Area (Chinese version only)

  作為中德兩國唯一的政府間合作園區，青島中德生態園致力于促進德國工業4.0與中國制造2025的融合，打造智能制造示范園區，先後被工信部評為全國首批智能制造燈塔園區和長江以北唯一中德智能制造合作試點示范園區。 引進一流研發機構，打造智能制造創新基地引進西門子(青島)創新中心，是西門子在德國本土外的唯一工業4.0研發中心，依托西門子全...

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• 2017/11

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  Hunan Mechanical and Electrical Polytechnic developed an intelligent factory (Chinese version only)

  湖南機電職業技術學院裡，校黨委書記成立平言語間掩飾不住喜悅。成立平的振奮與喜悅，源於近年來該校教學理念與行動的創新，和十九大報告中關於職業教育的期望非常「吻合」。「我們一直朝這個方向努力，有很好的成果。我們投資600萬元建設的『智能製造概念工廠』，已培育出了首批28名學生，在藍思機器人等企業上崗。他們不只是『技工』，更是智能...

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• 2017/11

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  Moving forward to Industry 4.0 Series : Value-added Solutions Leading Ways to Pioneering Position

  Within years, Industry 4.0 has evolved from a concept to a transformational goal of corporates around the world. Many Hong Kong corporates see the huge business opportunities behind Industry 4.0 and adjust their operating practices to get a share of this golden era of industrial automation. Vice Chairman of FHKI Group 32 (Hong Kong Automation Technology Council, HKATC) and Director of GOA International Limited (GOA) Chris Chan says if Hong Kong corporates want to transform,...

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• 2017/11

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  Moving forward to Industry 4.0 Series : Positioning Made Clear to Bring Corporate’s Potential into Full Play

  Since Germany introduced the concept of Industry 4.0 in 2011, manufacturers around the world have been striving to revive their competiveness by advanced technology and industry strategy. However, only a few have a clear idea of incorporating Industry 4.0 into their own plants. The Director of Jing Mei Group of Companies (Jing Mei) and the Vice Chairman of Group 27 (Automobile, aeronautical and advance components) of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries (FHKI) Ricky Chan...

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• 2017/09

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  China embraces smart factory technology in manufacturing arms race with Germany, Japan

  China is turning to foreign robotics and smart factory technologies to enhance competitiveness as it seeks to close the gap in manufacturing prowess with Japan and Germany by 2035 under Premier Li Keqiang’s “Made in China” strategy. Faced with rising labour costs owing to its shrinking labour force, China has already overtaken Japan as the world’s largest industrial robot market. Industrial robot sales in China this year are estimated to reach US$4.2...

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• 2017/09

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  HKPC sets up “Smart Industry One” - The first Industry 4.0 Demonstration Centre in Hong Kong

  Dubbed the fourth industrial revolution, the “Industry 4.0” (i4.0) concept which advocates smart manufacturing and smart city development is in the global spotlight. To help Hong Kong industry upgrade and transform into smart enterprises, the Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) today (24 August 2017) opened “Smart Industry One”, the first-of-its-kind in Hong Kong, to demonstrate the smart operation in i4.0. Mr Nicholas W Yang, Secretary for...

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• 2017/08

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  How automation helps two Hong Kong manufacturers stay on top of their game

  At Biel Crystal Manufactory’s Huizhou plant in Guangdong province, two robotic arms work round the clock, uploading and offloading the smartphones modules. They are part of the automation process that the world’s largest producer of cover glass has adopted to deliver 4 million pieces of products a day. Less than 100 kilometres away in the adjacent city of Dongguan, TAL Group, one of the world’s largest dress shirt makers, has also automated its production...

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• 2017/08

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  UK to bring in drone registration

  The UK government has announced plans to introduce drone registration and safety awareness courses for owners of the small unmanned aircraft.It will affect anyone who owns a drone which weighs more than 250 grams (8oz). Drone maker DJI said it was in favour of the measures. There is no time frame or firm plans as to how the new rules will be enforced and the Department of Transport admitted that "the nuts and bolts still have to be ironed out". The drone safety awareness...

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• 2017/07

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  Robots reproducing results a game changer for life sciences

  A group of researchers in Japan has managed to automate key procedures for life science experiments, raising expectations of higher accuracy and reliability. The group, led by researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), have developed a program for experiments that, due to human factors, are often very difficult to reproduce. Using robots, the same experiments were conducted multiple times producing almost identical...

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• 2017/06

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  China's Tencent is a sleeping giant in the global artificial intelligence race

  As internet giants all over the world herald their advances in AI, one company has been conspicuously absent—Tencent, the Chinese social media giant, now worth over $300 billion. But the company’s relative silence in matters of artificial intelligence looks set to change quickly. On May 2 Tencent confirmed that it would open an laboratory in Seattle dedicated solely to artificial intelligence research, to be headed by Yu Dong, a former scientist at Microsoft...

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• 2017/05

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  Amazon’s newest pillars? AI and logistics key to tech giant’s future

  Amazon has evolved constantly throughout its more than 20-year life span, first as a book seller, than an e-commerce giant, and now a cloud computing powerhouse. And it appears Amazon’s next big pushes are coming in the fields of artificial intelligence and logistics, according to a new report. The company often talks about the pillars of its business: its retail marketplace, Amazon Prime, Amazon Web Services. Many have speculated about the company’s fourth...

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• 2017/05

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  Robot inspector is checking bridges with 96% accuracy

  There are nearly 56,000 defective bridges currently being used in the US and unsuspecting vehicles travel across them about 185 million time a day – but these structures could go at any moment. However, a team of researchers have designed a ‘robot bridge inspector’ that is said to cut down on the costs for inspections and is able to thoroughly check for corrosion and other faults in the structure with 96 percent accuracy. Called Seekur Jr, the autonomous...

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• 2017/05

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  Top 50 Robotics Companies of 2017 (Chinese Version Only)

  美國《機器人商業評論》（Robotics Business Review，簡稱 RBR）近日公佈了它們的第六個年度“RBR50 名單”，即 2017 年《機器人商業評論》認為最值得關注、全球最有影響力的 50 家機器人行業上市公司和非上市公司名單。《機器人商業評論》選擇這些機器人行業遠見者的標準是以一些公認的原則為基礎的，還參考了這些企業的創新能力、突破性應用、商業成...

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• 2017/04

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  Hong Kong Automation Industry: Exhibit Recruitment in Hong Kong Pavilion at Industrial Automation Shenzhen(Chinese version only)

  由香港特別行政區政府「發展品牌、升級轉型及拓展內銷市場的專項基金」（機構支援計劃）撥款資助，香港自動化科技協會將首次參與華南國際工業自動化展覽會，並設立佔地435平方米「香港館」，以展示香港自動化技術及系統支援的發展，開拓內地市場。 華南工業自動化展將於2017年6月28-30日在深圳舉行，「香港館」將以「智能製造」為主題，屆時展...

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• 2017/02

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  Moving forward to Industry 4.0 Series (2): The Evolving Business Environment Cracking Shared Opportunities

  Thanks to the development of smart equipment, the demand of industrial automation facilities and software has been surging in the global manufacturing scene. Since advanced technology has lowered the cost of production plants produced in foreign countries, many enterprises deploy foreign machines and software, which stretches the local competition into a global scale. The Chairman of The Hong Kong Startup Council and Chief Executive Officer of Ace Mold Company Limited Dr...

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• 2017/02

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  Moving forward to Industry 4.0 Series (1): Opening Doors to Successful Industrial Automation by Meticulous Transformation

  While the global economy is slowing down alongside the pressured industrial development around the world, China has recorded a GDP growth rate of 6.5%, showing clearly that the demands of industrial and manufacturing markets in the mainland is still positive. In order to seize the immense business opportunities of the mainland markets, it is important for local enterprises to stand out in this intense competition by preserving stability while seeking transformation as well...

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• 2017/01

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  2017 Policy Address: Highlights of Innovation and Technology (Chinese Version Only)

  香港的初創企業發展蓬勃，去年有近2千間，比2015年增長25%，其中有35%創業家來自香港以外。商辦的企業孵化器及共用工作空間，亦已增加至超過40間。據《二零一七施政報告》指出，政府大力投放180億元，以完善香港的創科生態系統，推動「再工業化」、資助大學進行中游及應用研究、資助業界利用科技升級轉型，以及扶助初創企業發展等各種新措施。 1. ...

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• 2017/01

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  Hong Kong and Shenzhen agree to develop innovation and tech park on border

  Hong Kong and Shenzhen have signed a memorandum of understanding related to the development of Lok Ma Chau Loop into an innovation and technology park. Rights to the piece of land were disputed in 1997 until Beijing stepped in that year – the agreement confirms that it will belong to Hong Kong. It was signed ahead of a Hong Kong/Shenzhen Co-operation Meeting on Tuesday afternoon by Chief Secretary Carrie Lam and Ai Xuefeng, the Deputy Mayor Shenzhen. Lam is tipped...

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• 2016/11

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  HKATC Members' Benefit: Participation in Industrial Automation Shenzhen 2017 (Chinese Version Only)

  2017華南國際工業自動化展覽會將於2017年6月在深圳會展中心舉行，今年展覽會吸引了來自13個不同國家和地區的近450家工業自動化企業參展，展出面積達30,000平方米，為期三日的展覽吸引專業觀眾32,000多人，人流及客戶群有一定的保證。 香港自動化科技協會在BUD專項基金的支持下，將在Hall 2 設置佔地超過400平方米的「香港館」介紹香港工業自動化行業及展...

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• 2016/10

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  How will South Korea's robot revolution affect American jobs? (Chinese Version Only)

  創始于1972年的現代重工（HHI）總部位於韓國港口城市蔚山，經過近半個世紀的發展，目前它已經成為全球最大的造船廠。除了造船外，最不容忽視的一點是——HHI 也造機器人。 作為 HHI 機器人研究機構的高級研究員，Hyun-Kyu Lim 接受了 PBS Newshour 記者的採訪。在蔚山總部的廠房裡， Lim 指著一個大型機械臂說：“你看，它晃動得很厲害。”...

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• 2016/10

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  Investment prospect of industrial robot industry(Chinese Version Only)

  2015年被稱為中國機器人產業的元年。中國工業機器人近年發展狀況與日本80-90年代高度吻合。從2005到2015年，中國工業機器人用10年時間完成了日本年時間完成了日本20年的發展歷程。參照日本機器人產業發展歷程，中投顧問在近期發佈的《2016-2020年中國工業機器人產業深度調研及投資前景預測報告（上下卷）》中指出，中國機器人產業開始跨入全面普及期，並...

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• 2016/10

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  China to speed up the robot industry, the first batch of certification testing system certification program will soon be released

  As the world's largest robot market, in order to promote the healthy and orderly development of China's robot industry, the national multi- Promote the establishment of China's robot industry standards, testing and certification system, the first batch of robot certification program has been launched, and will soon be officially released certification marks and the first batch of certified enterprises. It is expected that by 2020, the annual output of self-branded...

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• 2016/10

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  Next generation: collaborative robots (Chinese Version Only)

  隨著亞洲經濟的快速崛起，以及全球生產模式的智慧化、自動化升級轉型，工業機器人的需求也將不斷激增，有著十分巨大的市場發展空間。相關資料顯示，當前全球工業機器人在工作崗位中的占比僅為5.63%，工業機器人的應用市場仍有待進一步開發。工業機器人在汽車整車及零部件、工程機械、軌道交通、低壓電器、電力等領域的發展應用已經比較成熟，未...

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• 2016/09

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  Robots replacing human workers in Singapore (Chinese version only)

  新加坡政府限制外國勞工數量，已導致許多企業為徵才所苦，不過，當地服務業者發現，具備人工智慧（AI）效能的機器人似乎是因應勞工短缺的最佳解決方案。從餐廳到醫院等民間企業，都日益採用機器人化解勞工不足的困境。政府也以補助支持措施，協助企業在緊俏的勞動市場中存活。新加坡諾維娜伊麗莎白醫院（MNH）採用IBM的華生（Watson）AI技術，作為監...

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