China - November 08, 2024 AI-powered industrial robots reshape China's manufacturing landscape (Voice_over) Industrial robots powered by artificial intelligence are heralding in a new era of efficiency and productivity in China's manufacturing industry. With an AI "brain" and cameras for its eyes, this industrial robot can analyze and then replicate human movements. Its developers say the robot is best suited for handling intricate operations. (Sound_bite) Pan Zhengyi, general manager, Micro-Intelligence: "We give the robot an 'eye' and 'brain' to help it recognize the surrounding environment. We transmit the information and data it collects to the large model, enabling it to understand tasks, instructions and movements." (Voice_over) At an electronics factory in east China's Changzhou City, 64 AI-powered robots conduct quality inspections with high levels of accuracy and consistency. The automated machines were developed by Micro-Intelligence and have freed human workers from the monotony of quality checks. (Sound_bite) Wang Hui, AI annotator, Micro-Intelligence: "Now on the company's platform, I use tools to annotate defects on images of products, leveraging my past experience of manual inspection to generate data for models to learn from." (Voice_over) According to the International Federation of Robotics, China installed more than 270,000 industrial robots last year, making up more than half of the world's total. [Restriction: No access Chinese mainland]