{"id":25013,"date":"2016-04-26T10:32:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T17:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/artificial-intelligence-china-accelerates-bid-for-global-dominance-in-robotics"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:01:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:01:36","slug":"artificial-intelligence-china-accelerates-bid-for-global-dominance-in-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/artificial-intelligence-china-accelerates-bid-for-global-dominance-in-robotics","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence: China Accelerates Bid For Global Dominance In \u2018Robotics\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-intelligence-china-accelerates-bid-for-global-dominance-in-robotics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China continues to accelerate its bid to grab the initiative in 21st-century robotics and artificial intelligence development as the next emerging global powerhouse. Small wonder that the world\u2019s leading manufacturing giant has already raced past the rest of the world as a major user of robots.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em>China Robot Industry Alliance<\/em>, the country is already a flourishing hub for consumer robotics and is poised for a radical transition from its human-based workforce to an automated Artificial Intelligence or AI-based alternative. Its recent unveiling of the incredibly adept and efficient personal robot BIG-i is a pertinent example. Dubbed \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/china-makes-a-play-at-personal-robots\/\">butler<\/a>,\u201d this humanoid is primarily a service robot with the programmed ability to aid homeowners in the performance of a wide variety of household errands. It can easily track the location of various household appliances and transport items from one point to the next by employing its claw-like mechanical hands.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-intelligence-china-accelerates-bid-for-global-dominance-in-robotics2.jpg\" alt=\"China Accelerates Bid For Global Dominance\" width=\"670\" height=\"503\" class=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"http:\/\/cdn.inquisitr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/China-Accelerates-Bid-For-Global-Dominance-670x503.jpg 670w, http:\/\/cdn.inquisitr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/China-Accelerates-Bid-For-Global-Dominance-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/cdn.inquisitr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/China-Accelerates-Bid-For-Global-Dominance-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px)  100vw, 670px\" \/><br \/> [Image via Shutterstock]BIG-i was designed by Dr. Tin Lun Lam, a research fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who had previously designed the \u201cTreebot,\u201d the first biologically inspired tree-climbing robot equipped with a highly advanced maneuvering mechanism.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/3032736\/artificial-intelligence-china-accelerates-bid-for-global-dominance-in-robotics\/\">http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/3032736\/artificial-intelligence-chi...-robotics\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China continues to accelerate its bid to grab the initiative in 21st-century robotics and artificial intelligence development as the next emerging global powerhouse. Small wonder that the world\u2019s leading manufacturing giant has already raced past the rest of the world as a major user of robots. According to the China Robot Industry Alliance, the country [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25013"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67643,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25013\/revisions\/67643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}