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Shaoxing focuses on robot development

(ezhejiang.gov.cn) Updated : 2018-04-13

The 2018 China National Robotics Development Forum & RoboCup China Open took place in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province from April 12 to 15. 

The annual forum was initiated by the Chinese Association of Automation in 2015. It was designed to promote the basic study, innovative design and high-tech development of intelligent robots, and to improve China's capacities of research and development and practical application. 

It was also designed to drive the application of intelligent robots in the fields of intelligent industries, smart life, and national defense, and to boost industrial upgrading and transformation. 

The RoboCup, the most influential robot competition in the world, was introduced to China in 1999 and started to be held at the same time as the forum in 2017. 

It requires from the participants comprehensive technologies, always focused on the cutting-edge challenges confronting artificial intelligence and intelligent robotics, and is expected to boost research and development in related fields.