On October 9, 2021, co-sponsored by the China Association for Artificial Intelligence, Xiaoshan People's Government and Xiaoshan Economic and Technological Development Zone Management Committee, the “Robot Vision Technology and Its Industry Application Theme Salon” was successfully concluded in Xiaoshan, Hangzhou.

Bring energy to the development of Xiaoshan intelligent industry

This theme salon event attracted the major domestic robot technology companies, scientific research institutions of the first-line technical experts to discuss the robot vision technology in all walks of life on the issue of its practice and future development trends. Leaders of related departments of Hangzhou Xiaoshan District and the Open Economic Zone were also invited to attend the event.

Salon

Lai Gang pointed out that in recent years, with the intelligent development of industry, the development zone grasps the development opportunities and creates an “innovation engine” --robot town. This activity actively expands the robot vision technology and its industry application scenario, and analyzes the policy environment and technological innovation of the industrial development, which will certainly promote the new development of robot town. Lai Gang said that the town created an excellent environment, gathered a number of enterprises, won the China's top ten Robot Industrial Park, and Zhejiang Province Micro-enterprises Excellent Development Platform, etc. and has been included in the Zhejiang Province Digital Demonstration Park, and Hangzhou City Industrial Innovation Service Complex list. In the future, it looks forward to attracting more businesses to join the town and flourish in the town.

Deputy Director Lai Gang

China has become the world's largest and fastest-growing robotics market, accounting for nearly a third of the global market and has huge industry potential, said Liu Chenglin, vice president of CAAI and deputy director of the Automation Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Intelligent robot integrates the cutting-edge technology of intelligent perception, cognition, decision-making and control, which is the most important direction of the comprehensive application of artificial intelligence technology. Among them, robot vision, as an important link of robot perception and understanding of the environment, has become a hot research direction in the field of artificial intelligence, and has become one of the key technical subdivisions of researchers in the industry.

Researcher Liu Chenglin

At present, Hangzhou has been approved as the national AI innovation application pilot zone, the national new generation artificial intelligence innovation development test area. As the concurrent event of the VALSE 2021 Conference, this technology salon aims to inject new momentum into the development of local intelligent industry by sharing typical experiences and policy measures, analyzing the policy environment and technological innovation of industrial development, grasping the trend of combining artificial intelligence with traditional industries, and to inject new momentum into the development of local intelligent industry.

Share technology frontiers and trends

The seminar entered the second agenda, technical experts from the major domestic research institutions and the front line of robot industry research have shared the cutting-edge practical experience and industry development trend of robot vision technology.

As one of the representatives of the university research institutions, Mr. Liu Yong of Zhejiang University's Institute of Intelligent Systems and Control shared examples of the application of robot vision technology in the industrial field.

Mr. Liu Yong

The excellent practice of robot technology in the field of industry can never be separated from the large amount of work and resource input that relevant enterprises have done in the closed ecology of production, research and development. As an outstanding industry representative, Mr. Xu Shixin, Senior Director of Optical Marketing, introduced Yanyu Optics' experience in optical sensor research and development accumulated over the years in the three major consumer areas of mobile phones, security and vehicles, thus it can enter in the field of home consumer robots. In addition, he shared the application of robot vision technology in sweeping robots, service robots, drones and other products.

Director Xu Shixin

Mr. Zhou Lipu, a senior engineer from Meituan UAV business group introduced the realization principle of large-scale high-precision mapping technology for UAV, as well as the application of this technology in Meituan.

Mr. Zhou Lipu

Fang Xiaofei, an expert in the application of intelligent products of Hikvison robots, introduced the research and development work and projects of Hikvison robots in the fields of storage robots, intelligent cameras, industrial cameras, vision controllers and other products, as well as the deep learning platform and algorithm tools provided by Hikvison robots for artificial intelligence developers.

Mr. Fang Xiaofei

In addition to traditional industrial production, robotic vision technology also plays an important role in automobile manufacturing and autonomous driving. As an AI technology company focused on the development and application of smart net-link vehicles, Mr. Wang Naiyan, Chief Scientist of Tucson Future Technologies, describes the company's extensive work over the past five years on heavy truck self-driving projects, including self-driving technology for commercial vehicles, improving related infrastructure, and supporting services.

Mr. Wang Naiyan

ISV is a machine vision solutions company focused on the field of automotive manufacturing and intelligent operation and maintenance of rail transportation. The co-founder of ISV, Mr. Zhai Shibin introduced that the four major processes of automobile manufacturing, including stamping, welding, coating and assembly, and machine vision has a very wide range of applications and solutions around the four processes.

Mr. Zhai Shibin

With the wide application of robot technology in the industrial field, supporting chip technology is also developing rapidly. Focusing on machine vision dedicated chip research and development and manufacturing, chip research and development and algorithm realization are AIVA Tech 's core competitiveness. AIVA Tech’s founders are from AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom and other leading semiconductor companies around the world. Mr. Guoyu Chen, Vice President of AIVA Tech presented the results of the company's products and technologies over the past three years.

Vice President Chen Guoyu

The last speaker to deliver the keynote speech was Mr. Wang Wenfei, General Manager of Intelligent Logistics Robotics Division of Zhejiang Guozh Robot Technology Co., Ltd., who shared the application of machine vision in intelligent manufacturing and in-plant logistics robots, and visualized the practical cases of robot technology in industrial manufacturing with vivid and interesting videos.

Mr. Wenfei Wang

At the end of the salon, technical experts from major research institutions and the robotics industry gathered to discuss trends in the development of robotic vision and industrial vision. Experts agree that the application scenarios of robots is becoming more complex. Due to 2D data’s developing to 3D and data volume’s surge, related technologies are demanding for stronger computing power. Hardware, software, the integration of algorithms, and cloud and port co-computing, etc. will be the trend of the development of robot vision technology.