The ongoing 2025 World Robot Conference in Beijing has featured humanoid robots' application in life scenarios, with a large number of visitors fascinated by the various functions and performances of the robots on display, particularly Chinese-developed robots.
Running from Friday to Tuesday in the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, also known as Beijing E-Town, the 2025 edition of the conference, under the theme of "Making Robots Smarter, Making Embodied Agents More Intelligent", showcases over 1,500 exhibits from more than 200 leading robotics companies from around the world.
Visitors say they can feel the rapid development of China's robot sector, which is full of imaginations and practical applications.
"I think the event can broaden our vision. China's technology is advancing, and there are so many robots that really open our minds. There's so much unimaginable potential for development," said a visitor.
"I've just taken my kid with me to make a visit here and to experience or feel the type of industrial and medical robots that interest us," said another visitor.
"I'm quite interested. I would like to see to what extent robots have developed," said another visitor.
Meanwhile, a robot on display that can make different snacks by orders placed to it through just a click has also aroused the interest of many visitors.
"I used to think robots were out of reach, but now they are becoming increasingly accessible to ordinary people, getting closer to our daily life. Therefore, I'm particularly interested in the event," said a visitor.
"On the premise that we already have a well-established service landscape and client base, we'll initially focus on one or several types of robots to make them excellent on a particular job, for example, clearing tables, or frying chips and making burgers in the kitchen. After we make a type of robots excellent on one particular job, I think the many types of robots developed can become excellent on many different jobs. Then, in future, one single robot can be excellent on all the jobs concerned," said Chen Qian, marketing director of Keenon Robotics, a Shanghai-headquartered company founded in 2010.
2025 World Robot Conference features humanoid robots' application in life scenarios
2025 World Robot Conference features humanoid robots' application in life scenarios
2025 World Robot Conference features humanoid robots' application in life scenarios
International guests who have dedicated their lives to historical truth joined China's 12th national memorial event honoring the hundreds of thousands of victims killed by Japanese troops in the Nanjing Massacre during World War II.
The memorial was held on Saturday at the public square of the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. China's national flag was flown at half-mast in the presence the crowd that included survivors of the massacre, local students, and international guests.
In one of the most barbaric episodes during WWII, the Nanjing Massacre took place when Japanese troops captured the then-Chinese capital Nanjing on Dec 13, 1937. Over the course of six weeks, they proceeded to kill approximately 300,000 Chinese civilians and unarmed soldiers.
Joining the crowd was Christoph Reinhardt, the great-grandson of John Rabe (1882-1950) who was then a representative of German conglomerate Siemens in the war-ravaged Nanjing. During the Nanjing Massacre, Rabe set up an international safety zone with other foreigners, and they together saved the lives of around 250,000 Chinese people between 1937 and 1938 from the Japanese invaders.
Throughout the massacre, Rabe continued to keep a diary. To this day, all his pages remain one of the most comprehensive historical records of the atrocities committed by the Japanese aggressors.
Sayoko Yamauchi, who was also in the crowd of mourners, arrived in Nanjing on Friday from Japan's Osaka to attend Saturday's ceremony, just as she has done almost every year since China designated Dec 13 as the National Memorial Day for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre in 2014.
Yamauchi's grandfather was one of the Japanese soldiers who invaded Nanjing in January 1938. However, since first setting foot in Nanjing in 1987, she has dedicated herself to uncovering and spreading the truth about Japan's history of aggression and enlightening the Japanese public about their country's wartime atrocities.
In 2014, ahead of China's first National Memorial Day for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre, Yamauchi, along with 10 other individuals, received an award for her special contribution to the Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders.
By attending the grand memorial event, Reinhardt and Yamauchi both said they hope to convey a message of remembering history and cherishing peace.
"This is my fifth visit to China, and Nanjing, and the third times I visited the ceremony. I have a wish that these survivors survive again and again and again. But my other wish is that the families of the survivors, that they transport the information, the right intention like their ancestors, because anyone must hold a hand (during) this remembering," Reinhardt told China Central Television (CCTV) in an interview before the event began on Saturday.
"Our delegation is on its 20th visit to China, coming to Nanjing to express our heartfelt condolences to those who perished 88 years ago, to remember this history, and to reflect on what we can do for a new future. That's why we are here," Yamauchi told CCTV on board the bus that took her to a local hotel in Nanjing on Friday evening.
Int'l guests call for remembering history at China's national event honoring Nanjing Massacre victims
