China unveiled its first full-life-cycle management service platform for humanoid robots in Beijing on Friday, enabling traceability of all humanoid robots in the country from assembly to scrapping.
From now on, every humanoid robot made in China will be assigned a unique four-segment identity code to ensure its traceability from research and development to production, market authorization, sales, usage, scrapping, and recycling.
Established by the Humanoid Robots and Embodied Intelligence Standardization Technical Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the full-life-cycle management system will ensure humanoid robots remain under control to prevent risks and improve accountability.
"It ensures the rigidity of management by comprising the country code, enterprise code, product code, and serial number, which guarantees global uniqueness, traceability, type differentiation, and individual tracking of humanoid robots. On the other hand, it provides technical flexibility for enterprises by allowing them to customize codes, fully taking their existing coding systems into account," said Dong Jian, director of the Information Technology Research Center at the China Electronics Standardization Institute.
So far, the platform has already covered more than 100 humanoid robot enterprises across China and has completed full-life-cycle ID code assignment for over 200 product models and more than 28,000 robots.
China launches first digital ID system for humanoid robots
Tokyo stocks ended lower Monday, with the benchmark 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average falling around 1 percent, amid concern that the surging yen could disrupt companies' business outlooks, said an analyst.
The benchmark Nikkei stock index, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average, ended down 607.12 points, or 0.94 percent, from Friday at 63,754.90.
The broader Topix index, meanwhile, finished 43.27 points, or 1.08 percent, lower at 3,960.03.
The Japanese yen rose sharply on Monday, briefly surging to the lower 155 yen range against the U.S. dollar, after Japan confirmed joint currency market intervention with the United States and possible further intervention.
The U.S. dollar fetched 156.76-78 yen after briefly hitting 155.20 yen, compared with 157.33-43 yen in New York and 160.20-22 yen in Tokyo at 17:00 local time Friday.
"Over in Tokyo, the big story was of course the rare joint action by Japan and the U.S. to support the yen, which had been trading near 40-year lows in recent weeks. Japan's finance ministry confirmed that coordinated intervention today and said the two countries are prepared to act on that again. The yen rose as much as 1.4 percent at one stage and the Nikkei 225 fell around 1 percent. The stronger currency was weighing on exporters. There we had Suzuki Motor down 6.7 percent. Many Japanese-listed companies earn a substantial share of their revenues overseas, and a stronger yen reduces the value of those earnings when they are translated back into the Japanese currency. AI-linked stocks also weighed on the market, with the chip-testing-equipment maker Advantest down 3.3 percent," said Timothy Pope, a Shanghai-based market analyst for China Global Television Network (CGTN).
Pope said that in the rest of the week, investors are going to watch closely the earning reports to be released by the major companies.
"Tokyo has some major earnings to watch this week as well. So, we will be following Toyota, Nintendo and SoftBank -- all of them are due to report. SoftBank's results will be watched particularly closely for further clues about the returns, the risks as well as all of those associated with the enormous sums being invested in AI at the moment," said Pope.
Tokyo stocks end lower Monday on stronger yen: analyst
