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New technology harnessed to show possibilities

By YIN RUOWEI | China Daily | Updated: 2021-10-15 00:00

The Zhongguancun Forum showcased the latest technologies and products that are helping to define the future and won praise from visitors.

At the forum, robots delivered bottled water and handouts back and forth between the conference center and the exhibition hall. Others provided services such as disinfection, security and general information.

Reporters and staff members were offered customized digital badges. According to the forum, the special badge could not only identify people, but update schedules and location information quickly.

The uniform of staff members and volunteers on-site was made of an environmentally friendly material-polylactic acid. It is produced from fermentable starch available in agricultural and forestry wastes and is degradable.

Two intelligent temperature monitors were placed at each entrance and exit. When visitors swiped their ID cards, seven checks-visitors' identification, temperatures, health codes, nucleic acid test results, vaccination results, public security networking and registration-were completed in one second.

Sign language interpreters using artificial intelligence technology made their debuts at the forum. They were developed by a team headed by Tang Jie, a professor at Tsinghua University. He is also the deputy dean of the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence.

They will be responsible for sign language broadcasts during the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

More than 500 companies from home and abroad brought their innovations to the forum.

Chinese internet giant Baidu and Beijing-headquartered carmaker BAIC Group displayed a self-driving car, which is expected to enter large-scale operation soon.

Beijing LabTech Instruments brought a new inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer to the forum. Its chairman Hu Ke said:"This instrument is used to do the qualitative and quantitative analysis of elements and can be widely applied in fields such as environmental protection, medicine and semiconductors.

"More importantly, it was independently developed by China and broke the monopoly of foreign instrument giants."

Visitors were given the opportunity to interact with a smart buffet table that can automatically record athletes' daily meals and nutrition and generate analysis reports, while also having the chance to experience graphene heating scarves and surgical robots for knee replacements.

Wen Shijie, a tech enthusiast, said that he has learned a lot at this year's exhibition.

"I have gained more knowledge of the cutting-edge achievements and applications of quantum information, autonomous driving as well as medical testing and had a glimpse of what future life will look like," he said.

 

A visitor hands over his digital badge to a robot at the forum. ZHU XINGXIN/CHINA DAILY

 

 

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