The humanoid robot "Tiangong" walked slowly and presented the emblem for the opening ceremony of the 2024 World Robot Conference, becoming the most eye-catching guest at the opening ceremony of the 2024 World Robot Conference. Multiple robots collaborate to complete the production of automobiles and their components; Robots follow instructions to retrieve beverages of corresponding flavors from the shelves and hand them over to the audience; Humanoid robots interact with audiences through portrait and voice interaction... At the 2024 World Robot Expo, reporters saw that robots are becoming increasingly anthropomorphic, and artificial intelligence technology is making robots more intelligent, not limited to cold robot arms. Robots are gradually entering diverse life scenarios such as business, home, and service, allowing people to see an imaginative world of robots. Artificial intelligence is experiencing explosive development, and robots, known as the crown jewel of the manufacturing industry, are an important field for the deep integration of artificial intelligence and the real economy. They are integrating into people's production and life with unprecedented breadth and depth, promoting the acceleration of human society into the era of intelligence. In recent years, with the joint efforts of all parties, China's robotics industry has made significant progress from small to large. China has become an important force in global robot technology innovation, application expansion, and industry governance. As of July 2024, China holds over 190000 valid robot related patents, accounting for approximately two-thirds of the global total. The industrial scale continues to grow, and China has been the world's largest industrial robot market for 11 consecutive years. In the past three years, the newly installed capacity has accounted for more than half of the world's total, and the revenue of the robot industry has grown at an average annual rate of about 15%. Service robots have achieved large-scale applications in home services, medical care, and other fields, while special robots play an important role in air and sea exploration, emergency rescue, and other areas. Entering the 2024 World Robot Expo, the most profound change felt was that robots have "stood up" and become more capable of "human" functions and characteristics. After interacting with humanoid robots, the audience exclaimed, "The era of robots has really arrived!" Tesla Optimus humanoid robot made its debut, with 28 active joints and 11 degrees of freedom in both hands; Titanium Tiger Robot has released the humanoid robot T230, with a height of 2.3 meters, mainly used for carrying heavy objects... It is reported that this expo highlights technological innovation and application effectiveness, with a total of 27 humanoid robots appearing at the expo. Since the emergence of humanoid robots, embodied intelligence has entered a period of accelerated development. Wu Yaxiong, assistant researcher of the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told the reporter: "embodied intelligence can be simply understood as the empowerment of artificial intelligence on physical robots. When robots have intelligence, they can do all kinds of work like humans, further promoting the development of the robot industry." What sparks will be generated when the AI model collides with robots in the recent fire? The reporter experienced a "robot+large model" application at the Xinsong Robot booth. On the operating interface, a simple stroke was used to outline the pattern of a "cat". After the system "automatically recognized" the command, the robot arm used a tangram to place the corresponding pattern according to the system command. A staff member from Xinsong Robotics told reporters, "This' robot+big model 'application technology uses a multimodal big model that combines speech and vision. The big model gives robots the ability to understand and analyze natural language and images, allowing them to interact with humans through speech, text, and images, and display corresponding patterns based on the interaction content In the future, this technology can be widely applied in fields such as material identification and picking, item defect detection, etc. In the medical field, the application of artificial intelligence has also made robots more "intelligent" and "precise". Changmu Valley has launched the world's first independently developed "AI+ROBOT" orthopedic surgical robot ROPA equipped with artificial intelligence deep learning technology. The surgical control accuracy has exceeded the millimeter level, breaking through traditional surgical bottlenecks such as shortening surgery time, reducing surgical risks, and alleviating patient pain. Dr. Zhang Yiling, Chairman of Changmu Valley, told reporters: "Before surgery, artificial intelligence can be used for surgical simulation, 3D modeling through CT, and customized surgical plans. This will make the subsequent surgery implementation very precise, making all surgeries an 'open book exam'." Taking joint replacement surgery as an example, more than 5 million orthopedic surgeries are performed nationwide every year, while there are only 15000 registered orthopedic doctors. Orthopedic surgical robots can greatly improve surgical accuracy and efficiency, truly realizing the sinking of high-quality medical resources and making technology benefit the people. With the continuous promotion of the "Robot+" application action, scenarios such as "Robot+Manufacturing", "Robot+Medical Health", "Robot+Artificial Intelligence", and "Robot+Home Services" are constantly expanding. In the future, the innovation capability of the robotics industry will continue to improve, transforming into new quality productivity and adding richer intelligent colors to people's lives. (New Society)