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Investment and financing

1. Industrial Robotics start-up Gecko Robotics completes $40 million in round B financing, led by Drive Capital

Gecko Robotics, an industrial robotics start-up, completed a $4000 B round of financing, led by Drive Capital, with Peter Thiel's venture capital, Y Combinator incubator and Next 47 participating. This round of investors include Mark Cuban, a famous angel investor, Deep Nishar, senior managing partner of Softbank Corp., and Josh Reeves, CEO of Gusto. It is reported that Gecko Robotics was founded in Pittsburgh in 2016 to develop robots for power, oil and gas, manufacturing and other fields. The fuselage is equipped with high-definition cameras and a variety of sensors, and can even climb walls. With the help of acoustic, laser, electromagnetic and other testing modules, the robot can carry out non-destructive testing of equipment, walls, storage tanks, boilers, pipe thickness, cracks and other defects, and support automatic navigation or remote control.

Big company news

1.Instagram will issue a warning before users post offensive headlines

Instagram recently announced that Instagram will warn users when their upcoming photos or videos contain potentially offensive headlines. The new feature builds on a similar AI driver launched by Instagram in July, which was released in July specifically for user reviews. Instagram said the new feature is currently being launched in "specific countries" and will be deployed globally in the coming months. (TechCrunch)

two。 Pengcheng Electric and AutoX will promote driverless taxis in Shenzhen

On December 17, Shenzhen Pengcheng Electric car Rental Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen Intelligent driving Technology Co., Ltd. (AutoX) formally reached a strategic cooperation on the commercial landing research of self-driving RoboTaxi. Pengcheng Electric will provide brand operation and management experience, and AutoX will provide RoboTaxi platform to jointly promote the large-scale commercial operation of pure electric self-driving RoboTaxi in Shenzhen. (Shenzhen Economic Daily)

Industry trends

1. Construction of "Intelligent Manufacturing" Open Public skills training Base in Hangzhou

Recently, the opening ceremony of the open public skills training base of "Intelligent Manufacturing" was held in Qiantang New District. The project is a national "13th five-year Plan" industry-education integration development project, which is jointly declared by Hangzhou Vocational and Technical College of Science and Technology and Qiantang New District Management Committee. The base is located in the core area of the vocational education town of Qiantang New District. Six centers are planned, including digital product design training center, flexible manufacturing and augmented manufacturing training center, new energy vehicle training center, intelligent warehousing and industrial Internet of things technology training center, intelligent factory training center and robot comprehensive experience center, with a total construction area of 35000 square meters, with a total investment of 300 million. It has been included in the central budget investment plan of the national education modernization project, and it is planned to be put into use in 2021. In the process of project preparation, the school has signed cooperation agreements with Ningbo Intelligent Manufacturing Industry Research Institute, Changan Ford, Gree Electric Appliances, Geely Automobile and other well-known research institutions and enterprises. In addition, the school also signed a contract with Siemens (China) Co., Ltd. to jointly build the Sino-German Siemens (Hangzhou) Intelligent Manufacturing Institute.

two。 Hunan completes the first "UAV + 5G" intelligent operation in China.

To ensure the normal operation of the substation, there is no need for human on-site "stalking", a UAV using 5G communication technology can do it on its behalf. On December 16, the State Grid Hunan maintenance Company successfully applied 5G communication technology to realize live inspection of UAV in Dinggong Substation of Changsha County. This is the latest achievement of the integration of 5G communication technology in the construction of ubiquitous power Internet of things in Hunan, and it is also the first time in the country to apply "UAV + 5G" to complete intelligent inspection in 500 kV substations of the main power grid. Under the support of 5G communication technology, the National Network Hunan maintenance Company sets a program for the UAV to automatically realize data acquisition and intelligent processing, automatically identify operation steps, and complete equipment status check. and achieve the whole inspection site visible, data visible, decision-making can be directed. It is understood that the UAV inspection of 5G communication technology will be gradually promoted in 500 kV and above substations in the province from next year.

3. Son suggested that artificial intelligence be included in the Japanese college entrance examination: without exams, students will not study hard.

According to foreign media reports, Masayoshi son, chief executive of Japan's Softbank Corp. Group, said on Tuesday that Japanese students "will not study (a certain subject) if they are not required. Let's make artificial intelligence a compulsory subject. Then Japanese students will catch up." Son pointed out that compared with countries such as the United States, there is a growing gap between Japan's GDP and artificial intelligence-related patents. In other words, he believes that Japan's technological development level of artificial intelligence does not match Japan's economic level. "Japan has lost the past, but may be losing the future. "

Research technology

1.MiniWorld: a simple 3D Indoor Environment Simulator for reinforcement Learning and Robot Research

CS doctoral student Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert, who specializes in robotics and deep learning, has recently developed a simple 3D indoor environment simulator, MiniWorld, for reinforcement learning and robotic research, which can be used to simulate the environment of rooms, doors, corridors and various objects (e.g. office and home environments, mazes). MiniWorld can be seen as a substitute for VizDoom or DMLab. It is written in Python 100% and is designed to be easy to modify or extend.

two。 New research by Stanford, DeepMind and Google Institute: extending machine language models to human-level language understanding

Recently, a team of researchers from Stanford University, DeepMind, Bosch Center for artificial Intelligence, Google Institute and LMU Munich published a new study entitled "extending machine language models to human-level language understanding." The research reviews the latest breakthroughs in machine language processing and considers the goals to be achieved. Recent research methods rely on the general principles of learning and representation captured in artificial neural networks. However, most current models pay too much attention to the language itself. In the human world, language is part of a large system for capturing, representing, and communicating objects and situations in the physical and social world, and future machine language models should mimic such systems. The researchers describe existing machine models that link languages to specific situations and point to extensions to address more abstract situations. Human language processing uses complementary learning systems, including learning systems similar to deep neural networks that learn gradually like machine systems, and fast learning systems that support rapid learning of new information. Adding such a system to the machine language model would be an important step towards a truly human-like language understanding.

Product application

1. Yaskawa Electric has launched what it calls an "explosion-proof" industrial "handling" robot.

On December 17, the new Motoman MHP 45L has a payload capacity of 45 kg and a maximum coating area of 2850 mm using volatile paint. It has a "wide range of spray robots" optimized for a variety of applications, from small applications to large applications, such as smartphones or cars.

two。 The largest in China and the first integrated intelligent energy system in Guangdong will be debugged and operated.

Learned from Shantou Haojiang District Wind Power Industry Park, as an important part of Shanghai Electric Wind Power Guangdong Marine Intelligent Manufacturing Project, Shanghai Electric Shantou Intelligent Energy system Project has now completed about 90% of the project. China's first 8 MW offshore wind turbine will be hoisted before the end of this month, and the first integrated wind, light, storage, charging and regulation integrated intelligent energy system in Guangdong Province will also be debugged and operated at that time. It is reported that Shanghai Electric Wind Power Guangdong Offshore Intelligent Manufacturing Project, which is located in Guangao Logistics Park, Haojiang District, Shantou City, covers an area of about 136 mu, and plans to build a domestic first-class offshore wind power industry park and a world-class offshore wind power digital manufacturing base. Among them, Shanghai Electric Shantou Intelligent Energy system Project has a total investment of 240 million yuan, which is an important part of Shanghai Electric Wind Power Guangdong Marine Intelligent Manufacturing Project, and is a key scientific research demonstration project and provincial key project of Shanghai Electric Group. It is also the largest comprehensive intelligent energy system in Guangdong Province. Construction projects include: offshore wind turbine test field, roof photovoltaic, energy storage, energy consumption management system and supporting facilities including echelon utilization, charging pile, park electric transportation, park comprehensive energy dispatching and so on.

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