Xiaoshan hosts the first RoboCom City League
Gathering high-end artificial intelligence talents
Release time: September 30, 2018
From September 29th to September 30th, the RoboCom (Ruikang) City League and International High end Talent Entrepreneurship Competition, hosted by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Talent Exchange Center and the RoboCom International Open Organizing Committee, were held in the Robo Town of Xiaoshan Economic and Technological Development Zone. The event includes three parts: the first RoboCom (Ruikang) City League, the International High end Talent Entrepreneurship Competition, and RoboCom Technology Teacher Training.
This city league is another colorful artificial intelligence robot feast, following the RoboCom (Ruikang) National Finals held in Xiaoshan Robot Town in 2018. The City League was successfully held on the basis of nearly 600 youth preliminary rounds, and the International High end Talent Entrepreneurship Competition attracted top teams from 7 artificial intelligence fields around the world to come for roadshows and competitions. At the same time, nearly 200 related subject teachers from various municipalities, provinces, and autonomous regions were also trained and studied.
Peng Baolin, Secretary General of the RoboCom International Open Organizing Committee, introduced that through years of development, the RoboCom event has become the highest standard, most influential, and largest world-class event independently initiated and organized by China. More than 60 countries have accumulated nearly 2000 people to participate in the event, and multiple event bases have been established internationally.
It is reported that since its establishment in Xiaoshan, the competition has attached great importance to the development needs of the robot town, actively leveraging the advantages of the competition platform and resources, further promoting the popularization of knowledge and skills in robotics and artificial intelligence among young people, and focusing on the cultivation of teaching staff in this field, incubating talents for industrial development, and continuously strengthening the development strategy of “industrialization, marketization, internationalization, and regionalization”, Based on the concept of “attracting talents through competitions, promoting research through competitions, and promoting industry through competitions”, with robots and artificial intelligence technology as the main focus, we aim to introduce high-end talents, cutting-edge technologies, and innovative and entrepreneurial projects to the robot town, in order to create a technological innovation highland in Xiaoshan Development Zone.
(Source: Zhejiang Online)