Russian media takes note: Robots start school — China's first robot school opens!
International industry applauds: This idea completely breaks conventional thinking.
Russian media "Today's China" cited Chinese media reports on July 3.
Recently, Zhejiang Province’s first robot school officially opened in Hangzhou, China.
The initial “students” are 30 robots of various models.
The school aims to create a platform for enhancing professional robot skills and issuing certifications.
Initiated by the Robotics Research Institute of Zhejiang University, the Zhejiang Academy of Quality Science, and several leading enterprises in the industry.
The educational model is modeled after human vocational training: four departments are established — Technical Department, Medical Department, Arts Department, and Physical Education Department.
Technical Vocational School (Industrial Focus): production line material handling, welding, assembly, industrial programming — tailored for smart manufacturing in factories;
Medical Vocational School (Healthcare Services): patient companionship and diagnosis, medicine delivery, ward inspection, medical safety algorithm debugging;
Arts Vocational School (Cultural & Commercial Applications): stage dancing, exhibition guiding, live-stream interaction, welcoming and explanation services;
Physical Education Vocational School (Specialized Inspection): fire rescue, outdoor security, logistics handling, quadruped robot off-road control.
Each robot must go through a complete training cycle: enrollment medical check-up, specialized training, practical exams, and final assessment.
Robots successfully passing the graduation exam will receive professional qualification certificates, marking their transformation from "mere metal lumps" into fully functional products.
Russian experts marvel: China always surprises the world.
Meanwhile, the international industry collectively praises: "Sending robots to vocational schools to earn certifications — this concept completely shatters traditional perceptions."
South Korea’s Chosun Business Daily notes that compared to South Korea’s domestic robotics industry, humanoid robots in Korea are mostly concentrated in research labs, lacking a unified pre-scale-production training platform; Hangzhou’s Robot School offers valuable lessons for Korean manufacturers.
The UK’s Guardian states: The large-scale embodied intelligence data factory school is not merely a training site but also a massive real-world scenario data collection center. One campus alone generates millions of action and interaction datasets annually, continuously iterating general-purpose robot cognitive models and establishing a formidable data barrier.
U.S. Electronic Weekly points out that Hangzhou’s Robot School is a nationally supported industrial ecosystem, driven by coordinated efforts from government policies, universities, and enterprises, with implementation speed far exceeding private labs in Europe and America.
However, objective shortcomings remain: human-robot safety ethics, cross-national certification interoperability, and openness of general AI models are still areas needing further improvement.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1869645186178120/
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