Ubtech Robotics Corp Ltd Chief Brand Officer (CBO) Michael Tam Min, who expressed his expectation to cooperate with Macau, told Macau journalists in Shenzhen yesterday that as a city leading in the tourism and service industries, Macau should introduce more high-tech facilities, including artificial intelligence (AI) and smart robots in the future to further improve the quality of its service industry as a whole, thereby providing a better experience for its tourists.
According to Tam, his company has been engaged in different areas in Macau, in which, for instance, it has been negotiating with the Macau Science Museum to introduce its robots to Macau, which would, he said, enable people in Macau, especially its young generation, to better understand the technology and development of advanced humanoid robots.
Founded in March 2012, Ubtech Robotics Corp Ltd is the mainland’s leading company in terms of patents in humanoid robots, according to Tam, who noted that thanks to its self-developed humanoid robot full-stack technology, his company takes intelligent robots as the carrier and AI technology as the core, orientated towards different sectors covering education, logistics, and wellness and elderly care, as well as commercial services in conjunction with the intelligent service robot solution of “hardware + software + service + content”, aiming to solve major social problems and meet social needs with innovative technology services.
A four-day fact-finding trip, organised by the Office of the Foreign Ministry Commissioner in Macau, to four cities in Guangdong province by 14 Chinese-, English- and Portuguese-language media came to an end yesterday in Shenzhen, where the delegation concluded their trip with a visit to Ubtech Robotics Corp Ltd, the “Great Tides Surge Along the Pearl River” Exhibition, BYD Company Limited and a smart open laboratory jointly established by Huawei Company, where the members of the delegation were able to gain a better understanding of the technology development of these three enterprises.
BYD Company Limited is a major manufacturer of automobiles, battery-powered bicycles, forklifts, solar panels, and rechargeable batteries.
BYD stands for Build Your Dreams.
Shenzhen, a coastal prefecture-level city located on the east bank of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) on the central coast of the southern province of Guangdong, bordering Hong Kong to the south, Dongguan to the north and Huizhou to the northeast, is one of the most developed and internationalised cities in mainland China as a national innovation centre and high-tech base, boasting comprehensive air, land and maritime transportation facilities.
Shenzhen, the third most populous city by urban population in mainland China after Shanghai and Beijing, has a population of about 17 million, with at least 95 percent of the population coming from other regions across the nation as well as from 127 overseas regions and countries.
Shenzhen lies some 65 kilometres northeast of Macau. Both Shenzhen and Macau are part of the Greater Bay Area (GBA).
The first post-COVID-19 visit to the GBA, attended by 19 journalists from Macau, began its first stop in Guangzhou on Sunday, with the second stop in Shaoguan on Monday, the third stop in Dongguan on Tuesday and the last stop in Shenzhen yesterday.
Macau’s first COVID-19 case was confirmed in January 2020.
Macau-based Portuguese journalist José Carlos Matias, who headed the media delegation, concluded the four-day trip with the following three words – innovation, high quality and inspiration. He told reporters after yesterday’s lunch with senior officials of the Shenzhen government that technology, the common thread in all the visits to the four cities, was set to take a more prominent role in line with the Macau government’s “1+4” development strategy, which aims to achieve the special administrative region’s appropriate economic diversification by promoting four main industries – big health, modern finance, high-tech, and conventions and exhibitions, including culture and sport.
Matias, director of Macau Business magazine, said: “For us, as media representatives and as journalists, it is really important to have the opportunity of being in touch and up to date with all of these developments taking place just across the border.”
In concluding the “successful and fruitful” trip during last night’s bus ride on the way back to Macau, Counsellor of the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China in the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) Gao Yuan, who was the delegation’s consultant, expressed his gratitude for the support and collaboration from members of the media delegation, with their extensive reports about the trip.
Gao described the “mutual learning” trip as meaningful and significant, adding that it was a kind of family visit to the four cities as one could find traces and roots of Macau in every culture in many of the mainland cities in the GBA, adding that the four cities the delegation visited have set an example for Macau to diversify its economy, with their respective technological innovation efforts and spirit.
Counsellor of the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China in the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) Gao Yuan tries out a display car during yesterday’s visit to BYD Company Limited in Shenzhen.
Ubtech Robotics Corp Ltd Chief Brand Officer (CBO) Michael Tam Min talks to reporters after yesterday’s guided tour for the Macau media delegation at the high-tech company in Shenzhen. – Photos: Yuki Lei
