Guangdong Unveils Action Plan to Boost AI-Powered Robotics Development
The General Office of the Guangdong Provincial People's Government issued the *Action Plan of Guangdong Province for Accelerating the Promotion of High-Level Application of Artificial Intelligence Across All Domains, All Times, and All Industries*. The plan proposed "AI +" intelligent robots. It called for deepening the application of AI throughout the entire process of robot production and manufacturing, focusing on tackling core technologies such as human-robot interaction and decision-making planning, generative large models, and full-body coordinated control of humanoid robots, promoting deep adaptation between AI algorithms and robot hardware, and optimizing design and manufacturing processes. The plan prioritized the development of humanoid robot design and manufacturing, promoted the coordinated R&D of AI with robot "brain," "cerebellum," and body, and sought breakthroughs in key technologies such as multimodal perception fusion and adaptive decision-making. It called for the R&D of embodied AI large models and device-edge-cloud integrated collaborative embodied AI networks to support cross-scenario transfer learning for robots. The plan supported Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and other cities in building embodied AI training ground systems to provide data training and verification support for model R&D and validation.