China hosts 2016 World Robot Conference in Beijing

The robots that think: China's most advanced assistants go on show Artificially intelligent robots can now understand the way humans think. Pictured above, a child shouts at the companion robot'Canbot,' also on display at the World Robot Conference Above, a woman demonstrates the ability of Baxter, an industrial robot from U.S. company Rethink Robotics, to follow her hand movements Dubbed the'robot goddess', Jia Jia is being taught deep learning abilities, including understanding human language, and detecting facial expressions. When asked by an audience-member'What kind of skills do you have?', Jia Jia replied: 'I can talk with you. I can identify gender and age of people standing front of me, and I can detect your facial expressions' The humanoid robot is programmed to recognise human and machine interaction, with autonomous position navigation and services based on cloud technology.