A[Being an “initial teacher” for robots, the data annotation industry is accelerating its development] On August 31, the three-day 2026 China International Big Data Industry Expo concluded in Guiyang, Guizhou. At the Digital Expo, the display of data annotation-related scenarios and service products has become a highlight this year. At the Digital Expo site, relevant companies showed how robots perform data collection and annotation work, attracting many audiences. As an important support for the development of artificial intelligence, the data annotation industry is accelerating its development. In Huishui, Guizhou, lightweight video shooting equipment records working movements in factories and other scenes, serving as "initial teachers" for robots; in Gui'an New District, staff operate dozens of robots, record video data in scenes such as logistics and transportation through multiple sensors, and annotate them. At present, Guizhou regards data collection and data annotation as a new driving force and key industry for the development of the digital economy. It has gathered 135 data collection and annotation companies with more than 16,000 employees. (CCTV Finance) A[Beijing High-end Scientific Instruments and Sensors Conference was held and a list of opportunities for procurement of approximately 400 million yuan was released] August 30th, the 2026 Beijing High-end Scientific Instruments and Sensors Conference opened in Huairou, Beijing on the 29th. The conference gathered top academicians and experts in the field of scientific instruments and sensors from around the world, well-known universities and scientific research institutions, industry leaders, etc. to conduct in-depth exchanges around core topics such as cutting-edge technological breakthroughs, transformation of innovative results, industrial ecological construction, and industry hot trends. A list of opportunities for Beijing's high-end scientific instruments and sensors was simultaneously released. The list of procurement opportunities in 2026 (the first batch) exceeds 10 items, with a total procurement volume of approximately 400 million yuan, more than 40 application scenario technical capabilities, breakthroughs in 60 key core technologies, and 40 key products such as high-end spectrometers and scanning probe microscopes, all of which have reached leading domestic and foreign levels. The application guide for "Several Measures to Precisely Support the Innovation and Development of Scientific Instruments and Sensor Industries in Huairou Science City" was officially released to support the full-chain layout in the fields of optoelectronics, cryogenics, vacuum, electron microscopy, mass spectrometry, imaging, and intelligent sensing. (China News Network) A[AI empowerment reshapes the beekeeping industry chain to achieve two harvests of honey a year] August 29th. In recent years, Jingyuan County has insisted on promoting agriculture through science and technology and AI empowerment, promoting the transformation and upgrading of the Chinese bee industry to standardization, intelligence, and scale, allowing the traditional beekeeping industry to jump out of the extensive breeding model and enter a new development stage of smart iteration, quality and efficiency improvement. At the Zhongtian Bee Industry Demonstration Base in Jingyuan County, AI smart beehives are like miniature smart factories with built-in sensors that can collect bees’ nectar collection, flight, temperature and humidity inside the box and other data in real time, all of which are synchronized to mobile terminals. Relying on the empowerment of digital technology, the local traditional bee breeding that has lasted for many years is undergoing a radical change. Breaking the limitation of being able to collect honey only once a year in the past, we will be able to harvest honey twice a year. Honey production reached 300,000 kilograms last year and is expected to reach about 500,000 kilograms this year.
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