China stations 10 robot customs officers at Guangdong ports
Intelligence robots have been placed at the ports of Gongbei, Hengqin and Zhongshan in China. The robots, which are able to listen, speak, learn, see and walk, will be used to detect suspicious people and raise the alarm through face-recognition technology. While the robots are already able to answer questions in 28 languages and dialects, customs officials plan to link robots to the customer-service hotline of the ports to further enhance their problem-solving abilities.
China has deployed ten intelligent robots, that can detect suspicious people and raise an alarm, as customs officers at three ports in southern Guangdong Province, after it used robots for security at an airport. The robots are the first batch of intelligent robots, being used by Chinese customs at the ports of Gongbei, Hengqin in Zhuhai city and Zhongshan. The robots, named Xiao Hai, have state-of-the-art perception technology and are able to listen, speak, learn, see and walk, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Based on a specialised customs database, the robots can answer questions in 28 languages and dialects, including Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Japanese.

There are some particular problems they cannot solve, and customs officials said they will link the robots to their customer service hotline in the future. With face recognition technology, the robots can detect suspicious people and raise an alarm, according to Zhao Min, director of Gongbei customs said. Last month China for the first time deployed a robot to maintain security at one of its busiest airports in Guangdong Province.

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