Index

Add-ons and compatibility, SimpleConnect, 51

Ameca humanoid robot, 133–134

Analytics Insight, 172

Annealed quantum chip, 99–100

Apollo’s open-source vehicle-road coordination, 73–75

Apple Self-Driving Cars, 65–66

Application programming interfaces (APIs), 64

Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)-dedicated integrated circuit, 102

Artificial intelligence (AI)

application programming interfaces, 64

autonomous decision, 63

autonomous driving technology. See Autonomous driving technology

conversational, 48–52

depression detection, 46–48

generative, 37–42

mathematical intuition, 42–46

no-code, 80–84

Artificial intelligence chips

accelerators, 100

global leader, 101–102

Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), 102–103

in-depth learning accelerators, 107

Intel, 107

latest developments, 101

market outlook, 105

MOSFET transistors, 101

multicore design, 100

Sambanova systems, 106–109

sparsity, 107

start-up Tenstorrent, 103–104

Auris Health’s Monarch platform, 123

Aurora Innovation

cofounders, 53–54

strategic partnership, 55

strategic positioning, 55

Autonomous driving technology

Apple Self-Driving Cars, 65–66

Aurora Innovation, 53–55

Chinese driverless start-up company, 56–59

difficulties, 62–67

Drive.ai, 64–65

largest market, 77–78

new ideas, 67–71

quantum computer, 147

R&D cost, 71

self-driving car. See Self-driving car

vehicle–road coordination, 71–77

Azure Quantum, 142–143

Baidu, 171

Baidu self-driving car, 67

Baidu’s new prototype robocar, 105

Billboard generation, origami robots, 128–129

Biomarkers, 47

Bionic chips, 109–112

Bristlecone quantum chip, 98

Cambricon Technology Corporation, 101

China mobile, 21

China’s science and technology

Ab Initio domestication, allotetraploid wild rice, 162–163

Chang’e-5 lunar research, 161–162

de novo synthesis of carbon dioxide, 158–159

drone company DJI, 153–154

functional gene transfer, 164

funding support, 155

industrial categories, 153

Institute of High Energy Physics (IHP), 160–161

large-scale cryogenic refrigeration systems, 163–164

Made in China 2025, 155–156

Mars exploration mission, 156–157

quantum relay and removable quantum storage, 165

quantum unclonability, 164–165

Shenzhou XII and XIII manned spacecraft, 157–158

supply chain system, 153

SWQSIM application, 159–160

China telecom, 21

China Unicom, 21–22

Chinese driverless start-up company, 56–59

Chips

artificial intelligence, 100–109

bionic chips, 109–112

gallium nitride (GaN) chip, 89–93

plastic microchips, 85–89

processing technology, 94–96

quantum chips, 97–100

Circuit-based quantum chips, 98–99

CITIC Capital Securities, 169–170

Cloopen company

future plan, 51–52

global business footprint, 49

SimpleConnect, 49–51

Cloud control platform, vehicle-road coordination, 72, 73

Communication

1G, 9

2G, 9

5G, 10–11

3G communication, 9

4G network, 10

Computer Science and Artificial Laboratory (CSAIL), 116

Conversational AI solution, 48–52

Cryogenic refrigeration systems, 163–164

Customization, SimpleConnect, 51

DeepMap

acquisition, 62

car manufacturers, 60

founding team, 61

RoadMemory, 62

Delft University of Technology, 98

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, 172

Depression detection, artificial intelligence (AI)

categories, 48

causes, 46–47

difficulties, 47

Digital economy

core industries, 5

definition, 4–5

digital transformation, 3

World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report, 4

Digital transformation (DX), 3

Drive.ai, 64–65

Drones, 5G, 15–16

D-Wave’s commercial quantum computing cloud service, 139–140

D-Wave System, 99

Extended Reality (XR)

deployment strategy, 21–22

Qualcomm, 18

viewer, 19–20

5G technology

base stations, 14

drones, 15–16

first killer applications, 18–22

Global Mobile Suppliers Association’s (GSA) report, 12

Leap Jiuzhai cloud experience live broadcast platform, 17

mobile Internet, 11–12

patent race, 13–14

smart grids to drone control, 11

terminal connections, 14

vodafone precise positioning technology, 16–17

Flexible integrated circuits (FlexIC), 87

Folding robot billboard, 128–129

4G network, 10

Gallium nitride (GaN) chip

cost, 90

distributors, 93

electron mobility, 89

founding team, 90–92

practical applications, 92–93

vs. silicon-based chips, 89

Gartner Inc., 171

Generative adversarial networks (GANs), 41

Generative artificial intelligence (AI)

activities, 41

content generation, 39

definition, 38

generative adversarial networks (GANs), 41

Insilico Medicine, 41–42

photos, 40

Global digital competitiveness ranking, 3–5

Global Navigation System Service (GNSS), 16

Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), 102–103

Gordon Bell Award, 159–160

Hexa-X vision, 171

Horizon Europe, 170

Huawei Technologies Co., 170

Humanoid robots

in China, 134–136

definition, 129

development, 131

earliest records, 130

engineered arts, 131–134

text mentions, 131

Ingenuity Helicopter small robotic helicopter, 15

Innovation-driven proprietary cutting-edge tech, 52

Insilico Medicine, 41–42

Institute of High Energy Physics (IHP), 160–161

Internet of Thing (IoT)

components, 22–23

network, 23

network speed, 22

platforms and service applications, 23

smart agriculture, 23–26

terminal devices, 22

Intuitive Surgical, 124

IonQ

Azure Quantum, 142–143

founders, 140–142

prospects, 143

working principle, 142

IPlytics, 170

Jaguar I-PACE pure battery electric vehicle, 92–93

Jiu-Zhang II Quantum Computer, 145

Jiuzhang Photonic Quantum Computers, 99

JOYEGG, 28–31

JoyTelecom

core competitiveness, 28

customer groups, 27

Joy cubeSim, 28

JOYEGG, 28–31

network equipment, 26

products, 29

SaaS service platforms, 27

SD-WA N service integration, 28

Kunlun A2S1CAXGA chip, 105

Leap Jiuzhai cloud experience live broadcast platform, 17

LiDAR, GaN chips, 92

Liquid crystal elastomer research, 116–118

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 116, 172

Mathematical intuition, 42–46

Medical soft robotics

lung cancer diagnosis

Auris Health’s Monarch platform, 123

countermeasures, 122

lung nodules, 121

treatment difficulties, 121

surgical robotics, 124

Mercedes-Benz’s cool Vision AVTR concept car, 127–128

Mesmer humanoid robot engineering art System, 132–133

MGrip, 118–119

Minimum management, SimpleConnect, 51

Mordor Intelligence, 172

Mouser Electronics, 93

Multifunctional optics, 95

New Energy Vehicle Industry Development Plan, 153

New-generation information technologies, 167–168

Next G Alliance, 170

Nikkei, 171

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), 9

No-code artificial Intelligence (AI) systems

vs. AutoML, 81–82

custom-developed platform, 81

identification, 83–84

Levity’s system, 82–83

Nuvia

founding team, 110–111

investors, 112

Qualcomm acquired, 112

NVIDIA DRIVE software, 62

Octobot, 114–115

Omnichannel, SimpleConnect, 51

Origami robots

billboards, 128–129

Jamie Paik, 125–126

practical applications, 127–128

robot design, 126–127

Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), 21

Plasma Chips, 94–95

PlasticARM, 85–86

Plastic microchips

PlasticARM, 85–86

PragmatIC, 86–88

Polar coding, 13

Pony.ai’s self-driving car, 56

PragmatIC

founding team, 88–89

technical advantages, 87

Qingdao Haofeng Smart Agricultural Greenhouse, 25

Qualcomm flight RB5 5G platform, 15–16

Qualcomm XR Optimized Certification Program, 20

Quantum chips

annealed, 99–100

calculation, 97–98

circuit-based, 98–99

Delft University of Technology, 98

quantum computing, 97

superposition, 97

Quantum computer

autonomous driving, 147

D-Wave Systems, 137

global developer platform, 145–146

information security, 146–147

IonQ, 140–143

Jiu-Zhang II, 145

latest developments, 137

pricing model, 139–140

quantum simulation, 147

superconducting quantum computing prototype, 144

Volkswagen, 137–139

Quantum computing, 116

Quantum hegemony, 144

Quantum random circuit sampling task, 144

Quantum USB flash drive, 145

Ramanujan, 42–46

Ramanujan Machine project, 45–46

Research and development (RAND), 171

Rice University approach, 116–117

Robo Thespian Mark 1, 131–132

Robotics

humanoid robots, 129–134

origami robots, 125–129

soft robots, 113–124

Robot Series, 133

Sambanova systems

cofounders, 107–108

competitive advantages, 109

strategic positioning, 108

Self-driving car

autonomous driving levels, 57–58

core component, 58–59

DeepMap, 59–62

difficulties, 62–63

mass adoption, 78–80

Pony.ai’s, 56–57

Vay self-driving car service, 69–71

SimpleConnect, 49–51

6G

current development status, 33–35

patent applications, 34, 35

transmission capacity, 35

virtual reality, 33

SiYuan 290 AI chip, 102

Smart agriculture, 23–26

Smart road, 71

Smiling depression, 47

Soft Robotics, 172–173

Soft robots

founding team, 119–120

latest developments, 113–114

liquid crystal elastomer research, 117–118

manufacturing, 118–119

market outlook, 114

medical field, 121–124

Octobot, 114–115

performance, 116–117

Software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN), 170

Special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC), 173

Statistica, 169

Supercomputer, 143

Superconducting quantum computing prototype, 144

Super-Scale Quantum Stochastic Circuit Simulation in Real Time (SWQSIM), 159–160

Surgical robotics, 124

Surgical training platform (SRP), 32

Tech for Social Good (T-SG) project, 168

Telecom as a Service (TaaS) model, 16

Telecom operators, Extended Reality (XR), 21–22

Tencent Research Institute, 174

Tera Operations Per Second (TOPS), 170

Tomato growth, smart greenhouse, 24–26

Transbronchial needle aspiration biopsy (TBNA), 122

Transthoracic puncture biopsy (TTNA), 122

Tsinghua University, 172

TSMC, 172

2G cellular networks, 9

UBTECH, 135–136, 173

Ultra-high energy gamma astronomy, 161

Ultra-high voltage (UHV) transmission technology

alternating current (AC), 151–152

China’s economic growth, 152–153

direct current (DC), 151–152

5G infrastructure, 151

Universal Robots, 172

Vay self-driving car service

cofounders, 70

efficiency, 70

team and business angel investors, 69–71

Vehicle-road coordination

Apollo’s open-source, 73–75

Baidu Science and Technology Park, 75–76

cloud control platform, 72, 73

communication platform, 72

dynamic traffic information, 71

edge computing, 72

market for, 76–77

terminal layer, 72

Versics, 95–96

Virtual reality (VR), medical field, 31–32

Vodafone precise positioning technology, 16–17

Walker-X Robot, 135–136

Web client, SimpleConnect, 50–51

Web phone, Simpleconnect, 51

World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), 173

World Economic Forum, 169

World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Rankings, 4

World Health Organization (WHO), 171

XR viewer, 20

Zu Chongzhi II prototype, 144