Hong Kong will soon open its first convenience store operated by a humanoid robot as part of the city\u2019s push to integrate AI into everyday life and deepen residents\u2019 understanding of the technology, the finance chief has said.<\/p>\n
Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po also revealed on Sunday that a high-level government committee dedicated to AI development in Hong Kong had been formed and would hold its first meeting this month.<\/p>\n
The 24-hour convenience store was located on the waterfront in Hung Hom and would feature a humanoid robot able to serve locals and visitors alike in different languages, Chan said on his weekly blog.<\/p>\n
The store was developed by a mainland Chinese company focused on embodied AI, he said, without identifying the firm.<\/p>\n
Embodied AI refers to the integration of AI into physical systems, such as robots or self-driving cars, that use sensors to perceive the environment, make real-time decisions and physically interact with the world.<\/p>\n
The store was the company\u2019s first outside the mainland, and its choice of Hong Kong was a recognition of the city\u2019s open market and its role in showcasing innovation to the rest of the world, Chan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong will soon open its first convenience store operated by a humanoid robot as part of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,226070,226067,289,290,51856,18,21357,4202,226068,19,17,12333,226069,82],"class_list":["post-523420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-and-industrial-development-strategy-committee","tag-ai-training-for-all","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-chan","tag-eire","tag-financial-secretary-paul-chan-mo-po","tag-hong-kong","tag-hung-hom","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-petaflops","tag-sandy-ridge-data-facility-cluster","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116710032416426844","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}