China’s national standardization working group on intellectualization and information safety of robots (SAC/TC 591/WG 1) was officially set up during the Robot Standardization and Core Technology Sub-forum on August 18, which is a part of the World Robot Conference (WRC) 2023, the largest international conference in global robotic industry held for eight consecutive years, attracting enterprises to display their latest scientific and technological achievements.

The sub-forum was jointly hosted by People’s Government of Beijing Municipality, MIIT, and China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), and organized by the Beijing Research Institute of Automation for Machinery Industry Co., Ltd. and National Engineering Research Center for Manufacturing Automation.

Wang Weiming, Director of the First Equipment Industry Division of MIIT, and Su Guobin, Deputy Director of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, inaugurated the working group. The working group will work on the development and revision of national standards on common intelligent technologies in key fields, industrial robot intellectualization, service robot intellectualization, intelligent application of subdivided scenarios or industries, as well as robot information security technology and other application of subdivided scenarios or industries.

Source: China Standardizaiton Magazine, issue 5 in 2023