The 140th Canton Fair, which brings together more than 30,000 companies, is being held in Guangzhou. Advanced "black technology" is favored by merchants at home and abroad.
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The 140th China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) was held in Guangzhou, attracting more than 30,000 companies to participate.
China News Service, Guangzhou, October 16 (Reporter Wang Jian) The 140th China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair), which brings together more than 30,000 companies, is being held in Guangzhou on the 16th. Advanced "black technologies" such as service robots and AI interactive equipment have become one of the focuses of this Canton Fair and have won the favor of many merchants at home and abroad.
In the service robot area, there are huge crowds of people. An unmanned cleaning robot displayed at the booth of Guangzhou Saite Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. attracted many buyers to stop to take photos and inquire about technical parameters. "This is the future!" Murad, a buyer from overseas, runs a mixing station business and needs a large number of sweepers. He asked the salesman in front of the booth about the purchase price and exchanged contact information.
A few steps away, the booth of Guangzhou Ligong Industrial Co., Ltd. was equally popular. At this Canton Fair, Ligong Industrial's upgraded version of the omnidirectional wheeled humanoid robot "Lidian F1-S" was launched for the first time. This product does not require modification of the customer's site and can be directly adapted to existing workstations, multi-specification bins and high-rise shelves, and can meet closed-loop operations of single machines or group collaboration.
In addition to robots, AI interactive equipment is another "star" that has attracted widespread attention from merchants at this Canton Fair. The iFlytek AI glasses booth at the Canton Fair is always crowded with domestic and foreign merchants who want to experience it, attracting buyers from Brazil, Argentina and other countries and regions to try it on.
Nadia, a buyer from Brazil, wore AI glasses and communicated with the booth staff in Portuguese; with the assistance of the AI glasses, the booth staff had a real-time "face-to-face" chat with Nadia in Mandarin. Nadia said that this was her first time attending the Canton Fair. “China’s AI products are so amazing that people can’t put them down.”
It is understood that the iFlytek AI glasses favored by Nadia are binocular display multi-modal smart glasses that weigh only 40 grams. They support real-time translation in 122 languages. Translated subtitles can be directly projected on the lenses, and the translations are played simultaneously by the speakers, making cross-language communication as natural and smooth as native conversation.
In addition, iFlytek AI recording pen, iFlytek AI translation headphones, iFlytek dual-screen translator and other AI technology products were unveiled, attracting domestic and foreign merchants to like and "check in" and reveal their purchase intentions.

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