The 2017 China (Guangzhou) Intelligent Equipment and Robot Exposition (2017 CIERE), Asia's biggest professional expo for industries related to intelligent equipment and robots, concluded in Guangzhou on Sept 24.

Held at the Canton Fair Exhibition Hall, the three-day expo covered an area of more than 40,000 square meters, with more than 720 exhibitors displaying their latest products and technologies.

Service robots applied in areas including security, firefighting and subsea exploration were highlights of the event.

The humanoid robot "Miss Etiquette" attracts many visitors at the 2017 CIERE held in Guangzhou. [Photo/xkb.com]

A robot with facial recognition technology patrolled the exhibition hall and attracted a great deal of public attention. The robot was developed by Guangzhou-based technology company Dream One Robot and is used for security and protection purposes.

Equipped with four high-definition cameras and one pan-tilt-zoom camera, the robot offers 360-degree surveillance and can identify human faces in a static state with an accuracy rate reaching 99.5 percent.

According to Liu Yajun, manager of Dream One Robot, the robot is priced at 300,000 yuan ($45,000) and is mainly targeted at government departments. Two of them have already been used by the Guangdong customs department.

Robots developed by Gosuncn, another Guangzhou-based robot company, were also on show at the expo. The robots offer customized functions such as automatic patrolling and intelligent analysis integrated with technologies such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence.  

Other great exhibits included companion robots which can talk and communicate with humans, earthquake detecting robots, fish-shaped robots that can monitor water quality and look for lost articles underwater.