A robot plays a musical instrument at a national robots championship contest held at the Harbin Institute of Technology in July 2014.[Photo/IC] |
One of the new entrants is HIT Robot Group, which was established in December 2014 with funding from a provincial government and the Harbin Institute of Technology, a Chinese university which was ranked 7th among the best global engineering universities by US News in 2015.
The elite university has done years of cutting-edge research into robots-it is the maker of China's first space robots and lunar vehicle.