First humanoid robots from Serbia head to assembly
Assembly of Serbia's first humanoid robots begins in mid-June, following a visit to China and deals worth around 953 million euros.
- Assembly of Serbia's first humanoid robots begins in mid-June.
- During the visit to China, deals worth around 953 million euros were signed.
- Development runs in three phases: assembling the robots, a training factory for young programmers, and applying artificial intelligence.
- The investments are spread across Novi Sad, Zrenjanin, Sabac and Nis.
Will we see the first humanoid robots assembled in Serbia as soon as this summer? Yes, assembly begins in mid-June, and the announcement came after a visit to China where deals worth around 953 million euros were signed.
This is not a single machine that gets put together and then stops there. The plan is set up so that the first robots are followed by the infrastructure meant to teach people to work on them. Development is split into three phases: first assembling the robots, then a training factory to school young programmers, and finally applying artificial intelligence.
What will the first three phases look like?
The first phase is concrete and measurable: assembling the robots. The second phase is the part that gives the project meaning over the longer term, a training factory meant to school young programmers to work with this technology. The third phase is applying artificial intelligence, the part that turns the robots from an assembled product into something that actually does a job.
The order matters here. It is easier to bring in a finished machine than to build a team of people who know how to maintain it, program it and upgrade it. If the training factory takes hold, something stays behind that does not get packed back into a container once the contract ends.
What does the partnership with China bring?
During the visit to China, deals worth around 953 million euros were signed. Five humanoid robots greeted the delegation by dancing a kolo at the innovation centre of the company Mint, which was the most striking scene of the whole visit.
The Chinese companies SHAC and BMTS Technology are expanding their operations in Novi Sad. The investments are not concentrated in one city; they are spread across Novi Sad, Zrenjanin, Sabac and Nis. That spread may be the most important detail, because it shows this is not one factory but a network of locations.
It remains to be seen what the first robots coming off the assembly line in mid-June will look like, and how quickly the second phase, the one with the young programmers, follows them.
Would you send your child to train at a humanoid robot training factory?
