China Government Highlights Hikvision Sorting Robots, Receives Global Good Press

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John Honovich
•Apr 17, 2017
IPVM

Last week, the Chinese government released a video of Hikvision's package sorting robots, embedded below:

It has been very well received, with 500,000 views and subsequent articles running on publications as diverse as CNBC, Breitbart, DailyMail, The Verge, etc.

None of the coverage, including the Chinese government's own initial video, discusses Hikvision's ownership or Hikvision's video surveillance offerings.

Most of the coverage focuses on the overall trend of robotics replacing workers. None of it really investigates how good or bad the technology is as the video focuses on one China user of the robotics.

Hikvision has been developing and talking about expanding outside of video surveillance, e.g., into drones and robots, as explained in this Chinese government 2016 piece.

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John Honovich
•Apr 17, 2017
IPVM

Btw, it is ironic that the Chinese government is promoting this on YouTube considering YouTube is banned inside China.

The People's Daily YouTube channel is dedicated to marketing Chinese interests so impossible to tell how good or bad the Hikvision robots are based off of it, but it is a marketing success.

Other People's Daily YouTube posts:

And:

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Sean Nelson
•Apr 17, 2017
Nelly's Security

Those little boogers are fast.

In other headlines: "USPS in total financial meltdown, Hikvision to the rescue"

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Ethan Ace
•Apr 17, 2017

Wow I just saw a video of this and didn't realize they all said Hikvision on them. 

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Undisclosed #1
•Apr 17, 2017
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None of it really investigates how good or bad the technology is as the video focuses on one China user of the robotics.

Nor the true source of the technology:

Hikvision Creates a Warehousing Robot?

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Marty Calhoun
•May 25, 2017
IPVMU Certified

Did it ever occur to anyone that they choose not to mention it because 99% of companies in China have some part government ownership and its a GLOBALLY KNOWN fact. It appears that CNBC, BreitBart News, DailyMail and the Verge are all on the same page and have deemed that information too frivolous to mention, take note?

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John Honovich
•May 25, 2017
IPVM
In reply to Marty Calhoun

It appears that CNBC, BreitBart News, DailyMail and the Verge are all on the same page and have deemed that information too frivolous to mention, take note?

The simpler reason is that these organizations post dozens or hundreds of items like this per day and are not going to do any research (good or bad) beyond paraphrasing the original announcement.

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