(Yicai Global) Aug. 25 -- One of the patents Chinese electronics manufacturing giant Huawei Technologies was granted this month the market sees as signaling the company’s key positioning in the robotics field, corporate information platform Tianyancha reported yesterday.

The invention summary shows that the new technology, described as “a method to control robots, with an apparatus, robot and storage media,” first acquires a target’s location information, then controls a robot to pivot accordingly, while dynamically adjusting the output images from display modules on it to simulate eyes during these pivots.

Shenzhen-based Huawei did not respond to a question by Yicai Global about the use of this patent.

Huawei Consumer Business Group still focuses on handsets and related scenarios, and the electronics-manufacturing titan participates in industrial robotics in more of a supporting role, according to its public business positioning model;, though rumor holds Huawei is now working on a line of household robots.

The fifth-generation mobile network giant’s own plants have also begun to apply artificial intelligence and other technologies to achieve automated production, Yicai Global learned from a Huawei insider.

These smart technologies will penetrate to everyone, each family and organization, and about 58 percent of the global population will enjoy 5G networks, 14 percent of the world’s families will have ‘robot butlers/stewards’ and 97 percent of large companies will adopt AI by 2025, Huawei said in the ‘Global Industry Vision 2025’ report it released last year, that added automation and robotics, especially AI-equipped robots, will change the way people live and work.

“Smart automation will be widely applied in construction, manufacturing, healthcare and other fields, and every 10,000 employees in industry will work jointly with 103 robots by 2025. Robots specialized in nursing, social networking, housekeeping, bionic ones and others in varied forms will emerge in the household management, education and healthcare services sectors, bringing new lifestyles, as material science, perceptual artificial intelligence, 5G, cloud computing and other network-related technologies make constant progress,” Huawei also added.

Editors: Liao Shumin, Ben Armour