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Author: piano
force at 5,000,000 AI talent shortage moment, blue-collar and AI digital application-level talent sorely lacking, followed by the algorithm personnel and research personnel. As an important role of colleges and universities in carrying talents export, with the help of artificial intelligence and robotics companies Youbid Technology, the situation of AI talent colleges is opening up.
In the training and electromechanical exhibition hall of the 55th China Higher Education Expo (abbreviated as Gaobo), the bright-looking large biped robots, quadruped robots and robotic arms attracted the attention of exhibitors. In the engineering training link that often deals with hardware and equipment, teaching equipment gradually moves closer to artificial intelligence +, robots, and the Internet of Things. On the other hand, in the era of digital industrialization and upgrading, the market demand for AI application talents, intelligent manufacturing and other talents is huge, which is forcing reforms in talent training in universities. In particular, after the country has strongly supported the establishment of artificial intelligence and robotics-related disciplines in the past two years, it has also exposed many problems such as the shortage of AI teachers in colleges and universities, and the unsound training system.
In order to solve the problem of “building in universities” for AI talents, the integration of production and education, and school-enterprise cooperation are commonly used cooperation modes. Under normal circumstances, colleges and universities need to determine the talent training plan first. Secondly, according to the school's talent training plan, the enterprise provides a plan covering teaching design and skills training, and finally completes the closed loop of talent output training.
What companies need to do is to "provide modular and customizable artificial intelligence and robotics solutions based on the school's different training directions and characteristics." Qi Jianwei, general manager of the Education Department of University of Science and Technology, believes that it is difficult to achieve sustainable AI talent training. In fact, to support a complete set of talent training programs for empowering colleges and universities requires comprehensive and solid technology, services, products, and even software and hardware supply chains to support . In the eight years since the establishment of
, Ubisoft has built a moat in the intelligent service ecosystem of "hardware + software + service + content" with intelligent robots as the carrier and artificial intelligence technology as the core.
However, judging from the news released by UBTECH in recent years, the outside world knows more about the company's technology and product application strength in artificial intelligence and robots, including the implementation of artificial intelligence education in the basic education stage of many primary and secondary schools. And all kinds of competitions, but I don’t know that they have already deployed in the field of higher education, using artificial intelligence and robotics solutions as a breakthrough to participate in the army of millions of AI talent gaps.
To a certain extent, in the field of higher education, Ubisoft's ability to focus on artificial intelligence and robotics-related disciplines and technologies has been fully released and presented.
First of all, Ubisoft has built several knowledge systems, such as voice interaction, machine vision, motion control, positioning and navigation, perception and sensors, machine learning, etc., based on years of product and technology accumulation in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics. Teaching and research experts conduct research and development to form a customized curriculum system suitable for new disciplines in universities;
is followed by a rich robot product line, which serves as a new carrier connecting university production, education and research;
is a mature platform and talents that can provide universities with new training Experimental training and scientific research platform for engineering talents.
At the moment when 5 million AI application-oriented talents are in short supply, colleges and universities play an important role in carrying talent export. With the help of Ubisoft Technology, the situation of AI talent "university creation" is opening up.
1. The beginning of AI talent training
In 2018, no colleges and universities across the country opened artificial intelligence majors. Until 2019, 35 colleges and universities across the country opened artificial intelligence majors for the first time. As of June this year, the number of artificial intelligence majors has increased to 215. Intuitively, from the data point of view, the 6-fold increase in professional opening speed is beyond imagination.
also grows with robotics. As of June this year, the number of undergraduates offering robotics engineering programs has increased from 85 in 2018 to 249. The number of vocational industrial robots opened reached 704 in the first half of this year.
"Technology is developing, and the times have changed." Before joining UBTECH, Qi Jianwei was responsible for the operation of robotics projects in colleges and universities for a long time, seeing that the speed of cultivating AI and robotics talents in colleges and universities could not keep up.He sighs from the heart of the industry's demand for talents.
With the rapid development of science and technology, from the perspective of demand, robots are now being widely used in industrial manufacturing, agricultural production, national defense and military industry, service industries, and even all aspects of people's lives. Relevant professional talents respond to the booming market demand, and the corresponding talent training has become a difficult problem that domestic universities and enterprises have to face.
The establishment of schools and enterprises is an important way to solve the huge gap of applied talents in the field of AI and robotics.
School-enterprise joint construction is not difficult. "The key lies in how to better adapt the training standards of college talents to the employment standards of industries and enterprises." A senior practitioner in the education industry once told the heart of the machine. The method of
You Must Select Technology is to calculate from the export of talents, clarify the needs of the industry, and then build majors and courses with the school.
Qi Jianwei divides the needs of industrial talents in a pyramid shape. The development of artificial intelligence and robotics requires four different levels of AI talents: digital blue-collar talents, application talents, algorithm talents, and scientific research talents .
Currently, there is a corresponding shortage of talents in these four sectors. In the short term, we must first make up for digital blue-collar and application-level talents, algorithm talents who export R&D and innovation, and scientific research talents who focus on the transformation of technological achievements. Compared with the first two, the demand is slightly less, but it does not mean that the market is saturated, and the requirements for educational background and experience are higher. For long-term strategic deployment,
also needs to focus on the complement of scientific research and algorithm talents. Only breakthroughs in basic technology can enable my country to form a strategic advantage over other countries in artificial intelligence, and breakthroughs in scientific research and algorithm talents are needed for long-term advantages. Therefore, talents at these four levels are indispensable.
Excellent and mandatory college education covers four levels of talent training needs.
In clarifying the demand for industrial talents, Ubisoft has divided the AI talent training program into four main directions, namely comprehensive scientific research, experimental teaching, industrial training and science and innovation education, for undergraduate colleges, vocational colleges and research institutions Provide different types of products and solutions, rely on the accumulation of scientific research technology, products and applications in the direction of artificial intelligence and robotics, provide multi-dimensional school-enterprise cooperation, and establish an OBE-based production-education integration talent training model.
In the undergraduate and vocational school teaching system, the biggest advantage of Ubisoft Technology is that it has developed a customized curriculum system suitable for new disciplines around its mature products, technology and platform, and the integration of schools and enterprises to jointly explore a new mode of talent training .
is an excellent and must-chosen school-enterprise joint talent training system for college education.
For example, in the new undergraduate major—robot engineering, excellent university education integrates robotic programming, motion control, positioning and navigation, machine vision and other systematic knowledge into the required, optional and core courses of undergraduate teaching. Its core courses include motion control, modeling control, positioning and navigation, and an introduction to perception and sensors, and artificial intelligence, supplemented by robot applications in different scenarios as a comprehensive practical course, through which you must select mature products, technologies and platforms.
Specifically, undergraduate, higher vocational and secondary vocational robotics courses have their own focuses, which are closely related to the training methods of professional students in colleges. Higher vocational and secondary vocational schools are more practical, while undergraduates are more inclined to systematic knowledge teaching.
According to Qi Jianwei, some juniors and seniors have already used Ubisoft's artificial intelligence & robot teaching supporting system and have graduated from school. In the future, you must choose college education solutions to cover major provincial and municipal schools. In terms of college layout, commercialization can be expected.
2. Closed loop of talent training: from teaching, certificate issuance to employment
In Guangdong Vocational College of Science and Technology, in order to let students have a deep understanding of the robot production line, Ubisoft also creates conditions for students to participate in the production line work. This point of
fits exactly with the vocational technical school’s goal of training students, that is, to strengthen the hands-on and operational skills. A similar case of
is Guangzhou Light Industry Vocational School. UBTECH cooperated with the school to carry out the professional construction of service robot assembly and maintenance (artificial intelligence application), and jointly built a robot collaborative innovation base and industry-university training base to cultivate talents and expand employment paths.
Now in the robot chain including industrial robots and service robots, how many production lines areIt is almost automatic operation, but it does not mean that it needs to be separated from manual work. However, the required types of work require a certain knowledge of robots for maintenance, production, installation, and debugging.
Especially under the penetration of digitalization and intelligent manufacturing, the labor factor has also been repeatedly mentioned, and the manufacturing industry lacks blue-collar talents with strong skills. In addition to starting from the needs of the industry and formulating a talent training system with universities, UBTECH also undertakes part of the talent export work.
It is worth mentioning that this year UBTECH has also participated in the fourth batch of 1+X vocational skill level certificate pilot work of the Ministry of Education, and has obtained two 1+X certificates in the field of service robots: service robot application development, service robot Implementation and operation and maintenance.
Qi Jianwei said that Ubican Technology has always believed that one day robots will enter thousands of households. The significance of these two vocational skill level certificates is that Ubican Technology is willing to cooperate with industrial chain partners and robot companies in other fields. Work together to formulate industry standards for talent training in the field of service robots.
is closely related to the training of talents in new disciplines as well as experimental training scenarios. At the China High-Tech Expo, UBTECH highlighted some experimental training demonstrations of its popular products, including teaching & industrial application innovation platform Cruzr, AI experimental training platform, artificial intelligence & robotics teaching platform Yanshee, artificial intelligence teaching and tools Kit AI box, creative open source robot teaching platform uKit Explore, humanoid robot education platform Wukong, etc.
Teaching & Industrial Application Innovation Platform Cruzr.
Artificial Intelligence & Robot Teaching Platform Yanshee.
Experimental training is an important link in the training of engineering talents as a bridge connecting the needs of universities and industry. On the one hand, you must choose college education to carry out experimental teaching with diversified artificial intelligence platforms and robots as the carrier, and cultivate compound talents according to the experimental teaching needs of professional knowledge or comprehensive applications; on the other hand, to cultivate the artificial personnel in the industry. Intelligent robots are used as the carrier to carry out industrial training, promote the precise connection of talent training and industrial demand, and promote the training of AI application talents in industries such as business services, security inspections, intelligent manufacturing, and artificial intelligence education.
In addition to experimental training, there is another important capability of Ubisoft's layout in the field of universities, "research and competition".
The high-profile large-scale humanoid service robot Walker at this exhibition is the core scientific research platform for the scientific research scenes of the university education. The Walker platform includes standard hardware, a simulation platform, and supporting software services. With the advantages of its algorithm and hardware platform, universities and research institutions can conduct scientific research in multiple ways.
The organizer of the China Hi-Tech Fair interviewed the Walker scientific research platform. In addition to Walker, in response to the comprehensive scientific research needs of universities and research institutes, UBT College Education also opens up key core technologies and products such as UBT Master robot motion control, high torque, and high-precision servo drives to help breakthrough innovations in cutting-edge technologies.
You must choose the comprehensive scientific research product series.
You must choose force control servo driver.
UBT-Master Central control of robot movement.
Take Tsinghua University as an example. In 2016, UBTECH and Tsinghua University established a joint laboratory for intelligent service robots, focusing on the research and development of cutting-edge humanoid robot technologies, and achieved world-class results in core key technologies. From 2017 to 2019, the Hephaestus team, jointly formed by the two parties, used Walker robots to participate in RoboCup, the world’s most influential professional robot competition with the highest comprehensive technical level and the widest participation. It won the humanoid robot Adult Size group technical challenge for three consecutive years. Race runner-up.
At this point, the education solutions of Ubisoft Colleges and Universities have already spanned the fields of undergraduates, vocational colleges and scientific research institutions. Afterwards, Ubisoft College Education will also combine competitions with courses, certificates, industry and scientific research, with a "course + competition" ”Test the results of teaching practice, and realize the vocational skill test with "certificate + competition", With "industry + competition" to go deep into the industry, innovation and entrepreneurship, with "scientific research + competition" to achieve openness and win-win, and help the industry's scientific research development. At present, various competitions have been held in cooperation with the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education, Hunan Provincial Department of Education, World Artificial Intelligence Conference, IEEE, and Carnegie Mellon University.
However, it is understandable that since Ubisoft wants to be a benchmark enterprise in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics education in colleges and universities, it must be deep and comprehensive enough to understand the closed loop of talent training in industry, university and research. Scientific research, teaching and competition are indispensable for every link.
3. "The best way to be optimistic about (university education) is to focus on investment"
According to predictions, by 2030, artificial intelligence will drive China's GDP to increase by 7 trillion US dollars and create 13 trillion US dollars in revenue for global economic activities. Talents are important leaders and creators. If they complement their capabilities in the industry, China's artificial intelligence industry will be immeasurable. The more realistic problem with
is that talent investment requires time and investment. It seems that it is only the transfer of knowledge and the cultivation of ability, but as an artificial intelligence company, Ubican has to empower the education ecology of colleges and universities, and it must balance input and output.
Qi Jianwei said that UBE College Education will gather the strengths of various departments of the company to empower AI talent training in universities, including UBE Technology’s existing capabilities in scientific research, competition, products and services. "Once you are optimistic, you will invest in it for a long time." He also said that since the establishment of the Education Department of the University Education Department last year, it is not accidental, but the inevitable result of the company's development.
As far as the existing ecology of Ubisoft Technology is concerned, it already covers through-type artificial intelligence and robot education solutions at all stages of elementary school, middle school, and college.
In the long run, while Ubisoft is doing college education business, it will better understand the needs of colleges and industries for talent training. Relying on the talent training needs of colleges and universities, it will also better guide primary and secondary school students how to learn artificial intelligence. Therefore, the connection between colleges and K12 is complementary.
According to the results of the implementation, Youbixuan Technology has launched nearly 2,000 primary and secondary schools in China, and has cooperated with Tsinghua University, Carnegie Mellon University, Beihang University, Tongji University, Southern University of Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Many universities at home and abroad, such as Guangzhou Light Industry Vocational School, Guangdong Vocational College of Science and Technology, Nanjing Xiaozhuang College, have carried out various forms of cooperation such as teacher training and collaborative education.
In contrast, the trend of artificial intelligence disciplines is similar to the wave of IT technology in the early years, except for the different goals of talent training, the path is basically similar. One concern is that when the AI and robotics talent market becomes saturated when the entire large market is placed, will the integration of industry and education still need to fill the talent gap?
Qi Jianwei believes that artificial intelligence and robotics are still in the early stage of rapid development. From the perspective of long-term development, it is certain that the AI and robotics industry is developing rapidly, and the demand for talents will only increase.
As for the specific development of the entire industry in ten or twenty years, no one can give precise predictions. But what is certain is that "Once we are going to invest in education, the only thing we can do is to continuously optimize and invest in long-term, and be in awe of education from beginning to end, and be responsible for every education user."
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