Monaco Telecom’s ties with Huawei gave 25 executives from 17 Monegasque companies a rare look inside the Chinese technology giant’s research operation in Shenzhen, the centrepiece of a week-long trade mission to China that ended on Tuesday.
The Monaco Chamber of Commerce mission ran from Tuesday 3rd to Tuesday 10th November and also took in Hong Kong and Macao, in China’s Pearl River Delta. It follows the first high-level bilateral economic talks between Monaco and China in more than 13 years, held in the Principality in May, as reported by Monaco Life.
Monaco Telecom’s Huawei connection
Monaco Telecom chief executive Martin Péronnet played a key role in arranging the Huawei visit, according to the Chamber, which pointed to the relationship between the two companies through Xavier Niel, one of Monaco Telecom’s shareholders. The operator has worked with Huawei on the Principality’s 5G network, as reported by Monaco Life.
AI for banking, hospitality and energy
The Shenzhen briefing focused on Huawei’s research and development, which the Chamber said employs around 114,000 of the company’s 215,000 staff worldwide, more than half its workforce. Huawei presented its work on smart cities and outlined potential uses for artificial intelligence across several industries.
The presentation covered applications in banking, telecommunications, hospitality, events and retail. It also looked at how the technology could be used in warehouse management, transport and energy distribution, with a focus on renewable energy.
Healthcare data from Shanghai
One example discussed during the visit was a database of clinical cases first set up at a hospital in Shanghai, which the Chamber said is now expanding across China. Huawei’s presentation explored how artificial intelligence could be used to analyse the cases held in such a database.
Inside a humanoid robotics lab
The delegation ended its Shenzhen visit at a robotics research laboratory, which the Chamber described as one of the most advanced in the world. There, the group watched humanoid robots demonstrate their movements and saw lifelike human replicas.
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