BEIJING, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) — The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China:

SPACE STATION

Experiments of the first batch of international payloads selected under cooperation between China and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs will soon take place on the Tiangong space station, the China Manned Space Agency said on Friday.

An agency spokesperson, Lin Xiqiang, made the remarks at a press conference. He added that 10 space application projects, jointly implemented with the European Space Agency, are in steady progress.

HUMANOIDS

Chinese tech companies are venturing into human-like robotics in an attempt to cash in on the huge market opportunities in coming years.

At the weeklong World Robot Conference 2023 (WRC 2023) in Beijing, which began Wednesday, eager attendees were treated to a remarkable display of cutting-edge robotic prowess. The humanoids arguably took center stage, astonishing enthralled visitors with mesmerizing dance routines, jaw-dropping somersaults and meticulously choreographed hand gestures.

AI PLATFORM

China’s deep-learning platform PaddlePaddle has served more than 8 million users and 220,000 enterprises globally, its developer said on Thursday.

PaddlePaddle is an open-source deep-learning framework released by the National Engineering Research Center of Deep Learning Technology and Application. It provides users with a rich set of tools and resources needed to build deep-learning applications. Currently, the platform has created 800,000 models.