Imaginative visions of future create new dynamic to city

Technological strength

Earlier this year, the film The Wandering Earth II was released. Hardcore technologies such as controllable nuclear fusion, a space elevator, virtual digital humans and exoskeleton robots in the film sparked nationwide discussions.

As the place where Liu's original novel The Wandering Earth was published and also the production location of many special effects in the film, Chengdu is not only the starting point of The Wandering Earth, but provides vital support for the film. Moreover, some of the seemingly distant future technologies in the film are becoming a reality in Chengdu.

In the film, humans plan to install thousands of giant planetary engines on Earth, which rely on the enormous energy generated by heavy nuclear fusion to propel the Earth on a "wandering journey".

In reality, the HL-2M Tokamak device, known as China's new-generation "artificial sun" in the Southwestern Institute of Physics under the China National Nuclear Corporation, announced the operation of high-confinement mode under a plasma current of 1 million amperes for the first time in August. It marked a milestone in China's magnetic confinement fusion research toward high-performance fusion plasma operation.

Currently, Chengdu is building a technological innovation center with national influence. A series of "Made in Chengdu" technological achievements such as domestically produced nanopore gene sequencers, cadmium telluride power-generating glass, flying cars and high-temperature superconducting maglev trains are emerging at an unprecedented speed.

Buffalo Robotics Technology (Chengdu), a pioneer of exoskeleton robots in China, is the industrial base of the Robot Research Center of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. It has independently developed an exoskeleton robot called the Weight-Reducing Gait Trainer, which has obtained the medical device registration certificate by the China Food and Drug Administration.

"Currently, Buffalo is developing the fifth-generation exoskeleton robot by using human-computer interaction technology to achieve brain-consciousness control of machines to execute instructions and achieve precise rehabilitation," robots in China, is the industrial base of the Robot Research Center of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. It has independently developed an exoskeleton robot called the Weight-Reducing Gait Trainer, which has obtained the medical device registration certificate by the China Food and Drug Administration.

"Currently, Buffalo is developing the fifth-generation exoskeleton robot by using human-computer interaction technology to achieve brain-consciousness control of machines to execute instructions and achieve precise rehabilitation," said the person in charge of Buffalo's robot project.

According to the Global Innovation Index 2023 recently released by the World Intellectual Property Organization, Chengdu surpassed Chicago and Houston in the top 100 list of technological clusters, ranking 24th globally, rising five places compared to 2022.