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Shanghai has launched a comprehensive action plan to revolutionize elderly care services and address the challenges posed by its rapidly aging population.

近日，上海制定了《上海市推进养老科技创新发展行动方案（2024-2027年）》（以下简称《行动方案》），旨在推动养老服务变革，应对人口快速老龄化带来的挑战。

According to the plan, the city aims to harness cutting-edge technology to enhance the quality of life for seniors and emerge as a global leader in technological innovation and industrial advancement in elderly care by 2027.

根据《行动方案》，该市的目标是利用尖端技术提高老年人的生活质量，并目标到2027年，初步建成养老科技创新与产业发展高地。

The plan encompasses the establishment of an elderly care technology industrial park, state-of-the-art incubators, enterprise innovation hubs and research platforms. Central to the initiative is the nurturing of leading enterprises, the creation of demonstration sites for elderly care technology products, and the application of these innovations to cater to diverse needs.

该方案包括创建1个养老科技产业园，建成1-2个高质量孵化器、3-5个企业技术创新中心、1-2个研发测试公共服务平台，引进培育5-10家龙头企业，初步建成上海市基本养老服务综合平台。

Specifically, the plan highlights the integration of artificial intelligence technology, calling for the development of AI models and algorithms for voice, facial, emotion and motion recognition and environmental perception.

It aims to enhance the autonomous perception, learning, decision-making and execution capabilities of elderly care technology products through the development of embodied intelligence and generative artificial intelligence technologies.

《行动方案》将研发用于语音、人脸、情感、动作识别和环境感知的人工智能模型与算法，研发具身智能、生成式人工智能等新技术，提高养老科技产品自主感知、自主学习、自主决策、自主执行等能力。

In terms of key product development, the plan categorizes products into six groups such as life assistance, health services and rehabilitation aids, with a particular focus on robots.

在重点产品开发方面，将产品分为生命辅助、健康服务、康复辅助等六大类，尤其以机器人为重点。

Various types of robots including rehabilitation, exoskeleton, nursing and companion robots are mentioned multiple times in the plan. Embodied intelligent or humanoid robots are seen as a key sol