Wolfram Burgard, Coordinator of BrainLinks-BrainTools and President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, opens the World Robot Conference (RRC) in Beijing. At the biggest Robotics Conference in China, which also hosts a comprehensive exhibition with plenty of robotics companies from china, Burgard spoke directly after Liu He, the Vice Premier of the Peoples Republic of China. Robotics as well as digitization plays important role in China, particularly because of the enormous market. Because of the rapid developments in robotics in China, the WRC, which took place for the fifth time in a row, also attracts plenty of people from all parts of the world.