A research team from Xinhua News Agency filed two patent applications for its Kuaibi Xiaoxin news writing robot system, which was launched last week to write sports and business news. The system can write in Chinese and English and was tested for months. A news brief that takes a reporter about 10 minutes to write can be done by the robot in only seconds. Developers said the system collects and processes data automatically, and writes according to different formats.

(Source: China Daily)