iREX 2017 international robot exhibiton started on November 29, 2017 in Tokyo, Japan. The exhibition has gathered 612 robot companies and organizations to participate, and the number of visitors has reached more than 100,000. iREX is the largest robot exhibition in the world. It is held every two years.
In this exhibition, Beijing Ecarelife Tech. Co., Ltd. showed the first generation of nursing robot products. The robot is mainly for elder, disabled and wounded people who are inconvenient in moving by themselves. The robot is designed to help them living at home independently without the assist of nursing staff. The product has caused a strong repercussion and gained a lot of praise.