BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China.

INDUSTRIAL ROBOT MARKET

China has remained the world's largest market for industrial robots for an 11th consecutive year, an official with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said Thursday at the ongoing 2024 World Robot Conference in Beijing.

Data shows that in 2023, China's industrial robot production had reached 430,000 sets, while the country's newly added robot installations accounted for more than half of the global market over the past three years, said Xin Guobin, vice minister of the MIIT.

ANTIMATTER DISCOVERY

A joint research team made up of Chinese and foreign physicists has observed a new antimatter hypernucleus, by using a heavy ion collider in the United States, marking an important step forward in the exploration of antimatter.

The discovery of anti-hyperhydrogen-4, which is the heaviest antimatter hypernucleus observed in experiments to date, was made by a research team led by the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The study was published in the latest issue of the academic journal Nature.

WATER PRODUCTION ON MOON

Chinese researchers have proposed a new method of massive water production through the reaction between lunar regolith and endogenous hydrogen. Their study was published in the journal The Innovation on Thursday.

Researchers from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Institute of Physics of the CAS, China Academy of Space Technology, Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Nanjing University and Harbin Institute of Technology used lunar regolith samples brought back by the Chang'e-5 mission to conduct related studies on various lunar minerals.

They found that the solar wind has irradiated the minerals in lunar soil for billions of years and stored abundant hydrogen. When heated to high temperatures, the hydrogen reacts with the iron oxides in the minerals to form elemental iron and large amounts of water. Enditem

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