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一 |     机器人前瞻（公众号：robot_pro）     作者 | 周加琦     编辑 | 漠影          机器人前瞻7月23日获悉，今天，被称为“杭州新八骏”之一的数据服务商，景联文科技宣布完成近亿元A轮融资，本轮融资由滨江金投领投，杭州金投、创新数谷基金、安恒信息、玉禾田等产业资本共同参与。    On August 10, 1961, American forces for the first time spayed Agent Orange in Vietnam as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand.,Here’s a closer look into this highly toxic defoliant chemical, the use of which by the US military during the 1955-1975 Vietnam War resulted in up to one million people being disabled, according to the Red Cross of Vietnam’s estimates.,What is Agent Orange?,The defoliant derived its name from the color of the orange-striped US gallon barrels in which the chemical was shipped and stored.,It was created in 1940 and used in the United States as an agricultural defoliant, as it had the ability to kill some plants while leaving others unaffected.,Using the Defense Production Act of 1950, the US government prodded several American companies to make Agent Orange for military use. A 50:50 mixture of the herbicides 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D, the defoliant contains an extremely toxic dioxin compound.,Effects of Agent Orange,A 50:50 mixture of the 2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid and 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, Agent Orange contains the Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, or TCDD, the most toxic of the dioxins, classified as a human carcinogen by the US Environmental Protection Agency.,Even short-term exposure to TCDD can cause cancer, liver problems and a severe acne-like skin disease, known as chloracne. The dioxin is also linked to type 2 diabetes, immune system dysfunction, nerve disorders, muscular dysfunction, hormone disruption and heart disease.,Additionally, the chemical can cause miscarriages, spina bifida and other problems with fetal brain and nervous system development.,Use of Agent Orange in Vietnam,During the 1955-1975 Vietnam war, the first US defoliation missions were launched near the Vietnamese village of Dak To in 1961.,The goal was to remove cover and concealment used by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army, so as to reveal hidden bases, communications centers and potential targets, and to improve visibility in tracking troop movements.,More than 13 million gallons (about 59 million liters) of Agent Orange was used by the US military in Vietnam, or almost two-thirds of the total amount of herbicides used during the entire Vietnam War.,The chemical was available in slightly different mixtures, sometimes referred to as Agent Orange I, Agent Orange II, Agent Orange III and “Super Orange”.,End of Agent Orange?,In 1969, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) urged the Pentagon to end its use of herbicides containing dioxin, specifically Agent Orange, something that the Department of Defense (DoD) eventually did.,Even so, the defoliation campaign continued, with the US military switching to Agent White, a chemical herbicide that did not contain the dioxin contaminant.,In May 1970, the US Air Force (USAF) flew its last defoliation mission, and almost a year later, the DoD announced that all crop destruction missions would also cease.,The remaining 2.22 million gallons of Agent Orange were moved by the USAF to Johnston Island Atoll in the South Pacific, where they were incinerated.,Legacy,The Vietnamese government said that up to four million people in the country were exposed to Agent Orange, and as many as three million people had suffered illness because of the defoliant.,The Vietnam Red Cross in turn pointed out that the defoliant had affected at least 150,000 children, and that babies in Vietnam are still being born with birth defects due to Agent Orange. In this regard, numerous studies revealed that dioxin levels are still in place in the blood samples of the citizens of both North and South Vietnam.,The chemical also caused immense environmental damage in Vietnam, with more than 3,100,000 hectares (31,000 km2) of forest being defoliated ( for comparison's sake, Taiwan measures 36,197 km2).,Opinion & AnalysisAnniversary of Agent Orange Disaster: Only United Can We Relieve the Suffering of Many Generations10:21 GMT,Agent Orange-related issues also emerged in the US after an increasing number of returning Vietnam veterans and their families began to report a range of health problems, including skin irritations, miscarriages, psychological symptoms, type 2 diabetes, birth defects in children and cancers such as Hodgkin’s disease, prostate cancer and leukemia.,1979 saw a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of 2.4 million US veterans, who were exposed to Agent Orange during their service in Vietnam. In 1984, seven major US chemical companies that manufactured the defoliant agreed to pay $180 million in damages to the veterans or their next of kin.,Vietnam War,The 1955-1975 Vietnam War, which involved Laos and Cambodia, pitted communist North Vietnam and the Viet Cong revolutionary organization against South Vietnam, supported by Washington.,Preconditions for the war pertained to the desire of North Vietnam, which defeated the French colonial administration in 1954, to unify the entire country under a single communist authority, like in the Soviet Union or China. The South Vietnamese government, for its part, sought to preserve a Vietnam more closely aligned with the West.,The US was concerned over the spread of communism to South Vietnam and then to the rest of Asia, which prompted Washington to end money, supplies and military advisers to help the South Vietnamese government.,On August 2, 1964, North Vietnamese boats attacked a US Navy destroyer, the USS Maddox, patrolling in the Gulf of Tonkin near Vietnam, in what was used by the White House as a pretext to escalate the war and send American combat units to the South East Asian country. However, the US costs and casualties in the war prompted Washington to withdraw American troops by 1973, and a couple of years later, South Vietnam fell to a full-scale invasion by the North.,An array of war crimes was committed by the US military during the war, including the My Lai massacre, in which up to 504 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians, including women, children, and infants, were killed by US Army soldiers on March 16, 1968.,Another war crime pertains to Operation Speedy Express, conducted by the US Army in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta between December 1968 and May 1969 as part of the American military’s effort to pacify the Viet Cong. The operation led to 5,000 to 7,000 casualties who were reported to have been civilians.。

二 |          半个月前，景联文科技刚刚官宣麦迪科技成为其战略股东。         据悉，景联文科技本轮融资资金将用于升级SolarSense多模态数据工程平台、QApex数据生态平台，完善具身智能、工业、医疗、大模型等重点领域的数据生产体系，加快全国数据采集网络和产业生态建设。

三 |          景联文科技成立于2012年，该公司深入医疗、流程工业、具身智能、城市运行等真实场景，围绕数据采集、治理、质量评测和可信流通等环节，构建AI数据基础设施能力。         6月初，国家数据局印发《关于推进行业高质量数据集建设行动的实施方案》。方案中指出，要围绕行业高质量数据集供给、流通、应用等关键环节，部署专项行动并形成“数据飞轮”，到2028年底，建成一批覆盖重点领域、经过应用验证的行业高质量数据集。         此外，智元、乐聚等头部机器人企业也在持续完善数据体系，不少具身数据企业完成融资。

四 |          它们共同指向一个变化：国家和资本开始重点关注模型背后的真实数据。         过去大模型的发展主要依赖互联网数据。         但具身智能想要真正规模化落地应用、医疗AI理解真实理疗流程、工业AI掌握生产现场动态变化，仅靠互联网数据无法解决，需要大量且高质量的真实世界数据。         景联文科技的发展和布局正是围绕此展开。         景联文科技CEO刘云涛，是国家信息技术标准《可扩展的生物特征识别数据交换格式第4部分：指纹图像数据》第一起草人、国际标准化组织（ISO）注册专家。他于2019年加入景联文科技，带动公司转型布局数据服务赛道。         ▲景联文科技CEO 刘云涛（图源：景联文科技）          景联文科技自研了SolarSense多模态数据工程平台与QApex数据生态平台：          SolarSense平台，面向多源异构数据的全生命周期管理与运营场景，构建了从数据采集、治理、标注、质检、增强到编目运营的“全流程语料工程体系”。         ▲SolarSense多模态数据工程平台（图源：景联文科技）          QApex平台聚焦数据生产、管理和应用等环节，提升数据资源组织和利用效率。

五 |          在医疗领域，景联文科技推动临床知识和诊疗流程向AI可学习数据转化；在工业领域，该公司将生产现场经验沉淀为工业AI训练数据。         在具身智能领域，景联文科技参与国家具身智能应用中试基地共建。该公司提供合成、仿真数据，并打造具身数据异构平台。

六 | 该平台可处理机械臂、人形机器人等多本体、多传感器数据的格式差异。         依托自研SolarSense与QApex平台，景联文科技采用“预标注+人工精修”的人机协同模式，支持多类型标注，精度最高达99.5%。该公司还提供模型训练和验证、数据集版本化管理与全链路追溯等。         此外，景联文还在芜湖、重庆、贵阳自建具身智能数采基地，推出百万小时的无本体Ego数据集。         ▲景联文科技数采基地布局图（图源：景联文科技）          目前，景联文科技已实现11大领域、70余种具身智能业务场景的全面布局，涵盖家居、零售、物流等各行业，已服务包含华为、阿里、腾讯等在内的1000+客户，复购率90%+。

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