Latest robots are on display at the China International Robot Show 2015 in Shanghai on July 8, 2015. [Photo: Imagine China]

This year's China International Robot Show is currently underway in Shanghai.

Over 2-thousand robots, including industrial robots, service robots and specialist robots, are on display at the three-day event.

Qu Daokui, director-general of the China Robot Industry Alliance, says humans should make good use of robots but also be aware of their negative effects.

"Now we think that technology is a double-edged sword. On one hand, we should let robots contribute to social development. On the other hand, we should reduce their negative effects to a minimum."

Service robots have been popular at the show.

The current market size of service robots is nearly two billion US dollars despite the fact that service robots haven't been used in everyday life for very long.

Gao Feng, a professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, says it will have dramatic growth in the near future.

"The technology of industrial robots is already quite mature at the moment. They are widely applied in the production of power generators, monitors, drives, processors and so on. These robots have been standardized and can be purchased all around the globe."

This is the fourth annual CIROS show since its foundation in 2012.