December 27, according to "each Auto" 26, citing independent sources.BYD Company (company name)The fifteenth division set up a special team to develop embodied intelligence, with Luo Zhongliang, the division's top executive, directly supervising the project.
Sources familiar with the matter revealed that the fifteenth division in the first half of this year for organizational restructuring, the division's Science and Technology Research Institute split a portion of the staff to set up an artificial intelligence laboratory, later renamed the future laboratory.Positioned to do embodied intelligence, containingrobot, is currently recruiting relevant talents on a large scale.
The report quotes a candidate involved in this year's fall recruiting as saying that BYD Future Labs offered a salary package "very substantial" and recruited a lot of PhDs. Two people through the interview revealed that the laboratory's initial goal is industrial robot landing, the main form of AGV (class wheeled mobile robot), the rest of the embodied form is still in the pre-research stage.
Note: BYD 15th Division was established in 2003, formerly known as the 15th and 16th Division, renamed FDD Technology in 2019, which mainly develops, produces and sells automotive parts and components products and provides complete sets of parts and components solutions, with products coveringBatteries, motors, electronic systemsand other three major areas, providing key components for BYD Auto and other new energy vehicle brands. BYD employee sources said that this year FDD Technology was renamed again as the 15th Division.
It is worth mentioning that "BYD Recruitment" official microblogging in the middle of this month released the 25th session of the Intelligent Research Team special recruitment information, recruiting positions including senior algorithm engineers, senior structural engineers, senior simulation engineers, etc., the market will be interpreted as the BYD formally down to do robotics official signals.
China's humanoid robotics company "Ubiquitous" was invested by BYD in its early days. In October of this year, Ubitus released Walker S1, a new generation of industrial humanoid robot, into BYD and other auto factories for practical training.
