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December 20, 2011 - Google DeepMind announced that it has partnered with Apptronik to develop a new generation of humanoid robots to address the complex operational challenges of dynamic real-world environments. The collaboration will combine Google's cutting-edge AI technology with Apptronik's proven robotics hardware to further enhance the functionality and safety of humanoid robots, enabling them to perform complex tasks in the real world. 1AI Note: Founded in 2016, Apptronik has been leading innovation in robotics, developing robots including the NASA Valk...

In a blog post yesterday (December 2), LG announced that it will release its first home housekeeping robot, the "Q9 (project name)," next year at an event held at the LG Gasan R&D Campus in Seoul's Geumcheon-gu, South Korea. 1AI cited a press release in which LG detailed the Q9 robot's functions and design, with the goal of making it the centerpiece of the future AI smart home, which will collaborate to control a variety of smart home appliances based on the user's natural voice commands. For example, the user said, "Help me find a fun entertainment TV...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found serious vulnerabilities in a range of AI-enhanced robotic systems that are susceptible to hacking and control. An IEEE Spectrum report cites alarming examples such as hacked robot dogs turning flamethrowers on their owners, guiding bombs to the most destructive locations, and self-driving cars deliberately crashing into pedestrians. According to 1AI, researchers at the Pennsylvania College of Engineering have dubbed the LLM-based robotic attack technique they developed RoboPAIR. from three different robotics vendors...

Jen-Hsun Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA, was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. On that day, he appeared at the degree conferral ceremony and delivered a speech, talking about the changes and outlook of artificial intelligence, as well as his message to graduates. 1AI noted that Jen-Hsun Huang also engaged in an insightful conversation with Council Chairman Shen Xiangyang. Jen-Hsun Huang mentioned that three types of robots are expected to achieve mass production and are almost limited to these three, and that any other types of robots that have appeared in history have struggled to achieve mass production. The three types of robots are: automobiles, because we've spent the last 150 to 200 years...

Galaxy General, a company in the field of embodied intelligence, announced on November 20 that it has completed a RMB 500 million strategic round of financing. Note: Embodied Intelligence refers to the integration of artificial intelligence into physical entities such as robots, giving them the ability to sense, learn, and dynamically interact with their environment. In June of this year, Galaxy General publicly unveiled its first embodied large model robot, Galbot (G1), a wheeled, two-armed humanoid robot with a collapsible body. Officially, Galbot combines two legs into a single one for greater stability and efficiency of movement than foot-and-leg robots that can't bend and flex...

Tesla is refining the design of its Optimus robot to address key bottlenecks in the production process, CEO Elon Musk revealed on Platform X on Thursday. Tesla's Optimus robot could be one of the company's most exciting products in the future. Musk has previously said that he believes the robot will be the most popular product ever because of its powerful features. At the "We, Robot" event in Los Angeles last month, Musk revealed that the robot will sell for between $20,000 and $30,000,...

In order to promote the high-quality development of the robotics industry, advance the development of typical applications of robots, and promote the innovative practice of "Robotics +" applications, Chongqing Municipal Economic and Information Commission, Municipal Education Commission and other eight units jointly issued the "Chongqing Municipal Robotics +" Application Action Plan (2024-2027)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Action Plan") on October 28th. On October 28, Chongqing Municipal Commission of Economy and Information, Municipal Education Commission and other eight units jointly issued "Chongqing Municipal "Robot +" Application Action Plan (2024-2027)" (hereinafter referred to as "Action Plan"). The Action Plan proposes that by 2027, robots will be widely used in various economic and social fields in Chongqing, and the typical demonstration application of robots will be effective. Focusing on the key areas of robot application, breakthroughs in a number of key robot technologies, develop a number of high-end robot products...

Meta has issued a press release describing its FAIR (Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research) team's research on robotic tactile perception, which aims to allow robots to further understand and manipulate external objects through tactile means. Meta said that the core of building appropriate AI robots is to allow the robot's sensors to perceive and understand the physical world, and at the same time use the "AI brain" to accurately control the robot's response to the physical world, while the team is currently developing robotic haptic sensing capabilities to allow the robot to detect the material and tactile sensation of the objects it interacts with, in order to allow AI to judge how the robot is responding to the physical world and how it is feeling. The team is currently developing the robot's tactile sensing capabilities to allow the robot to detect the material and touch of the objects it interacts with, so that it can let the AI judge...

CBSnews reported on October 21 that Sotheby's will hold a "Digital Art Day" auction this month, with a portrait of "AI God" created by humanoid robot artist Ai-Da attracting much attention. The subject of the portrait is Alain Turing, a mathematician and computer scientist who is considered to be the originator of modern computing, and who is also known as the "father of AI," one of the first people to offer some insights into what is now known as "artificial intelligence. AI" as it is now called, and was one of the first to provide some insight into what is now called "artificial intelligence". The portrait measures 64 x 90.5 inches (about ...

The Young Scientists 50² Forum 2024 kicked off in Shenzhen on September 28th with the theme of "Focus on Originality, Breakthrough". Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and professor of Tsinghua University, Yao Zhizhi, delivered a speech on "Scientific Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence". According to Yao, "The future world must be a world where people and robots get along, and robots can of course have all kinds of looks, but I believe that in the future, the number of robots will be more than that of people, and they will become an important part of the society." According to Yao Zhizhi, there are two most obvious trends in the development of artificial intelligence: the first trend is how to move from weak intelligence to pass...

The Decoder (September 18) published a blog post in which Jim Fan, a senior scientist at NVIDIA, predicted a "GPT-3 moment" in robotics in the next few years. About Jim Fan Jim Fan received his Ph.D. from the Vision Lab at Stanford University under the supervision of Prof. Fei-Fei Li. His research interests are broad, including multimodal fundamental models, reinforcement learning, and computer vision, and he has interned at Google Cloud AI, OpenAI, and Baidu's Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Lab. Jim F...

Robstride Dynamics, a core component company of body intelligence, announced on September 13th that it had completed an angel round of financing of tens of millions of yuan. This round of financing was co-invested by Yarui Zhiyou Scientist Fund, InnoAngel Fund, and One Dimension Venture Capital. The financing funds will be used for the continuous R&D iteration of the "full series of integrated joint modules" and team building. Founded in November 2023, Spirit Foot Era focuses on the industrialized application of integrated robot joints and the creation of a global open source platform for robot hardware. The company's core team worked at Xiaomi, and has...

According to Sina Technology, SenseTime's home robot brand "Yuanluobo" has released an AI chess-playing robot, the International Chess Professional Edition, which will be officially launched in late September. The report said that since the international chess uses three-dimensional chess pieces and the shapes of the chess pieces are unique and staggered, it is very difficult for the robot to grasp and identify the chess pieces. Compared with the previous chess and go versions of AI chess-playing robots, the chess version robot has set 4 degrees of freedom according to the characteristics of three-dimensional chess pieces, forming a flexible structure with 4 degrees of freedom of the shoulder, elbow, forearm, and claw, with 0.5mm…

On August 18, Zhiyuan Robotics held the "Zhiyuan Yuanzheng Commercial Launch" Zhiyuan 2024 New Product Launch Conference. The launch conference brought a total of five new commercial humanoid robots from the two major families of "Yuanzheng" and "Lingxi", including: Yuanzheng A2, Yuanzheng A2-W, Yuanzheng A2-Max, Lingxi X1 and Lingxi X1-W. According to Titanium Media, Jiang Qingsong, partner and vice president of marketing services of Zhiyuan Robotics, said today that Zhiyuan bipedal humanoid robots will start mass production in October this year, and it is expected to produce 100 units per month in the later period, and the expected shipment volume this year is 2…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently made a thought-provoking statement on social media, suggesting that in the future humans may be able to upload brain memories and mental states to the cloud and download them into humanoid robots. This view originated from Musk's response to a Tesla fan's question about extending life, which has attracted widespread attention and discussion. Musk has high hopes for Tesla's Optimus robot, which will be launched in 2021. In addition to being originally designed to handle dangerous, repetitive or tedious tasks, he also envisions Optimus being a human companion, taking care of children, and even participating in Olympic shooting competitions...

On July 31, the Financial Times (FT) published a blog post, pointing out that although the AI company Anthropic claimed to "develop AI responsibly", it used the ClaudeBot robot to excessively crawl website data for training the Claude large language model. Although using web crawlers to crawl data is a common practice in the artificial intelligence industry, Anthropic has been criticized for its radicalism. Freelancer, a freelance website, also said that ClaudeBot visited 3.5 million websites in four hours...

After a wave of layoffs at the beginning of this year, Tesla is now actively expanding its workforce, especially in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics. In the past few weeks, the company has posted about 800 new positions on its recruitment page, showing a shift in the company's strategic focus. This round of recruitment is mainly focused on Tesla's robotics and artificial intelligence departments. The new employees will mainly focus on developing autonomous driving software and contribute to Tesla's autopilot and robot taxi projects. In addition, some employees will participate in the development of the company's humanoid robot project Optimus. Source Note: The picture is generated by AI, the picture is authorized…

Skild AI, an American company focused on building general-purpose robotic intelligence, has emerged from stealth and raised $300 million in Series A funding. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Skild AI was founded in 2023 by IIT Kanpur graduates Abhinav Gupta and Deepak Pathak, who is also Skild’s CEO. Source: Image generated by AI, image licensing service provider Midjourney is currently valued at…

During the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC 2024), NetEase Fuxi released its first robot brand "Lingdong". NetEase "Lingdong" is a robot brand created by NetEase Fuxi based on its self-developed industrial large model and AOP technology ideas. Its two core products, excavator robots and loading robots, have participated in 50 key construction projects in more than 10 provinces, covering mines, ports, mixing stations, schools and other application scenarios. According to the information, NetEase Fuxi was previously an institution specializing in game and pan-entertainment AI research and application. In addition, NetEase Fuxi also…

Researchers at Stanford University recently developed a humanoid robot, HumanPlus, which can imitate human behavior and support learning by imitating movements. It is reported that it can learn to play the piano, return a ping-pong ball, fold clothes, etc. by imitating human movements. Fu Zipeng (transliteration), a member of the Stanford University team, said that the humanoid robot uses a single RGB camera and a full-body strategy to replicate human movements. It is worth mentioning that Fu Zipeng released several demonstration videos of HumanPlus on his personal YouTube channel on the 14th, showing its many…

Amazon executive Stefano Larovere said in an interview recently that robots and automation technology will not replace existing human jobs, but will improve their work efficiency. Larovere, Amazon's global director of robotics, mechatronics and sustainable packaging, told CNBC's "Street Signs Europe" that "technology and robots completely replacing human jobs will only exist in myths." Amazon said that in the past five years, it has spent $751 million (currently about 5.445 billion yuan) on its...

The quadruped robot ANYmal unlocks a new skill - parkour. A research team from ETH Zurich has recently upgraded the quadruped robot ANYmal again, allowing it to navigate complex urban environments, use movement skills to successfully pass obstacles, and be proficient in dealing with complex terrain commonly seen in construction sites or disaster areas. The team, led by Professor Marco Hutter of the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, combined machine learning with model-based control, and upgraded the algorithm to allow it to accurately identify and pass through gaps/grooves in rubble, allowing it to flexibly navigate complex terrain. ANYmal…

Tom Cat Company recently released a new issue of the "Investor Relations Activity Record", which disclosed the company's layout in the field of AI. According to reports, the Tom Cat Company's domestic R&D team and West Lake Xinchen's cooperation in Tom Cat AI Storytelling and other products have initially completed the testing of the main functions. The company's overseas team has developed the first AI mobile game "Talking BenAI" and has started the first round of overseas testing in Slovenia, Cyprus, South Africa and other regions. In addition, the company's AI hardware team is developing an AI voice interactive companion robot based on generative artificial intelligence technology, which is expected to...

OpenAI announced a partnership with unicorn Figure to build the next generation of AI big models and improve robots’ language processing and reasoning capabilities. Figure01 learns to perform tasks such as making coffee, and its capabilities are expected to be further improved with the help of OpenAI’s multimodal model. The collaboration aims to enhance the intelligence of robots, especially in language processing and reasoning. In the video, Figure01 demonstrated the ability to autonomously complete real-world tasks, such as moving boxes, showing a flexible use of visual models and force feedback. At the same time, Figure01’s bipedal walking technology has achieved breakthroughs…