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First in China, Shenzhen Customs Intelligent Inspection Robot Introduces "Full-Blooded" DeepSeek-R1
April 7 news, according to the Science and Technology Daily news this month, Shenzhen Customs independent research and development of intelligent inspection robot has been introduced into the customs system, the first "full-blooded version" DeepSeek-R1, to achieve technological upgrades, and in the field of imported hazardous chemicals supervision and fruit clearance to form a demonstration. According to reports, in the process of robot development, Shenzhen Customs Science and Technology Department has formed a series of results. Based on the retrieval of enhanced generation technology to build a knowledge base in the field of goods regulation "inspection dictionary", can provide fast, accurate regulatory guidelines for the front-line customs officers, the Q & A accuracy rate of 95.3%; based on the diffusion model of the image restoration technology, can be... -
Guangdong: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Maximum Reward of 150 Million Yuan for Individual Foreign Invested Projects
Relevant departments of Guangdong Province issued the "Several Policy Measures to Promote the Innovative Development of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Industry in Guangdong Province" on March 9, and held a press conference on the corresponding "Measures" yesterday (April 1), which mainly put forward a series of policies to incentivize the development of AI and robotics companies in Guangdong Province. 1AI learned from the press conference that the relevant departments of Guangdong Province will set up a benchmarking incentive mechanism. It is planned to further increase the support for benchmarking applications, such as in the industrial sector to select 10 AI-enabled new industrialization benchmarking cases each year, and to give each selected case a maximum of 8 million...- 1.7k
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Dyna-Long Intelligence Releases XMAN-R1, a Humanoid Service Robot That Can Complete the Long-Term Tasks of "Ordering, Ordering, Delivering and Receiving"
March 31, 2011 - 1AI learned from WeChat of service robotics company, KLM Intelligence, that KLM Intelligence officially released XMAN-R1, a humanoid embodied service robot, to create a collaborative ecosystem of multi-morphic embodied service robots. According to the official introduction, XMAN-R1 is designed with the concept of "job-oriented, affinity and safety", which is suitable for the service industry scenarios ploughed by KLM Intelligence, and XMAN-R1 has already completed the long task closure loop of "ordering-dispensing-delivering-collecting" in the service scenarios, and will go to the service robot industry in the future. XMAN-R1 has already accomplished the long task closure of "ordering-ordering-delivering-collecting" in the service scene, and will explore more scenarios in the future. XMAN-R1 Design Concept 01, Job-oriented X...- 961
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SoftBank proposes to throw trillions of dollars at building AI factory clusters across the U.S., with robots set to become a manufacturing mainstay
According to Nikkei News reported on March 28, SoftBank Group is brewing a plan to build an industrial park with artificial intelligence factories across the United States. The group may commit to invest more than 1 trillion U.S. dollars with the U.S. government (note: the current exchange rate of about 7.27 trillion yuan), the scale of which far exceeds the previously announced 500 billion U.S. dollars "Stargate" AI network infrastructure plan. In the face of labor shortages, SoftBank is committed to building clusters of robot factories equipped with AI that can operate autonomously. Masayoshi Son, chairman and president of SoftBank Group, is currently visiting the U.S. and may be about to work with the U.S. government to launch...- 793
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U.S. Companies Urge Government to Create Federal Agency to Support Industry as Global 'Robotics Race' Heats Up
U.S. robotics companies are calling for a national robotics development strategy, including the creation of a dedicated federal agency to drive the industry forward, Fortune magazine reported in a March 27 news release. Representatives from Tesla, Boston Dynamics and Agility Robotics, among others, showed off their robotic products to lawmakers on Capitol Hill Wednesday and urged the government to put in place policies that would help U.S. companies stay ahead of the global race for next-generation robots. Jeff Cardenas, co-founder and CEO of humanoid robotics startup Apptronik, noted that the next round of the robotics race...- 975
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Spring Festival gala fire bionic robots, illegal elements to use its false marketing fraud consumers "buy AI class" "pay cooperation fee"
March 15 news, this year's Spring Festival Gala led to the rise of the topic of "robots", recently there are a lot of live broadcasts are promoting a variety of robotic products, but there are also unscrupulous elements borrowed the corresponding "robots" to promote false products, and at the same time carry out "Set type" fraud, inducing consumers to buy products before the need to "buy class", so as to make huge profits. According to the central radio network reported that recently a number of so-called "AI pension robot" "beauty robot" and other products emerged on major platforms, the corresponding live broadcasts to AI generated a variety of "beautiful robots The cover of the corresponding live broadcasting room is a variety of AI-generated "beautiful robots", inducing uninformed consumers to enter. 1AI noted that CCTV cited...- 1.8k
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Guangdong: support enterprises to integrate artificial intelligence and robotics industry chain and innovation chain resources
March 10 news, the General Office of the Guangdong Provincial People's Government issued a number of policies and measures to promote the innovative development of artificial intelligence and robotics industry in Guangdong Province. It is mentioned that support key core technology research. Support enterprises, universities, research institutes and other types of innovation body to carry out joint research, around artificial intelligence and robotics industry chain upstream and downstream to form industrial innovation alliance, accelerate the construction of the whole process of innovation chain. Organize and implement the provincial key areas of research and development program "new generation of artificial intelligence" "intelligent robotics" and other flagship projects, major special projects, in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics to deploy a number of research tasks. The national scientific and technological major special... -
Education Minister Huai Jinpeng: DeepSeek and Robotics are Major Opportunities for Education
March 5 news, this morning, the 14th National People's Congress three sessions of the first "ministerial channel" focused on interview activities. Minister of Transportation Liu Wei, Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng, State Financial Supervision Administration Li Yunze, State Market Supervision and Administration Director Luo Wen accepted the interview. According to CCTV News, Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng said: DeepSeek and robots have attracted widespread attention both at home and abroad in recent times, and I think it also illustrates the effectiveness of China's scientific and technological innovations and talent cultivation in one way. But at the same time it also puts forward to us in the face of major scientific and technological changes and industrial change...- 2.9k
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Amazon: almost no part of the company's business is unaffected by AI, and we have about 750,000 robots
Vishal Sharma, Amazon's VP of General Artificial Intelligence, said at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that "Amazon has almost no business unit that is not affected by AI." At the same time, he denied claims that open source models can reduce computing requirements. Speaking at the Startups conference, Sharma described how Amazon is relying on its own base models to advance AI deployments in a number of areas, including Amazon Web Services (Amazon's cloud computing arm), warehouse automation robots, and the Alexa intelligent assistant. "We now have about 7...- 788
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Shenzhen: Focus on supporting the core components of body-intelligent robots, AI chips, bionic dexterity hand and other key core technology research and development
March 3 news, "Shenzhen with body intelligent robot technology innovation and industrial development action plan (2025-2027)" issued. It is mentioned that by 2027, breakthroughs will be made in key core components of robots, AI chips, fusion technology of artificial intelligence and robots, multi-modal perception technology, high-precision motion control technology, dexterous operation technology, etc. The new cultivation of more than 10 enterprises with valuation over 10 billion yuan, and more than 20 enterprises with revenue over one billion yuan. Cultivate more than 10 enterprises with valuation over 10 billion yuan, more than 20 enterprises with revenue over one billion yuan, realize more than 50 billion application scenes, and the scale of related industries will reach more than 100 billion yuan,...- 1.5k
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Figure, a humanoid robotics company, says it's made a "major breakthrough" in its own end-to-end research, instead of playing with OpenAI.
February 5, 2012 - Silicon Valley-based robotics startup Figure announced today via social media platform X that it is ending its partnership with AI giant OpenAI. The company claims to have made a major breakthrough in fully end-to-end robotic AI, developed entirely in-house. Company founder Brett Adcock didn't reveal technical details, but boasted that he would deliver an innovation that would "disrupt the humanoid robotics industry" within 30 days. OpenAI, an early investor in Figure, entered into a partnership agreement last year to develop humanoid robots for...- 1.1k
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Aria, the highly anthropomorphic robot, is at CES 2025: face and hairstyle changeable, designed for companionship
Robots are everywhere at the 2025 International CES. Aria, an anthropomorphic robot developed by Realbotix, attracted a lot of attention for its near-human appearance and verbal skills, and CNET reporter Jesse Orrall interviewed Aria, a blonde "woman" who answered questions with a slight mechanical stiffness. The blonde "woman" answered questions with a slight mechanical stiffness. Dressed in a black tracksuit, Aria paused before answering a question, then spoke in long...- 3.1k
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BYD establishes future lab to develop embodied intelligence: robots included, sources say
December 27 news, according to "each Auto" on the 26th cited independent sources, BYD 15th Division set up a special team to research and development of embodied intelligence, the Department of the highest responsible person Luo Zhongliang directly in charge of the project. Sources familiar with the matter revealed that the fifteenth division in the first half of this year, organizational restructuring, the division's Science and Technology Research Institute split a part of the staff to set up an artificial intelligence laboratory, later renamed the future of the laboratory, positioning to do with physical intelligence, including robotics, is currently a large-scale solicitation of relevant talent. The report quoted a candidate involved in this year's fall recruitment, BYD un... -
South Korean researchers develop wearable robot: helps paraplegic users walk, cross obstacles, climb stairs
South Korean researchers have developed a lightweight wearable robot that can actively "walk" toward and lock itself onto paraplegic users to help them walk, cross obstacles and even climb stairs, Reuters reported on December 23rd. The exoskeleton lab team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) says their goal is to make the robot comfortable to integrate into the daily lives of people with disabilities. Kim Seung-hwan (金承煥), one of the KAIST team members and a paraplegic himself, demonstrated the prototype himself, showing how it can help him walk at an hourly rate of...- 3.2k
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AI + Robotics: Google Partners with Apptronik to Commercialize Humanoid Robots
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... -
LG previews first home housekeeping robot to debut next year: integrates GPT-4o AI model, focuses on emotional interaction with users
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...- 4.3k
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Study Finds Hackers Can Easily Manipulate AI Robots, Turning Them Into Deadly Weapons
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...- 2.3k
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NVIDIA's Jen-Hsun Huang says three types of robots are expected to be mass-produced in the future: cars, drones and humanoid robots.
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...- 2.5k
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Galaxy General, a Body Intelligence Company, Announces Another $500 Million Strategic Round of Funding, Closing $1.2 Billion in Cumulative Financing
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...- 5.4k
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Musk says Tesla is improving Optimus robot design for mass production
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,...- 2.7k
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Chongqing Municipality: Aims to Widely Apply Robots in All Economic and Social Sectors by 2027
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...- 4.5k
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Meta Announces Research on Robotic Tactile Perception: Using Finger Sensors Combined with an "AI Brain" to Understand / Manipulate External Objects
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...- 4.6k
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World's First: AI Robot Painting Debuts at Sotheby's, Estimated to Sell for $120,000-$180,000
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 ...- 3.7k
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Turing Award winner Yao Zhizhi: I believe robots will outnumber people in the future and become an important part of the society
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...- 4.4k