Humanoid Robot

According to a surging news report, Zhiyuan Robotics, led by Zhihui Jun (real name: Peng Zhihui), said that as of the end of December, the factory in Fengxian, Lingang, will roll out a total of more than 900 robots, "of which more than two hundred will be for its own use and nearly 700 will be shipped." Currently, Zhiyuan Robotics includes both bipedal and wheeled robots, with bipedal robots accounting for more than half of this year's shipments. The report mentioned that Zhiyuan Robotics Lingang factory started production in October this year, and after a period of capacity creep, started "large volume" in December. This year's shipments of robots are basically used in interaction scenarios and flexible manufacturing...

Toyota's humanoid robot CUE6 recently broke a world record in Nagatte, Aichi, Japan, by successfully completing a 24.55-meter long-distance basketball shot, setting a record for the longest basketball shot by a robot. The feat also earned CUE6 its second Guinness World Records (GWR) title. The feat was accomplished on September 26th in Nagatte City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, and the shot was nearly the full length of an NBA basketball court (29 meters). Initially, nine volunteers from Toyota designed and drove it in 2017 in their spare time...

December 5, 2011 - With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology in recent years, humanoid robots are gradually moving from science fiction to reality. Recently, Citi Global Insights analysts Rob Garlick and Wenyan Fei discussed the prospects for the humanoid robotics industry over the next 25 years on Opening Bid. According to the analysts, while robotics has a certain history, a series of recent technological breakthroughs, particularly advances in artificial intelligence, have reinvigorated the humanoid robotics industry. Over the next 25 years, the humanoid robotics market is expected to gauge...

Comprehensive Binjiang release, Binjiang public security and other news, in November 30 - December 1, Phoenix Legend Hangzhou concert period, Hangzhou Binjiang public security "new members" - humanoid robot in the big Lotus Stadium around the debut. According to reports, the robot is produced by Yu Shu Technology. Its height of 1.3 meters, weighing 40 kilograms, suitable for daily patrols and anti-fraud propaganda dual task. In the implementation of the patrol task, it can use its head equipped with high-definition cameras to realize the whole audio and video recording, to provide detailed records for police work. At the same time, the robot can also through the clear voice broadcast function, direct...

According to Chengdu Municipal Bureau of Science and Technology, on November 22, Chengdu Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center made a breakthrough in technological innovation, and recently launched the first diffusion-based high-speed reasoning model for humanoid robots, R-DDIRM (Denoising Diffusion Implicit Robot Model). Following the launch of China's first diffusion-based humanoid robot task generative model R-DDPRM (Denoising Diffusion Probability Robot Model) in May this year, Chengdu Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center has made a breakthrough in technological innovation.

Ltd.'s "Chengdu-made" humanoid robot, Skywalker, will be launched on December 30, and the prototype will start walking training and complete algorithm verification, according to Red Star News. The first-generation body has already entered manufacturing and is expected to be ready for assembly and testing in early December. According to reports, the robot is 1.65 meters tall, has "found a job", plans to "join" the flexible products manufacturing enterprises. Ltd. Publicity Department Minister Cheng Qingmiao, humanoid robot with a wide range of applications...

Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Sangeet Kumar, co-founder and chief executive officer of Indian robotics firm Addverb, said in an interview that the company intends to launch a humanoid robot product by 2025, Bloomberg reported early this morning. Addverb was founded in 2016 and currently has more than 350 customers in 15 offices around the world. Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Group, India's largest private conglomerate, bought Addverb's 56% in 2022 ...

November 11 news, local time on the 9th, OpenAI bet on the 1X company showed its humanoid robot Neo Beta's new skills -- cooking. Neo and Netflix chef Nick DiGiovanni had a home cooking showdown, competing to make a perfect medium rare steak.IT Home learned from public information that Nick is the youngest finalist in the history of MasterChef (MasterChef), and his YouTube channel currently has 21.2 million followers! ...

2024 Beijing Yizhuang Half Marathon (hereinafter referred to as "Yizhuang Half Marathon") started on November 10th. Before the race, the "Tiangong" robot gave a performance at the starting point, cheering for the runners through gestures and interactions, and welcoming the runners at the finish line. On the day of the race, Pony Smart self-driving cars guided the runners to the finish line. In the auxiliary roads along the track, driverless patrol cars, driverless vending cars and driverless sanitation cars from the Jingkai District also assisted the race. In April, the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center released the world's first pure...

According to the Pudong release news, humanoid robots and embodied intelligence innovation forum was held yesterday in Shanghai, the national and local co-construction of humanoid robotics innovation center, together with the industry's head enterprises and institutions, jointly released the first batch of humanoid robots embodied intelligence standards -- "humanoid robots classified and graded application guide," "embodied intelligence intelligence level classification guide". Guide to Humanoid Robot Classification and Grading Application The Humanoid Robot Classification and Grading Application Guide defines general, structural, and intelligence-related terms and nouns for humanoid robots, classifies them in terms of structural appearance, mobility, and intelligent models, and classifies them according to embodied intelligence, lower limb movement, upper limb operation, and application environment as...

Science and technology innovation has ushered in another major breakthrough! According to "Chengdu Release" public news, Chengdu Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center debuted the first ultra-lightweight humanoid robot in China - "Konka-1". The robot is not only lightweight and flexible, but also has powerful intelligence, which is the pride of "Made in Chengdu". "Konka-1 is one of only three humanoid robots in the world with the "strongest brain", weighing only 25 kilograms, far lower than the industry's general level of 60 to 250 kilograms. It can quickly understand commands, autonomously observe the environment, reason about the task flow...

StarDrive Era, a body intelligence company, announced on October 16th that it has recently completed a Pre-A financing round of nearly 300 million RMB. The round was led by Clearstream Capital, Yuanjing Capital, and Alibaba, followed by Ceyuan Capital, and continued by veteran shareholders Lenovo Venture Partners, Century Jinyuan, Jinding Capital, Zeyu Capital, and Tsingtao Tiancheng, with China Renaissance continuing to serve as the exclusive financial advisor for the round. According to the company, this round of financing will mainly accelerate the native breakthrough research and development of embodied intelligence technology and the commercialization of universal humanoid robots, as well as continue to consolidate the company's talent, technological barriers and market leadership. The round of financing also...

October 14, 2011 - Ubitus has released a new generation of industrial humanoid robot, Walker S1, which has entered the automobile factory for practical training. Ubitus Walker S1 has entered BYD's factory to carry out practical training, realizing the world's first collaborative operation of humanoid robots with unmanned logistics vehicles, unmanned forklifts, industrial mobile robots and intelligent manufacturing management systems. Ubitus said it has already cooperated with a number of companies, including Dongfeng Liuzhou Automobile, Geely Automobile, FAW Hongqi, FAW-Volkswagen Qingdao, Audi FAW, Foxconn, and Shunfeng. Up to now, the Walker S system ...

According to CCTV Finance, the 2024 China International Trade Fair for Services will be held in Beijing from September 12th to 16th. The report mentioned that, at present, the global humanoid robot about 38% supply chain enterprises in China, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong and other places have set up with the body intelligent robot innovation center. Currently, humanoid robots are accelerating the transformation from "showmanship" to "service" and gradually entering people's lives. Reportedly, in the "hardware innovation" and "big model technology" double help, China's robotics industry is booming. This year's Trade Fair has shown that humanoid robots have brought a lot of benefits to human production and life....

On August 21, the official WeChat account of Zhongkong Technology announced today that the Zhejiang Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, in which it invested as the single largest shareholder, released the first humanoid robot "Navigator 2 NAVIAI" with precise skill operation capabilities. The height and weight of "Navigator 2 NAVIAI" have been increased from 1.5 meters and 50 kilograms of the previous Navigator 1 to 1.65 meters and 60 kilograms respectively, and the AI computing power has reached 275 TOPS, that is, it has a computing power of 275 trillion times per second. NAVIAI single-arm load...

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…

UBTECH Robotics announced a strategic partnership with Geely and Tianqi Shares. The three parties will combine their respective resource advantages to jointly promote the application of humanoid robots in the field of intelligent manufacturing of automobiles and parts, and jointly create innovative demonstration applications. UBTECH revealed that in early July, Geely Holding Group's Zeekr 5G Smart Factory welcomed its first humanoid robot "employee". Director Li of the Production Management and Logistics Department put on a work badge for UBTECH's industrial version of the humanoid robot Walker S Lite. Walker S Lite is a lightweight and fast-deployable robot launched by UBTECH for intelligent manufacturing and smart logistics...

According to Kyodo News, Japanese robot innovation company "Human-Robot Integration" and Ritsumeikan University publicly displayed their latest humanoid robot on the 1st. The robot is remotely controlled by humans and can automatically maintain body balance and operate safely without knowing the surrounding environment in advance. According to reports, the company strives to put it into use in dangerous places such as high places within 5 years. The main information of the robot is as follows: In terms of parameters, the robot is about 2 meters high, about 70 centimeters wide, and weighs about 90 kilograms. In terms of operation, the robot is controlled by humans using a joystick to control the movements of its hands and feet, and the camera on the body…

In the evening of Beijing time this day, Musk posted on X (Twitter) that Tesla will produce "truly useful" robots for internal use next year, but only on a small scale. In 2026, Tesla is expected to mass-produce humanoid robots for use by other companies. During the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference on July 4 this year, Tesla's second-generation humanoid robot Optimus was unveiled. The product was first released on December 13 last year. Compared with the previous generation, its improvements include the following aspects: It uses all independently designed and manufactured by Tesla...

According to the official WeChat account of Shanghai Finance, the first humanoid robot bank lobby manager scenario training base in China was officially opened at the Shanghai Pudong Branch of CCB. The bank lobby manager scenario training base is the first commercial bank scenario application training base in the industry. It adopts an open innovative training model for the first time, which will help accelerate the improvement of humanoid robot capabilities and promote the application of key technologies, key products and key scenarios. It is reported that the robots participating in the training have a highly bionic torso configuration and anthropomorphic motion control. Combined with artificial intelligence technologies such as vision, hearing, and voice, scientists can use embodied intelligence reasoning and planning to...

According to the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, Kuafu, the first humanoid robot in China equipped with Hongmeng operating system, is being tested and verified in factories such as Weilai and Jiangsu Hengtong Group. It is reported that the "Pangu model + Kuafu humanoid robot" will be simultaneously promoted in the two major scenarios of industry and home. In December last year, Leju Robotics announced the launch of a new robot product, Kuafu, which is known as "the first open source Hongmeng humanoid robot in China that can jump and adapt to multi-terrain walking". The robot is equipped with KaihongOS developed by Shenzhen Kaihong based on open source Hongmeng, adopts a full-stack open source design, and the motion controller is fully open source, which can be connected to the trajectory planning...

According to the Shanghai Securities News, Tesla's second-generation humanoid robot Optimus officially debuted at the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC 2024) today. The second-generation Optimus first debuted on December 13 last year. Compared with the previous generation, its improvements include the following aspects: It uses actuators and sensors that are all designed and manufactured by Tesla; The overall appearance design is more refined; The walking speed is increased by 30%; The weight is reduced by 10 kilograms, and the sense of balance and body control are improved. The video demonstrates its squatting...

According to the Shanghai Securities News, during the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC 2024) which opened today, China's first full-size general-purpose humanoid robot open source public version "Qinglong" was officially released. The main information of the robot is summarized as follows: "Qinglong" is 185cm tall, weighs 80kg, has 43 active degrees of freedom, a maximum joint peak torque of 400N・m, and a computing power of 400TOPS. It has a highly bionic trunk configuration, anthropomorphic motion control, and supports multi-modal maneuvering/perception/interaction/control. It also...

Tesla's official Weibo account announced that the second-generation humanoid robot Optimus will debut at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference held from July 4 to 7, "witnessing the re-evolution of humanoid robots." The second-generation Optimus first debuted on December 13 last year. Compared with the previous generation, its improvements include the following aspects: It uses actuators and sensors that are all designed and manufactured by Tesla; The overall appearance design is more refined; The walking speed is increased by 30%; The weight is reduced by 10 kg, and the sense of balance and body control ability are improved,...