In recent years, with the launch of the robot dog by Boston Dynamics, artificial intelligence seems to have found a new breakthrough, so the topic of various quadruped and biped robots has begun to rise again. However, even if the robot dog spins and jumps, the scene of the robot serving tea and water is amazing. From the perspective of the industrial process, the current technical level of humanoid robots in the world is still relatively low and the practicability is not strong. Therefore, Boston Dynamics also changed hands several times.
However, as an imaginative growth industry, the robot market has huge incremental potential, and there is still a lot of room for product form innovation and commercialization exploration. And China has become the world’s largest robot market. According to the “China Robot Industry Development Report (2022)”, it is estimated that in 2022, the scale of China’s robot market will reach 17.4 billion US dollars, with a five-year average annual growth rate of 22%.
Lei Jun also expressed his good expectations for the future of robots, “We believe that intelligent robots will definitely enter people’s lives in the future.” Dongdian Technology has selected some robots of various shapes that have emerged this year, so that readers can understand the development status and shape evolution of robots.
Tesla Optimus Prime
On October 1, Tesla CEO Elon Musk officially unveiled the humanoid robot Optimus. According to official sources, the robot is 1.72 meters high, weighs 56.6 kilograms, can pick up objects weighing about 20 kilograms, and travels at a speed of 5 miles per hour (about 8 kilometers per hour). At the scene, the robot demonstrated steady walking, turning and bending over, waving to greet the audience, waving at a slow speed, and doing simple dance moves.
In addition, Tesla also showed videos of the humanoid robot Optimus Prime carrying boxes, watering plants, etc. at the car factory. Musk revealed that the price of this robot is expected to be less than 20,000 US dollars, which is cheaper than a car. “People can order Optimus Prime robots in three to five years.”
According to reports, the brain of Optimus uses Tesla’s supercomputer system Dojo, which has super computing power; the visual perception system is mainly based on Tesla’s FSD computer modules and solutions, and the face is equipped with 8 Autopilot cameras of the same model as the car. The long-range monitoring distance can reach 250 meters; the movement is mainly based on 40 electromechanical actuators on the neck, hands, legs and torso, among which 12 electromechanical actuators in the hand can make the robot reach a level of flexibility close to that of humans.
Musk has previously stated that the initial positioning of Tesla robots is to replace people in repetitive, boring and dangerous jobs, but the long-term goal is to allow them to serve thousands of households, such as cooking, mowing the lawn, and taking care of the elderly.
MilletCyberOne
On the evening of August 11, Xiaomi held an autumn new product launch conference. In addition to traditional digital products, the biggest highlight of this launch event came from Xiaomi’s first full-size humanoid bionic robot “CyberOne”. CyberOne is a new member of the Xiaomi robot Cyber family after Xiaomi’s bionic four-legged robot dog Cyberdog last year. Internally, CyberOne is nicknamed “Tie Da”, 1.77 meters high and 52kg in weight.
Officials call CyberOne a “more human-like robot”. It has high EQ, can perceive human emotions, and can reconstruct the real world in three-dimensional virtual way. The “cerebellum” is developed, which can realize the balance of bipedal movement posture, strong limbs, and a peak power torque of 300Nm. It supports up to 21 degrees of freedom, and can realize real-time response of 0.5 milliseconds for each degree of freedom, simulating various human actions.
Compared with the previous Cyberdog, the research and development of CyberOne is more difficult. In addition to the mechanical part, CyberOne is equipped with Xiaomi’s self-developed Mi-Sense depth vision module, combined with AI algorithms, so that it has a complete three-dimensional space perception capability, and is more able to realize character identification. , Gesture recognition, expression recognition functions.
Lei Jun said that humanoid robots need to break through a number of key technologies, and the cost of each is as high as 600,000 to 700,000 yuan, and mass production is not yet possible.
DadarobotGinger 2.0
At this year’s World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Darta released a humanoid intelligent service robot – Ginger 2.0. Since Ginger 1.0 was released in 2019, it is currently the only humanoid intelligent robot that can be mass-produced on the market and can work with both hands. It has been widely used in public health, smart retail, smart medical care and other fields, serving thousands of customers. Hundreds of chain partners.
The Ginger 2.0 released this time is endowed with intelligent capabilities such as cloud voice, vision, and motion control. Many innovations have reached the leading level in the industry. The control of various peripheral tools, precise positioning and autonomous walking will provide application services in scenarios such as welcome reception, tour guide explanation, and elderly care.
Ginger 2.0 has increased the number of flexible joints from 34 to 41. It is a dexterous hand with 7 degrees of freedom that can carry a weight of 5 kg. It has a battery life of more than 24 hours. It also has rich emotional expressions and can switch between different roles. Ginger 2.0 has rich emotional expression and can also perceive human emotions through vision and voice.
DATA also provides multiple interfaces for Ginger 2.0, which are open to partners and third-party tools. Special measuring instruments are loaded on the head, shoulders and arms, which can adapt to more specific and complex tasks and can become the basic platform for various special robots. .
Engineering Arts Ameca
The British Engineering Arts company uses AI technology to reproduce human expressions on robots, so that the cold machines also have a complete set of human “expression packages”, which are instantly endowed with human emotions. The history of robots has entered the second stage where they can express emotions such as human emotions from the first stage when they are only similar in appearance to humans.
This fall, the company will update and upgrade the facial expressions of the robot Ameca that it has shown at the technical level, making it more real, agile and lively. According to the official website of Engineering Arts, Ameca, as the most bright and innovative AI product, weighs 49 kilograms and is 187 centimeters tall. Its body is composed of dozens of parts.
Ameca can freely perform dozens of human-like limb movements, and was once called “the most realistic robot in the world”. In order to ensure that Ameca’s face can react sensitively and quickly to external stimuli like a human being, the company has configured the most advanced sensing devices on its physical hardware.
Scientists scan human facial expressions in all directions, use the data of muscle and other facial expressions to model, carry out 3D printing and make molds. Then, the robot is equipped with multiple sets of parts, which are divided into modules for assembly, which is convenient for future maintenance and upgrading.
Therefore, when the computer terminal is connected to the machine terminal, vivid facial expressions are reproduced on the robot, and Ameca successfully displays humanoid facial expressions such as pouting, blinking, frowning, anger, and sadness. Although Ameca has achieved the ultimate in expression display, it does not yet have the ability to walk. Engineering Arts plans to transform and upgrade it, turning it into an all-rounder with more human functions such as walking and running. In the future, Ameca could be used to shoot movies, serve as a stand-in for webinars, or get facials done.
Ubtech“one line”
On September 28, UBTECH released the world’s first hydrogen-powered humanoid robot “One Line”. The robot is 1.45m tall and weighs 77kg. It has dexterous limbs composed of high-performance servo joints, multi-dimensional force sense, multi-eye stereo vision, omnidirectional hearing, inertia, distance measurement and other comprehensive perception systems, and gait planning and control technology. Upgraded for faster and more stable walking.
Based on deep learning object detection and recognition algorithms, face recognition algorithms and cross-style face data generation technology, “One Line” can recognize faces, gestures, objects and other information in complex environments, enriching and accurate understanding and perception of the external environment; AI and robot integration technologies such as hand-eye coordination can help it provide more accurate and flexible services, enabling it to recognize, sort and operate objects.
It is worth mentioning that “One Line” is different from the previous robot products released by UBTECH. It uses hydrogen energy as its power source, has higher energy replenishment efficiency, stronger battery life, and can achieve zero energy consumption during hydrogen energy consumption. Carbon emissions, even in the low temperature environment in the north, can still maintain good power performance, effectively realizing the complementary advantages of hydrogen energy and artificial intelligence.
sonypoiq
Sony has released the AI entertainment robot poiq. The AI engine equipped with poiq can make it more intelligent and personalized through question and answer and dialogue with users. The height of poiq is about 118mm, the diameter of the capsule-shaped body is about 72mm, and the bottom is equipped with double-week wheels, which can move back and forth or rotate in situ. The face and eyes are movable, and the whole shape looks very cute.
poiq can recognize the facial images of multiple users who have logged in, and can remember the place of residence and food preferences of the person talking to it, so as to answer according to the information of the person talking. Prior to this, Sony had launched Aibo, a robot dog product that was all the rage. Faced with the general loneliness brought about by the busy modern life and changes in family structure, the constantly iterative artificial intelligence robots are obviously using a warm and soft way to bring new solutions to complex social problems.
