[Go straight to the leading area] Stand firm, can trot, and can 'work' in a factory...AI empowers the development of 'embodied intelligence' in humanoid robots

[Direct Attack to the Leading Area] Stand firm, can trot, and can "work" in a factory...AI empowers the development of "embodied intelligence" in humanoid robots

As soon as the concise and clear instructions were given, a humanoid robot walked steadily to the refrigerator, then opened the refrigerator door, smoothly took out a bottle of water, and finally handed it to the person next to him.

This person is the famous UP owner Zhihui Jun (Peng Zhihui). He has two prominent labels: "Huawei Genius Boy" and "Co-founder of Zhiyuan Robot"

Zhiyuan Robot was established in February this year and is located in Kangqiao, Pudong. "Zhiyuan" in the company name means intelligent humanoid robots, while "Yuan" symbolizes human legs

The company launched the first humanoid bipedal robot with a complete human shape - Yuanzheng A1 in August. This robot looks like a human, is 175cm tall, weighs 53kg, and has a maximum walking speed of 7km/h. It has 49 degrees of freedom and can bear a load of 80kg, while the maximum load on a single arm is 5kg

Peng Zhihui said that Yuanzheng A1 integrates various advanced intelligent technologies such as body control, perception, cognition and decision-making. It has made a series of innovations based on the current cutting-edge large language model and self-developed visual control model in the AI ​​field

The A1 expedition vehicle that stands stably, can even run fast, and can even enter the factory to work, has a localization rate of more than 80%

How to improve the agility and accuracy of humanoid robots?

Joints are vital

The Zhiyuan Robotics team independently developed a special joint - PowerFlow. This joint adopts a collimated drive scheme, which has the advantages of high power, low price, and direct torque control through current without the need for sensors

In addition, in order to increase the power density, the joint module of Yuanzheng A1 also integrates a liquid cooling circulation cooling system; combined with the independently developed integrated vector drive controller, the peak torque of the entire joint can reach 350Nm

The projects independently developed by Zhiyuan Robotics Team also include the Yuanzheng A1 manipulator, runtime middleware system and thinking system. Among them, Zhiyuan Robot's dexterous hand SkillHand has 12 active degrees of freedom and 5 passive degrees of freedom. All driving devices are built into the hand, and some sensors are installed on the fingertips

Focusing on embodied intelligence, Peng Zhihui tried to use large models as the brains of robots, and wanted to use the capabilities of multi-modal large models to empower the behavioral and action choreography of Zhiyuan robots. He called the large model behind the Expedition A1 WorkGPT, which is a large model with tens of billions of parameters. After the large model capability is connected, Yuanzheng A1 can understand human instructions, and also has the ability to arrange tasks and execute closed loops for instructions.

In addition, Zhiyuan Robot has also created an embodied intelligence brain framework called EI-Brain, in which the cerebrum, cerebellum and brainstem perform tasks at different levels to maximize skills.

In the next few years, Zhiyuan Robot will focus on promoting humanoid robots to more fields and autonomously complete movement and operation tasks in various complex scenarios.

Is embodied intelligence the final form of artificial intelligence?

Currently, the field where Zhiyuan Robot is located - embodied intelligence, is a hot field. Embodied intelligence refers to the ability of an intelligent agent to understand and transform the objective world through its own learning in the process of interacting with the environment. This requires humanoid robots to have a considerable degree of artificial intelligence and be able to actively interact and perceive the environment like humans.

Under the wave of artificial intelligence, embodied intelligence has undoubtedly become the next trend in the robotics industry. From the perspective of the industrial chain, machine vision, edge computing, etc. are important basic components of the embodied intelligence industry. Driven by both policy support and market demand, they are expected to drive the exploration and development of related industries.

Around embodied intelligence, various enterprises in Zhangjiang are also actively exploring. The General Office of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government released the "Shanghai Three-Year Action Plan to Promote High-Quality Development of Manufacturing Industry (2023-2025)", which aims to promote the development of manufacturing industry in the direction of high-end, intelligent and green. The plan mentions increasing the application density of industrial robots in the manufacturing industry, and actively deploying humanoid robots, intelligent robots and other related fields

The atmosphere for cultivating the robot industry in Zhangjiang is also getting stronger, and the industry agglomeration effect is obvious. In particular, Zhangjiang Robot Valley takes high-end medical robots as the core, focuses on characteristic industrial robots and intelligent service robots, and uses key robot components and key robot control software as breakthroughs to form an industrial development of "one core, two key points, and two breakthroughs" pattern.

Fourier Intelligence has endowed GR-1 with shocking sports capabilities through years of core technology accumulation. This robot has a highly bionic trunk configuration and anthropomorphic motion control, and has motion functions such as fast walking and agile obstacle avoidance. Combined with cognitive intelligence, it can complete various actions in collaboration with humans, showing great potential in a variety of application scenarios

The computing power hardware layer is the core base of the AI ​​industry, mainly including AI chips, AI servers, etc., which is also the "underlying soil" of embodied intelligence. Yuncong Technology, which occupies one of the "Four Little Dragons" in the field of AI by relying on its computer vision algorithm capabilities, deserves attention in the craze of embodied intelligence.

Yuncong Technology's human-machine collaborative operating system CWOS is a digital architecture that gradually progresses from informatization to digitalization to intelligence, and is committed to making machines think and work like humans. Yuncong Technology has always insisted on taking "strong computing power and large models" as its core, focusing on innovation in the field of general artificial intelligence (AGI).

Editor: Zou Ying

Rewritten content: Information: Zhangjiang Group

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