On July 15, humanoid robot startup UniX AI released its technology debut for its general-purpose humanoid robot Wanda.
The humanoid robot Wanda in the video can not only grab tender tofu and assist humans in making tofu soup, but also identify clothes that need to be washed and interact with people in a timely manner. In terms of family scenes, Wanda can brush dishes, clean desktops, and link sweepers,etc.
In addition, Wanda can also undertake a variety of operational tasks, provide health diagnosis and advice, etc., and is committed to liberating human beings from tedious labor and empowering human beings to develop a better quality of life. The end game of humanoid robots is "family companionship", which satisfies emotional needs, and Wanda is able to provide intimate companionship for family members by conducting family education, medical monitoring, etc.
It is understood that UniX AI gathers the world's outstanding artificial intelligence scientists and roboticists, focusing on the research and development and production of general-purpose humanoid robots (wheeled and bipedal).
It is reported that at the 2024 World Robot Conference, UniX AI will launch the world's leading bipedal humanoid robot Martian and wheeled humanoid robot Wanda at the same time. The wheeled model will be put into production in 2024, and the bipedal is expected to be introduced to the market in 2025.
In terms of humanoid robot research and development, UniX AI has outstanding advantages, and the team has a number of world-leading research and technical achievements such as Unitouch haptic large model, which can solve technical problems such as lack of data and long sequences in the generalization process. In addition, the core components of UniX AI are all modularized and self-developed, which not only has obvious advantages in cost, but also lays a solid foundation for large-scale mass production.
The core technologies independently developed by UniX AI:
• The most stable gripper, highly adaptable to grip and put down scenes, behind which is the world's first breakthrough unified haptic model UniTouch;
• Self-developed hub platform, covering multi-layer semantic expression, 3D environment perception, fusion positioning, and mobile obstacle avoidance;
• Self-developed humanoid bionic arm, core harmonic reducer, permanent magnet brushless DC servo motor;
• Generalizes motion primitives.
The UniTouch haptic model is equivalent to Wanda's intelligent brain, and through UniTouch unified haptic model, Wanda can perceive, recognize and recognize different objects to accurately handle tasks. For example, handling items of different shapes and materials, such as glasses, ceramic bowls, metal tools; Safely handle fragile and dangerous goods to avoid damage or injury; Complete household tasks efficiently, such as setting dishes, tidying up the room, picking up and delivering items, etc.
People have always dreamed of having intelligent machine assistants like people. Since the 60s of the last century, the development process of humanoid robots has been roughly divided into three stages.
In early pre-millennial explorations, humanoid robots could walk and achieve visual profiling and simple movement in hand functions. In the initial stage of intelligence in the following 10 years, humanoid robots have primary perception functions, can interact with the external environment to a limited extent, and the degree of freedom of movement has been improved.
Since 2016, humanoid robots have been equipped with advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computer vision systems, which have improved their perception and cognitive functions, and can not only adapt flexibly and agilely to the external environment, but also have the ability to understand generally. At present, humanoid robots have made remarkable progress in the fields of environmental understanding and intelligent interaction, and the process of generalization and intelligence is accelerating.
From a global perspective, the global humanoid robot research and development competition is fierce, and many countries and regions have promoted the development of the humanoid robot industry to a national strategic level. China's humanoid robot research and industry is still in the cultivation period, but it has shown an accelerated development trend, and a number of internationally competitive humanoid robot enterprises have emerged, and some technological achievements have approached the international leading level.
At present, intelligent manufacturing, commercial services and home are the three most promising application scenarios for humanoid robots. Among them, the intelligent manufacturing scenario will become the first large-scale application field of humanoid robots, the commercial service scenario is the fastest application market for humanoid robots, and the home landing scenario has the most potential.
The first step in the application of humanoid robots is to enter thousands of industries, which is already in progress, and is expected to enter thousands of households in the near future.