Recently, in Beijing Shougang Park, a robot close to the average size of Chinese conducted a running training of about 4 minutes, with a stable gait and natural posture throughout the whole process, with a pace of up to 5 kilometers per hour.
This humanoid robot, named "Kuafu", is about 1.6 meters tall and weighs about 45 kilograms, and was developed by Leju (Shenzhen) Robotics Technology Co., Ltd.
On the stage of the Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Snake, a humanoid robot twisting Yangge became one of the "popular kings" of the night. This humanoid robot, developed by Hangzhou Yushu Technology Co., Ltd., will "show its face" for the first time at the World Robot Conference in Beijing in 2023, and has learned difficult actions such as running, jumping and even backflips under the training of engineers.
Humanoid robots are the integrated embodiment of artificial intelligence technology, and they are also one of the important tracks of the future industry. Now in China, these increasingly "smart" humanoid robots are accelerating from science fiction to reality, and are expected to become the right-hand man of ordinary people.
According to Morgan Stanley's recent list of the top 100 listed companies in the field of global humanoid robots, 37 Chinese companies such as UBTECH and BYD are on the list. The Chinese Institute of Electronics predicts that by 2030, the market size of Chinese humanoid robots is expected to reach about 870 billion yuan.
At the beginning of February, 10 models of "Chucai" series of humanoid robots in Hubei were unveiled in front of the Hongshan Auditorium in Wuhan. On the same day, the Hubei Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government held the "First Meeting of the New Year", and the robot also made a congratulatory couplet on the spot...... Humanoid robots have made their presence felt at the "first meeting of the new year" in various parts of China this year.
The government work reports of many provinces have made key layouts for future industries, including humanoid robots. Beijing proposes to actively lay out and build future industries, focusing on cultivating 20 future industries such as humanoid robots, and proposes to establish the World Humanoid Robot Games. Guangdong, Sichuan, Shanxi and other provinces have also proposed to vigorously develop future industries such as embodied intelligence.
On June 26, 2024, at UBTECH's headquarters in Zhiyuan, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, staff tested humanoid robots. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Mao Siqian
In 2024, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other 7 departments will issue the "Implementation Opinions on Promoting the Innovation and Development of Future Industries", and the fields of intelligent manufacturing, home services and special environment operations are expected to be the first to apply humanoid robot operations.
Experts believe that the humanoid robot industry, which takes "service" and "help" human beings as the main development direction, has a highly complex industrial chain, which is expected to drive the development of upstream and downstream enterprises and give birth to a variety of new jobs.
At present, China is actively responding to the aging of the population, which also greatly expands the application scenarios of humanoid robots. Tan Min, chief brand officer of UBTECH, said that after the technology matures, humanoid robots have great potential to cope with the aging of the population, including providing daily assistance, health monitoring and emotional companionship.
"Humanoid robots will provide high-quality companionship for the elderly in their retirement life. In addition to taking care of daily diet and health management, it is more important to play an indispensable role in emotional companionship. Tan Min said.
Leng Xiaokun, chairman of Leju Robot, said that from the perspective of machines helping people, the application of humanoid robots is also expected to free people from simple, repetitive and dangerous jobs.
Working as a docent in the showroom, working as a vehicle quality inspector in a factory, using an air fryer to fry french fries, making salad burgers, brewing coffee, folding clothes, ...... In China, humanoid robots have gradually been applied in multiple scenarios, laying the foundation for their daily life in the future.
"With active policy support and huge market demand, China's humanoid robot industry will definitely usher in great development." Du Lan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Association for Science and Technology, said that humanoid robots are one of the biggest opportunities for scientific and technological hardware products in the next 5 to 10 years, but the real landing of related products also needs to find a breakthrough in marketization to realize the cycle of application and research and development.