On February 22, the opening day of the 2025 Global Developer Pioneer Conference (GDC), a bipedal humanoid soccer game attracted a large audience on the green field in Hall B of the West Bund Art Center.
"Oops, the ball is slightly out of the goal, it's a pity, keep going" "Shot, finally scored, 1-0!" "…… From February 21st to 23rd, the 2025 Global Developer Pioneer Conference (GDC) was held in Shanghai. As the first technology event after the Spring Festival, GDC represents the vane of the latest AI technology, and robots have become the "protagonists" of this communication platform.
On the opening day of the conference on February 22, the blue and red teams were playing a football match on a green field in Hall B of the West Bund Art Center in Shanghai. The attraction of this game is that the players on the field are bipedal humanoid robots.
BLU players defend in the penalty area
From the earliest chassis robots to humanoid robots that can walk on two legs, the speed of evolution of robots is obvious to all. This time, the robots that came to the GDC to demonstrate their skills have once again changed people's perceptions: they can not only move forward, but also stride backwards, pass people, and shoot goals. When the robot was unstable on its feet or unfortunately fell after the collision, some spectators exclaimed, and the robot that fell to the ground did a push-up, got up on its own, and continued to participate in the game.
The Global Developer Pioneer Conference was born out of the sub-brand "Developer Ecology" of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, and has been held for the third time this year. For example, the humanoid robot of Unitree Technology, which performed the Yangge twisting Yangge and changing hands and became popular in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Snake, showed a new skill this time - the robot walks the robot dog.
With a height of 1.9 meters and a weight of 120 kilograms, the Qiyuan TR1 robot can independently handle parts weighing up to 40 kg for two hours in a row.
The Proud Shark intelligent exoskeleton robot, which once had an amazing performance in the 2023 Spring Festival movie "The Wandering Earth", has now made significant progress in technology. The Proud Shark humanoid robot "Qiyuan TR1", which was unveiled at the GDC conference, is an innovative product that combines exoskeleton and humanoid robot technology, which combines exoskeleton technology and embodied intelligence, and realizes the collaborative operation ability of complex actions through the humanoid structure design of 27 joints. For example, in scenarios such as mining and automobile assembly, the "Qiyuan TR1" robot, which is 1.9 meters tall and weighs 120 kg, can provide a single arm of 10-30 kg of assistance, and can even independently carry parts weighing up to 40 kg for two consecutive hours, greatly reducing the labor intensity of workers and opening a new era of humanoid and exoskeleton robots.
The world's first humanoid robot wrapped in a new composite material, MATRIX-1, is 1.8 meters tall, with a soft graphite white shell, and a slender and toned body that is easily reminiscent of future soldiers in Star Wars.
Standing next to the "Qiyuan TR1", the full-size general-purpose humanoid robot MATRIX-1 is from Shanghai Matrix Chaozhi, which is 1.8 meters tall, with a soft graphite white shell and a weight of about 65 kilograms. According to the staff, MATRIX-1 has 77 degrees of freedom in the whole body, 3 degrees of freedom in the hip joint, 4 degrees of freedom in the neck, can walk 8 kilometers per hour, can carry a maximum weight of 35 kg on both arms, and can run for 5 hours on a single charge.
Focusing on the safety of human-computer interaction, the MATRIX-1 is the world's first humanoid robot to be fully wrapped in a new composite material, demonstrating improved flexibility, impact resistance, high strength ratio, thermal stability, flexibility, and aesthetic consistency. Because it is connected to the MLM3.0 three-level multi-modal large model developed by Matrix Super Intelligence for voice interaction and visual reasoning, it has strong learning, adaptation and decision-making capabilities, can conduct real-time voice dialogue with humans, perform tasks autonomously, and can also deploy hundreds of robots to work together in the new unknown terrain environment at the same time.
"Expedition A2" is an exclusive robot tailored for flexible intelligent manufacturing scenarios and interactive service scenarios.
The "Expedition A2" brought by Zhiyuan Robot is an exclusive robot tailored for flexible intelligent manufacturing scenarios and interactive service scenarios, integrating five core advantages: anthropomorphic configuration, multi-modal interaction and intelligent experience, autonomous movement and stable walking, multiple safety guarantees, convenient operation and minimalist maintenance.
The reporter learned in the interview that five new commercial humanoid robots such as Zhiyuan Robot's "Expedition A2" will come out in August 2024, and the mass production of general robots will be officially announced on December 16 of the same year. On January 6 this year, the 1,000th general embodied robot mass-produced by Zhiyuan Robot officially rolled off the assembly line, of which 731 bipedal humanoid robots were produced. It is worth mentioning that at the end of last year, Zhiyuan Robotics also launched the world's first open-source project of millions of real machine datasets based on global real scenes, AgiBot World, which provides valuable real machine data for humanoid robot companies in the industry and helps humanoid robots to be commercially mass-produced. This open-source project has also raised people's expectations for humanoid robots to enter their daily lives.