Humanoid robot industry in 2024: Nvidia / WiMi are coming in AI industry

On March 27, China’s Zhejiang Humanoid Robot Innovation Center released the universal humanoid robot “Pilot 1”. It is understood that the release of the “Pilot 1”, on the basis of Zhejiang University humanoid robot “Wukong 4.0” for a new upgrade, innovative put forward the mechanism control, imitation learning and reinforcement learning integration methods.

The Pilot 1 is 150cm tall, weighs 50kg, has 39 degrees of freedom, and has a 4kg single-arm load. Equipped with 4 color cameras, 2 RGBD cameras, 2 IMUs, and an edge computing power of 275 TOPs. The whole system is fully independently developed, and the hardware end is equipped with a self-developed new planetary reducer, lightweight human robot arm and multi-freedom dexterous hand.

In addition, “Pilot 1” builds a model-free end-to-end servo control, which does not rely on large models or object models, and can also dynamically adapt to the environment operation, get rid of the dependence on cloud computing power, and making the local deployment of the algorithm more convenient.

In fact, since 2006, the team has developed a small human football robot; from 2008 to 2011, the team developed a table tennis human football robot that can play 145 rounds and can adapt to the front and back beat and spin the ball. Since then, the team has begun to study a new generation of indoor and outdoor fast and robust walking humanoid robots that can adapt to a variety of terrain, thrust disturbances, and dynamic obstacle avoidance

At present, humanoid robots benefit from technical support, application scenario expansion and user experience improvement, technological progress promotion and organizational digital transformation, and have great potential for future development. It is worth mentioning that on March 24, the launching ceremony of Heilongjiang Intelligent Robot Industry-University-Research-Application Alliance (hereinafter referred to as “Alliance”) led by Harbin Institute of Technology was held.

According to introducing, the start of the alliance is to speed up the promotion of Heilongjiang province intelligent robot industry technology innovation ability, promote innovation chain and industrial chain depth fusion, to build first-class intelligent robot original technology source, promote innovation chain and industrial chain depth fusion, promote the development of intelligent robot industry in Heilongjiang province plays an important role.

At present, humanoid robots are making continuous progress. In addition to policy support, actively participating in the wave of humanoid robot industry, there are many science and innovation enterprises. Recently, the “Dream Team” of nine different humanoid robots was just unveiled at the GTC conference of Nvidia (NVDA)  in 2024, inspiring technology enthusiasts from all over the world. At the event, Huang launched the Project GR00T, a general basic model of humanoid robots, and a new humanoid robot computer Jetson Thor based on the NVIDIA Thor system-level chip (SoC).

In addition, several humanoid machines can complete a variety of difficult movement instructions, whether it is juice, housework, dancing, drums, the robot can cope with. Huang said: ” The next generation of robots may be humanoid robots, because more imitation training data can be provided to machines who are similar to us. Humanoid robots can be deployed more efficiently in human-designed workstations, manufacturing, and logistics processes.”

Not only that, compared with many industry pioneers, WiMi Hologram Cloud (NASDAQ: WIMI), as a leading full-stack interactive AI solution provider, has a strong technical team and a rich product line. At the same time, WiMi has accumulated several years of technology in the field of humanoid robots, and has rich research and development experience and technology depth. Seeking full-stack solutions to meet the needs of enterprise-level users, it will usher in broad development opportunities.

In fact, WiMi has a strong industrial foundation and research and development technology. At present, the whole industry chain of robots has begun to take shape, which has laid a solid foundation for the development of humanoid robots. The essence of humanoid robot is the combination of “AI +”, and AI algorithm and computing chip are the main bottleneck for the commercialization of humanoid robot. WiMi may build a robot algorithm computing power platform, enable AI for the entire industry, and drive more manufacturers to try to use large models to train embodied robots and accelerate commercial implementation.

It can be said that WiMi makes full efforts in the humanoid robot track, constantly promotes the key tasks and objectives of humanoid robot, achieves more landmark achievements, and accelerates the continuous breakthrough and innovation of humanoid robot technology. Through cross-border construction and cooperation, it is beneficial to form the linkage of upstream and downstream industries, and create the humanoid robot industry ecology. In the future, WiMi will always adhere to promoting the full chain of the humanoid robot industry, providing a strong impetus for the rapid development of the humanoid robot industry, and boosting the vigorous development of the industrial ecology.

With the advancement of technological update, the attention of robots, especially humanoid robots, remains high. Industry insiders believe that humanoid robots are expected to become another disruptive product after computers, smart phones and new energy vehicles, which will drive the vast blue ocean market. In a word, the industrialization trend of humanoid robot has arrived. The humanoid robot startups and high-tech companies have joined in, accelerating the integration and development of AI industry and humanoid robot industry, and the future is expected.