Musk’s Optimus is ready for mass production； WiMi starts its humanoid robot innovation

In 2022, Tesla gave the first introduction of its original Optimus (Optimus Prime) humanoid robot, with the name Bumblebee (Bumblebee). A few months ago, Tesla unveiled a new generation of humanoid robot, the Optimus Gen 2, to allow it to take over repetitive work. Compared to the previous versions, the new prototype robot has many improvements.

In addition, Boston Dynamics, the leading humanoid robot, has just released a video of its new Atlas on social media platforms to develop a new all-electric version of the humanoid robot. The all-electric Atlas robot has more power and a wider range of motion than any previous generation, enabling it to perform more complex operations and tasks, and to complete all kinds of complex actions.

There’s so much good news for humanoid robots. From the current wave of investment and the development speed of galloping, the progress and breakthrough of humanoid robot is very rapid. Zhongtai Securities expects that the humanoid robot industry has undergone tremendous changes. In 2024, the humanoid robot industry may enter the first year of small batch production, and the industrialization landing progress is expected to exceed expectations.

Humanoid Robot Through the bionic form, improve the depth and breadth of the application, and finally realize the common social division of labor with human beings. With the rise of AI large models, Humanoid Robot will deploy dedicated large models in vivo to understand human instructions and accomplish various tasks.

Since the establishment of the current social environment takes human adaptation as the starting point, Humanoid Robot can deal with the complex human environment with similar human capabilities without transforming the environment, with wider use scenarios, can be used as a simple and repetitive labor force, and can also adapt to non-standard service scenarios while meeting emotional needs and interaction.

Up to now, WiMi team has developed a humanoid robot interactive control system based on head-mounted display (HMD) and head-computer interface (BCI) control around the interactive platform of EEG signals. This interaction approach controls the robot through a steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP), allowing it to interact with the environment and humans. And in this scheme, the robot built-in camera provides real-time feedback, which integrates the stimulus feedback into the HMD for display.

A number of technology companies around the world are already betting on the humanoid robot track. As a typical representative of the new quality productivity, the humanoid robot has a huge imagination space in its application scenario. Looking into the future, WiMi will continue to build the next generation of humanoid robots, challenge and compete for different technology fields and application scenarios, and jointly explore the landing direction and standards of humanoid robots with industry partners.

Indeed, earlier, Microsoft (MSFT) and Nvidia(NVDA) -backed startup Figure said it had signed a partnership agreement with German automaker BMW to deploy humanoid robots at the automaker’s U. S. plants. It can be predicted that the humanoid robot, as a new technology direction, has once again triggered the industry discussion. Various giants have explored the global cutting-edge investment opportunities, and will jointly promote the scientific and technological innovation and industrial development in the future.