On April 26, 2024, Stardust Intelligent Co., Ltd. successfully developed its own AI robot Astribot S1, which has the "strongest operating performance" among robots of the same specification. S1 has set a new standard for AI robotics by learning by imitating and performing complex tasks that are useful to humans with the agility, flexibility, and smoothness of an adult. The S1 robot has been tested with a large model and is expected to be commercialized in 2024.
In the 1x speed video without acceleration processing (3 to 10x speed is common in the industry), the S1 robot demonstrated excellent performance in home and work scenarios, completing a series of complex tasks such as folding clothes, sorting items, stir-frying, vacuuming and cleaning, and competing cup stacking.
As AI accelerates in the direction of the holy grail of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), the combination of large models and robots is an inevitable trend. The market for single-purpose robots has been saturated for decades, and the huge potential of AI general-purpose robots needs to be tapped.
Lai Jie, CEO of Stardust Intelligence, said: "Our goal is to enable billions of people to have AI robot assistants. The new generation of AI robots are "Born for Yours, Naturally Yours", which can learn, think and work like humans, use human tools and equipment, help people complete boring, difficult or dangerous tasks, and even adapt to the environment and changes, so as to truly take care of the old and young families. Such a world would require millions, if not billions, of robots. We welcome more requests from the S1 to grow its capabilities from 55% and 85% to 99.99%, which is infinitely close to the human level. ”
The R&D team of Stardust Intelligence has made a key breakthrough in "software and hardware collaboration", and the R&D of S1 took one year, with both intelligent "brain" (software) and agile and flexible "body" (hardware). In terms of software, it supports a variety of data collection methods such as video, motion capture, and teleoperation, and can use reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and multi-modal large models to complete learning and training. The robot can be upgraded with the software to continuously improve the intelligence and multi-task generalization capabilities.
In terms of hardware, the self-developed high-performance motor drive system has undergone many iterations and integrates multiple complex systems such as control, sensing, transmission and drive, providing the S1 robot with agile, flexible and silky dynamic operation capabilities, which is close to the speed and accuracy of industrial robots. In addition, the head, hands, and torso are modular, which can be flexibly assembled or disassembled according to different needs, improving task adaptability.
It is worth mentioning that Stardust Intelligence takes safe interaction as the benchmark and adopts the innovative design method of "force-centered", so that S1 has the safety of a collaborative robot, and can accurately control the interaction with the human body, objects and the environment, so as not to hurt people, objects or oneself during movement.
Lai Jie, the founder of Stardust Intelligence, has 16 years of experience in robot research and development, and has worked in Tencent Robotics Lab (No. 1 employee), Baidu "Xiaodu Robot" (team leader), Hong Kong Polytechnic University, etc. He has designed a number of new robots, led the development of the wheel-legged robot Ollie at Tencent, and continued to promote the combination of robotics and artificial intelligence technology.
The team includes cutting-edge technology companies such as Tencent, Google, UBTECH, Baidu, and Huawei, and is experienced in solving unprecedented scientific problems and turning innovative technologies into commercial products.
The name Astribot derives from the old Latin proverb "Ad astra per aspera", which means "to travel through the hardships to reach the stardust". Lai Jie explained: "It will take five to ten years for AI robots to enter thousands of households. Partners with this long-term ambition are welcome to join us and make AI robots from dreams to reality. ”
Finally, let's review the operational capabilities of the S1:
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