On April 27, 2024, the "Tiangong" press conference organized by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center was successfully held in Yizhuang, Beijing, and the general humanoid robot mother platform "Tiangong" independently developed by the Innovation Center was officially released on the spot.
A robot is a robot, why is it called a mother platform?
Chinese idioms related to heavenly workmanship, one is ingenious and the other is heavenly creation. The former talks about subtlety, and the latter says about importance. This robot has both. We can see the clue in his data.
First, he is 163 centimeters tall and weighs 43 kilograms.
Isn't this data very close to a person, or even slightly lighter? This leaves room for him to add something else later.
He can put on a wig and get dressed and evolve into a service robot, like the one below.
Compared with the image of the Boston robot in the United States with a height of 175 cm, a weight of 83 kg, a huge head, and no neck, our "heavenly craftsman" is closer to humans.
Don't underestimate that.
If you want to choose a robot to take care of the elderly, do housework, and let him chat with you when you are in the mood, which one will you choose?
Now there are not many children in each family, and when we are old, it is certainly unrealistic to expect children to put down their work to accompany us, what to do when we are old and lonely, what to do if no one takes care of us? There is a robot that looks like a human to accompany us to care for the elderly, I think it is very beautiful.
The Boston robot in the United States does not "get" the aesthetics of ordinary people, do you agree with this?
The second point is that "Tiangong" is very smart.
The origin of wisdom means that the ears are sharp and the eyes are bright, and later extended to the brain.
"Tiangong" high-precision inertial measurement unit (IMU), 3D vision sensor, six-dimensional force sensor, can be called deaf and clear.
He is also equipped with a computing power of 550 trillion operations per second, which is much more clever than a human.
This determines that he can do a lot of things. So in the introduction, "Tiangong" is the best platform for the application and research of intelligent scenes.
For example, friends with children should have a deep understanding that tutoring children to do homework is a chore, very tiring not to mention, and it makes people anxious, and sometimes it is embarrassing to be anxious not to mention - some problems adults don't know. At this time, if there is such a "smart" robot, it can liberate parents.
Third, "Tiangong" has achieved the world's first humanoid run of a full-scale humanoid robot with pure electric drive, 6 kilometers per hour.
The average walking speed of the elderly is 4.51~4.75km/h, and the average walking speed of young people is 5.32~5.43km/h. This robot is about as fast as a human. Take a walk with someone, and you can keep up with our footsteps.
Finally, "Tiangong" can expand the software and hardware function modules on the basis of the motion platform, open the SDK interface, with openness, compatibility and scalability, and adopt a new humanoid robot motor skills learning method independently developed - "predictive enhanced imitation learning based on state memory". The ability to learn is his most important secret weapon.
If you ask him to go to the assembly line to make screws, he will be able to make screws through learning; if you let him go into the kitchen, he will learn and learn to give you the whole eight major cuisines; if you join the army, you will be a sharpshooter; when you are a policeman, you will be selfless; when a doctor does surgery accurately, he can do all the work you can think of through study.
This should be the main reason why he is called the "mother platform".
At the press conference, everyone was shocked by the wonderful performance of "Tiangong", "Tiangong" was impressive in his adaptability to complex environments, he could run as fast as a human and avoid obstacles flexibly.
If this were to appear in some "suitable" places on a large scale, it would have been a surprise.
At the same time, in the case of blind vision, "Tiangong" can smoothly pass through slopes and stairs, and self-adjust to stumbling and stepping on the air.
All this is being announced, and we have what the United States has, and it is more advanced than the United States.
The primary goal of the Innovation Center is to build a largest, most information-dense and most versatile high-quality embodied intelligence dataset of humanoid robots based on various configurations of robots including the "Tiangong" parent platform, and prepare for continuous training and iteration of humanoid robots based on this dataset.
Our own humanoid robot mother platform "Tiangong" will definitely be the best.