CyberRobo
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One morning in 2050, humanoid robots and humans stand at a crossroads. About humanoid robots: products,use cases, business ,HRI 📮[email protected]
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Seeing XPENG’s new IRON again,it remains truly stunning. It would be absolutely fantastic if it could actually walk around the venue lol -- During today’s interview session, founder Mr. He Xiaopeng told me that this anthropomorphic humanoid robot will initially be deployed in XPENG’s flagship stores to serve as a sales consultant and guide... (To be honest, this particular application scenario demonstrates strong backward compatibility.) Furthermore, some updates are scheduled for Q3 of this year. (I haven't finished transcribing his interview yet, but I will share more details later.) Essentially, auto companies worldwide are venturing into the field of humanoid robots to varying degrees,whether through application, R&D, or investment. However, few are like XPENG:a "Physical AI" company that covers the entire vertical stack,from software to hardware, from foundational infrastructure (AI chips, foundation models, etc.) to manufacturing, and finally to the closed-loop application of real-world scenarios. So, the branches are diverging,the ultimate forms that these various humanoid robot ecosystems take will be distinct from one another. The future is wild.
CyberRobo1,419,343 次观看 • 2 个月前
Japan Shimizu Corporation is testing humanoid robots on live construction sites. Start with basic patrols… An upgraded Unitree H1 humanoid, equipped with a handheld camera, is autonomously patrolling the Torch Tower site at 1.0 m/s. It perceives the environment in real time, follows designated routes, and they plan to use multimodal LLMs to analyze footage for better site management. Long-term, Shimizu aims to build a construction-focused Physical AI ecosystem--covering data collection, simulation, model training, and deployment. The goal is to transfer skilled workers’ expertise to humanoids and tackle labor shortages. the first real step toward physical AGI is simply stepping into the real world.
CyberRobo72,338 次观看 • 8 天前
Italy's IIT really has so many humanoid gems. Came across their 2018 Centauro--a centaur-like disaster response robot that combines a quadruped lower body with a humanoid torso and arms. Built for harsh settings like rubble fields or disaster zones, it needs both stable movement over uneven ground and the strength to use human tools for forceful tasks such as breaching doors or clearing obstacles. The four legs deliver terrain-following locomotion and stair climbing, while the upper body handles dexterous, high-force manipulation. The robot blends full-body teleoperation--mapping an operator’s movements directly to the machine, with local autonomous modules for motion and impedance control, supporting supervised or higher-level autonomy when useful. At 1.5m tall and 93kg, it carries roughly 11kg payload per arm with impact-resilient actuators. Battery life is about 2.5 hours. Its hybrid wheeled-legged legs (6 DoF each, with wheels at the ankles acting like rolling hooves) provide better stability than pure bipeds while keeping tool use intuitive. This focus on matching robot morphology to real task demands, rather than defaulting to a standard humanoid form, remains a useful reference. Curious what others think:could hybrid centaur-style platforms play a larger role in future rescue or specialized operations?
CyberRobo39,762 次观看 • 4 天前
More and more humanoid robots are entering construction sites. UK T1 contractor Tilbury Douglas has deployed Douglas--a humanoid robot based on the Unitree G1,on a live building site, claiming it as a UK first. This 30kg off-the-shelf unit uses cameras and laser scanners to autonomously navigate, capture 360° imagery, and generate point clouds. It handles routine tasks like progress tracking and safety monitoring by taking daily fixed-position photos to detect deviations and create a continuous digital project record. Expected benefit: ~40 hours saved per month on manual site walks. While currently focused on low-risk monitoring rather than solving the UK’s acute skills shortage (needing 61,000 more workers yearly, especially bricklayers, electricians, and carpenters), it’s still early days--and inspiring to see real-world deployment.
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Sharp Robotics of Singapore has officially unveiled SharpaWave, an impressively dexterous hand. The 1:1 life-size model boasts 22 degrees of freedom, with over 1,000 tactile sensors per fingertip. It can crack eggs, play the piano, or use scissors, combining strength, speed, and dexterity once thought impossible.
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Remember the humanoid robot used for hotel cleaning? Customers are already using it. Zerith Robotics, a startup from Hefei, has deployed multiple Zerith H1 robots in shopping malls, office buildings, and supermarkets in cities like Hefei Airport, Hefei Gas Building, and Shenzhen MixC, acting as cleaners and sales assistants. The Zerith H1 can autonomously perform cleaning tasks such as cleaning toilets, mopping floors, and wiping sinks. In supermarkets, it carries a shopping basket, autonomously picks up snacks, and automatically processes orders. From experimentation to trial use and real-world deployment, Zerith has built it into a commercial humanoid robot service solution, already used in over 20 landmark locations, and plans to expand to more cities like Hangzhou and Shanghai. From a commercial service reliability perspective, wheeled humanoid robots are being prioritized by customers. It is worth mentioning that Zerith was officially established in January of this year by a young team from the Tsinghua AI Robotics Laboratory. Last year, they successively launched Zerith Z1 (bipedal) and Zerith H1 (wheeled).
CyberRobo437,939 次观看 • 7 个月前
Just saw something that actually feels like a real leap in robotics hardware.👋 Allonic built a robot hand using 3D Tissue Braiding,basically weaving high-strength fibers around a minimal rigid skeleton the way human connective tissue wraps around bone. No hundreds of screws, bearings, cables or fiddly joints. Instead,a continuous automated process that creates the tendons, soft tissue & compliant structure all at once. The outcome is wild: »strong yet naturally soft & safe for close human interaction »surprisingly dexterous »produced from digital design→physical part in minutes »cost drops so much that you could eventually swap end-effectors like disposable gloves This is starting to feel like the moment robotic bodies get their own “3D printing revolution”. Hardware iteration speed finally approaching software speed. If this scales, it could be one of the missing pieces that lets dexterous humanoid robots move from lab → factories → homes. (Oh, and the company just raised $7.2M Pre-Seed,largest ever in Hungary. Budapest-based with US HQ. Led by Visionaries Club + angels from OpenAI, Hugging Face, ETH Zurich, Northwestern etc.) Prototype hand looks insane,the woven fiber texture is unreal.
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Boston Dynamics just had a brutal C-suite shakeup CEO Robert Playter retired in February, the COO and CSO bounced right after, CTO Aaron Saunders jumped ship to Google DeepMind… and a ton of senior engineers and researchers are gone too. This is happening right as the company gears up for IPO and tries to scale Atlas from flashy lab prototypes into real mass production. Hyundai (the parent company) is cracking the whip: they want tens of thousands of these humanoids in their factories ASAP. Basically going from “cool robot video dreamers” to “actual factory workforce suppliers” overnight. Board is in full panic mode. With Optimus, Figure,Unitree and the rest breathing down their necks, losing this much talent at crunch time… oof.
CyberRobo129,297 次观看 • 2 个月前
This year is truly the dawn of the “robot data oil” rush--spawning all kinds of pick-and-shovel tools to dig it up. X Square Robot, which offers in-home humanoid cleaning services, has just launched a full UMI/Egocentric data collection system: QUANXTA Zero. Real robots delivering actual on-site services is one powerful data collection method. Meanwhile, bodiless (no physical robot) UMI/Ego-centric( human-centric)data pipelines are also surging in popularity. Well,everyone’s racing to distill the physical world and extract the data that truly matters for advancing robot intelligence.
CyberRobo21,811 次观看 • 12 天前
Holy…S😳 This isn’t fabric. It’s electronic skin,woven with dense fiber and textile sensors that can detect pressure, touch, deformation, and subtle contact changes in real time. Now imagine humanoid robots covered in it,especially on dexterous hands. humanoids could truly touch and understand the physical world and even humans. (from Shanghai JQ INDUSTRIES )
CyberRobo173,565 次观看 • 4 个月前
Holy… is this really not a human? That was my reaction too,I could hardly believe it. This is an ultra-humanlike humanoid robot. 1.73 m tall, 70 kg, with 115 degrees of freedom across the body,36 in the hands alone,and full-body tactile skin. … This is KAI, the first humanoid robot from Shenzhen-based KinetixAI. It’s essentially a 1:1 human replica，except it has no face. I wonder if it could use Aheadform’s M1? that will be interesting. Powered by its KAI World Model and trained on large-scale Engocentric data, it can fold clothes, use tools, handle deliveries and takeout, and assist with childcare,covering a wide range of household tasks. Ok, expectations for Tesla Optimus v3 have been raised once again.
CyberRobo109,245 次观看 • 2 个月前
While Anthropic and OpenAI race on AI Agents/LLMs, Mistral continues expanding its footprint in physical AI. They just released Robostral Navigate (8B VLA model). It shows strong potential in delivery, logistics, manufacturing, and hospitality--for example, enabling humanoid robots to autonomously navigate multiple rooms to hand a glass of water to an employee,all via natural language instructions in complex environments. Powered by just a single RGB camera (no LiDAR or depth sensors), it achieves 76.6% success on R2R-CE (Room-to-Room in Continuous Environments) unseen benchmarks, outperforming multi-sensor systems. Trained purely in simulation, it generalizes across wheeled, legged, and flying robots.
CyberRobo10,704 次观看 • 5 天前
