3500/42-09-05 Southern Finance: After the gradual improvement of technology accumulation, what challenges still exist in the commercialization of humanoid robots?
Zhou Jian: In fact, purely in terms of hardware or software, the development of humanoid robots is no longer too much of a hindrance. However, the industrial chain of humanoid robots is very long, and high manufacturing costs will be an important constraint before mass production is realized.
Therefore, our current most urgent is to find the cutting scene, to achieve large-scale applications, the actual application will feedback massive data, driving the industry and product iteration. At the same time, with the increasingly extensive application scenarios, the industry can carry out mass production, manufacturing costs will decrease, and the development speed of the industry can achieve “a thousand miles a day”.
Southern Finance: In order to broaden the boundaries of the humanoid robot track and accelerate commercialization, what measures have Youbi taken?
Zhou Jian: At present, the global humanoid robot is still in the laboratory research3500/42-09-05 and development stage, and Youbi has taken the lead in realizing small batch mass production. We mainly focus on intelligent manufacturing, commercial services and home companionship three application scenarios.
We believe that the large-scale application of humanoid robots will first usher in the outbreak of intelligent manufacturing scenarios. Humanoid robots will redefine workers in the AI era, freeing people from repetitive labor.
The actual survey found that in the new energy vehicle production line, industrial robots are mostly concentrated in the early stage, while in the final assembly line, workers are still the main, showing labor-intensive characteristics. In this regard, Youbi is also working with outstanding industry partners to promote humanoid robots in the field of automotive manufacturing, jointly create pilot demonstration stations, industrial version of the humanoid robot Walker S has been in the new energy vehicle factory field “training”.
In addition, commercial services are the fastest market for humanoid robots, while home is the most potential market.
At present, Youbi has created intelligent service robot solutions covering “hardware + software + service + operation” for many industries such as artificial intelligence education, intelligent logistics, intelligent health care, and commercial services, and has opened up the commercial application market of robot scale. Among them, Walker, China’s first commercial bipedal human-size humanoid robot, developed and developed, has become a representative product of the world’s large-scale service robots.
Southern Finance: OpenAI’s Sora has triggered hot discussions. Humanoid robots and AI are insepa3500/42-09-05 rable, and the development of large models will bring what new quality productivity to the humanoid robot industry?
Zhou Jian: The birth of Sora makes the development of artificial intelligence speed up again, advertising, film and television industry may become the first wave of affected industries, their production methods, organizational models will change.
And humanoid robots are bound to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the era of artificial intelligence.
In October last year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the Guidance on the Innovation and Development of humanoid Robots, which clearly pointed out that humanoid robots integrate advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, high-end manufacturing, and new materials, and are expected to become disruptive products after computers, smartphones, and new energy vehicles. The reason why humanoid robots may become epoch-making terminal interaction products is that they are gradually transiting from passive interaction to active interaction, and from typing communication to natural language interaction.
