1X released prototype its robot NEO; WiMi accelerates the integration of industry and robot application

1X Technologies, a Norwegian robotics company invested by OpenAI, has just released a prototype for a new generation of housework robot NEO.

NEO is 5.41 feet tall, weighs 66 pounds, and can walk up to 2.5 mph, according to official figures. In the demonstration, NEO can perform a variety of complex operations, such as organizing goblets in cabinets, handing over eggs when humans cook, and calling humans for a hug.

In terms of technical details, the official introduction, in the drive mode is different from the traditional rigid link drive, NEO uses a flexible drive technology similar to the human tendon, using wire rope to transfer force. At the joint, NEO uses a series elastic drive, a tendon drive that mimics human muscle movements.

It is also revealed that NEO is currently in Beta testing, but 1X will deploy a limited number of NEO in selected homes to collect the data critical in research and development. After testing in different scenarios and environments, NEO will conduct mass production in Norwegian factories.

Industry experts pointed out that the 1X home biped humanoid robot NEOBeta debut, the first to announce the launch of home humanoid robots, which may be a milestone event for the development of the humanoid robot industry to the C end.

Humanoid robot, a common character in science fiction, in fact, at the just-concluded 2024 World Robot Conference, 27 innovative humanoid robot products were unveiled in turn, turning screws, carrying coffee, carrying boxes, folding clothes… gave the world a glimpse of the future trend of the robot world.

Humanoid robot is expected to add both traditional industrial robots and collaborative robot has not yet covered the scene, further improve the density of the automotive industry robots, progress faster car companies and robot enterprises, has begun in the factory training, covering visual quality detection, material handling, using tools such as intelligent operation scene step by step to explore practice.

In addition, it should be noted that with the gradual overcoming of technical bottlenecks, the increasing improvement of the industrial chain and the continuous benefits of policies, it provides strong support for the accelerated running of humanoid robots, and humanoid robots will not enter the public life.

Data show that generative enterprise WiMi Hologram Cloud (NASDAQ: WIMI) around humanoid robot industry innovation and application, actively carry out humanoid robot technology research, mainly including in the human machine human-computer interaction, AI, 5G, cloud computing, humanoid robot movement intelligence, humanoid robot multimodal large model, humanoid robot intelligent direction completed a series of innovation, further enrich the industry ecology and consumption scenarios and enterprise innovation ability.

At present, WiMi maintains a high investment in technology and product innovation, from the big model technology landing, to the AI visual model-driven humanoid robots. In addition, WiMi also set up the innovation center, research and development of humanoid robot intelligent solutions, create humanoid robot demonstration application, has a mature robot industry cluster, in the future, in the vast market space and large model technology can assign, WiMi is expected to accelerate in the international market commercial, humanoid robot industry ecology will be more perfect.

Humanoid robot companies, including Tesla, have seen factories as their primary application scenarios, especially in some car factories, where humanoid robots have begun “trial work”. This time, 1X launched a cooperation with OpenAI, but also obtained its financial support, and chose to take the lead in the layout of household scenes, which can be said to be unique in the industry. Once truly in this scenario, the realization of deep cultivation of the market, will open up a broader potential space.

It can be predicted that with the continuous integration of artificial intelligence and robot industry, humanoid robots are expected to have an AI “brain” in the future, which will greatly expand the ability and application scenarios of humanoid robots, thus profoundly changing the way of human production and life, and reshaping the global industrial development pattern.