Recently, the most popular technical topic in the technology industry is naturally artificial intelligence, but at the same time, the field of humanoid robots is also quietly accumulating strength, which is likely to become the next concept of the focus of the capital.
Tesla’s (NASDAQ: TSLA) humanoid robot unveiled a new skill at the 2023 shareholder meeting: complex tasks of sorting items based on AI imitating human movements. Musk laughs that Tesla’s future value is mainly based on it.
Optimus Ability demonstration
It is reported that Tesla’s 2023 shareholder meeting released the —— Optimus Prime (Optimus) robot comprehensive upgrade. The robot’s appearance is more delicate than in 2022, the strength control is more accurate, AI learning and environment perception ability is improved, and gradually meets the conditions for the execution of complex tasks.
What is attracting attention is that the Tesla humanoid robot Optimus can walk slowly like a person and remember its environment, marking another breakthrough in humanoid robots. At the same time, Tesla also confirmed with its shareholders that Tesla got through the underlying module of FSD and the robot, and realized the algorithm reuse.
While Optimus still needs time and effort, Musk is confident about the potential. He thinks, if available, the Optimus could even reach billions. While this prediction may seem unrealistic, Tesla’s efforts and expertise in humanoid robots are a long-term strategy.
According to industry evaluation, Tesla has opened up the underlying modules of FSD and robots and realized a certain degree of algorithmic reuse. With the progress of technology and continuous research and development, it is believed that Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus will achieve more capabilities and broader application scenarios.
There is no doubt that Tesla humanoid robots will stimulate the market vitality and are expected to promote the rapid landing and development of the robot industry. But what is more noteworthy is that the robot industry market is still showing a new sign, that is, many technology companies have entered the robot industry.
The robot industry welcomes the window period
The robot industry has been developing rapidly in the direction of industrialization in recent years, and it is currently in an important window period. The rapid development of the industry stems from two main factors. First of all, China’s manufacturing industry, as the world’s largest and most complete industrial manufacturing system, has a high-quality manufacturing capacity. Second, with the mature development of information technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and big data, service robots have attracted a lot of money with their appeal in the consumer sector.
Sealand Securities’ recent research report pointed out the long-term optimism about the humanoid robot intelligent iterative upgrading of the industry trend. The development of robots has experienced the stage of laboratory technology accumulation, industrial robots first, and is gradually moving towards the era of embodied intelligence. As an iconic product, the Tesla humanoid robot Optimus demonstrated its precise control and perception ability at the press conference in May 2023, which has gained wide attention. Representative robot products in the industry also include Boston Power Atlas, domestic Xiaomi CyberOne, Excellent WalkerX, etc. The intelligence level of humanoid robots has been significantly improved, and commercialization is expected to accelerate. Tesla Musk is optimistic that the future demand for humanoid robots could far exceed the demand for cars. The commercial application of humanoid robots faces two main problems: first, the product function is simple, and the intelligence level is insufficient; second is high cost, and there is still a certain distance from the commercial lending.
WiMi Hologram Cloud Innovative development of the humanoid robot control system
It is understood that, as a leading global AI company, the research team of WiMi Hologram Cloud (NASDAQ: WIMI), has developed a humanoid robot interactive control system based on the head-computer interface (BCI) through a lot of research. This interaction approach controls the robot through a steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP), allowing it to interact with the environment and humans. In this scheme, the robot’s built-in camera provides real-time feedback to integrate the stimulus feedback on the HMD.
In this study, WiMi Hologram Cloud’s humanoid robot control system based on a head-mounted display (HMD) through brain-computer interface (BCI) demonstrated a new interactive mode of controlling a humanoid robot based on a head-mounted display, providing a more natural and intuitive robot control mode. The experimental results show that the control system can provide precise control signals, and the user can experience it very well. This control mode has the potential to be used in many scenarios that require precise control, such as healthcare, education, entertainment, and more.
Humanoid robots have made rapid development based on the continuous change of control methods and artificial intelligence technology, and the commercialization conditions are increasingly mature. And WiMi Hologram Cloud increased investment in this field, indicating the importance of and optimism about humanoid robots. WiMi Hologram Cloud This navigation assistance scheme of the humanoid robot based on the BCI control of the head-mounted display provides users with a novel way of interaction, which can improve the operation efficiency and interactive experience of the robot. Later, it can bring closer to the human interaction experience and a wider range of application scenarios, which can interact with or work together with people in the specified area.
To sum up
The research of humanoid robots started from the imitation of bipedal walking and expanded to the research and development of artificial intelligence. With the development of the humanoid robot industry chain, the upstream includes raw materials and core components (high-value proportion), and the midstream is system integration and ontology manufacturing. The downstream is subdivided into application scenarios (ToB & ToC), such as education, logistics, and mobile, health care and inspection, etc.
Robots and a similar industrial chain of smartphones are expected to reproduce the changes in the development stage of smartphones, and the whole industrial chain benefits in the early stage. In addition, under the action of policy support, global aging, technological progress, and other comprehensive factors, the robot industry has fully met the conditions to enter a period of rapid growth. This may be why many high-tech companies value and move into the bureau. In general, in recent years, all kinds of humanoid robot products have been launched successively, with different functions and application scenarios. Coupled with the promise of tech giants like Tesla and WiMi Hologram Cloud will undoubtedly accelerate the field.
