China’s humanoid robot industry is marching from technological innovations toward widespread commercial applications. The key to realizing the progress lies in the improvement of robots’ “brain” — the sophistication of their algorithms.
With a model of Vision-Language-Action, which is a single end-to-end architecture to achieve precise control from visual perception to its sophisticated joints, humanoid robots can perform highly complex, long-sequence tasks like making a bed. In Beijing, startup Spirit AI is training its robots to learn by imitation.
In a scenario of preparation for hot pot ingredients, for example, robots can be trained to exactly put food materials into bowls or other containers as a human being by following the moves of the staff member in a set of wearable devices.
