Embodied AI

Since AlphaGo’s victory, AI has permeated diverse aspects of life, from medical diagnostics to robotics. Embodied AI faces data scarcity and algorithmic limits, addressed by solutions like Nvidia’s Omniverse and Baidu AI Cloud’s data expertise. Baidu AI Cloud, a leader in AI public cloud, offers full-stack development tools like Qianfan and Baige, enabling innovations in robotics and gaming (NetEase Fuxi’s *Justice Mobile*). AIGC benefits from Baidu’s heterogeneous computing platform. The “cloud-intelligence integration” approach enables developers to focus on AI application refinement, mirroring the role of utilities in the Industrial Revolution.

Tencent’s Robotics X Lab and Futian Lab launched Tairos, a modular embodied AI open platform designed to advance robotics in China. Tairos uses large-scale AI models, offering a “plug-and-play” system with development tools and data services. The platform empowers robots to perceive, plan, and autonomously make decisions. Tairos includes multi-modal perception, planning, and perception-action joint models, improved by a cloud simulation environment and Tencent Games’ scene generation tech. Initial partners will help improve real-world applications of embodied AI tech through collaboration.

NetEase Lingdong launched “Lingjue,” the world’s first embodied AI model for excavator loading in open-pit mines, at WAIC. This model supports China’s intelligent mining goals and utilizes multimodal data-driven autonomous learning. “Lingjue” achieves 80% of human operator efficiency in harsh conditions and 70% unmanned operation. NetEase Lingdong also announced open-sourcing “Lingjue” dataset and a collaboration plan aiming for unmanned operations in 30 mines by 2027, extending its technology to other industries as well.

At ICRA in Atlanta, a Chinese company debuted its advanced tactile-sensing technology, DM-Tac W and DM-Hand1, attracting attention from experts. The sensors, featuring high-resolution visual-tactile capabilities, enable robots to perform complex tasks like adaptive grasping and handling fragile objects. Based on research from HKUST, the company’s innovation marks the first large-scale export of Chinese visual-tactile products.