Michael Troyer Xiaomi announced a bipedal humanoid robot during the course of a release event for its foldable handsets. The CyberOne is capable of recognizing 3D space and also identifying men and women, gestures, and also facial expressions. This robot can easily recognize 45 classifications of human emotion and comfort folks in times of sadness. Xiaomi promises a series of real-world applications for the bot, including things like fabricating assistance as well as human company.
Long gone are the days when an electronics firm could simply announce a phone and call it a day. At today’s major launch function in Beijing, Xiaomi followed its foldable launch by giving the floor to CyberOne. This bipedal robot teamed up with Lei Jun onstage, saying hi the boss then giving him a long-stem flower.
At initial glimpse, the robot isn’t truly spritely, in whens it come to walking, yet it’s still a promising demo and significantly not a person in a rubber disguise. It’s newest indication of Xiaomi’s progressing robotics ambitions, that began with vacuums and has since grown to feature last year’s Spot-esque CyberDog.
We have seen lots of consumer brands flex some robotic prowess at functions like this, including Samsung and also LG, and so it is difficult to understand where CyberOne falls in the spectrum when comparing serious intent and stage spectacle.
Lei Jun was fast to mention the company’s financial investment in the category saying that CyberOne’s AI and its mechanical functionalities are all self-developed by Xiaomi Robotics Lab. He said the company has committed heavily in research and development stretching over a variety of areas, such as software programs, hardware and algorithms advancement.
I was both nervous and thrilled to interact with him on stage. What did you think of his performance tonight? #CyberOne pic.twitter.com/Je1eXDYEGR
— leijun (@leijun) August 11, 2022
There is a very broad range of claims here, including the capacity to understand human emotions. Xiaomi notes that humanoid robots rely on sight to understand their environments. Equipped with a self-developed Mi-Sense depth vision module and also joined with an AI interaction algorithm, CyberOne is capable of perceiving 3D space, and identifying individuals, movements, and facial expressions, permitting it to not only view but to process its environment. In order to communicate with the world, CyberOne is equipped with a self-developed MiAI environment semantics recognition system and also a MiAI vocal emotion identification system, enabling it to distinguish 85 types of environmental sounds and 45 classifications of human emotion. CyberOne has the ability to identify happiness, and even comfort the individual through of despair. Each one of these characteristics are fused into CyberOne’s processing devices, which in turn are paired with a curved OLED module to show real-time interactive info.
Similarly broad are the promised real-world uses, ranging from manufacturing help to human friendship. There will be a lot of use for either of these attribute sets in the near future, but that’s a long way from this demo. For the time being, it probably makes the most sense to view CyberOne as something of an analog to, say, Honda’s Asimo: a promising experiment that works as a really good brand ambassador for a lot of the heavy lifting being carried out in the field.
