Xiaomi introduced a bipedal humanoid robot in the course of a launch event for its foldable handsets. The CyberOne is capable of comprehending 3D space and distinguishing individuals, gestures, as well as facial expressions. This robot can understand 45 classifications of human emotion and comfort folks in times of misery. Xiaomi professes a series of real-world applications for the bot, including things like manufacturing assistance and human friendship.
Long gone are the days when an electronics business could just release a device and conclude the event. At this morning’s big release event in Beijing, Xiaomi followed up its foldable launch by giving the stage over to CyberOne. This biped robot joined Lei Jun onstage, saying hi the boss then handing him a flower.
At initial sight, the robot isn’t exactly spritely, in whens it come to walking, however it’s still a good demo and very much not a person in a spandex suit. It’s the latest sign of Xiaomi’s expanding robotics goals, which kicked off with vacuums and have since grown to include 2021’s Spot-esque CyberDog.
And we have watched plenty of consumer brands flex some robotic capabilities at events such as this, including Samsung and also LG, so it is tough to figure out where CyberOne falls in the spectrum in between serious pursuit and stage spectacle.
The CEO was quick to mention the company’s financial commitment in the category explaining that CyberOne’s AI and mechanical capabilities are entirely self-developed by Xiaomi Robotics Lab. He said they have put in heavily in R&D traversing various sectors, including software applications, hardware and algorithms innovation.
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 tremendously broad series of claims here, including the capability to read human emotions. Xiaomi notes that humanoid robots rely on vision to understand their environments. Decked out with a self-developed Mi-Sense depth vision component and also combined with an AI interaction algorithm, CyberOne is up to the task of perceiving 3D space, and recognizing individual people, motions, and expressions, enabling it to not only view but to interact with its environment. To be able to interact with the world, CyberOne is outfitted with a self-developed MiAI environment semantics recognition engine and also a MiAI vocal emotion identification engine, enabling it to distinguish 85 types of environmental noises and 45 types of human emotion. CyberOne has the ability to sense happiness, and also even comfort the end user throughout of unhappiness. Each one of these functions are included into CyberOne’s processing devices, that are used with a curved OLED module to show real-time interactive info.
Similarly broad are the declared real-world applications, varying from manufacturing service to human companionship. There certainly will be lots of use for either of these capability sets in the coming future, but that’s a very long way from this demo. For the time being, it most probably makes the sense to see CyberOne as something of an analog to, for example, Honda’s Asimo: a promising study that functions as a great brand ambassador for a lot of the work being performed behind the scenes.
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