Leading the new track of general humanoid robots
With the emergence of the"most powerful brain"represented by ChatGPT,the evolution route of artificial intelligence is becoming clearer.As the carrier of artificial intelligence into the physical world,embodied intelligence combines artificial intelligence technology with robot entities,so that the"brain"has a controllable,perceptible,interactive and actionable"body".Fourier Intelligence has prepared for eight years for the"birth"of general humanoid robots.
"When I was a student,I dreamed of developing a universal robot that can be applied to various fields.Although the probability of failure is very high,it is still very valuable to always think of making it."Gu Jie said that as early as the establishment of the company,it had begun to plan to develop humanoid robots.But due to the immature conditions of the robot's athletic ability,AI algorithm and market application,Fourier Intelligent took another path,entered the market segment of rehabilitation robots,and took the lead in releasing the first commercial lower limb exoskeleton robot in China.It started the exploration of humanoid robots in the form of bipedal robots,and has been constantly researching its own core hardware and technology since then.It was not until 2019 that the general humanoid robot project was officially launched.The GR-1 robot officially launched this year is 1.65 meters tall,weighs 55 kilograms,and has up to 54 degrees of freedom.Because the robot has a highly bionic trunk configuration,humanoid movement control,combined with cognitive intelligence,it can complete movements with people.It has huge potential in industrial,rehabilitation,home,scientific research and other application scenarios,which means that domestic robots have officially entered a new era of embodied intelligence.
"It's like Lego blocks,which have to be composed of blocks.We began to save the key modules needed for humanoid robots very early."After years of precipitation,Fourier Intelligence has accumulated more than 100 intellectual property rights in sensors,integrated actuators,modular design,mechanical bionic structure and other underlying technologies,especially in the field of actuator joints.
When talking about the future planning of Fourier Intelligence in the field of general humanoid robot,Gu Jie said:"We hope to make robots like intelligent electric vehicles,and eventually enter the family and various industries."
Building an innovative ecology of domestic general robot
In 2015,the first rehabilitation robot start-up in Shanghai named after French mathematician Fourier was founded in Zhangjiang,Pudong,and then brought batches of"robots".As a native Pudong AI enterprise,Fourier Intelligence started from a workstation in a shared office in Zhangjiang,to enter the Zhangjiang Tianzhijiaozi incubator and Zhangjiang accelerator,and now has its headquarters in Zhangjiang Robot Valley,completing the transformation from"dreamer"to unicorn enterprise.Up to now,the company's various robot products have been exported to more than 40 countries and regions around the world,and have been settled in more than 2000 hospitals and institutions.Fourier Intelligent is further improving the industry ecological construction,open platform software interface,so that integrators or entrepreneurial teams can do scene development and application development on the platform,drive and lead the localization of the upstream and downstream industrial chain,hoping to eventually form a real sense of domestic general robot innovation ecology.
Its independent research and development of human motion quantification research and rehabilitation system-metaMotusTMGalileo Galileo system,is the first domestic set of biomechanics,rehabilitation medicine,sports science three areas of top scientific research and training equipment.Fourier Intelligent product director Yang Zhihao introduced that the Galileo system contains 6 degrees of freedom of movement platform,can simulate the shaking of the ship,walking up and down the slope of the ups and downs,taking public transportation,all kinds of sports and falling scenes,through the balance to maintain and increase the upper limb tasks,increase the disturbance interference."We create a virtual reality interactive system platform to do optimization and testing of innovative products,welcome more clinical and engineering personnel to participate in the scientific research environment of Galileo system,and create infinite possibilities."
The growth rate of Fourier Intelligent is amazing,in just a few years from Pudong to the most advanced rehabilitation field in China,the developed robot has been certified by the United States,the European Union and other international certifications.Now,the company has set up subsidiaries in Singapore,Malaysia,Guangzhou and Zhuhai.
Fourier Intelligence is one of the representative enterprises of scientific and technological innovation in Shanghai,showing the most cutting-edge technical strength of AI in Pudong.Pudong is exploring the new trend of AI development with a forward-looking vision,tapping new tracks of AI application,and enhancing the new value of AI enabling.As the first AI innovation and application pilot zone in China,there are more than 600 key AI enterprises in Pudong,with an output value of more than 120 billion yuan.Driven by application scenarios,Pudong New Area will create more test fields and incubators for cutting-edge technologies in the field of AI.
