On September 21st, China's artificial intelligence field start-up company, Beijing Smart Housekeeping (ROOBO), announced that it had won A round of US$100 million in financing. On the amount, this is the highest A round of financing in this field. According to Liu Yingbo, CEO of ROOBO, in fact, the financing involved by HKUST was completed at the end of last year. The reason for this announcement is that the company first explained the core "product"-artificial intelligence robot system. This is one of the important reasons why they are viewed by capital.
"All along, the development of artificial intelligence robots is in a state of non-standardization of their own operations, which seriously hindered the development speed of the robot industry." ROOBO said that they hope that their own artificial intelligence robot system can define intelligent robots. System standard. To this end, ROOBO has opened up all interfaces of the system to all developers and provided them with a rich customization program, making the process of creating ideas into products faster and easier. "This will have a profound impact on the commercialization and family of the intelligent robot industry," said ROOBO.
If the artificial intelligence robot system is an abdominal muscle, ROOBO showed more muscles at the press conference that day, introducing artificial intelligence speech recognition chip CI1006, DOMGY intelligent pet robot, J2 commercial service robot, quadruped robot and other new products. In ROOBO's plan, these products are closely related to their core artificial intelligence robot system.
What is an artificial intelligence robot system?
At the press conference, ROOBO CTO Lei Yu introduced the artificial intelligence robot system. He divided the entire system into three major parts: smart hardware, human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence.
Lei Yu said that the smart hardware part includes the microphone array of the auditory system, the binocular camera of the vision system and the rotation and mobile platform of the behavior system. The human-computer interaction part was introduced as a key point. Lei Yu demonstrated the part of speech interaction through the J2 commercial service robot. He believes that the two keys to robot interaction are the shortest path first and the active second mode. Among them, the shortest path refers to the use of the robot to provide users with the least steps to provide services, and active refers to the ability to learn through the machine, bring the housekeeper, nanny or secretary for all home equipment.
In the framework of a specific artificial intelligence robot system, ROOBO is divided into five layers, including hardware modules, software platforms, interactive systems, AI BOTs, and service platforms. In these parts, ROOBO is open to hardware developers, application developers, and service providers, respectively. Developers can choose what they need and use the system's different capabilities to complete their own robotic products. For example, in terms of hardware modules, developers of dialogue robots may choose to use ROOBO's first commercially available speech recognition chip CI1006.
The first mass-produced speech recognition chip in China
According to ROOBO, CI1006 is a DNN speech recognition chip based on the Asic architecture, and it is also the first commercially available artificial intelligence chip in China. It uses local neural network data processing to reduce the dependence of products on the network, improve the robot response and control speed, and achieve optimal product results.
He Yunpeng of ROOBO artificial intelligence chip team introduced this chip at the conference. He introduced that CI1006 chip can support 5 meters of remote speaking, support for automatic voice detection, voice wake-up and local large vocabulary voice recognition, but also has rich communication and standard interfaces, so the application range is very wide, including intelligence Robots, smart appliances, smart toys and other fields.
He Yunpeng said that the biggest feature of the CI1006 chip is the adoption of a special architecture that is different from the traditional chip, and it has dropped more than 20 times in power consumption compared with the current solution.
Dog Dogmy continues to steal the spotlight
Domgy pet dog robot was the main new product and had a live interaction with Chen Yi, vice president of ROOBO products. It was lively and playful and became the biggest star on the scene. DOMGY not only recognizes textual information, but also grasps the rhythm and emotions of the language, judges character traits, and conducts deep learning. Through the use of computer vision, DOMGY can identify family members and pets, complete 3D home space recognition, and can perform security patrols in accordance with the path set by the owner, keenly capture abnormal images and promptly take photos to upload the APP to remind the owner.
It can be said that DOMGY, which possesses thoughts and expresses emotions, is no longer a cold machine, but a smart pet that accompanies the family. It is a good interpretation of what is an intelligent robot that can be understood, accepted, and loved by the general public. Domgy also had the Chinese name “Da Meng†this time. Officials said that the product will be closed before the end of the year and the final price will be “three to four thousandâ€.
Why ROOBO is the Chinese version of Playground
At the end of the conference, ROOBO co-founder Yin Fangming introduced the company's new partner Wang Xingxing and brought his Chinese version of the Boston Power Dog X-DOG to the show. Although it is easily reminiscent of Boston-based products in appearance, according to Yin Fangming, X-DOG uses electrification technology to avoid the “squeaking†noise that Boston Power uses hydraulics. The enormous noise generated at work was indeed considered to be the biggest obstacle to the commercialization of Boston's power robots. The live demonstration of X-DOG hardly heard anything in the audience.
In fact, ROOBO with A-round financing of US$100 million is not a start-up company in the traditional sense. Several of the company's co-founders have made billions of users of Internet products. Since 2013, they have explored the development path of the robot industry in a completely new way. ROOBO is an innovative organizational form. They have invested in some companies in the robot industry chain and have also innovated some innovative products into industrial production products that can be produced in large quantities. However, they are all intended to serve artificial intelligence robot systems. ROOBO hopes to complete the construction of the robot ecosystem as the system is gradually becoming full-bodied.
From the outside world, ROOBO's style of play is similar to that of Xiaomi's ecological chain, but it is more similar to the playground type company Playground created by Andy Rubin, the “father of Androidâ€. They are all exploring unknown but promising. In the field, many external forces are assembled to form a systematic development path and attempt to break the current state of the robot industry.
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