On the morning of August 18, the “Wild Iron Man”, “Huawei genius boy”, “the annual salary of millions to quit the business” – the Zhihui Jun wearing these legendary halo, brought the first show of its products since the business.

And this is only six months from the Zhihui Jun from Huawei “run away”, created a pedestrian robot – Zhiyuan physical intelligent robot “Expedition A1”.

According to reports, the intelligent robot “Expedition A1” integrates a variety of advanced ontology control, perception, cognition and decision-making intelligent technologies, based on the current AI field is very cutting-edge large language model, as well as its self-developed visual control model and a series of innovative technologies, will have excellent intelligent interaction and task execution capabilities. The future can even help us move bricks, make screws, be a nanny, do scientific research…

From this conference, we can also peek into the future intelligence of the genius boy Zhihui Jun, in addition to the thinking ability of AI artificial intelligence, the perception ability is also an important part – the “automatic” bicycle, intelligent keyboard, self-balancing robot and so on have a large number of built-in sensors, many functions rely on these sensors for development.

It is worth mentioning that on the intelligent robot “Expedition A1”, Zhi Huijun creatively applied the vision sensor to the dexterous hand (robot hand) to achieve the tactile pressure sensor effect – in some ways, this shows the lag of the current flexible sensor technology and the strong demand for flexible sensors.

Below, let’s take a look at the functions of Zhi Huijun’s first humanoid robot. What sensors are on it? How to use a visual sensor instead of a tactile pressure sensor?

What can Expedition A1 do?

First, let’s see what Expedition A1 looks like.

Expedition A1 is a humanoid bipedal robot with full human form. From the live demonstration, the expedition A1 walking speed is not fast, and the millet “iron” is relatively close, its walking state is still relatively stable, but the stride length is relatively small.

According to the live video, the Expedition A1 can be engaged in site assembly and appearance inspection in the automotive production line.

It can also conduct assembly and assembly of 3C products in the factory, material handling, and help researchers prepare and expand samples in the biochemical laboratory.

In the family scene, the Expedition A1 can even crack eggs in the cooking scene.

It can also take care of the elderly, help the elderly take medicine, and help children with homework.

It is worth mentioning that although various cool capabilities were mentioned at the press conference, Zhi Hui Jun did not demonstrate these functions at today’s press conference site.

This conference is also the first time that Zhihui Jun’s startup company – Zhiyuan robot (Agibot) brand is revealed.

Why use that name? Because “wisdom” represents artificial intelligence, “yuan” is a pictograph of a person with two legs below, and its English name Agibot means general artificial intelligence robot.

Therefore, the company’s original intention & mission is to “create robots as flexible and intelligent as humans, so that intelligent machines can create unlimited productivity”, and ultimately promote the entire human society to a more intelligent, efficient and sustainable future.

How big is Expedition A1? Can fingertip vision sensors recognize pressure? RGBD cameras, lidar, IMU and other sensors have their own abilities