On December 14, following xiaomi, Tencent and other big manufacturers have entered the field of robot dog,OPPO also unveiled the 2nd generation of quadruped robot at the press conference. As Hyundai Motor Co. 's purchase of a controlling stake in Boston Dynamics for $1.1 billion this year shows, the new foot robot project could become a vehicle for many open-source ai. Each AI technology gives the robot dog a new capability, and the integration of these capabilities into a robot dog with universal mobility will create unprecedented value for different industries.
In 2021, the global chip shortage continues. Apple originally planned to produce 90 million iphones in the final months of 2021, but that number could be cut by 10 million due to chip supply problems with Broadcom and Texas Instruments, Bloomberg said. While few major tech companies have publicly said they are too worried, Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, Tesla, AMD and Intel have all cited a shortage of chip components as a potential problem for them last quarter or next.
Under this kind of explosive market demand, a large number of chip gap, the emerging consumer demand in pulling itself tight supply and demand relations, has been on the market price of the micro controller chip MCU, thus becoming the star of the out of stock, according to industry sources, the part of the chip prices have turned over 10 times, and even some still can't take the arrival of the goods.
Robot industry affected by the missing core storm
The chip is a part of the system that controls the robot.
For bionic robots, take azure Alpha Robot Dog, a leader in the quadruped robot industry, as an example. An Alpha robot dog needs to be equipped with MCU(microcontroller chip), DSP(digital signal processing chip), CPU and other chips, and at least more than 12 MCU chips are needed to complete the control of the robot dog. A global chip shortage is affecting robot suppliers' deliveries and mass production.
"We, as the first can scale production of quadruped robot, is now tense in the batch production delivery, due to the lack of core affect the upstream semiconductor supplier, we are also actively resolve, because still want to deliver the most perfect quality products to customers, and don't want to replace the low-cost chip, so has the certain influence in the related delivery time, should have been delivered in October We're still a couple of months behind with the first product, and that's a big challenge for us right now." Azure Technology said that the azure Alpha robot dog equipment to be used in the chip type is actually very many, according to the type, alpha dog chip including perception, computing, communication, storage, control and other categories of functions. "We hope the robot dog not only need to be programmable, anthropomorphic, generality, at the same time, but also need a memory ability, the ability to language comprehension, image recognition ability, reasoning, judgment such as artificial intelligence, so the robot dog also need to pick up all kinds of external environment information ability of sensors, batch production as long as you solve the problem of time."
In 2019, Azure released to specific customers the world's first personal robot project in the form of quadruped robot -- Alpha Robot Dog, which is the world's first product positioned as a universal quadruped personal robot. At the beginning of 2020, the second generation of Azure Alpha Robot Dog made significant breakthroughs in a number of technical indicators, including the highest running speed (4.15 m/s), which surpassed the MIT Mini Cheetah(3.7 m/s, a scientific research project of THE Massachusetts Institute of Technology), the world record holder of the same level. At the end of March 2021, Azure released the new fifth generation Alphago C series products available for pre-sale mass production to the vast number of innovators, priced at 26,900 yuan.
As artificial intelligence, big data, 5 g, intelligent sensor etc. The depth of the rapid development of technology and application, in recent years, intelligent robot development present from feeling intelligence to cognitive intelligence upgrade, evolution from single machine intelligence to the cluster intelligence multiple characteristics, such as the man-machine collaboration, artificial intelligence and bionic structure last iteration, robot is more and more "smart", is accelerating fu can production and living .
The industrial field is still the main application field of robots. Azure Alphago application scenario is open to the C-terminal in mass at first, positioned as a smart living product in the future, integrating hd shooting, automatic following, drawing obstacle avoidance, open programming interface and other functions, which is the first step for high-performance quadruped robot to enter the life of ordinary people. As the world's first robot dog that can achieve mass production, Alpha robot Dog faces more opportunities and challenges.
What exactly is an Alphago
From chip to operating system, cloud platform to algorithm framework, Alpha Robot Dog adopts open architecture and supports a large amount of software and hardware as well as open source ecosystem, according to Azure Technology. The internal operating system for the widely used Linux, programming enthusiasts can enjoy the use of programming languages and software tools for secondary development. Developing AI applications is as easy as developing normal software.
Alpha Dog can be equipped with Insta360® Leica ® Lens Stabilization motion camera and 360-degree panoramic camera. Based on Insta360® powerful stabilization motion camera technology, panoramic camera technology, as well as deep tracking 2.0 and AI creative library, Alpha Robot Dog can also become a master photographer.
All the materials used to manufacture alpha robot dog are strictly screened, and the core mechanical structure is made of aviation grade industrial aluminum and ultra-lightweight design, which ensures the mechanical strength and makes the Alpha robot dog move without losing dexterity. The company says most supercars are made of carbon fibre for structural strengthening and body lightweight, as are key lightweight components in the Alpha Dog. At the same time, Azure technology has teamed up with Gates, the global leader in power transmission and fluid power, to design high-strength industrial drives for Alpha Robot Dog, allowing users to experience the superior movement potential of Alpha Dog.
With the development of intelligent manufacturing innovation in China, four-legged robots, as a high-priced new species, need to break the ice user trust and user education. Azure technology as the volume of post-production market share will reach the industry's first quadruped robot technology company, with the strength can not be underestimated. Different from other companies, the commercial value is not the ultimate goal of Azure Technology, but with the robot dog as the starting point, is committed to improving the development of advanced productivity, accelerating the transformation of the world to sustainable creation and production, and exploring the cutting-edge innovation and infinite possibilities of the era of artificial intelligence.
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