Recently, the pedigree humanoid robot Q series developed by the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was unveiled. This research is the humanoid robot research team of the institute under the leadership of Qiao Hong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the National Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, facing the major needs of the national aerospace and manufacturing industries, based on the original innovation accumulation of high-precision operations in the "environmental attraction domain" and brain-like intelligent robot theory, and independently broke through the core technologies such as high-explosive integrated joints, AI-enabled design, robot large models, and human-like compliant control, and developed a "large factory" for the design and assembly of humanoid robots. It can quickly design and build humanoid robot hardware and software systems, forming an innovation chain from academic theories, key technologies to a series of humanoid robots.
Facing the needs of adaptive outdoor complex terrain and anti-unknown interference, "Big Factory" has built a bionic highly dynamic robot Q1 that can realize accurate tracking and balance control of the robot's whole body posture through AI-enabled design, a multi-terrain adaptive robot Q2 that can realize adaptive and stable movement of various complex indoor and outdoor terrains, and a high-explosive motion robot Q3 that can realize the robust control of batch robots and the ability to adapt to different environments. In order to meet the application needs of outdoor scenarios such as farmland operations and field patrols, humanoid robots are empowered with sensory cognition-decision-control intelligence;
Facing the scientific research needs of further exploring the characteristics of human movement and precise operation mechanism, based on the muscle nonlinear characteristics of the human musculoskeletal system, muscle distribution characteristics, motor cortex-cerebellar-spinal cord circuit control and other mechanisms, a humanoid robot Q4 that can achieve high flexibility and high precision movement was constructed, laying a foundation for further building a new generation of humanoid robots that simulate humans in mechanism and catch up with humans in performance.
Facing the intelligent needs of humanoid robots to complete multiple types of tasks in indoor scenarios, the "big factory" integrates the self-developed Zidong Taichu multi-modal model of automation into the robot system, and builds a high-concurrency reasoning humanoid robot Q5 that can quickly and accurately logical reasoning and execute robot tasks in the physical environment, which can provide important support for smart factory operations and family life services.
It is understood that the humanoid robot "big factory" can fully integrate unit technologies such as intelligence, mechanisms, components, control and decision-making, and quickly generate various humanoid robot systems, laying the foundation for the technical standards and industrialization of humanoid robots, and laying the foundation for the self-production, self-construction and self-evolution of humanoid robots in an environment that is difficult for humans to reach.
The research team has played an important role in the World Robot Cooperation Organization and Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center. Facing the major needs of the country, the research team closely focuses on the overall goal of building humanoid robot technology and industrial innovation chain, continuously breaks through key technologies, cultivates key systems, expands scene applications, creates industrial ecology, strengthens support capabilities, and enhances the international competitiveness and influence of China's humanoid robot industry.
The Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences is the first national scientific research institution in China to carry out research on the basic theories, key technologies and innovative applications of intelligent science and technology. Relying on the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems was reorganized from two State Key Laboratories, the State Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and the State Key Laboratory of Complex System Management and Control, and is one of the first approved national key laboratories in the field of artificial intelligence in China. The work of the humanoid robot research team has been supported by the humanoid robot pre-research project of the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the 2035 innovation task.