Midea launches the first home service robot "Xiaowei"
Midea launches the first home service robot "Xiaowei", which includes four core functions-AI housekeeper, home assistant, security guard and technology playmate, in order to solve some pain points of users in home life. Midea launched the first home service robot "Xiaowei". Midea's first home service robot "Xiaowei" 1
"Artificial intelligence will be the image of a' housekeeper', and it will be developed from a digital twin that can realize automatic payment to a smarter digital brain, which will integrate the advantages of reality and virtuality."
Zhang Xiaoyi, vice president and CIO of Midea Group, described this "housekeeper" as an entity. On June 9th, Midea officially released the home service robot brand "WISHUG" and the first generation home service robot product "Xiaowei".
According to the reporter, the first integrated home service robot is expected to be mass-produced in the second half of this year.
The first generation of home service robot products "Xiaowei"
"AI new species" and "AI industrialization"
"Why did you launch this robot at this time? Any product launch must have market demand and must be market-driven. In recent years, the trend of aging is accelerating, and young and middle-aged people and working-class people are under great pressure. They want to be very relaxed when they return home.
There is a strong demand for old-age care, companionship, family entertainment and children's education in home life. " In an interview with reporters, Tang Jian, chief AI officer of Midea Group and general manager of AI Innovation Center, said, "I believe that in the near future, we will enter the era of home service robots, and every family has a home service robot."
Wang Yuhua, brand director of Midea Group, introduced that "WISHUG" can be disassembled into two levels. One is "wise+hug", which means that smart technology provides a solid guarantee for future life; The second is "wish+hug", which means relying on this smart product to provide more care and love for life. "Future products will be committed to becoming the ideal companion for families, empowering every family and making a better life come true." Wang Yuxi said.
Tang Jian, chief AI officer of Midea Group and general manager of AI Innovation Center
According to reports, Midea will position this "new species of AI" as a "new member of a smart family" and a caring family assistant. At home, "Xiaowei" will be a "role" such as AI housekeeper, family assistant, security guard and technology playmate.
At present, "AI industrialization" has become an important topic in academia and industry. In Tang Jian's view, the home integrated service robot is expected to become a new breakthrough of "AI industrialization".
Independent research and development
Breakthrough of many core technologies
As the first comprehensive service robot released by the company, the brand and project of "WISHUG" have been born for two years. According to reports, all the research and development and testing of this home service robot product are completely completed by Midea AI Innovation Center.
in order to realize the roles of "Xiaowei" AI housekeeper and security guard, this home service robot incorporates a series of "hard technologies" to promote the robot's 3D semantic map, semantic navigation, face following, searching for people in the whole house and other functions.
Tang Jian said that taking 3D semantic map and semantic navigation as examples, the robot can scan the home environment in all directions through the built-in laser radar and 3D camera, realize independent exploration and mapping, identify object attributes and build 3D maps with semantic information. With this technology, the robot can intelligently identify and reach the target location according to the voice instructions.
It is worth noting that by embedding lidar and combining 3D vision and AI algorithm, the robot can automatically avoid obstacles and closely follow the target (RelD).
"These technologies can be confidently said that Midea is in the leading position in the industry." Tang Jian said that the robot's "voice link" technology, including front-end natural language understanding related algorithms, voice modules, and cloud platforms supporting semantic maps and semantic navigation at the back, all belong to the self-research of the United States.
in terms of protecting users' privacy and information security, we can achieve better results through edge intelligence technology. "In the process of use, some original data, especially video data, are not uploaded to the cloud as much as possible, and are identified by edge calculation." Tang Jian said that the first move is to reduce machine delay and the second is to protect user privacy. Midea launches the first home service robot "Xiaowei" 2
On June 9th, Midea Group (111333) officially released the newly-developed home service robot brand "WISHUG", and released the first home service robot product of Midea Group-Xiaowei Robot, which includes four core functions-AI housekeeper, home assistant, security guard and technology playmate, in order to solve the problems of users in home life.
Tang Jian, chief AI officer of Midea Group, said that through AI, home appliances can realize "thinking" and "understanding", so that users' habits and intentions can be understood more accurately, and various parameters of home appliances can be set up proactively one step ahead of time. For example, by analyzing information such as household appliances' status, environmental changes and spatial factors, feature data is generated, and users' usage habits are learned by AI algorithm, and they are automatically adjusted to users' needs, so that the water heater can adjust the water temperature in advance, and the air conditioner can automatically adjust the temperature and humidity required for sleep.
Tang Jian believes that artificial intelligence will develop towards universality in the future, and AI can learn and think like human beings, perceive and understand the environment, and complete tasks. The epitomizer of AI and the highest ceiling are smart robots. Midea Group's home service robots are the latest products formed by Midea Group's continuous deep cultivation in the AI field and the collection of cutting-edge technological achievements in many AI fields.
According to reports, the home service robot, as the AI housekeeper, is positioned as a home central control carrier, which is the entrance for users to control the whole house appliances. Through this home service robot, users can control and link the whole house appliances and loT equipment, and realize active service one step ahead of time.
Home service robots can also provide home assistant functions in various scenes such as life companionship and education. For example, home service robots can remind users of meetings, taking medicine and watching football at appropriate times through various channels such as synchronizing mobile phone calendars.
In terms of safety that users attach great importance to, home service robots will also play the role of security guards. In a family with old people and children, if the home service robot detects that the old people or children fall, it will give an alarm in time. It is worth mentioning that because the home robot can move, if you are worried about the situation at home, users can also remotely control the robot through the mobile phone for all-round viewing.
In addition, the home service robot can also be a technology playmate. This product relies on a powerful content library with a built-in projector, which can create a home immersive cinema and support a variety of interactive games.
midea group has previously established the strategic axis of leading technology, being driven by intelligence, direct access to users and global breakthrough. the research and development and launch of home service robots are the implementation of midea group's leading technology strategy. Midea Group hopes to establish core technical barriers and keep ahead of the industry through continuous technological innovation, and home service robots have become an important starting point to achieve this strategic goal.
"The home service robot belongs to a blue ocean market at present, and we think its prospect is very broad." Tang Jian said that in the future, home service robots that can really solve users' pain points will play the role of housekeepers and assistants in the family, which is expected to be used in more and more families. Midea launched the first home service robot "Xiaowei" 3
"Welcome the owner to get off work!" After a busy day, when I got home, there was a robot waiting at the door, and I controlled the air conditioner, humidifier and other home appliances in advance.
"Help give this book to Xiaobao!" When it is necessary to send something to another member of the family, just put the book on the "backpack" behind the robot and it can be delivered to people.
On June 9th, at the "Digital Beauty 2125" conference, Midea officially launched the home service robot brand "WISHUG" and the first generation home service robot product-Xiaowei. Xiaowei is about one meter tall, and his head is a smart screen, which is also the "brain center" of the robot. In addition, relying on AGV technology, "Xiaowei" realizes the walking function.
"Midea hopes that this robot product can solve the pain points of users and provide' safety' and' comfort' needs for users who pursue a convenient and efficient life." Tang Jian, chief AI officer of Midea Group and general manager of AI Innovation Center, said.
Midea said that this robot will be positioned as a "new member of a smart family" and a "caring family assistant". "Xiaowei" will be a "role" such as AI housekeeper, family assistant, security guard and technology playmate.
how to become an "AI housekeeper"? This robot has the ability to control the whole house appliances and link the loT equipment, which is called the "central brain" of the whole house appliances. For example, if the robot at home recognizes that the user is going home, it can turn on the light in advance, turn on the air conditioner and adjust it to a comfortable temperature through the "hub" function, and provide active smart home services one step ahead of time.
As the first comprehensive service robot released by the company, the brand and project of "WISHUG" have been born for two years. All the research and development and testing of this home service robot product are completely completed by Midea AI Innovation Center.
in order to realize the "roles" such as "Xiaowei" AI housekeeper and security guard, this home service robot incorporates a series of "hard technologies", including 3D semantic map, semantic navigation, face following, searching for people in the whole house and so on.
Tang Jian said that taking 3D semantic maps and semantic navigation as examples, the robot "Xiaowei" can scan the home environment in all directions through the built-in laser radar and 3D camera, and realize independent exploration and mapping, identification of object attributes and construction of 3D maps with semantic information. With this technology, the robot can intelligently identify and reach the target location according to the voice instructions.
On the same day, Midea Group officially announced the "Digital Beauty 2125" strategy, proposing to build a beautiful digital brain to provide real-time and efficient digital experience for hundreds of millions of household users and millions of enterprise users.
"Digital beauty reflects the process of getting closer to users from manufacturing." Zhang Xiaoyi, vice president and CIO of Midea Group, introduced the overall goal of "Digital Beauty 2125": business digitalization is 111%, data commercialization catches up with high-tech industry standards, digital technology maintains the leading edge in the industry, AIoT becomes the first choice in the global smart home industry, and digital innovation supports business model innovation.