Today, "the era of artificial intelligence has arrived" has become the consensus of almost everyone. After generative artificial intelligence represented by ChatGPT set off a revolutionary craze, countless eyes are looking for the next trend of AI.
At last year's ITF World 2023 Semiconductor Conference, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said that the next wave of artificial intelligence will be "embodied intelligence", which is an intelligent system that can understand, reason, and interact with the physical world. Musk has also said that products represented by embodied intelligent robots are expected to become the next wave of AI.
This means that the integration of AI and robots has a lot of room for imagination. In fact, the field of AI + robots has become one of the hottest and most concerned cutting-edge technology fields at the moment. In China, many companies have begun to explore in depth in the field of AI + robots.
Among them is "Xiaoben Intelligence", an AI robot + industry smart service solution provider that has long been focused on the B-side vertical field.
Instead of being "big and comprehensive", Xiaoben Intelligence focuses on vertical subdivisions.
Currently, many companies are devoting all their resources to investing in embodied intelligence, pursuing "large and comprehensive" universal robots. Xiaoben Intelligence, founded in 2016, has been focusing on certain subdivided vertical fields, including exhibition hall explanations, hospital guidance, government affairs halls, banks, railways and other application scenarios.
For Xiaoben Intelligence, AI truly empowers all walks of life and needs to be truly "implemented" and applied. Its products have always implemented this idea and are mainly divided into three series: "Smart Series" of robots with intelligent interaction, The "Hui Series" tool robots that replace a single type of work, as well as special robots for railway systems, both insist on implementing "customized" scenarios that are deeply integrated with the industry.
Xiaoben Intelligent "Smart Series" products are mainly used in government affairs halls, banks, science and technology museums, and museums, from welcome reception to explanation and guidance. The industry knowledge data model established based on big data can accurately realize multiple rounds of 1V1 and 1V multiple dialogues with the audience.
At Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, intelligent robots can provide passengers with intelligent reception, flight inquiries and intelligent guidance, helping passengers quickly reach the boarding gate.
The "Smart Series" products include intelligent inventory robots, cleaning robots, and disinfection robots, which are mainly used in scenarios such as disinfection, cleaning, and inventory in supermarkets. Each robot is engaged in a very segmented vertical job.
At the Guizhou Entry-Exit Border Inspection Station, the disinfection robot can intelligently disinfect various areas at regular intervals and at fixed points. After the disinfection is completed, it will automatically return to the charging pile for charging.
In addition, Xiaoben Intelligence has also developed special robots for the railway system, which are engaged in high-speed rail outer skin cleaning, chassis inspection and other tasks. For example, in the railway cleaning scenario, the single-side cleaning of 8 high-speed train carriages can be completed within 20 minutes at the extremely low cost of "1 piece of equipment + 2 people", greatly improving work efficiency.
With one-button start, the high-speed rail intelligent car washing robot can automatically approach the car body, and the spray boom and roller brush will automatically rise to realize intelligent cleaning of the high-speed rail car body. After cleaning to the rear of the car, the robot can automatically put away the spray boom and pipe brush, providing Preparing for the cleaning of the next high-speed rail train.
"We hope to create valuable robot products and solutions in these vertical fields that can actually solve problems in customer usage scenarios, rather than being a pure gimmick product." Xiaoben Intelligence CEO Yang Peng said.
Doing "customized project standardization", everything is for "implementation"
If you want to solve the value that customers just need, service robots must take the customization route - this is the concept of Xiaoben Intelligence, which is "standardization of customized projects."
In order to focus on realizing various customized needs of customers, Xiaoben Intelligence continues to invest in the fields of AI smart boxes, indoor driverless technology, indoor navigation technology, NLP algorithms and visual recognition algorithms, and has built a unique "standardized module" , supports in-depth function customization and secondary development to meet the needs of different users in different usage scenarios.
Relying on mature software and hardware technology, Xiaoben Intelligence can achieve exclusive customization for different needs in different scenarios. From customizing the "Jinbao Robot" for the China International Import Expo, to customizing the "Midea Bear Robot" for Midea Group, and then creating exclusive customized service robots based on the IP images of many leading companies such as Beijing Public Transport Group and Daxing Airport Line, they are extremely Dadi has improved product development efficiency and practicality.
Up to now, Xiaoben Intelligence has served more than 10,000 government enterprises, medical institutions, airports, high-speed railways and other enterprises and institutions, and has built an integrated system covering industrial design, structural design, intelligent hardware research and development, intelligent software development, AI service capabilities, and production and manufacturing. full-chain service capabilities.
All this is to make the robot better "landed" in specific scenarios.
In fact, there are currently a large number of service scenarios in finance, government, communications, medical and other fields. Traditional self-service terminals with undifferentiated automated services will surely be upgraded by intelligent robots characterized by personalized services and proactive services. For a single or special type of work, "large and comprehensive" embodied intelligence is far less practical than "fine and detailed" vertical robots.
As an industry that requires the accumulation of multiple resources such as policy, capital, market, talent, and technology, what the robotics industry needs is to have the patience to engage in research and development, pay attention to the market, and insist on the implementation of customized scenarios that are deeply integrated with the industry. Test and shuffle.
When the market returns to rationality, "implementation" is the only answer.