Xiaomi CyberOne: here is the humanoid robot that recognizes human emotions

Exactly one year ago Xiaomi had presented Cyberdog, a quadruped robot based on the NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX platform and designed to be programmed by the open source community. The Chinese company presents today CyberOnea humanoid robot with advanced features both from a mechanical and a technological point of view.

Lei Junfounder, president and CEO of Xiaomi Group, presents CyberOne in this way: “CyberOne’s artificial intelligence and mechanical capabilities are all self-developed by Xiaomi Robotics Lab. We have invested heavily in research and development in various areas, including software, hardware and algorithm innovation. With artificial intelligence at the center and a life-size humanoid structure as its vehicle, this is an exploration of the possibilities of Xiaomi’s future technological ecosystem and a new turning point for the company. “

CyberOne 177cm tall and weighs 52kg and has an arm span of 168cm. CyberOne’s limbs are particularly advanced, giving the droid 21 degrees of freedom of movement, maximum torque up to 300Nm and a response speed of 0.5ms for each degree of freedom to simulate human movements.

The limbs allow CyberOne to balance the posture of movement in real time thanks to a complex of joint motors. Xiaomi claims to have developed a 500 gram motor with a nominal output torque of 30Nm for the upper limb joint, while the motor used for the movement of the hip joint can instantly reach the maximum torque of 300Nm.

The perception not only visual but also sound of the surrounding environment instead entrusted to a set of hardware technologies and artificial intelligence that allow, underlines Xiaomi, to recognize 85 ambient sounds and classify up to 45 human emotions.

“We think smart robots will definitely be part of people’s lives in the future,” said Lei Jun, noting how humanoid robots require the highest degree of technological integration (biomechatronics, artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing) and represent the challenge. largest in the field of robotics.