Xiaomi launched a bipedal humanoid robot during the course of a release event for its foldable handsets. The CyberOne is capable of sensing 3D space and distinguishing men and women, movements, as well as facial expressions. This robot is able to understand 45 types of human emotion as well as comfort folks in times of unhappiness. Xiaomi professes a series of real-world applications for the robot, including building assistance as well as human companionship.

Long since gone are the times when an electronics firm could simply reveal a phone and conclude the event. At today’s big launch function in Beijing, Xiaomi followed up its foldable launch by handing the stage to CyberOne. This biped humanoid robot followed Lei Jun on the stage, exchanging greetings with the CEO and then giving him a gift of a flower.

At first sight, the robot is not truly spritely, in whens it come to movement, yet it’s still a good demonstration and significantly not a person in a spandex suit. It’s newest indicator of Xiaomi’s developing robotics ambitions, that started with vacuums and have since developed to incorporate last year’s Spot-esque CyberDog.

We have seen plenty of consumer brands flex some robotic skill at events such as this, like Samsung as well as LG, so it is hard to figure out where CyberOne falls in the spectrum between serious pursuit and stage performance.

Lei Jun was quick to speak of the company’s financial commitment in the sector claiming that CyberOne’s AI and its mechanical abilities are all made by Xiaomi Robotics Lab. He said the company has put in heavily in research and development traversing various sectors, such as software programs, equipment and algorithms innovation.

 

I was both nervous and thrilled to interact with him on stage. What did you think of his performance tonight? #CyberOne pic.twitter.com/Je1eXDYEGR

— leijun (@leijun) August 11, 2022

 

There is a very broad series of assertions here, such as the ability to read people’s emotions. Xiaomi notes that humanoid robots are dependent on vision to process their environments. Outfitted with a self-developed Mi-Sense depth vision module and also blended with an AI interaction algorithm, CyberOne is up to the task of identifying 3D space, along with distinguishing individuals, actions, and facial expressions, empowering it to not only view but to interact with its surroundings. In order to interact with the world, CyberOne is furnished with a self-developed MiAI environment semantics recognition system as well as a MiAI vocal emotion identification engine, permitting it to identify 85 types of environmental noises and 45 types of human emotion. CyberOne has the ability to identify joy and happiness, as well as even condole the end user through of despair. Each one of these functions are fused into CyberOne’s processing devices, which in turn are joined with a curved OLED module to display real-time interactive info.

Equally broad are the declared real-world applications, varying between from manufacturing aid to human company. There will be lots of use for both of these of these feature sets in the foreseeable future, but that’s a long way from this exhibition. For the time being, it undoubtedly makes the sense to view CyberOne as a little something of an analog to, say, Honda’s Asimo: an encouraging study that serves as an excellent brand ambassador for much of the work being carried out behind the scenes.