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Since last year, embodied intelligence has become popular and the darling of the capital market, and many giant companies have entered the market. Among them, Xiaomi Group, together with Wang Tianmiao, Beijing Zhiyuan Research Institute, etc., invested in a embodied intelligence technology company "Xiaoyu Intelligent Manufacturing", which has completed a seed round of financing of 100 million yuan. It is understood that this is also the first embodied intelligence company invested by Xiaomi Group.

Titanium Media APP exclusively learned from insiders that "Xiao Yu Intelligent Manufacturing" recently completed its first major move after the establishment of the company, and reached a strategic cooperation with Panasonic's joint venture Tangshan Panasonic, aiming to jointly develop advanced large-model intelligent welding robots.

The insider revealed that the two parties are focusing on the category of intelligent welding robots, and are conducting all-round strategic cooperation in product definition, technological innovation, and benchmark customer building. They will use large model technology to jointly expand the intelligent welding robot market and create easy-to-use and efficient intelligent welding robot products for users.

It is worth mentioning that Xiaoyu Intelligent Manufacturing has already taken action in the traditional manufacturing field of welding. Previously, a leading heavy industry enterprise signed a strategic procurement agreement with Xiaoyu Intelligent Manufacturing for 100 welding robots, and the joint operation of the first batch of products has been launched.

Public information shows that Xiaoyu Intelligent Manufacturing is a large-model intelligent technology company founded in 2023 by Qiao Zhongliang, a former member of the core founding team of Xiaomi Group. It focuses on building a large-model intelligent robot platform in the industrial field. The core technology is to create an embodied intelligent robot with "one brain and multiple forms", that is, using a highly generalized intelligent body core to control the robot body in multiple scenarios and different forms. This time, "one brain and multiple forms" will be applied to intelligent welding robots.

Founder Qiao Zhongliang is one of the original members of Xiaomi. As the head of MIUI R&D, he has been responsible for products such as MIUI 9 to MIUI 12. Co-founder Wang Wenlin, formerly the general manager of Xiaomi's software system platform department, led the development of "Xiaomi Brain" and IoT systems. Other members of the team come from well-known companies such as Huawei, ByteDance, and Microsoft. The company's goal is to build a large-model ecological platform to work with leading companies in various industries to improve industry development efficiency and accelerate the intelligent upgrade of industrial manufacturing.

Previously, Qiao Zhongliang had shared his views on the industry and entrepreneurship on social platforms. He believes that the AI-driven business paradigm no longer depends solely on the fit between products and the market, nor is it just technology driving products, but rather it must comprehensively consider the cyclical iteration of products, business, data, and intelligence, starting with product strength and relying on data at its core.

As for the embodied intelligence industry, Qiao Zhongliang said that embodied intelligence is not necessarily a large model that integrates perception, control and execution end-to-end. Of course, this is a path worth exploring, but the data required is very large, and stability and performance will also be more challenging.

"It can be divided into several modules and then connected. For example, the perception part can significantly enhance its understanding of the semantics and geometric structure of the environment after applying a large model. The control combined with the large model will bring a smoother driving experience for experienced drivers. By dividing into several modules, we can start running first and form competitive products. Then we can collect data to achieve more intelligent product competitiveness, and the embodied data flywheel will be formed."

As a Xiaomi invested company, Xiaoyu Intelligent Manufacturing not only obtained funds, but also had more resources and opportunities. Among them, the layout of Xiaomi's smart factory, the highly intelligent and digital characteristics, gave Xiaoyu Intelligent Manufacturing the opportunity to apply. However, one thing we must also realize is that the industry in which Xiaoyu Intelligent Manufacturing is located is a long-term industry that requires multiple aspects of technology, capital and patience.

"Today, the development cycle of the robotics industry is longer than I expected. It may take 2-3 years to develop a commercial robot. The reason is that there is no standard industrial chain, the development platform is not sound, and the talent pool is just starting. The prosperity of the intelligent robotics industry requires revolutionary products such as the iPhone and Tesla to define the product form and mass-produce it to form a mature industrial chain. At the same time, the key before large-scale mass production is not the product form, but what specific problem it solves." said Qiao Zhongliang.(This article was first published on Titanium Media APP, author | Du Zhiqiang, editor | Zhong Yi)